The speaker discusses his personal life, including a cancer diagnosis and his upcoming book \"Promise Me America.\" He claims credit for reducing historic inflation and hints at a major upcoming announcement regarding election integrity. Additionally, he addresses foreign policy, focusing on sanctions against Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah, and the shifting power dynamics in the Middle East.
Since I left the presidency, I've had a lot of people ask me,
Joe, what have you been doing? I've been spending a lot of time with my family.
I'm dealing with a cancer diagnosis and I've been getting treatment and it's been going really well.
I want to thank all those who offered their prayers and support and well wishes.
It's meant the world to me and to Jill.
I've written a book about my time as president. It's called Promise Me America.
It's coming out in November and it's available for pre-order now.
It's about the challenge we face as a nation, about the decisions I made, and why I made them.
Inflation slowed to 3.5 percent.
Yeah, thank you.
Will this trend hold now that strikes on Iran?
I think so. I think it's going to. Inflation's down.
We inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country. They say 48 years.
It was the worst in the history of our country from Biden. Sleepy Joe.
He might have been sleepy, but boy, he could create inflation like nobody.
And I inherited that and I got blamed for it. And it's not my fault.
We are putting it to sleep. And we've done a great job.
Scott and Howard and Marco and even Pete, because he's watching his dollars. Right.
But they've done a fantastic job. We've all done a fantastic job.
So we had the worst inflation in history and the history of our country.
I mean, we had months where it was 9 and 10 percent.
And now we have a report just came out. It was just released.
Thank you for bringing it up. But the report was incredible. Inflation is way down.
That means prices are coming way down and we're doing a great job.
Remember that for the midterms, I say to that camera.
Remember that because nobody else could do it.
Prices are way down. Prices are coming way down.
And we're going to bring them much lower yet.
Election machines and integrity.
Can you give us sort of a sneak peek about what to expect?
It will concern that subject. We'll have a couple of other things.
But I'd rather save it. But it's really big news.
It's really, really big news. And our country has to shape up.
But that's what we're going to be talking about Thursday is
it doesn't get bigger.
Because without free and fair elections, you don't have a country.
We'll be discussing other things, too.
But it's going to be a very big announcement.
Mr. President, your administration pushed hard to shape Iraq's leadership
and tied U.S. support to Islamic Iran-backed factions.
With the September 15th deadline weeks away, what happened in Baghdad misses it?
And does the U.S. troops could go from Kyrgyzstan,
I think everything's on schedule. We have a great year.
We are. I mean, we're right now. I even call for a lunch.
It wasn't scheduled. OK, so in that way.
But no, we usually we I don't think I've ever done that.
We didn't have lunch. I said, let's have lunch.
You know why? Because I like at least I like it.
So I think I think that's all going to work out very well.
Do you want this Russia sanctions bill signed within the next week or two?
And will you sign it?
Well, I know that Lindsey wanted it very badly.
I think they may be adding Iran to it.
They're going to add Iran, which is a very big thing.
If they did that, they may add Hezbollah to just put them.
If you do business with Hezbollah.
So we're looking at that. But they're seriously thinking.
And this is in honor of Lindsey.
This was his thing. He wanted this more than any other thing.
You know, you know how he felt.
And there's a good chance that it gets done.
But they'd like to add Iran.
And they'd like to add Hezbollah to it.
That's what I'm hearing.
We'll have to look.
That hasn't been discussed.
My question for you.
The prime minister has launched a campaign to bring weapons
held by militia under the control of the state.
How does your administration support him to accomplish this vision?
My second question.
How do you envision the future relations between Kurdistan region and Iraq?
I think everything is going to work out.
I think people are the Middle East.
Believe it or not, it's coming together.
We're getting rid of the bully of the Middle East.
Iran was the bully of the Middle East.
They bullied Iraq.
They bullied every country.
There were they there was fear all over the Middle East with other countries.
I understand that.
But there was fear.
But there's no fear anymore because their military capability has been knocked to hell.
And there's no fear.
I think the Middle East is coming together like it's never come together before.
You can't have a dominant factor like Iran that would kill 52,000 protesters.
You know, they killed.
Nobody likes talking about that.
I don't like talking about it.
They killed 52,000 protesters.
So the bottom line, all regions, I believe, are coming together.
And I think it's going to be this is going to be one of the great leaders right here.
It's going to be one of the great leaders in the Middle East.