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NBC’s @GarrettHaake: “There's been so much political violence not just aimed at yourself, but at other members of, you know, members of congress, state house speakers, you name it. Is that just the cost of doing business to do politics in America anymore?” Trump: “Yeah.” Haake: “Well, what does that say about our country?” President Trump: “You know, we're not the only country you look at. There's great violence with all countries. I was talking to somebody from another country today, and they have numerous assassinations of political figures all over the world. You look at South America – in South America. It's like some of the numbers are just horrific. It's dangerous, dangerous stuff, whether it's here or someplace else. No country is immune, no country. Good question.” Haake: “Is it possible to turn the temperature down, at this point?” Trump: “Well, probably if I decided to just not do much, you know, if I let everybody rip us off and take advantage of us. Look, we're leading the world in trade now. We're leading the world in the military. We're the greatest military in the world. They rebuilt it in my first term, and now we use it because we have no choice. We can't let, as an example, Iran – we can't let them get a nuclear weapon, that everything will be peanuts compared to that. If they ever were given a nuclear weapon and they'd use it too. Marco and I were talking about it today. They would use it without even hesitation. We can't do that. It was a shame. I said, oh boy, look at the numbers. We just broke 50,000 in the Dow. We just broke 7,000 in the S&P. They said we couldn't do it in seven years, five years, four years. They were saying maybe in five or six years. And we did it in one year. And I called everybody together. I called all of these people and others and they said, uh, we have to take a little journey. I say, to do this. We just had the great number. We just broke 50,000 wasn't supposed to happen during my term, wasn't reachable, did it in one year. And I said, we're going to have to make a journey to Iran. They they're going to have a nuclear weapon if we don't do it. We had the B-2 bombers take them out. I terminated in the first term the Obama agreement, the Iran nuclear agreement, which was a disaster. That was a road to a nuclear weapon. They would have used it. They would have used it 100%. So, you know, when you do things like that, you become a target. If I wasn't doing that, I guess I'd be a lot less of a target, but I'm honored to be.”