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Several Israeli Families Awaiting Return of Deceased Hostages; Trump Says We'll Find Out if Hamas is Holding Up Its End of Deal; Trump Hosts Argentinean President at White House. Aired 2-2:30p ET

Aired October 14, 2025 - 14:00   ET

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BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN CO-ANCHOR OF "CNN NEWS CENTRAL": Hamas was supposed to release every hostage in this Phase One portion. And while all 20 living hostages are now with their loved ones for their first full day, the families of more than two dozen deceased hostages are still in an agonizing waiting game. So far, Hamas has only returned four of 28 hostage remains. And now, the fate of humanitarian aid pouring into Gaza may be at risk. President Trump moments ago saying, "We'll find out if Hamas is holding up its end of the deal."

Let's go live to Tel Aviv with CNN's Jeremy Diamond. Jeremy, what more are you learning?

JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Well, Boris, the negotiations are already underway to secure the next phases of this ceasefire agreement. All 20 points of President Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza, given the fact that only the first phase of this agreement had really been finalized and agreed to by Israel and Hamas. So those negotiations are underway in Egypt over issues such as Hamas disarming, Israel handing over territory to this international security force, and of course, standing up this transitional government in Gaza.

But even as those negotiations are underway, we are already seeing issues remaining with the, completion of Phase One of this agreement. And that is because we have seen that while Hamas released all 20 living hostages yesterday, as scheduled, they have only released four of the 28 bodies of deceased hostages. And as a result of that, what we're seeing is that the families of those hostages are demanding that the United States and Israel do everything they can to bring Hamas into compliance here.

And we're also seeing that the Israeli governments is exacting consequences effectively for Hamas not having returned all of those bodies with the United Nations telling us that Israeli authorities have told them that Israel plans to reduce the number of aid trucks going into Gaza. Keep in mind, some 600 trucks of aid per day were scheduled to go into Gaza as part of a surge of humanitarian aid. Israeli officials now pulling back on that and citing Hamas' non- compliance with the agreement by not having released all of the bodies of these deceased hostages.

And there could be two issues at play here, because on the one hand, Israeli authorities have acknowledged that Hamas does not know the location of all 28 bodies. But it seems like Israeli officials also believe that Hamas has some of these bodies and simply has not released them as of yet. The reasons why are quite unclear at this stage, but it is resulting in some issues in terms of the implementation of the ceasefire. And just yet another reminder of how fragile this agreement is, not only in terms of negotiating the next phases and ensuring that the end of the war in Gaza actually sticks, but even just in terms of implementing Phase One which we should note is not yet over. Boris?

SANCHEZ: Jeremy Diamond in Tel Aviv for us, thank you so much, Jeremy. We want to take you straight to the White House now. President Trump welcoming Argentinean President, Javier Milei. Let's listen.

DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: -- tremendously talented economists. You were getting a lot of good write-ups and I appreciated that. But he was, make Argentina Great Again, it worked. I actually sent him some hats for his early part of the campaign, and then he called me, he wanted a lot more. And I said, when does it stop? When will it stop? And it stopped with him winning. And he has become very popular and he's on the verge of a breakthrough, I think. I think he's really on the verge of tremendous economic success. And I know that Scott Bessent is helping and our great Scott is doing a job and he feels very strongly about it. And Scott, do you want to say just a couple of words about that please?

SCOTT BESSENT, (R) UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY: Yes, sir. The president is fighting a hundred years of bad economic history and policy, and it is --

TRUMP: Both presidents.

(LAUGH)

TRUMP: I thought he was talking about the U.S. president when he said --

BESSENT: And there's a midterm election coming up. We think he's going to do quite well and then continue his reform agenda. Mr. President, as you said, President Obama had a big opportunity during his term, which he wasted. Many governments in Latin America went center right, and the U.S. ignored them. We are not going to ignore our allies. It is economic strength. We're using our economic strength to create peace just as you've done all over the world.

And it is much better to form an economic bridge with our allies, people who want to do the right thing then have to have shoot at narco gunboats. So, we think that this is an opportunity for the Argentinean people and that President Milei is the one to do it. He's got a great cabinet; he's got a great team who we've worked with over the past weeks.

