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By Brooke Singman | Fox News

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'Fox & Friends' exclusive: President Trump reacts to the murder of college student Mollie Tibbetts, the deportation of an ex-Nazi guard and if
Democrats will try to impeach him if they take back power in November.

President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt, warned that the
“market would crash” if he's ever impeached -- while questioning why Democrats would even
consider that course in the future.

“I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who’s done a great job,” Trump said, in the
interview which aired Thursday on "Fox & Friends." 

The president weighed in on calls from the left to pursue impeachment if Democrats seize the
House in the midterms. That speculation kicked up following the plea deal struck by his former
attorney Michael Cohen claiming the president was involved in hush-money payments and
admitting campaign nance violations related to them. 
The president argued that he's done a great job in o ce, despite the critical coverage in
connection with the Cohen case and other controversies. 

Further, he warned, “If I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash, I think everybody
would be very poor, because without this thinking, you would see — you would see numbers that
you wouldn’t believe in reverse.”

The president touted his economic accomplishments, claiming that the economy was going to
be “down” if he hadn’t been elected.

“I freed up, I got rid of regulations, the tax cut was a tremendous thing,” Trump said. 

He added: “Had Hillary and the Democrats gotten in, had she been president, you would have had
negative growth. We picked up $10 trillion worth.” 

Impeachment talk is still con ned to certain corners of the Democratic Party. Top House
Democrats have largely pushed back on calls to pursue that option, though some have kept the
door open. 

Many Democrats have said the Cohen plea creates legal risks for Trump. "The factual basis of
the plea, potentially implicating the president in illegal campaign nance violations, adds to the
president’s legal jeopardy," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., top House Intelligence Committee
Democrat, said in a statement. 

The president also hit on immigration in the interview — saying “we’re doing a record-breaking
job, but we have bad laws.”

“You know when you have bad laws you can do good. But you can do a lot better if you had good
laws. So they’ll all get changed, but we have to elect more Republicans,” Trump said.

The president was asked about the murder of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts, whom he called “a
beautiful young girl.”

“She was killed by a horrible person that came in from Mexico, illegally here. Found by ICE, our
great ICE who’s abused by the Democrats and the left. And without them, you might not be
sitting here so comfortably right now. I just think it’s so sad,” Trump said.

Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, in the U.S. illegally from Mexico, was charged with rst-degree
murder on Tuesday in Tibbetts’ death. He is currently being held on a federal immigration
detainer.

“We’re building the wall. It’s already started. We’ve spent $3.2 billion on it. We’re asking for $5
billion for this year’s funding. The wall is going up. A lot of people don’t know it,” Trump said.

He added that he would “like to build it even faster,” but said working with the Democrats is “very
tough.”
“We’re doing an incredible job,” Trump said.

The president said he would give himself and his presidency, thus far, an “A plus.”

“I don’t think any president has ever done what I’ve done in this short, we haven’t even been two
years, biggest tax cuts in history, soon-to-be two unbelievable Supreme Court justices—I’m sure
that Justice Kavanaugh will be approved, Justice Gorsuch has been a star,” Trump said. “You
look at all of the things we’ve done with regulations, the economy is the best it’s ever been in
history.”

Trump announced Brett Kavanaugh as his choice to replace retired Associate Justice Anthony
Kennedy on the bench. His con rmation hearing is expected in the Senate in early September,
though some Democrats are pushing for delays after the Cohen plea. 

The one area where Trump said he was not succeeding was with the media.

“The only thing I’m doing badly on is the press doesn’t cover me fairly,” Trump said. “I thought
after I won, you know, they killed me during the campaign. Just killed me. I said well, one good
thing about winning, I’ve showed them, so now I’m going to get fair press.”

He added: “Guess what, it got worse. It’s worse.”

The president has routinely mocked and attacked media outlets — like CNN, NBC, The New York
Times, and The Washington Post -- over critical stories that he often disputes. Last week, more
than 300 publications across the country participated in coordinated editorial columns
promoting freedom of the press and criticizing Trump.

Trump went on to criticize the media coverage of his summit with Russian President Vladimir
Putin in Helsinki, Finland, last month.

“My meeting with Putin was a tremendous success, I got killed by the fake news,” Trump said.
“They wanted me to go up and punch him in the face. I said I want to get along with Russia. I
want to get along with everybody.”

He added: “They said I was too rough on North Korea, remember that, too rough. But with Putin,
they said I was too soft.”

The president angered members of both parties at the Putin summit by saying both countries
share blame for damaged relations and by not rmly standing by U.S. intelligence assessments
that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections. 

Trump praised his wife, Melania Trump, for her grace through negative media coverage of the
rst family and his administration.

“She is doing great. She's a terri c woman. She goes through a lot with all this publicity. But she's
a terri c woman, she's doing great,” Trump said, adding that unfavorable coverage and publicity
is “part of my life.” 
He added: “I’ve always won. I’ve always won. It was controversial when I ran, and I won, and now
the country’s doing better than it’s ever done.”

Brooke Singman is a Politics Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @brookefoxnews.

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