Trump: ‘Having Putin Dropping Bombs on ISIS Is a Very Positive Thing’
SCARBOROUGH: “The United States should not be the world’s policeman.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Right.”
TRUMP: “No, no. We — look — Joe, we owe $19 trillion.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Does that put you in line with where Barack Obama is as far as leading behind?”
TRUMP: “No, I think I’m a little bit more on the let’s go side than that. But at the same time, I love the fact that — Putin is bombing the hell out of somebody. And the people that he’s bombing right now have to be ISIS to a certain extent. They just probably blew up his airplane. You know. that was a Russian plane, and it went down, and I assume it was a bomb. I think they don’t want to say it. But it looks like it was a bomb. And having Putin dropping bombs on ISIS is a very positive thing. We don’t have to do 100 percent of the bombing. Now we have to —“
SCARBOROUGH: “So, Jeb — Jeb Bush says that’s reckless and irresponsible.”
TRUMP: “No, I think it’s irresponsible for us to get bogged down in Syria and maybe let’s end up in World War III over Syria, where we don’t even want to be, in the first place. And you have a migration with millions of people coming out, going all over the world, nobody knows what’s happening. And frankly, Assad is a bad guy. We’re backing people that we don’t know even who the hell they are. You know, this is another Libya deal. We’re backing people that we don’t even know who they are, Joe. And giving billions of dollars worth of stuff, and they’re getting the held knocked out of them anyway because, now Russia is taking care of that one. But we have no idea. I spoke to a general two weeks ago. He is really up on it and he said, Donald, we have no idea who those people are that we’re giving all of this stuff to. So, Assad got knocked off, let’s say they got knocked off, he gets knocked off. What do we have? I mean, we don’t know if it’s going to be worse than Assad? So what are we doing? Another words what are we doing? We shouldn’t have got into Iraq and we destabilize the entire Middle East by doing it. ISIS now, we have ISIS because of that. We have ISIS — look at Libya with Gaddafi. So we have Libya, we have Gaddafi and he’s not there. It’s 10 times worse than it ever was when we had Gaddafi. And now we have the same thing. We owe $19 trillion, we have bridges are falling down, our roadways are falling. You know, I travel all over the world. I see airports, some of the most beautiful things you’ve ever seen, like cathedrals—“
BRZEZINSKI: “Singapore.”
TRUMP: “— anywhere I can name twenty different places and then you land at LaGuardia, and you have pot holes on the runway. OK?”
SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah.”
TRUMP: “It’s — the places is falling apart.”
SCARBOROUGH: “But there is a beautiful Trump airplane at the end of the runway —“ [crosstalk]
BRZEZINSKI: “Oh, please —“
SCARBOROUGH: — every time you land on LaGuardia —“[crosstalk]
