Trump currently in transition sat down for his first TV interview since the election and outlined the aggressive agenda he’s been working on since day one our chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce is in Washington Mary Good morning what we haven’t really heard from the man elected to the presidency like that since his victory and this morning we’re getting a clear idea of what Donald Trump is planning for his first day in office from immigration to the economy and his pledges of retaliation. This morning President-elect Donald Trump is working to start with his efforts to boost the economy but has been pressed on concerns plans to punish terrorists have been put on hold prices will go up Trump admitted he cannot guarantee Americans will not pay more I can guarantee anything like that guarantee tomorrow.
Tariffs are a fair one. I have used they are very powerful not only economically but also to get other things done outside of economics Trump has promised to put tariffs on China and a twenty-five percent tariff on all. Goods imported from Mexico and Canada, but some economists say that it will cost American families more than twenty-six hundred dollars a year and on immigration Trump confirmed his plan for mass deportations starting with convicted criminals but eventually he said they could include any immigrant in the country illegally like you have to do it and it is a car it is a very hard thing to do but you know. Rules and regulations laws they came in illegally. Although they have children who are American citizens I do not want to break up families so you know the only way to keep them together is to break them up.
You have to send them back Trump confirmed his plan to try to end birthright citizenship from day one though it is enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment suggesting that he might try to amend the Constitution. The change would probably have to go back to the people we have to end it. One group they might be protected under his plan. So-called dreamers undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children and spent most of their lives here, in many cases they have been successful, they have got great jobs, in some cases they have small businesses, in some cases big businesses. We are going to do something with them, and I think we can work something out with the Democrats. When it comes to his campaign, he promises revenge. Against his opponents Trump says he will not instruct the administration to pursue political prosecutions, suggesting he will let such cases go.
His approach to his attorney general and FBI director I really want our country to succeed, I do not want to go back to the past, I want our country to succeed. Retribution will be through success, but he is also attacking members of the House committee that investigated their role in the January sixth attack on the Capitol. Calling out former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, saying they should all go to jail for what they did, but honestly they should go to jail. Now Liz Cheney has responded to Trump’s comments overnight, calling them an attack on the rule of law. Trump also said he would work to quash the January 6th rioters as quickly as possible. He still will not admit he lost the 2012 election even when pressed to do so in an effort to bring the country together and move forward.