What do you think about our President's comments... Can you speak you speaking right into your phone? [33:55] Mr. President, how do you respond to the increased attacks by the Iraqi militia groups against the US embassy and consulate in Kurdistan region?
You want to answer that, JD? Do you want to?
Yeah, well, Marco obviously, Secretary of State has control over the embassy. Look, there have been a lot of militia attacks against our our base or our embassy in Iran. I think Marco's done a good job of limiting the number of people who are at that embassy so we can provide essential functions but also protect our people. But it goes to show there are a lot of terrorists in that region of the world and we've got to eliminate them when we find them.
And you can't give them nuclear weapons. You can give them rifles, you can give them guns, you can't give them nuclear weapons. I think we agree very strongly in that point. [34:41] Taoiseach Micheál Martin: Yes, excuse me. Just of a first of all, I would say, like, Europe is still a very good place to live in. Good. And a lot of that just to let you know, I'm glad to hear that. And our view is you have to have robust and fair rules around migration, but on the other hand, a lot of people, you know, within the European Union, we free mobility of people. And in Ireland our population is growing, but in a very positive way. Our economy is going well because we're attracting a lot of people from Europe and beyond into work legally and validly in our country. In fact, I'd love if we could develop a legal pathway between the US and Ireland into the future because of our history and so on like that. That we could have a legal pathway because we're no one is in favor of illegal migration or and and so forth, so you have to have robust rules for that. But fundamentally, I think sometimes Europe and gets characterized wrongly in terms of it being overrun or whatever like that. It's much more robust now, there's much more stronger mechanism in place to facilitate legal migration. And and I think it's important that that understanding is there. We need more economic growth in Europe. It doesn't have the same focus on innovation as you do here in the US. We discussed that earlier with Vice President in terms of technology, in terms of AI, we need to pivot more to to innovation as opposed to regulation and I think investing in people, you know, and that's the key to I think our collective future. But we do take learn lessons from how you're doing things and picking up things.
Prime Minister... Mr. President, Irish President has said that your war against Iran is illegal, it's an attack on international law.
Who said that?
The Irish President. [36:24] Look, he's lucky I exist. That's all I can say, because if you're going to allow countries that are sick and demented, and they are demented, to have nuclear weapons, they everybody in the whole world should be very thankful. And I'm disappointed in NATO, very disappointed. I'm disappointed in a couple of other countries too, but they should be very thankful that this group of people feels the way we do. Because if a country like Iran was allowed to have the power of a nuclear weapon, if we didn't stop them, I stopped them twice. I stopped them my first term when I terminated the Iran nuclear deal, which was Barack Obama's deal. It was one of the and maybe the worst deal I've ever seen. It gave everything to Iran, including billions of dollars in green cash. I don't mean cash, I mean green cash flown over by airplanes. I can't to this day believe that was allowed to happen. And come to think of it, it would be a good thing for somebody to look at. How could does a President have the power to hand hundreds of millions of dollars of cash to terrorists? But it began with that and I terminated that deal. If I didn't terminate that deal, we might not be here right now. If I didn't terminate that deal, unbelievable nuclear holocaust would have taken place. And then I did it a second time when we hit them with the B-2 bombers and we totally obliterated their potential nuclear weapon that they would have had in less than one month. They think two weeks, but in less than one month. And it would have been I believe it would have been a much different world than it is right now. We have to go, we're going to a lunch, so maybe we'll take one more nice way, you.
Can I ask you how you're doing with your legal case against the BBC and their fake news documentary?
Well, the BBC was incredible. What they did is they had me speaking something I never said. And I've never seen anything quite like it. You know, CBS had that we had the situation on 60 Minutes and not the current owners, the past owners, the current owners I think are good, Ellison. But BBC took it a step further. They actually had they put words in my mouth and they said I said some pretty bad things and I didn't say them, it was AI-generated. And I said, I never said that. In fact, some of my people said, wow, that was pretty bad stuff you said. I said, what did I say? You know, I'm pretty good at this stuff, I mean, if you can go through years of these press conferences and you're a popular President of the United States that won in a landslide, that won all seven swing states, that got record numbers of votes. I mean, so I guess I'm okay at this stuff. I said I never said that. And then we found out it was AI-generated. And they admit they made a mistake. BBC, but I watched them this morning for some crazy reason and it was so inaccurate. Their reporting on the war was unbelievable. We we have decimated that country. And if you watch BBC, it's almost like they're fighting us to a draw. They're not fighting us to a draw. It was very inaccurate news. It was fake news. So I'm very proud of the term fake news because it was my term, I came up with it, but it's no longer accurate. It really is, it's corrupt, fraudulent news. It really is, it's fraudulent. It's not just fake, it's beyond fake. It's really criminal what they do. But I watched BBC this morning and I don't know much about BBC other than what what took place because people were calling me saying, 'That was a terrible thing you said.' I said, what did I say? And they I said I never said that. And when we checked it, you agree, they agree, it was somehow generated I guess by AI or something with me saying unbelievable. So we brought a lawsuit against them. They admit they're guilty, but we'll see how it comes out. I like that question, I like that question. Thank you very much, we'll see you later. Thank you.