Trump on Not Having Foreign Policy Advisers: ‘I Don’t Think There’s Any Rush’

BRZEZINSKI: “All right, I have another question and then I’m opening it up to the table. In our town hall in South Carolina it was about 15 days ago, I asked you to share with me three people that you would consult with on foreign policy. And you said that you wouldn’t at the moment because you would be announcing your team in a week. Where is that team? Who is that team? And if that team is not put together yet, who are three people that you would respect and consult with on foreign policy?”
TRUMP: “Mika, I’ve met and I’ve spoken to the team. I’m going to do it shortly. I don’t think there’s any rush but I’ve met, I’ve spoken to the members of the team and I’m going to do it shortly. You know at least one of the members of that team, but I’ll do it very shortly, I just don’t want to do it now. I will have at the appropriate time, you will get that information. I will be — I said in a week or two and it will be pretty much in a week or two. But I will — I just don’t want to do it quite yet.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Well, certainly you can announce the team wherever you want but who do you respect on foreign policy? Who do you turn to? Who do you think is a great name.”
TRUMP: “Well, I respect Richard Haass who’s on your show a lot, and I like him a lot. [indecipherable] and I mean, I have a few people that I really like and respect. I think [indecipherable] is a fantastic guy. I mean, I have a lot of respect. I have respect for many of the people not only on your shows but many people that I’m dealing with that, don’t go on television and won’t do television and are great thinkers. But ultimately, it’s my thought more than anybody else’s. When I see the policy of some of these people in our government, the policy — we’ll be in the Middle East for another 15 years if we don’t end up losing by that time. Because our country is disintegrating. We are spending trillions of dollars in the Middle East and the infrastructure of our country is disintegrating. We should have never gone into Iraq. That was a disaster and it just never ends. I mean, it’s just continuing and continuing. We have to beat ISIS, we have to take them out, to chopping off heads, we can’t allow it to happen, but I have great people and I’ll let you know at the appropriate time, very soon.”