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Reporter: “Vice President Vance says the reason Republicans lost last night, was the war in Iran.”

President Trump: “Well, I think it's largely true because it drove the gasoline up a little bit short-term. And probably that's, probably it's true. But at the same time, if I had it to do again, I'd have to do it again. Because long-term, it's the only answer. You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon.”

Reporter: “Do you feel like it was worth it?”

President Trump: “I do, yeah. I mean, well, you have no choice. I mean, I thought the oil would go up a lot more, and I did it on that basis. You have no choice. You have to do it. You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. Or everything that you see here someday might not exist. And maybe this building might be the only one that does.”

“I'll get along probably with the Democrats, unless they want to be destructive. But they have the power of the veto. So if we don't like what they're doing, they've already called, and they want to talk about things, and that's fine. But yeah, people, the Iran thing we had to do, and we continue to do it. We have tremendous oil flowing out of the Hormuz right now. At the beginning, there was none. And probably that's the primary reason. The price, not the war, the price.”

The war was NOT WORTH losing the Senate for AT LEAST the next 6 years.

If we don’t elect a Republican President in 2028 America is TOAST.

60 Minutes’ Ross Douthat: “Let's say you pass away. You're entering the next life. And all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, anyone who you have expressed hate for over the years. Do you think you can do it?”

President Trump: “Well, then I wouldn't be real. Would I? I mean, if I said to you, sure, the easy answer to that. Oh, yes, I could forgive. I found them to be extremely dishonest people. Very bad people. Very bad for our country. I love our country far more than I can love people and people like that.”

Ross Douthat: “Is the answer, ‘No’?”

President Trump: “The answer is no. I want to be honest.”

Ross Douthat: “Before the judgment throne of God.”

President Trump: “No, I think there were very bad people. And I dislike— I can use the word hate. I do hate some of my enemies. I think they've been terrible. Look what they put me through, the weaponization. I got indicted. I got impeached.”

“If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.” -Matthew 6:14-15

WATCH: 60 Minutes’ Ross Douthat HOLDS President Trump’s FEET to the FIRE, pressing him on his cryptocurrency dealings and his very timely stock trades while President.

Ross Doutha: “Your son manages or helps manage a cryptocurrency company called World Liberty Financial. You are a co-owner of that company.”

President Trump: “That’s correct.”

Ross Doutha: “This company is also partially owned by investors connected to the government of the United Arab Emirates. I think if I told you that story, and it was about the Biden family, if I said Joe Biden is the part owner of a company and it has all of these investments from the Middle East, you would say that sounds corrupt, right?”

President Trump: “Well, he did have a lot of different things.”

“But I have a company. My sons are in the company. It's hard to say to them, don't do anything anymore for four years because I'm president.”

60 Minutes Ross Douthat: “On Israel, do you have regrets about the decision to help the Israelis do decapitation strikes on Iran? Because that changed the Iranian regime, and it seems like it made them escalate. You could have just kept hitting the nuclear facilities, right?”

President Trump: “You could have done that, but we had people that would have gone further. We decapitated their nuclear arsenal. Look, I deal with these people. I deal with a lot of people, and that's what I've done my whole life. If I make deals, then obviously I make good deals because I made a lot of money and I became president. That's a deal too.”

Israel and ESPECIALLY Arab countries should be DOING a WHOLE LOT more than they are doing currently to fight against Iran.

It shouldn’t be our fight. Iran is on their doorstep and affects them WAY MORE than it will ever affect us.

60 Minutes’ Ross Douthat: “Do you think [the Democrats will] impeach you again?”

President Trump: “I can't imagine it. You know, they did. Hey, look, what have I done? And I've had the best two years in the history of the presidency.”