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"It never ends," says @POTUS on @FoxBusiness, reacting to news of special counsel Mueller to testify before House committees on July 17. "You had crime on the other side."

"It's probably the biggest political scandal in history," adds @POTUS of the "spying" on his #Election2016 campaign.

"We had a deal" with #China "that was really close to being done," says @POTUS, on the phone with @MariaBartiromo. "We're open, but China's not open."

"China has devalued their currency in order to pay for" tariffs imposed by US, adds @POTUS. "We're not paying anything for it."

"Am I happy now? Absolutely," says @POTUS, adding that more tariffs will be levied on products from #China if no deal is made.

There have been "conversations over the last few days" with #China and "they're negotiating," according to @POTUS, speaking live on the phone on @MorningsMaria.

"They want to make a deal more than I do," @POTUS says of #China.

Phase two of tariffs "could be 10 percent, instead of 25 percent," according to @POTUS.

National security threats to US technology by #China "adds to the complexity," acknowledges @POTUS in response to question from @MariaBartiromo.

"We should have Draghi instead of our Fed person," says @POTUS, praising the European Central Bank president.

"My economy is far better than Obama's economy. Obama's economy was ready to crash," claims @POTUS, speaking on phone with @MorningsMaria.

"We have a man who does nothing for us," says @POTUS of @federalreserve chairman. "I have the right to fire him."

"He has to lower interest rates for us to compete with China," adds @POTUS in live on-air attack on @federalreserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

"TPP would have been a NAFTA on steroids," asserts @POTUS. "It was set up to take advantage of us."

"A lot of companies are moving to Vietnam, but Vietnam takes advantage of us even worse than China," according to @POTUS.

"Vietnam is an abuser," adds @POTUS, speaking live on @FoxBusiness.

"The chicken tax is a great tax," adds @POTUS (referencing 25 percent tariff on light trucks imposed in 1964 by the LBJ in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of US chicken).

"You have a woman in Europe, I wont mention her name...she hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I've ever met," says @POTUS of #Germany Chancellor Merkel.

"I think it'll pass," says @POTUS of #USMCA, adding @SpeakerPelosi has to bring it to the floor of the House.

"Twitter is just terrible what they do," says @POTUS, claiming it has a bias against him and his supporters.

"They're trying to rig the election" in 2020, claims @POTUS, apparently singling out @Google. "They should be sued."

"It just seems very boring but I have to watch it. That's just part of my life," says @POTUS of first debate among @TheDemocrats this evening.

(We'll be en route #Japan on Air Force One with @POTUS when the #DemocraticDebate airs.)

Speaking on @MorningsMaria, @POTUS claims "now the shoe is turning" in terms of revelations of what his opponents did to his campaign in 2016. "They spied on my campaign."

Special counsel Mueller "terminated all the stuff between Strzok and Page," claims @POTUS. That's illegal. That's a crime."

Repeating: @POTUS directly accuses special counsel Robert Mueller of committing a crime by allegedly deleting @FBI text messages.

"I have 145 judges," says @POTUS of his appointments to the federal bench.

"I don't think they have smart leadership at all," replies @POTUS when asked by @MariaBartiromo about president of #Iran comment that US is "mentally retarded."

"I didn't want to kill 150 people when they shot down an unmanned drone," says @POTUS on calling off retaliatory US military attack on #Iran.

"That's the end of their building islands in the South China Sea" if he applies 25 percent tariffs on $600 billion of products from #China, predicts @POTUS.

"A big chunk I haven't even done yet," says @POTUS of tariffs on #China. "If you want to stop their military, you do exactly what I'm doing."

All companies will move out of #China if he slaps on more tariffs, predicts @POTUS.

"Mike has been a great vice president, 100 percent," replies @POTUS when asked by @MariaBartiromo if he'd dump @VP for @NikkiHaley as his running mate in next year's presidential election. "There's places for Nikki. Nikki's future is great."