Trump’s comments come shortly after he survived a second assassination attempt on Sept. 15, which occurred a little more than two months after the first attempt on his life. When asked if he worries about the safety of his family, the former president said he does, even though he does not talk about it often.

“I worry about everybody because look, we’re under siege, and no country has ever suffered like we have the last three and a half, almost four years,” Trump said on Fox News’s One Nation with Brian Kilmeade. “When they allow millions of people to come into our country, from prisons, right? From prisons, and terrorists, and people from mental institutions, and they take over our parks. Look at New York; you can’t play Little League baseball anymore. That doesn’t sound serious, but it is serious.”

Trump then argued that illegal immigrants are being prioritized over the country’s own veterans, and that the former are living in better hotels than the latter.

“When you have that happening in this city and this country, I do, I want to protect everybody,” Trump said.

The former president was also asked about the memoir his wife, former first lady Melania Trump, is releasing on Oct. 8, during which he praised her as both a “terrific” wife and first lady. He also joked that she loves her husband and that this is “probably the biggest surprise to a lot of people.”

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Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), is set to debate Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), on Oct. 1, which will be hosted by CBS News. The former president stated that Vance would not be given “a fair shot” by the network, but believed his running mate would handle the debate “very good.”

Harris and Trump debated each other on Sept. 10 in a debate hosted by ABC News, with many criticizing the network’s handling of the debate. One senator, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), has issued a letter to the network asking for it to reveal any communication it had with Harris‘s campaign prior to the debate that held “blatant partiality.”