TRUMP: And the election is coming up very soon. And it's a very big election, being watched by the world, because he's done an incredible job. But with that comes some pain and they have some pain and now they're coming out of it. [14:05:00]

I think the victory is very important. Your poll numbers I hear are pretty good, but I think they'll be better after this. And you know, our approvals are somewhat subject to who wins the election because if a socialist, or in the case of New York City, a communist wins, you feel a lot differently about making an investment. I think, Scott, you'd feel that if somebody that had no chance, in other words, if somebody wins and has no chance of ever having a great economy because of that philosophy, you would put a halt to what we're doing?

BESSENT: Yes, sir. And we're confident that President Milei is going to do well. We've been criticized by a couple of American Peronists, like Senator Warren. So, and she -- and --

TRUMP: It's a compliment.

(LAUGH)

TRUMP: She has no idea what she's doing. She is a nasty, horrible Senator. Go ahead. Other than that, I like her very much.

BESSENT: Yeah. And she and her protege in New York, Mamdani, who -- I don't even think he's a Peronist, I think he's more of the --

TRUMP: Communist.

BESSENT: Communist (inaudible). So, we are -- we stand with the president and what he stands for in the hope for the Argentinean people. And President Trump, just like you, he carries the young people. So it's hope for the future. The Argentines have made the decision to shake off a hundred years of bad policy. They went from one of the richest countries in the world to a ton of debt. And I think that with the bridge the U.S. is giving them and the strong policies that Argentina can be great again.

TRUMP: Thank you very much. Please go ahead, please.

JAVIER MILEI, ARGENTINEAN PRESIDENT: [Foreign Language].

SANCHEZ: We are listening to Argentinean President Javier Milei at the White House, inside the Cabinet Room, speaking to President Trump just seconds ago. The Argentinean leader saying he feels much honored to be there, thanking President Trump for having him and his staff, saying thank you for your great leadership. He also is telling the president you've achieved Middle East peace, including the release of hostages. Of course, this comes at a bit of a difficult time for the Argentinean president. The country's currency fell sharply after his party suffered significant defeats in elections last month. There are midterms in several weeks, which you heard Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, mention there. Wishing Milei luck. Administration officials have argued that this $20 billion bailout loan that they are offering the Argentineans is necessary because it would prevent China from swooping in and having another partner in South America. Notably though, after this bailout from the United States, China swooped in and bought a bunch of soybeans. ERICA HILL, CNN CO-ANCHOR OF "CNN NEWS CENTRAL": Right.

SANCHEZ: -- much to the chagrin of American farmers that wish that they had been able to sell those soybeans, were it not for President Trump's tariffs.

HILL: Right. And that is part of the problem that a number of people in the United States have raised with it, including soybean farmers who are now being told there could be a bailout, saying we don't want a bailout, we just want to be able to sell our soybeans to China instead of China buying them from Argentina. So definitely, a little bit complicated here. Kristen Holmes is standing by for us at the White House, and I think we have Kristen up now.

KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Hi guys. Yeah, I think what's really interesting about this, when you talk about President Trump, we often talk about the fact that the president likes to talk about his accomplishments or what he's doing. This is not something that he has been very vocal about. He has not taken questions. He's been asked specifically about the soybeans, about the farmers being upset about this bailout. He has neglected to answer them.

This is not something that he has been touting over and over again as one of his achievements, but it is something, of course, that he is doing. So this is the first time the two leaders are meeting face-to- face since President Trump decided and the White House decided they'd moved forward with this huge bailout. And there's a lot of political backlash that could come with this. One of the things is just the fact that the U.S. government right now remains closed and now, they're bailing out a foreign government.

SANCHEZ: Yeah. Nearly a million federal workers either furloughed or just not receiving pay right now. Let's go ahead and listen in to the president.

TRUMP: We had a great week. We had a great weekend. We had a great period of time in the Middle East. It was very comprehensive.

