welcome back. you are watching verified live. we have been discussing an interesting poll this week. we won't come as a surprise to many of our viewers the attitudes in israel towards palestinians have hardened since the october seven attack

but the responses to some of the questions in this survey are quite shocking and have already stirred plenty of debate within israel. some question the manner in which the survey was done. it has been published by a professor from pennsylvania state university who questioned 1000 israeli jews. 70% of jewish israelis questioned said they support the expulsion of palestinians from gaza. that support increases to almost 100% among ultraorthodox jews. at least 38% support the expulsion of arabs from israel, that is arabs who hold israeli citizenship. again that number increases to over 90% within some religious jewish groups. and when asked whether conquering an enemy city the idf should act in similar manner to the way the israelites acted when joshua captured jericho, in other words killing everyone who lived in the city, a minimum 37% said yes. political

consultant, pollster and journalist told us more about the reaction to these poll results. many people were reaching out to me asking if the survey could possibly be credible. looking to find some kind of methodological flaws in the survey or technical reasons to discredit or disbelieve the results and frankly i think it came from a lot of people on the left-wing side of the map who believe in peace, who believe that israelis and palestinians can still be brought back to supporting peace, who did not want to believe that the data... with apologies you will see that donald trump is in the company of the german chancellor frederick mertz and they are talking live about their relationship. let's listen in as yellow won the popular vote of all seven swing states, it is a big deal. it is pretty unusual to do that and we have a great mandate from the people and part of our mandate is we're going to have a great relationship with your country. so i just want to thank you

very much for being here if you would like to say a few words. thank you first of all, mr president, for your kind invitation to come to washington, dc. i was in the building for the first time ever in 1982 when president ronald reagan was in office, so i'm very happy to be here again and to offer our close cooperation with united states of america. we are having so much in common, our history. we owe the americans a lot. we will never forget about that. and so with your german provenance i think this is a very good basis for close cooperation between america and germany. so again thank you, thank you for the hospitality and thank you for having your guesthouse for the night. this is a great place. many thanks for that, i really enjoyed it. it is wonderful place, a landmark also. and a nice place to stay. thank you very much for saying that. would you have

any questions, please? on your new travel ban, why now and why not include egypt on that list? egypt has been a country that we deal with very closely. they have things under control. the countries that don't thing the limit have things under control. and why now? i can say that it can't come soon enough frankly and we want to keep people out of our country. the biden administration allowed some horrendous people and we are getting them out one by one. we are not stopping until we get them out. we have thousands of murderers. i even hate to say this in front of the chancellor because you have a little problem too with some of the people... it is not your fault, it is not your fault. it shouldn't have happened. i told her it should have happened, what you did. but we are moving them out and we are moving them out very strongly. but it can't come fast enough, we want to

get them out and we want to get them out now. we don't want to have other bad people coming into our country. by using the word bad i am being nice. you put out on tyres truth social a post regarding your conversation with the chinese president. can you talk about whether or not you feel that trade talks, trade relations are back on track after appearing to be a little bit off track last week? a little bit off track. it was only the complexity. it is pretty complex. we had a very good conversation with the chinese president a little while ago, just before your arrival. in fact, we just hung up. two great leaders of the world in a very short period of time. we had a very good talk and we have straightened out any complexity. it is very complex stuff and we straighten it out. the agreement was we are going to have scott and howard and

jamieson will be going and meeting with their top people and continue forward. but i think we have everything, we are in very good shape with china and the trade deal. we have a deal with china, as you know, but we were straightening out some of the points. having to do mostly with rare earth magnets and some other things. so the trade tariff rates remain in effect? we have the deal. we announce the deal and i guess you could say, i would even say finalising, i would say we have a deal and we are just going to make sure that everybody understands what the deal is. we had a really good conversation. he invited me to china and i invited him here and we both accepted. i will be going there with the first lady at a certain point and he will be coming here hopefully with the first lady of china. did you talk about the chinese

students? are you allowing them to come? chinese students are coming, no problem. no problem. it is an honour to have them frankly. we want to have foreign students but we want them to be checked. in the case of harvard and columbia and others, all we want to do is see the list. there is no problem with that. this is anybody outside our country, international students. because when we see some of the people that we have been watching we say where did they come from, how is that possible? we want to have foreign students. we are honoured by it but we want to see the list. harvard didn't want to give us a list. they will give us the list now. i think they're starting to behave actually, if you want to know the truth. are you willing to put more pressure on putin to end the war by imposing new sanctions on russia and also in china? well remember i'm the

