10. Prime Minister—Conversation with President TrumpHon DAVID PARKER (Labour) to the Prime MinisterPrime Minister—Conversation with President Trump10. Hon DAVID PARKER (Labour) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements in respect of President Trump?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH (Prime Minister): Yes.Hon David Parker: Why did he tell New Zealanders in relation to his phone conversation with President Trump that I couldn't describe for you exactly the words because actually I don't remember exactly the words" and how does he reconcile this with the precision of his recollections in other media interviews?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: I have been asked by a number of people about what I said to President Trump around the immigration ban and I can recall those words exactly because I used exactly the words that I have used in public.Hon David Parker: When he raised the highly sensitive matter of the US travel ban and told President Trump in no uncertain terms that New Zealand disagrees with the policy and wouldn't implement it why did President Trump meekly thank him for his view when he is notoriously thin-skinned for even slight criticism had brutishly attacked a federal judge who blocked it and hung up on the Aussie Prime Minister—or can he not recall that part of the conversation either?Mr SPEAKER: In so far as there is prime ministerial responsibility—the right honourable Prime Minister.Hon David Parker: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. Are you inferring there is not prime ministerial responsibility for the question I have asked?Mr SPEAKER: No. I am certainly saying that there is a lot—[Interruption] Order! I am saying that there is a lot in the question which is the member's opinion of a leader of another country. I am inviting the Prime Minister to answer it in so far as he feels he has prime ministerial responsibility.Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: The discussion I had with the president was a civil and courteous and thoughtful discussion.Hon David Parker: Was the Hon Chester Borrows correct when he told a public meeting in Whanganui on Monday that the Prime Minister would tell President Trump that New Zealand "would condemn and resist President Trump's discriminatory policy" and that it was "a direct attack on conscience choice and religion" or did he choose instead appeasement over firm Kiwi principles and choke—assuming he can now remember the words of that part of the interview?Mr SPEAKER: Again there are two supplementary questions. The right honourable Prime Minister can address one or both.Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: I chose to communicate in terms that people understand New Zealand's view about the immigration ban. As for the member for Whanganui he was not party to the discussion. I am not sure what was said at his public meeting. I can only tell you and the public what I said on the phone call.Hon David Parker: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. Hon Gerry Brownlee: Supplementary.Mr SPEAKER: I will just have the point of order first and then I will come to the supplementary question.Hon David Parker: I seek leave to table a transcript of the Hon Chester Borrows' comments to that public rally when he told the rally precisely what the Prime Minister would tell President Trump.Mr SPEAKER: Order! No I do not need any more. I need to know—where is the source of this transcript? Hon David Parker: It is from a video clip that is not publicly available because I am the only one who has got it. Mr SPEAKER: I will put the leave. [Interruption] Order! [Interruption] Order! This matter is easily resolved. I will put the leave. Leave is sought to table that particular transcript. Is there any objection to it being tabled? There is objection. Hon Gerry Brownlee: Does he believe that the lack of courteous and considerate conversation has led to a large number of thin skins in the Labour Party?Mr SPEAKER: Order! No there is no ministerial responsibility there whatsoever. Hon David Parker: Who instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade not to properly record his conversation with President Trump contrary to generally accepted practice for such high-level diplomatic conversations and will he release the American transcript of the call once it is available to the embassy in Washington?Mr SPEAKER: Again there are two supplementary questions. The Prime Minister can address one or either. Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: Well I am not exactly accustomed to what the protocols are around so-called high-level conversations but certainly it would not be my wish or practice to record the conversations that I have with the leaders of other countries and certainly not to do so without telling them."