Trump asks NBC host if it 'sounds good' to report the border crossings are at record lows during interview

President Donald Trump posed a question to NBC host Kristen Welker during a lengthy interview on Sunday and appealed the Meet the Press moderator if it sounded good to assessment that the confines is the majority secure it's ever been after being abused during the Biden administration Welker noted that dividing line crossings were at record lows and sought the president if he felt the frontier was secure Trump explained it's really secure before asking Welker the question When you say that doesn't it just sound good After being abused for years by an incompetent president that allowed people to pour through an open territory line criminals from all over the world murderers insane people from mental institutions and insane asylums isn't it a beautiful thing when you say it's the greater part secure it's ever been in the history of our country Isn't that a nice report Trump solicited during the interview TRUMP REPORTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ENCOUNTERS AT HISTORIC LOWS DURING FIRST FULL MONTH IN OFFICEWelker then pivoted to another question about Trump's crisis declaration over the limit predicament and when he planned to lift the order The territory line now is not the emergency he communicated Welker when she solicited whether he would lift that determination The edge is it s all part of the same thing though The big emergency right now is that we have thousands of people that we want to take out and we have certain judges that want everybody to go to court Trump mentioned he had no plans to lift the emergency order The president also shot down rumors that he's planning to seek a third term during the interview It s something that to the best of my knowledge you re not allowed to do I don t know if that s constitutional he declared But this is not something I m looking to do CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREThe White House celebrated the president's first days in office by highlighting its efforts to combat illegal immigration on Monday Edge czar Tom Homan joined White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt at an early morning briefing Monday where the pair touted massive decreases in boundary crossings as well as new executive orders aimed at deportations and further demarcation enforcement The Trump administration disclosed in early April that it had already deported illegal immigrants though executives did not offer a new total at Monday's briefing Fox News' Anders Hagstrom contributed to this summary