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It went very rapidly. And I think it's going to lead to something that's going to be unrecognizable certainly for the Middle East. And it went very rapidly. And I think it's going to lead to something that's going to be, unrecognizable, certainly for the Middle East, what's taken place in the last few days. People can't believe it. I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen the love and the spirit. And I've done a lot of things. I've done a lot of deals. I've done a lot of political deals where countries come into line or whatever, but I've never seen anything like this.

The level of love, and it has to do with the mystique of the Middle East, I think, because if I did other countries, I did seven other settlements of wars, complete settlements of wars, and it was very well received. But this is something, I've never seen anything like it. The media covered it very fairly and even the fake news, of which we have a lot, they actually covered it fairly for a change. And I appreciated that.

We have to get back to that, it's so important. But I just want to say it's a pleasure to be with you. And we're going to have lunch and we'll take a couple of questions from the news, and I'm sure they'll be extremely non-hostile and friendly. Like J.D. went through a very friendly interview with George Stephanopoulos, who is nice enough to pay me $16 million the last time we came -- he had to pay $16 million to me, which was good. It was worth it. It was worth having somebody lie. If you get $16 million, that's good.

But J.D. had a very nasty person interviewing him, and we can't let that happen. Just is inappropriate to cut off a highly respected vice president of the United States mid-sentence, that was -- I guess, it's one way to win an argument. That was the only way he was going to win the argument. That was pretty inappropriate, I want to tell you that.

So thank you very much. Do you have something there?

MILEI: [Foreign Language].

TRUMP: Oh good. Thank you.

MILEI: [Foreign Language].

TRUMP: Yeah. That's fantastic. Thank you.

MILEI: [Foreign Language].

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When he did this letter, Mr. President, your settlement in the Middle East wasn't done. So we have to do a new letter to include that because this is very important.

TRUMP: You have to add one extra sentence.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Exactly.

TRUMP: That's great. Thank you very much. This is a great -- such a great statement. Thank you very much.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're welcome.

TRUMP: It's beautiful. Thank you.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President, how is this --

TRUMP: Why don't we talk about Argentina first? And then --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah. Yeah.

TRUMP: How is Argentina going?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are you worried about the influence of China in Argentina? Sorry.

TRUMP: Go ahead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How is this Argentina rescue package America First and is this rescue package meant to help President Milei's party in the coming election?

TRUMP: No, it is to help -- it's really meant to help a good financial philosophy where Argentina can after 20 years of disaster, because it was very successful at one point. And it can be again, like Venezuela. Venezuela was very, very successful. And now, it's a dictatorship. So, we can -- when we can help our neighbors, we're making tremendous progress in South America. South America, Marco was telling me, he's like our great expert here. He really does it.

You were telling me that so many of the countries are coming our way. And we had a few years ago, when I just came back, so I've been here now almost nine months, but when I just came in, I was amazed to see how poorly we've done. We lost so many. And one of them was Argentina, would be lost if he wasn't there. And I think he will be there because the people recognize he's done an amazing job. He took over a real mess. So did I take over a mess. I took over a mess by the Biden group and Obama was -- he started it. I'll tell you, Barack Hussein Obama started it.

Could you give a couple of words on South America?

MARCO RUBIO, (R) UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE: Yeah.

TRUMP: You were telling me so well yesterday, how well we're doing, go ahead.

RUBIO: Well, first of all, we have now eight or nine, 10 countries, Argentina being foremost among them, that have aligned with the United States on issue after issue in international community events all over the world. In fact, these great allies like Argentina. But I can go into others. Costa Rica, I don't want to leave anybody out, El Salvador, but I think one of the more promising developments is, later this month, there'll be an election in Bolivia after 25, 30 years of anti-American hostile government.

Both of the candidates running in that election, in the runoff election want strong and better relations with the United States and another transformative opportunity there. But, so I think this is important. This is our hemisphere. It's where we live. And having strong neighbors such as this --

TRUMP: And great progress has been made really.

RUBIO: And we have made more -- absolutely.

