On Sunday, Donald Trump sat down for his first televised interview since becoming the 45th president-elect of the United States and addressed a variety of promises he made throughout his campaign. The 60 Minutes interview with CBS's Lesley Stahl covered everything from who he intends to appoint to the Supreme Court to whether he still plans on arresting Hillary Clinton once he gets into office, and included a portion in which his wife and children gave their two cents on his campaign.

Here are a few takeaways from the interview, and you can watch it in its entirety right here.

1. He still plans to appoint Supreme Court judges who are against abortion rights. Doubling down on his promise to overturn Roe v. Wade, the president-elect made it clear he would appoint "pro-life judges."

"But having to do with abortion if it ever were overturned, it would go back to the states," he said. When asked if that would mean some women wouldn't be able to get an abortion, he responded, "Yeah, well, they’ll perhaps have to go, they’ll have to go to another state."

2. He's "fine" with marriage equality. Trump seems to have no intentions of overturning marriage equality, because he says it was "already settled" by the Supreme Court. (As many have pointed out, so was Roe v. Wade — so it's possible his stance on this may change.)

"It’s irrelevant because it was already settled," he said. "It’s law. It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean it’s done ... It’s done. It — you have — these cases have gone to the Supreme Court. They’ve been settled. And, I’m fine with that."

3. He probably isn't going to fire FBI director James Comey. Hillary Clinton has stated that she believes Comey's letters were one of the main reasons she lost the election — but when asked if he intends to fire Comey for such a damaging move, Trump demurred.

"I think that I would rather not comment on that yet," he said. "I don’t — I haven’t made up my mind. I respect him a lot. I respect the FBI a lot ... There’s been a lotta leaking, there’s no question about that. But I would certainly like to talk to him. And see him. This is a tough time for him. And I would like to talk to him before I’d answer a question like that."

"I’d wanna see, you know, he may have had very good reasons for doing what he did," he continued.

4. He isn't sure if he still wants to try and arrest Hillary Clinton. Despite promising to send Clinton to jail throughout his campaign, Trump no longer seems sure if he will hire a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton's emails.

"Well, I’ll tell you what I’m going to do, I’m going to think about it," he said. "Um, I feel that I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on health care, I want to focus on the border and immigration and doing a really great immigration bill. We want to have a great immigration bill. And I want to focus on all of these other things that we’ve been talking about."

"You called her 'crooked Hillary,' said you wanted to get in jail, your people in your audiences kept saying, 'Lock 'em up,'" Stahl countered.

"She did some bad things, I mean she did some bad things," he said. "I don’t want to hurt [Hillary and Bill]. I don’t want to hurt them. They’re, they’re good people. I don’t want to hurt them. And I will give you a very, very good and definitive answer the next time we do 60 Minutes together."

He also revealed that both Hillary and Bill Clinton reached out to congratulate him after the election.

"[Hillary] couldn’t have been nicer," he said. "She just said, 'Congratulations, Donald, well done.' And I said, 'I want to thank you very much, you were a great competitor.' She is very strong and very smart."

"[Bill] actually called last night," he continued. "He couldn’t have been more gracious. He said it was an amazing run. One of the most amazing he’s ever seen."

5. He probably won't release his tax returns. Yet again citing a "routine audit" as the reason for why he can't release his tax returns, Trump added that he doesn't believe the public actually cares. (...Which is fair to say is false.)

"At the appropriate time, I will release them," he said. "But right now I’m under routine audit. Nobody cares. The only one who cares is, you know, you and a few people that asked that question. Obviously, the public didn’t care because I won the election very easily. So they don’t care. I never thought they did care."



6. He plans to repeal and replace Obamacare "simultaneously." One of Trump's biggest promises on the campaign trail was repealing Obamacare, and while he still intends to do so, when asked if he would make sure Americans with pre-conditions maintain their coverage, he said, "Yes. Because it happens to be one of the strongest assets ... Also, with the children living with their parents for an extended period, we’re gonna very much try and keep that. Adds cost, but it’s very much something we’re going to try and keep."

Stahl then asked if there would be a period between repealing Obamacare and replacing it in which millions of people lose their coverage — but he said that they would do both "simultaneously."

7. He wants his supporters who have been harassing minorities to "stop it." When Stahl asked him about multiple reports of his supporters attacking minorities in his name since he was elected, Trump responded that he thought it was "terrible" and that he was "surprised" to hear it was more than a couple incidents.

"I am so saddened to hear that," he said. "And I say, 'Stop it.' If it — if it helps. I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: Stop it."

8. He supports getting rid of the Electoral College. Even though the Electoral College is the reason he won the election, Trump is ultimately in favor of choosing elected officials base on the popular vote instead.

"Well, you know, I’m not going to change my mind just because I won," he said. "But I would rather see it where you went with simple votes. You know, you get 100 million votes and somebody else gets 90 million votes and you win. There’s a reason for doing this because it brings all the states into play ... But this is a different system."

9. He acknowledges his transition team completely goes against his call to "drain the swamp," and that he's relying on lobbyists. While one of Trump's main slogans on the campaign trail was "drain the swamp," his transition team is full of the very politicians and lobbyists he claims to be against.

"That’s the only people you have down there [in Washington, D.C.]," he said.

"You have lobbyists from Verizon, you have lobbyists from the oil gas industry, you have food lobby," Stahl pushed back. "How can you claim—"

"That’s the problem with the system, the system," he said. "We’re doing a lot of things to clean up the system. But everybody that works for government, they then leave government and they become a lobbyist, essentially. I mean, the whole place is one big lobbyist ... I’m saying that they know the system right now, but we’re going to phase that out. You have to phase it out."

10. He is still committed to deporting millions of undocumented immigrants. Arguably one of Trump's biggest promises throughout his campaign was to enact incredibly harsh immigration policies, and to "build a wall" along the U.S./Mexico border. Some analysis has suggested his stance on immigration was a large part of why he won the election — and it appears he intends to keep his word on deporting millions of immigrants once he gets into office.

"What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, we have a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate," he said. "But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally. After the border is secured and after everything gets normalized, we’re going to make a determination on the people that you’re talking about who are terrific people, they’re terrific people but we are gonna make a determination at that — But before we make that determination, Lesley, it’s very important, we want to secure our border."

Contrary to what Trump said in the interview, however, Speaker Paul Ryan has said they have no intentions of enacting any sort of "deportation force" at this time, and that the focus will be on securing the border.

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