one that ended nord stream to going to place call germany, to think of it! i ended nord stream 2, no one else did. when biden came in he immediately approved it. essentially it is the largest pipeline in the world going to germany and other countries. by the way we have so much oil and gas you will not be able to buy it all. we literally have so much and i hope we are going to make that a part of our trade deal because we have more than anybody else. we have actually the most by far in the world, probably double what anyone else has, so we work on that. i'm sure that is something we will discuss today what you expect from germany and what you expect from the chancellor? well, first of all, i am glad to meet him. i have been dealing with the chancellor and he is a very good man to deal with. he is difficult i would say, can i say? you won't want me to say you are easy, right?! he is a great representative of

germany. all we want is to have a good relationship, the rest will follow very easily. we will have a good trade deal. i guess that will be mostly determined by the european union but you are a very big part of that so you will be involved. but we will end up hopefully with a trade deal or we will do something. we will do the tariffs. i'm ok with the tariffs or we make a deal with the trade and i guess that is what we are discussing. mr president, is germany doing enough on defence? the chancellor wants to spend 3:5... i don't know, i haven't discussed it much. i know that you're staying in more money on defence now and quite a bit more money and that is a positive. i'm not sure the general would have said it is

positive. he wouldn't like it but i sort of think it is good. you understand what i mean by that. he made a statement never let germany rearm and i always think about that when he says, sir, we are spending more money on defence. i say is a good thing or bad thing. i think it is a good thing. but at least certain point. there will reach a point where say please don't arm any more, we will be watching him! your predecessor dismissed your investigation saying he made all the decisions during his presidency. i'm curious to know about his dismissal for science outside of the rigged election of 2020i think the biggest scandal of the last many years is the... who is using it? i happen to think i know because i am here. i'm very glad, it is an easy way out. but it is a

very bad thing, very dangerous. i signed important documents. usually when they put documents in front of you they are important. even if you are signing ambassador ships i consider that important. i think it is inappropriate to have someone who is devoting four years of their life more to be an ambassador. i think you really, that person deserves to get a real signature not an auto pen. and i can tell ought open easily, i can look at it. like two little pinholes from pulling the paper. you can see the pinholes. it is really easy to tell the auto pen. i think it is really disrespectful to people when they get an auto pen signature. auto pen to me i used when thousands of letters coming from young people all over the country and you want to get them back and people use auto pens for that, to send a little signature at the bottom of a letter. we have thousands of them. we get thousands of letters a week and it is not

possible, i would like to do it myself but you can't do it. to me, that is where auto pens start and stop but i am sure that he didn't know many of the things. look, he was never for open borders, he was never the transgender for everybody, he was never the man playing in women's sport. he changed it. all of these things that change so radically. i don't think he had any idea... frankly, i said it during the debate and i say it now, he didn't have much of an idea what was going on. he shouldn't be... essentially, whoever use the auto pen was the president and that is wrong, it is illegal, it is so bad and it is so disrespectful to our country. mr president, will you leave the troops in germany if i may ask a question to the chancellor to answer in german for the german audience. the answer is yes, we will talk

about that but if they would like to have them. we have a lot of them, about 45,000. it is a lot of troops. it is a city when you think about it. that is good economic develop meant, highly paid troops and they spend a lot of money in germany. but the relationship with germany is very important. yeah, we will be doing that, no problem. translation: speaks german is your english is good as a german, would you say? no, it is not my mother tongue but i try to understand almost everything and to speak as good as i can. it is an achievement

actually. the criticism i've seen and i'm sure you have seen regarding elon musk on your big beautiful bill. what is your reaction to that? do you think in any way it hurts passage in the senate, which of course is what you are seeking? i've always liked elon musk and is very surprised, you saw the words he had for me. he hasn't said anything about me that is bad. i would rather have him criticise me than the bill because the bill is incredible. it is the biggest cut in the history of our country. we have never cut, it is about 1.6 trillion in cuts. it is the biggest tax cut, you would say people's taxes will go way down but it is the biggest tax cut in history. we are doing things in that build that are unbelievable. and when you look at what we're doing the small businesses, the people, for middle-income people, all of the things that we are doing, nobody has ever seen anything

like it. and elon musk is upset because we took the mandate, which was a lot of money for electric vehicles and their having a hard time the electric vehicles and they want us to pay billions of dollars in subsidy. eli knew this from the beginning. -- elon. i would say that hasn't changed. that hasn't changed it all right from the beginning. i know he wanted, rightfully, and recommended somebody that i guess you knew very well. i'm sure he respected him to run nasa. i didn't think it was appropriate. he happened to be a democrat like totally democrat. nasa