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    Q   Mr. President, will you appoint Senator Rand Paul as your emissary to Iran, as it was reported?

    THE PRESIDENT: No. I don't know anything about that other than I have spoken to Senator Paul. And Senator Paul is somebody I have a very good relationship with. And I would listen to him. But I didn't appoint him, no. When did this come up?

    Q   Yesterday or the day before.

    THE PRESIDENT: Yeah. No. He's somebody that I listen to. I respect Senator Paul. And if he had some ideas, I'd listen.

    I will say that Iran is a much different country right now. When I took over, and Mike and I came into office, Iran was the scourge of the world. They were doing 14 different sites of confliction. They were fighting and causing problems in Yemen and Syria and Iraq and all over. It's a much different country right now. And you look at what's happening. You look at them pulling back. And they're not pulling back because they love us; they're pulling back because they don't have money.

    They're being hurt very badly by sanctions. And I hope that doesn't happen for long because I hope they're able to straighten it out. It can happen very quickly. But if you look at the original President Obama deal, it was a disaster from many standpoints, but almost, most importantly, because it was going to be ending very shortly.

    You know, it's a very short-term deal. And you can't have a short-term deal for a country. You need 100-year deal. You don't need a short-term. In a few years, literally - in a few years they would be on their way to a nuclear weapon. That's unacceptable.

    Plus, they can't do ballistic missiles, and the deal allows them to do ballistic missiles. And we have to look other sites. The best - the most important site we we're not allowed to go in and look at. What kind of a deal is that? And other things. And many other things.

    So Iran is not the same country. They have inflation now at 75 percent. They're having tremendous problems within the country. They're selling very little oil. We have an embargo. We have a stop on oil. Even the European countries are now agreeing with me. You see they're coming over. And they're coming over very strong.

    It's very sad what happened to Iran. All we want to do is have a fair deal. The deal that was made was a bad deal. It was not approved by Congress. A lot of problems with the deal that was made. And we can do something quickly, or we can take our time. I'm in no rush. I'm in no rush.

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    Q   Mr. President, are you concerned that your supporters chanting, you know, "Send her back" puts Representative Omar or these other representatives in danger?

    THE PRESIDENT: Well, I have tremendous support. And I wasn't happy with that message that they gave last night. But that was a packed arena. We could've sold the arena. We could've sold 10 of those arenas last night. There were tremendous numbers of people that couldn't get in. We had, outside, thousands and thousands of people. We had thousands and thousands of people that wanted to come, and we said, "Please don't come." It held 10,000 people. It was packed. We could've sold that arena 10 times.

    There's tremendous support for the Republican Party. There's tremendous support for this team - for the President, for the Vice President. We have tremendous support, maybe like nobody has seen in a long time. There's great energy. I say there's far more energy on the right than there is on the left. I mean, I hear about the left; all I see is the left is fighting all over the place. I think we have far more support than they do, and I think we have far more energy than they do. And we're going to have a very interesting election.

    But I was not happy when I heard that chant.

    Thank you every- - thank you very much everybody.

    Q   Mr. President, why did they do it? Why did they do it, if not responding to -

    THE PRESIDENT: You'd have to ask them, Jon.

    What I would suggest as - I was not happy with it. But what I would suggest: You go there, go to North Carolina, and you ask the people why did they say that. But that's what they said. That's what they -

    Q   But you'll stop them if they try to do it again?

    THE PRESIDENT: Well, I didn't like that they did it. And I started speaking very quickly. I could have - I could have stood -

    Q   You let it play out for several seconds.

    THE PRESIDENT: Really? If you would have heard, there was tremendous amount of noise and action and everything else. I started very quickly. And I think you know that.

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    Q   That chant went on for -

    THE PRESIDENT: Well, maybe you're giving me too much credit. You're used to giving me too much credit.

    Thank you, everybody.

    Q   Will you stop it next time, Mr. President? Will you stop it the next time?

    THE PRESIDENT: Yes. I will try. I would certainly try, yeah.

    Q   Thank you.

    Q   Mr. President, on the debt ceiling -

    THE PRESIDENT: We're working on the debt ceiling.

    Q   Are you close?

    THE PRESIDENT: Don't forget, you know, the debt under President Obama added more debt than every President put together. So you're talking about a debt ceiling: President Obama added $10 trillion during his eight years. He doubled the debt. He added more debt than every President - every single President put together. President Obama doubled - more than doubled the debt.

    So we're talking about a debt ceiling. The previous President doubled the debt. And that's what we get stuck with. That's the way it is, folks.

    Thank you very much.

    Q   Are there sanctions - sanctions on Turkey that you're anticipating?

    THE PRESIDENT: No, we're not looking at that right now. No.

    Thank you everybody. Thank you.

    Q   Thank you, sir.

    THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.

END  •  12:56 P.M. EDT



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