In this full, unedited interview with Meet the Press, former President Trump discusses his views on the 2020 election, abortion rights, foreign policy and more.

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President Trump, welcome back to Meet the Press.

There are a number of things that make your campaign unprecedented.

You are the first former president to run for re-election in more than 100 years.

You have an incredibly significant lead in the GOP primary polls.

Well, it's a very simple answer, and I can give it very easily.

I don't think we've ever been so low in terms of certainly opinion, world opinion and country opinion.

They look at what's happening with millions of people coming in, millions of illegal immigrants coming into our country, flooding our cities, flooding the countryside.

I think the number is going to be 15 million people by the time you end this.

By the end of this year, I think the real number is going to be 15 million people.

They come from mental institutions, insane asylums.

They say, sir, please don't use that term.

On NBC, I saw a poll, and I saw some statistics.

And it said, in 2019, there were no terrorists.

And now this year, it's a record number like they have never seen before.

And we didn't have an Afghanistan disaster.

We were getting out, but we were going to get out with dignity and pride, not the way they got out.

That was a surrender and an embarrassment and horrible.

We gave $85 billion worth of equipment to the Taliban.

We had death, so much death and so much horrible destruction.

I think it was the lowest point in the history of our country.

Now, with all of that, we can change it and we can make America great again.

We are going to delve into a number of issues you brought up.

You talked about all the people coming across the border.

Of course, a lot of families also coming across the border as well.

I want to talk to you about that a little bit later on.

But first, let's talk about the breaking news today.

We learned just a short time ago that the president's son, Hunter Biden, was indicted by a federal grand jury on 3 gun charges.

President, can you continue to say that there are 2 systems of justice?

DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States of America, was indicted on 3 gun charges.

Well, I think there's no question about it.

He had a plea deal that was the deal of the century, the art of the deal.

You could write a book on it, the art of the deal.

And all of a sudden, that was broken up by a judge who was able to, a brilliant judge, actually, who was able to see through what was happening.

I mean, nobody should be happy about this.

But, you know, if you think about it, I've been under investigation from the day I came down the escalator.

And phony investigation, fake investigations, investigations that I beat every single time, still under investigations.

But it's a very sad thing, and it's a slippery slope and dangerous, very dangerous for our country.

But you talked about the plea deal, but now Hunter Biden's been indicted.

So doesn't that undercut your entire argument that there are 2 systems of justice

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, FOURTH GRADE STUDENT, U.S.

SENATE, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, CENTRAL KINGDOM Well, look,

But this is the only charge it doesn't affect Joe Biden this was the gun charge but gun charges are very serious you know people have had gun charges and gone to jail for a lot of a lot of years I pardoned some people who I thought it was just horrible, what happened.

But they were put in jail for many, many years, rappers and others.

So, look, it's a bad thing, but it's 1 of

and it's the 1 charge that doesn't affect Joe Biden.

Well, of course, there's no evidence that the president has any link to his son's business dealings.

You mean he called in all these meetings?

He was calling in on the meetings, he was put on speakerphone every single day.

And what about the fact that he got rid of the prosecutor for a billion dollars?

You don't get rid of this prosecutor, we're not giving you a billion dollars to Ukraine.

President, the witness who testified, though, said that he never heard any discussion of business when President Biden was put on the phone.

You saw the prosecutor thing on television, Because I saw it on your network.

He said you don't get rid of this prosecutor.

And as you know, there was never any wrongdoing

Let's move on to what a second Trump term would look sure When you launched your campaign in March, you told the crowd, quote, I am your retribution.

I think retribution is talking in terms of I have to protect people.

What they're doing to people is so horrible.

They're putting people in jail for long periods of time, firemen, policemen, accountants, even lawyers.

They're in prisons for years now and don't even have trials in some cases.

And if you look at Antifa and other groups, practically nothing happened to them.

I mean, they literally took over a big chunk of the city.

People died, and nothing happened to them.

But when you talk about retribution, are you talking about directing your attorney general to try to go after your political enemies?

When I talk about retribution, I'm talking about fairness.

These people on January 6, they went, some of them never even went into the building, and they're being given sentences of, you know, many years.

going to look at them, and I certainly might, if I think it's appropriate.

And it's – they're dividing the country so badly, and it's very dangerous.

