President Donald Trump ran through his top priorities for the country, including immigration, the economy and the war in Russia and Ukraine, during a half hour long interview with Sharyl Attkisson on Full Measure.
His first priority was the border. “We have 99% improvement from Biden. We have now the best border we’ve ever had, and we’ve done that in five weeks,” Trump said.
President Trump didn’t hold back when he talked about how aggressive he wanted to be with his agenda in his second term as president, with a lot more support this time around.
Trump pledged to release the records on three of the country’s most high-profile assassinations along with the unveiling of documents relating to the death of Jeffrey Epstein in an exclusive interview with Full Measure’s Sharyl Atkisson.
Trump signed executive orders earlier this year making good on a campaign promise to release government information on the murders of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, as well as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. The FBI discovered thousands of pages of additional documents after the order was handed down.
In the interview, Trump said the Kennedy records are the most requested government information to be released.
“I released a lot of them, but then a lot of people started coming in, people that are respected, people that worked for the administration, asked me not to release the rest. And I respected that. They gave me certain reasons, but I respected that,” Trump said. “I said that probably wish I did release the whole thing, because I have no idea what’s in there. But since then, they found, and we found 2,000 more documents on Kennedy, and the one they want most is Kennedy, and it’s going to be released. It’s moving along, and it’s moving along pretty rapidly.”
Trump also told Full Measure that it has been a challenge to get the country back on track after the Biden administration.
“It’s a tough situation that we’re in. I inherited a mess from him in so many ways, whether it’s the wall or the economy or anything you want to talk about. It’s tough,” Trump said.
Trump has moved quickly to overhaul the federal government and economy since taking office with a slew of executive orders, moves to massively downsize the federal government workforce and threatened a wide range of tariffs on all kinds of goods that have set off concerns about an economically debilitating trade war.
He also came into office seeking to end wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. While Israel and Hamas have so far stuck to an uneasy ceasefire and continued to slowly release hostages, finding a deal between Russia and Ukraine has been more challenging.
The White House has been leading peace talks separately with Ukraine and Russia over the last several weeks in an effort to bring an end to the 3-year-old war.
Asked what the plan is if Putin doesn’t ultimately agree to a ceasefire, Trump warned it would be “bad news for this world” but said he was optimistic a deal would be reached.
“Bad news for this world, because so many people are dying. but I think I think he’s going to agree, I really do. I think I know him pretty well, and I think he’s going to agree,” the president said.
Putin said on Thursday that he agrees in principle for a 30-day ceasefire but offered several conditions that may not be acceptable to Ukraine that led its leaders and analysts to question the Russian president’s sincerity about finding a deal.
U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff met with Putin on Thursday to discuss the ceasefire and was asked to relay messages to Trump to later arrange a call, a Kremlin spokesperson said.
Trump and Putin are last known to have spoken on Feb. 12. The president has threatened to hit Russia with even more sanctions than it was already facing from the Biden administration if it doesn’t engage in peace efforts.
“We are dealing with (Putin), and I think, I think it’s going reasonably well. It’s a very complex situation. It’s a bloody, terrible war, and I do think it’s going well,” Trump said. “We have a ceasefire agreement with the Ukrainian group, and we are trying to get that with Russia too, and I think thus far it’s gone OK.”