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TRUMP: -- over the last nine months, really over the last nine months. Yeah, please.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President, (inaudible) do you imagine soon a free trade agreement with Argentina? Could it be possible soon? TRUMP: Yeah, it will be. Well, we're going to discuss some of it today, but nowhere -- we want to help Argentina and we want to always help ourselves, but we want to help Argentina. And one of the ways we can do, they have great product and we used to do a lot of trade. And then, if you look at what the Democrats -- well, they didn't know. They didn't know. Honestly, they didn't know what they were doing. But a lot of that trade disappeared and they have great products. So, we will be trading with Argentina and that'll be helpful to them. And it's helpful, it's good for us also.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President, was China trying to draw a wedge between the U.S. and Argentina by buying soybeans from Argentina and not U.S. farmers?

TRUMP: I would say so.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And China on the Portuguese --

TRUMP: China -- China likes to draw --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (Inaudible) on your ships too.

TRUMP: Yeah, sure. I mean, I guess that's natural. It's China and it's natural, but it's not going to -- it's not going to mean anything in the end.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President, (inaudible) end the China swap and close the space base in Afghan (ph)?

TRUMP: I don't think you should be doing business much with -- you can do some trade, but you certainly shouldn't be doing beyond that. Certainly shouldn't be doing anything having to do with the military with China. And if that's what's happening, I'd be very upset about that. Yeah. (Inaudible).

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President, what about the swaps? Because it's so important for Argentina, the swap, (inaudible).

TRUMP: Go ahead.

BESSENT: The American assistance is not predicated on the swap with China being closed. Any reporting to that effect is incorrect.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But you said -- sorry, but you said that Argentina has to expose China from your business (inaudible) and the swap is so important to Argentina.

BESSENT: I was referring more to ports, military bases, observation facilities that have been created in Argentina.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Than the swap? More than the swap?

BESSENT: More than the swap.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: He was -- he was referring to that. Yeah. Behind you please.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, question for Argentina, what's the benefit for United States in helping this way Argentina?

TRUMP: Just helping a great philosophy take over a great country. Argentina is one of the most beautiful countries that I've ever seen. And we want to see it succeed, very simple. I mean, we don't have to do it. It's not going to make a big difference for our country, but it will in terms of South America. If Argentina does well, you're going to have others following, and a lot of others are following. You have countries in South America that two years ago would've never even been thought of to go as democracies or as just countries that want to do fair and balanced trading.

And now, all -- I mean, you mentioned Bolivia, but there are numerous other countries that are coming our way. And Brazil, as you know, I had a very good conversation with the president. I met him at the United Nations before I went up to speak, and then I found that he didn't have a speech because I had no teleprompter. They turned off my teleprompter purposely. They made it impossible for me. But it didn't silence me. I spoke without -- and it was a good speech. It was good speech.

But no, think of that. You go into the United Nations, I'm speaking in front of 158 leaders and the whole world, and I look at my teleprompter and it's dead. They killed my teleprompter. They wouldn't let the man that operated into the booth. Can you believe that?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don't have any specific interest in economic terms for the States?

TRUMP: I do have. No, I want to see it succeed. I think it's going to be great and we will benefit also. But it's not that big a benefit because it's not that big a country, but it's a very important country and it's a country that can be very successful. There are some countries that will never be successful. This is a country that has great potential if it has the right leadership, and you have the right leadership with this man right here. OK?

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President, would you support dollarization?

TRUMP: I would say that I'll leave that up to my economic people. But I like the dollar. I'm very strong on the dollar. And anybody who wants to deal in dollars, they have an advantage over people that aren't. But for the most part, we are keeping it that way. I think if Biden would've -- Biden, that group would've gotten elected, meaning Kamala, you wouldn't have the dollar as your currency anymore. You wouldn't have a world domination by the dollar if I didn't win this election.

And now, the domination, like BRICS, I told anybody wants to be in BRICS, that's fine, but we're going to put tariffs on your nation. Everybody dropped out.

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They're all dropping out of BRICS. BRICS was an attack on the dollar. And I said, you want to play that game? I'm going to put tariffs on your -- all of your product coming into the U.S. They said, like I said, we are dropping out BRICS. And BRICS is like, they don't even talk about it anymore. Scott, do you want to add to that please?

