Rush Transcript of Trump Interview at Fox News Broadcast This Morning

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(1) It is now 1: 20 pm, Sunday, Dec 11, 2016.
(2) Fox News (headquartered in New York City) has arms of television stations and cable.  
(3) Fox News has a Washington, DC-based news program "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace,"
www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday-chris-wallace/
("Coming up this week: President-elect Donald Trump sits down exclusively with Fox News Sunday in his first Sunday show interview since winning the election. Chris will travel to New York City to speak with Mr. Trump

whose red block "CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS" shows in Boston the show is broadcast at 10 am local time by WFXT, a Fox-affiliated television station. The above website also says the same will be in the cable 2 and 10 pm today.
(4) Here is a rush transcript" of the today's interview at a studio at New York.
http://www.foxnews.com/transcrip ... transition-process/


title: "Exclusive: Donald Trump on Cabinet picks, transition process

"This is a rush transcript from 'Fox News Sunday,' December 11, 2016. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

(a) Trump on hacking into computers of Democratic and Republican National Committees: "And hacking is very interesting.  Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, you're not going to catch them.  They [CIA] have no idea if it's Russia or China or somebody.  It could be somebody sitting in a bed some place.  I mean, they [CIA] have no idea.

(b) "WALLACE:  On the other hand, you appointed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be head of the EPA.  

"TRUMP:  Sped up (ph) the process.

"WALLACE:  He's been suing EPA.  

"TRUMP:  Sure.

"WALLACE:  At one point in the campaign, you said it's [Climate change's] a hoax.  

"(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP [of Trump's campaign rhetoric])

TRUMP:  Yes, I think it's a big scam for a lot of people to make a lot of money.  In the meantime, China is eating our lunch because they don't partake in all of the rules and regulations that we do.  

(END VIDEO CLIP)

"WALLACE:  On the other hand, you told The New York Times, you're open-minded about it.  

"TRUMP:  I am open-minded.  

"WALLACE:  So, where are you on the environment?  

"TRUMP:  I'm still open-minded.  Nobody really knows.  

"I've -- look, I'm somebody that gets it.  And nobody really knows.  It's not something that's so hard and fast.  

"I do know this: other countries are eating our lunch.  If you look at what China is doing, if you look at what -- I could name country after country.  You look at what's happening in Mexico where our people -- just our plants are being built.  They don't wait ten years to get an approval to build a plant, OK?  They build it like the following day or the following week.  

"We can't let all of these permits that take forever to get stop our jobs. * * *

(c) Right before commercials, Wallace said: "Coming up, we ask Mr Trump about his controversial call with the president of Taiwan.  Was he sending China a message?  And what will become of his business once he's sworn in?  As 'Fox News Sunday's The Trump Way' continues.

(d) "Donald Trump rattled the relationship between China and the U.S. when he spoke with the leader of Taiwan, breaking with decades of US diplomacy.  Now, he's doubling down on that decision.  

"Back to our exclusive interview with the president-elect.  

"(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) [I do not know what it means in this context.]

"WALLACE:  You recently took a call from the president of Taiwan, and on the Sunday shows, including ours, some of your top aides said, oh, it was just a congratulatory call.  But the next day, some of your top aides said, no, in fact, you had been thinking about this for weeks in advance to send a message.  

"So, which is it?  

"TRUMP:  Oh, it's all wrong.  No, no.  It's all wrong.  Not weeks [the call took place on Friday, Dec 2, 2016, at 11 am EST].  

"I took a call.  I heard the call was coming probably an hour or two before.  I fully understand the One-China policy.  But I don't know why we have to be bound by a One-China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade.  

"I mean, look, we're being hurt very badly by China with devaluation, with taxing us heavy at the borders when we don't tax them, with building a massive fortress in the middle of the South China Sea, which they shouldn't be doing.  

"And, frankly, they're not helping us at all with North Korea.  You have North Korea, you have nuclear weapons, and China could solve that problem.  And they're not helping us at all.  

"So, I don't want China dictating to me.  And this was a call put into me.  I didn't make the call.  And it was a call, very short call, saying, 'Congratulations, sir, on the victory.'  It was a very nice call.  Short.  

"And why should some other nation be able to say, I can't take a call?  I think it would have been very disrespectful, to be honest with you, not taking it.  

(e) After the interview, Mr Wallace hosted aa round table with experts.

"JASON RILEY, MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FELLOW: * * * So he's [Trump's]-- also says -- you know, I think it's important that he [Trump] not undermine the integrity of these intelligence agencies that he'll be in charge of going forward. He says he's going to bring in his own people and then he will trust what they say more. Well, he's tapped Mike Pompeo to head --

WALLACE:  A congressman [correcting Riley by reminding Riley Pompeo is a somebody].

"RILEY: The congressman, to head CIA. Throughout the campaign, Pompeo was one of the people who said, in all likelihood, both Russia and China were behind the hacks.



* double down (vt): "US
1 (in blackjack) double a bet after seeing one's initial cards, with the requirement that one additional card be drawn
1.1 strengthen one's commitment to a particular strategy or course of action, typically one that is potentially risky"
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/double_down