WH in-town pool #7 - POTUS Q&A

POTUS took questions.

As always please check against transcript and playback.

Asked about tomorrow’s job numbers: “They come out tomorrow, but the real numbers that I'm talking about are going to be whatever it is, but will be in a year from now on, these monsters, huge, beautiful places, the palaces of genius. And when they start opening up, you're seeing, I think you'll see job numbers that are going to be absolutely incredible. Right now, it's a lot of construction numbers, but you're gonna see job numbers like our country has never seen.”

POTUS said he “will be” speaking with Putin soon: “I settled seven wars, the one that I thought would be maybe one of the easiest, you know, that feeling you think one thing is going to be, turns out to be a little bit tougher.”

Asked about RFK Jr’s hearing today: “I didn't get to watch the hearings today, but he's a very good person, he said, and he needs very well, and he's got some different ideas. I guarantee a lot of the people at this table, like RFK JR and I do, but he's he's going to different take and we want to listen to all of those things, but I heard he did very well today.”

More tariffs: “I’ve discussed with people here, chips and semiconductors that will be putting tariffs on companies that aren't coming in, putting a tariff. Very shortly, you probably are hearing, will be putting a fairly substantial tariff. Well, not that fairly substantial tariff, with the understanding that if they come into the country, if they're coming in, building planning to come in, there will not be a tariff.”

Asked if he’s trying to get a candidate out of NYC mayor race: “No, I don't like to see a communist become mayor. I won't tell you that. And I don't think you can win, unless you have one on one. … I would like to see two people drop out and have it be one on one. And I think that's a race.”

Pool was pulled at 7:33 pm.

Emily Goodin

White House Correspondent

McClatchy DC/Miami Herald

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