[Barack Obama, Former President Of The United States:] Got really good Cuban sandwiches. You've got very nice looking people. So there are a lot of good reasons to come to Miami.
[Obama:] You know, it's OK. You know, You know what, it's an old playbook. It's one that the powerful and the privileged turn to whenever control starts slipping away. They'll get folks riled up just to protect their power and their privilege, even when it hurts the country, even when it puts people at risk. It's as cynical as politics gets. But in four days, in four days, Florida, you can reject that kind of politics. In four days, you can be a check on that kind of behavior. In four days, you can choose a bigger, more prosperous, more generous vision of America, an America where love and hope conquer hate, an America where we, the people
[Baldwin:] All right, so talk about what a day, dueling rallies, dueling presidents from President Obama in Florida to President Trump just speaking to reporters at the White House. Let's listen to him.
[Trump:] Thank you very much and it will be a very exciting five days. We're doing numerous trips to numerous great places, great states. And I hear we're doing very well, but we'll we'll let you know on Tuesday night. You'll know before I will, I suspect. I will say that we had tremendous job numbers today. It was just released 250,000 new jobs created in the month of October. That was shocking for a lot of people and that was a tremendous number by any standard. And that's despite the hurricanes. The hurricanes normally have a big impact and I'm sure these hurricanes they were massive they had a big impact. But so the 250,000 new jobs in October was an incredible number. We also had a wage increase of 3.1 percent. It's like a perfect increase. It's an incredible number, but it's a perfect increase. So the country is doing, I think, maybe you could say, better than it's ever done. We have a lot of new companies moving into the United States. And that's where we're letting people in. We're letting them in based on merit. We need workers. We need people to come in at 3.7 percent, which was also announced this morning 250,000 jobs; 3.7 percent; and a 3.1 percent or so wage increase. It's like, really unbelievable numbers. So that just came out. I'm sure you people know about it.
[Question:] If you lose the House, will you work with compromise with Nancy Pelosi and the other Democrats?
[Trump:] Sure. I would. Sure.
[Unidentified Female:] Mr. President, are you really okay with the U.S. military firing on the caravan people?
[Trump:] No, they won't have to fire. What I don't want is, I don't want these people throwing rocks. It's turned out in fact, it was just announced by Homeland Security you have, in just certain areas, over 300 people that they know are trouble. What they did to the Mexican military is a disgrace. They hit them with rocks some were very seriously injured. And they were throwing rocks in their face. They do that with us, they're going to be arrested. There is going to be problems. I didn't say "shoot." I didn't say "shoot." But they do that with us, they're going to be arrested for a long time.
[Question:] But the military can't arrest them. What's the military going to do?
[Trump:] We'll arrest them. But ICE and Border Patrol is there with the military.
[Question:] Sir, who said you could change a constitutional amendment through an executive order? Did Don McGahn tell you that?
[Trump:] Which are you talking about? Who?
[Question:] You said that you were told that you can change birthright citizenship as outlined in the Constitution.
[Trump:] You know who's going to determine that? The Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court will the Supreme Court will determine that. The Supreme Court is going to determine that. Many, many people feel that. Yes, go ahead.
[Question:] Are you prepared to make a deal with China and announce it at the G20? Or do you think that deal is not going to come together?
[Trump:] We've had very good discussions with China. We're getting much closer to doing something. They very much want to make a deal. As you know, their economy went way down since we've been doing this skirmish. I spoke with President Xi yesterday. They very much want to make a deal. I think we'll make a deal with China. And I think it'll be a very fair deal for everybody, but it will a good deal for the United States.
[Question:] When will you make the deal, sir?
[Trump:] Say it?
[Question:] Will you make it by the G20, sir? Or when will you have the deal ready, sir?
[Trump:] Well, we're going to meet at the G20. We're going to have dinner. President Xi and I have agreed to meet at the G20. We'll be having dinner. We'll be discussing it. But I think a very good deal will be made with China. They want to make it very badly. We want to make a deal if we can. And a lot of progress has been made. A lot of progress. And they understand that if a deal isn't made, we're doing very well the way we're doing it right now, you understand that. Two hundred and fifty billion dollars at 25 percent. And it could be elevated by another $267 billion at 25 percent or more. So, we're doing very well, but I believe I know they want to make a deal. They've been hit very hard. Their economy has been very, very bad. I will say this: If we can make the right deal for this country and also, they're going to make the right deal for them. If we can open up China and make it fair for the first time ever this should have been done years ago by other Presidents but it wasn't. I am very willing to do it. But China very much wants to make a deal.
[Question:] Mr. President, Alec Baldwin was just arrested for punching somebody out during a parking dispute. Any reaction to his arrest?
[Trump:] Who was arrested?
[Question:] Alec Baldwin. He punched somebody out during a parking dispute.
[Trump:] I wish him luck.
[Question:] Mr. President, can you clarify the statement when you said that you're going to arrest people. You're not advocating actually shooting people who are having throwing rocks? Can you clear that up?
[Trump:] No, no, no, no. No. No. But if our soldiers or Border Patrol or ICE are going to be hit in the face with rocks, we're going to arrest those people. That doesn't mean shoot them. But we're going to arrest those people quickly and for a long period of time.
[Question:] Mr. President, your executive on asylum how is it legal to make these kinds of changes to asylum through executive order?
[Trump:] Everything we're doing is totally legal. It's all going through the courts. But we have one of the few systems, where instead of telling people, "You can't come in," we take them in and we have to bring them through a court system. It is the most ridiculous system in the world. It's obsolete, but that's not the problem. The problem is it's a stupid system. And it doesn't work and the Democrats and the Republicans should change it immediately. We can do it one day; we could have it fixed. But the Democrats don't want to do it because they're playing politics. And actually, I think it's very bad politics because the people of this country know what's going on better than they do. And you know what? We could fix our immigration system in one day if we could sit down with them. But they don't want to do it because they want open border and open borders mean crime. They want they want those people coming up by the thousands. And you know, honestly, they always have come up. They want them to pour into our country. And in the group and you just saw the report that came out you have a lot of bad people. You have people that are criminals. You have people with records. You have people with criminal records. We could fix this system so quickly, so easily. But we need some Democrat votes. Or vote all Republican. If we had more Republicans, it would be fixed immediately. Say it?
[Question:] The Iranian sanction oil sanction will start on Monday?
[Trump:] That's right, sanctions start on Iran. They're very serious sanctions. They're very big. They'll be elevated from there. But, as you know, sanctions are starting on Iran and, you know, Iran is taking a very big hit. The country is not the same country as when I started almost two years ago. Iran is a much different country since I terminated that deal. That was one of the most ridiculous deals ever made by any country, at any time: the Iran nuclear deal. But sanctions very much are elevated as of you know when: next week.
[Question:] The Democrats said they had a bipartisan agreement on immigration but you won't back it.
[Trump:] The Democrats never had a bipartisan agreement. They're trying to say that. They never had a bipartisan then tell them to come around and see me. They had an agreement that was a one-sided agreement that I would never approve. You've got to get rid of catch- and-release. You've got to get rid of chain migration. You've got to get rid of the visa lottery. They never agreed to any of that. Ask them if they agreed. They never agreed to it.
[Question:] So can you promise that the military is not going to fire on foreign civilians?
[Trump:] Well, I hope they won't. We're going to see. I hope they won't.
[Question:] But you can't promise?
[Trump:] You know what? We're not going to stand for people doing what they did to the Mexican military and to the Mexican police, what they did to those people. They were very badly hurt, very badly injured the military and the police. What they did with rocks being thrown in their faces not going to happen to our soldiers.