In-town pool report #5 - questions

The president took questions starting at 11:35:

“We’re ready to go anywhere” — in response to whether he’s deploying troops to Chicago

On Kilmar Abrego Garcia: “through a system of liberal courts he’s doing things, but we’ve got that under control”

He took a question on Israel bombing a hospital in Gaza, and on what he meant by his Truth Social post about South Korea, and on whether he’ll order the national guard into cities even if officials don’t request that.

“We will solve Chicago within one year week”

Other questions:

• response to CA redistricting
• government deal with Intel
• Ukraine support/selling missiles to NATO
• whether he’s spoken to Putin “yeah, I have”
• bridge funding for Key Bridge in Baltimore
• investigating Chris Christie
• why Putin won’t meet with Zelenskyy
• on the relationship between North Korea and Russia

Says the police officer who warned people off the bridge should get a medal.

On decreasing the cost of drugs: “we’re talking a thousand percent decrease”

“If countries of the world don’t want to go along then I’m going to put” more tariffs

He stopped taking questions at 12:06 and the pool left the Oval.

Before questions:

Marco Rubio entered the Oval Office at 11:29 and stood toward the side, speaking with Karoline Leavitt. He left the room a minute later.

The president spoke for a while about wars around the world. “We got seven of them stopped”

More quotes from the president:

“As Department of War, we won everything … and I think we’re going to have to go back to that”

“We’ve stopped them all” (wars)

The president spoke again about crime, saying Govs Moore and Newsom “are doing a bad job”

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Sophie Hills, staff writer

The Christian Science Monitor