President, we're going to delve into that a little bit later on, but I want to stay on this idea of what you mean by retribution.

Are you looking to appoint an attorney general who will prosecute the people you tell them to prosecute?

I'm looking to appoint an attorney general who's gonna be tough on crime and fair.

No, no, I would never do that, But Biden has done that.

Look, Biden, these aren't indictments against me.

This isn't God coming down and very fairly said, oh, you spoke badly about an election.

Even if you go to the more modern-day proof with the they call it Twitter files, FBI and Twitter, or you take a look at the Amazon stuff or the Google stuff, or you take a look at 2,000 mules, you take a look at all of the ballot stuffing that's on tape, You take a look at the fact that the legislatures didn't approve a lot of the things that were done in the elections And they had to approve and we could go on forever We could go on forever, but but no I want somebody that's going to be strong respected Tough and fair

Just to go back to a couple of the points you said, the ballot stuffing, that's something that's been debunked.

But let's, I do want to keep moving forward.

Hundreds, even thousands and thousands of people, you take a look, through the vote, Take a look, it's on camera.

They have thousands of pictures of people.

I know you have to say that for your network, but you shouldn't say it because that's the problem.

We have thousands of essentially motion pictures of people stuffing the ballot boxes, tens of thousands.

They're not stuffing the ballot boxes, And you've been told that by your top law enforcement officials.

But let's stay on track, because we have so much ground to cover.

in 1 place, another place, another place, as many as I understand, 28 different places in 1 day with 789 ballots a piece.

They can't do any more because it would look too phony.

You've reported 60 different cases all across the country.

We lost because the judges didn't want to hear them.

But if this were ever before a court, we would win so easy.

There is so much evidence that the election was rigged.

And you may not even put this section on your show and you'll have to decide what you want to do But people know it was rigged.

There were 51 intelligence agents that lied.

Let's stay on track because I want to talk about policy.

That's what voters want to hear about, Mr.

Let's talk about what's happening on Capitol Hill right now.

Speaker McCarthy announced that he was launching an impeachment inquiry this week into President Biden.

Do you see this as a part of the retribution that you see?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, FOUNDER, CAPITAL HILL CONGRESSIONAL CENTER FOR RECONCLUSION AND DEFENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, CAPITAL HILL CONGRESSIONAL CENTER FOR RECONCLUSION AND DEFENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS,

FOR RECONCLUSION AND DEFENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, CAPITAL HILL CONGRESSIONAL CENTER FOR RECONCLUSION AND DEFENSE

OF HUMAN RIGHTS, CAPITAL HILL CONGRESSIONAL CEN Look, you look at the terrible things that have been happening with respect to Biden.

Jamie Comer, Jim Jordan, who are fantastic people and

I watched Jamie Comer just a little while ago talking about a lot of different facets of what's going on.

And he was the 1 that said, I guess there were 12 things where it looks like it's stone-cold guilty, and the gun charge is only 1 of the 12.

He said this is the only 1 That doesn't implicate Joe Biden.

So, but my question for you, did you talk to Speaker McCarthy about this House impeachment agreement?

Did you tell him that he should open a House impeachment agreement?

I mean, he wouldn't do it based on me, no.

Did you talk to your Republican allies on Capitol Hill and say you should support this?

I mean, when I was impeached for a perfect phone call, and Now it turned out to be perfect.

I hope you will admit that at least, because I was right, 100 percent right.

But I was impeached for a perfect phone call.

And we had 196 to nothing vote for Republicans, very unusual for the Republican Party.

196, the entire House, not 1 person dissented.

And then other than Romney, who sort of gave me half a vote, but we had

People think I was treated very unfairly.

people who voted for that impeachment say that the phone call that you referenced was about a quid pro quo.

It was perfect but my phone call was perfect.

My phone call was saying please investigate any crimes that you see and by the way I'm mandated to do that as the president of the United States.

And it was really, really a call to congratulate him on winning the election.

But what what you when you talk about quid pro quo, please don't talk about quid pro quo because there was none in the call at all.

Where there was a quid pro quo was when Biden said very strongly, we're not going to give them the billion dollars unless they get rid of the prosecutor.

President, Let me take a step back here, because a lot of voters say what they want to talk about right now is your vision for the future.

And I've been traveling to a lot of the early voting states, and they say that your focus on the past is a problem for them.

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