BESSENT: We're very happy with the current currency arrangement.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President.

TRUMP: You are ABC fake news.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: First of all, congratulations.

TRUMP: I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States. I don't take questions from ABC fake news. Brian, go ahead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes sir. First of all, congratulations on achieving peace. You are indeed the peacemaker. On a lighter --

TRUMP: Did you ever think I was going to be called the peacemaker?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Actually I did. I saw some of the actions you were --

TRUMP: Go ahead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But on a lighter note, Alyssa Farah, she is one of the hosts on ABC's show "The View." She said a while back, I'll quote, "If Trump gets the Israeli hostages out, I promise I will wear a MAGA hat for one day on this show and say thank you for doing it." Your response?

TRUMP: Well, did she put the hat on?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, she hasn't got the hat yet.

TRUMP: Who is it? Which one?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Alyssa Farah.

TRUMP: Well, she used to work for me -- so she used to work here. I'll tell you about Alyssa. She worked here. She gave me the most beautiful letter when, you know, the administration, the time came up, the election was rigged. I left. She gave me the most beautiful letter you've ever seen. I was a great president. What a great job. Some of the letter has been quoted. This is Alyssa, who I never thought was very outstanding. I figured she would not make it. And she didn't have a big role here either.

And then we had January 6th and she left. She left after that or before that. But she gave me the most beautiful letters. And then even months after she left, and while we weren't here any longer, she sent another letter, glowing letter, beautiful letter. And then she got hired by "The View" and they gave her a couple of bucks and she changed her view very quickly. I never thought she'd make it, never thought she had what it took in any way, you know what that means. But she's on "The View." But it just shows what a fraud "The View" is because this woman gave me letters and statements. She said I was the greatest president in her lifetime. Now she's not that old, so I didn't consider it a great compliment, but I've had better.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can we send her a hat?

TRUMP: Well, recently, I've had the greatest president of them all. I like that much better.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: Does that include Washington and Lincoln? Yes, sir, it does. I said I like that very much.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: So I think she's a total fraud (ph), I think she's a joke.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mr. President, on Gaza, how long will it take Hamas to disarm and can you guarantee that is going to happen?

TRUMP: Well, they're going to disarm and -- because they said they were going to disarm and if they don't disarm, we will disarm them.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How will you do that?

TRUMP: I don't have to explain that to you. But if they don't disarm, we will disarm them. They know I'm not playing games. OK? Now we did something monumental. We got the hostages back. That was the first thing we had to do, above all else, get the hostages back. Now, they misrepresented because we were told they had 26, 24 of dead hostages, if we can use those terms. And it seems as though they don't have that because we're talking about a much lesser number.

But that's a very tough subject. I want them back. That's what they said. I want them back. Also, they said they were going to disarm and initially speaking, they needed -- they did take out a couple of gangs that were very bad, very, very bad gangs that they did take them out and they killed a number of gang members. And that didn't bother me much, to be honest with you. That's OK. We had a couple of very bad gangs. It's no different than other countries, like Venezuela sent their gangs into us and we took care of those gangs. We have -- Washington, D.C. is one of the safest cities in the country. It was one of the worst cities in the country, if you go back just a little while ago, right?

Now, it's safe. You can walk to work. Isn't it nice? But, we have told them we want disarmed and they will disarm. And if they don't disarm, we will disarm them, and it'll happen quickly and perhaps violently.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You say --

TRUMP: But they will disarm. Do you understand me?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. You say --

TRUMP: Because you always -- everyone says, oh, well they won't disarm. They will disarm. And I spoke to Hamas and I said, you're going to disarm, right? Yes, sir. We're going to disarm. That's what they told me. They will disarm or we will disarm them. Got it? OK, next.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What is the deadline you're (inaudible) on that? You say quickly, sir. Sir, you said quickly, but what is the deadline you're going to put on them before you take action?

TRUMP: A reasonable period of time? Pretty -- pretty quickly. A reasonable period of time.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mr. President, congratulations on the peace you achieved in the Middle East, first of all.

TRUMP: Thank you very much.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And my question is regarding Argentina. Does continuing --

TRUMP: Are you from Argentina?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm from Argentina, yes.

TRUMP: I like you, Argentina. I like them much better than ABC, than ABC fake news.

(LAUGH)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Me too, sir.

TRUMP: Go ahead.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Does continued U.S. support for Argentina depend on the results of the upcoming legislative elections and the ability of the government to pass long-lasting reforms through Congress?

TRUMP: Well, I think if they don't do that, we're not going to be around very long. Scott, can you handle that one please? BESSENT: We're confident that the president's party will and the coalition will do well in the election. And this aid is predicated on robust policies. And going back to the failed Peronist policies, would cause a U.S. rethink.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you very much.

TRUMP: It's a little bit -- it's a great question. It's a little like New York. You are reading in Argentina about New York. We have a problem. We have a communist who's 33 years old, doesn't know a damn thing practically. He's never worked a day in his life and he sort of caught on, right? And I'm not going to send a lot of money to New York. I don't have to. The money comes all through the White House.

And if they're going to be sending us stupid policies, I mean, communist policies, which has proven for thousands of years doesn't work. We don't have to prove it again. We're not going to ruin one of our great cities because we'll make that great. We will clean up the crime in about 30 days. It took 12 days to do Washington, D.C. So New York is bigger and Chicago, we've already made a lot of progress despite fighting from the government.

But well, Chicago is doing great, Memphis is doing really great. We have great support there from the political leaders. They said, please come in and clean up crime, and we love it. We've -- in one week, Memphis is so good, it's so much better. We'll have it -- within a month, we'll have that into a safe city again. And all of these cities, we want to clean them up. We don't like that opposition. But if somebody's going to be a communist mayor of New York, it's a fluke if he gets in, there are a lot of failed people that he is running against. I mean, we have failed -- you have inferior candidates or something because it's impossible to think that New York City can have a communist mayor.

He's a communist. He's not a socialist by the way. There's a big difference. He's a communist. He's down and dirty. He's a communist. He hates police. He wants to get rid of all police. I mean, how can a policeman? He hates Jewish people and yet he's got Jewish people supporting him. He hates Jewish people. So, it comes through the White House, the funding for New York and for every place, comes through the White House. And I'm very generous and I was always very generous with New York, even when you had opposition there. But I was always very generous.

But I wouldn't be generous to a communist, a guy that's going to take the money and throw it out the window because you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. And we're not going to let somebody get into office and squander the taxpayer money from this country. We're not going to let it happen. So it's a little bit like that with -- if you take a look at Argentina, if the president doesn't win, I know the person that he'd be running against, I believe, probably -- we probably have the person, a person who is extremely far left and a philosophy that got Argentina into this problem in the first place. So we would not be generous with Argentina if that happened. If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You talk about the Argentina important in the Latin American. What is your plan for Venezuela? What is the you -- the terrorism, the narco terrorism in the President Maduro, what is your plan about it?

TRUMP: Well, Venezuela has done a couple of things very badly. Number one, we get drugs and all of that, but we get something in a way worse because they're a big purveyor of drugs. But, we have worse. What they do very well is they send their criminals into the United States and they send Tren de Aragua that you know very well. You're from Venezuela, I assume. And they send them in by the thousands literally. And these are the worst of all. And they empty their prisons into the United States. They empty their mental institutions into the United States.

And because we had a president who is low IQ, he didn't realize what was going on. And the people that are high IQ that surround him, but they happen to be lunatics, radical left -- they're highly intelligent, radical left lunatics. OK? So in a way, that's worse than having a guy like Biden. But they ran the show. You heard about the autopen, the person that auto -- that really operated the autopen, but it was really the people that told the person that operated the autopen what to do. Those are the people that really were president. OK?

So, we are not going to stand for it in this country. And by the way, that autopen thing is under serious investigation. Just this -- I don't think you care because you're from Argentina. You couldn't care less about that. But I just want to say, because I do the we --