Donald Trump reveals a few details about his policy plans

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump — whose rise to the top of the polls has been driven in part by his brash celebrity and controversial positions on issues like immigration — was pressed for details on his plans on CBS’ “60 Minutes” Sunday.

And the real estate mogul revealed, well, at least some.

On his tax plan (which Trump unveiled in full at a press conference Monday):

Trump: There will be a large segment of our country that will have a zero rate, a zero rate. And that’s something I haven’t told anybody. We’re talking about people in the low-income brackets that are supposed to be paying taxes, many of them don’t anyway.

Scott Pelley: You’re talking about making part of the population exempt from income tax?

Trump: That is correct.

Pelley: You’re talking about cutting corporate income taxes?

Trump: That is correct.

Scott Pelley: But there’s a $19 trillion federal debt.

Trump: That’s right. We’re gonna grow the economy so much.

Pelley: You can’t afford to do those things.

Trump: No, no, but if the economy grows the way it should grow, if I bring jobs back from China, from Japan, from Mexico, from so many countries, everybody’s taking our jobs.

On his plan to bring back jobs:

Pelley: How does the president do that?

Trump: Well, the president does it by not allowing places like China to devaluate, you know, they devalue their currency, Scott, to such an extent that it’s impossible for our companies to compete every time they do that, they suck the blood right out of our country.

Pelley: You’re not running for president of China.

Trump: No, I’m running—

Pelley: You’re not going to be able to prevent the devaluation of the currency.

Trump: Oh, absolutely. Sure you are, sure you are. Look, they don’t respect our president. They don’t respect our country. They will respect me. They won’t be doing it. But here’s what we have to do. If they don’t come to the table, they’re going to have a tax when they put their products into this country. And they’re going to behave.

Pelley: So you would tax their—

Trump: I would—

Pelley: —products coming into the United States. You’re talking about a trade war.

Trump: I don’t want to say tax anything. I’m talking about a fair war. I’m talking about also, I have the smartest people on Wall Street lined up already. They’re going to represent us on Japan, on Mexico. Mexico, by the way, is taking our jobs. I love the Mexican people. They’re great people. But the leadership is too smart for our country. Ford Motor Company, moving a $2.5 billion plant to Mexico. Mexico.

Pelley: But there’s nothing you can do about that as president.

Trump: Sure there is.

Pelley: How do you keep them from exporting American jobs to Mexico?

Trump: Let’s say Ford, let’s say Ford moves to Mexico. If they want to sell that car in the United States they pay a tax. Here’s what’s gonna happen: They’re not going to build their plant there. They’re going to build it in the United States.

Pelley: But there is a North American Free Trade Agreement.

Trump: And there shouldn’t be. It’s a disaster.

Pelley: But it is there.

Trump: OK, yeah, but—

Pelley: If you’re president, you’re going to have to live with it.

Trump: Excuse me, we will either renegotiate it or we will break it. Because, you know, every agreement has an end.

Pelley: You can’t just break the law.

Trump: Excuse me, every agreement has an end. Every agreement has to be fair. Every agreement has a defraud clause. We’re being defrauded by all these countries.

Pelley: It’s called free trade—

Trump: No, it’s not.

Pelley: —and it is a plank—

Trump: It’s not the—

Pelley: —of the Republican platform.

Trump: Scott, we need fair trade. Not free trade. We need fair trade. It’s gotta be fair.

Donald Trump talks to media from his car during his trip to the border in Laredo, Texas, on July 23, 2015. (Photo: Matthew Busch/Getty Images)

On his deportation plan and construction of a wall along the southern border:

Trump: It will be a real wall. It’ll be a wall that works. It’ll actually be a wall that will look good, believe it or not. ’Cause what they have now is a joke. They’re— they’re ugly, little and don’t work.

Pelley: Let’s assume your wall has gone up.

Trump: Good.

Pelley: Eleven, 12 million illegal immigrants—

Trump: Or whatever the number is.

Pelley: Still in the country, what do you do?

Trump: If they’ve done well, they’re going out and they’re coming back in legally. Because you said it—

Pelley: You’re rounding them all up?

Trump: We’re rounding ’em up in a very humane way, in a very nice way. And they’re going to be happy because they want to be legalized. And, by the way, I know it doesn’t sound nice. But not everything is nice.

Pelley: It doesn’t sound practical.

Trump: It is practical. It’s going to work. They have to come here legally. And you know, when I talk about the wall, and I said it before, we’re going to have a tremendous, beautiful, wide-open door. Nice big door. We want people to come into the country.

Pelley: You know, the problem with a lot of these ideas is that the president of the United States is not the CEO of America.

Trump: That’s right.

Pelley: The constitution is going to tell you no.

Trump: We’ll see.

Pelley: The Congress is going to tell you no.

Trump: We’ll see.

Pelley: The Supreme Court is gonna tell you no.

Trump: Well, we’ll see.

Pelley: And you’re not used to working in an environment like that.

Trump: Look — I do it all the time.

Pelley: Who tells you no?

Trump: I do it all the time. Not that many people — I do it all the time. And I deal with governments all the time. I have, overseas, I have vast holdings overseas.

Donald Trump throws a baseball cap from the stage at a campaign event aboard the battleship USS Iowa in Los Angeles last month. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/AP)

On his plan to defeat the terror group that has been known as ISIS, ISIL and the Islamic State:

Trump: I would end ISIS forcefully. I think ISIS, what they did, was unbelievable, what they did with [slain American journalist] James Foley and the cutting off of heads of everybody. I mean these people are totally a disaster. Now, let me just say this, ISIS in Syria, [Syrian President Bashir] Assad in Syria, Assad and ISIS are mortal enemies. We go in to fight ISIS. Why aren’t we letting ISIS go and fight Assad and then we pick up the remnants? Why are we doing this? We’re fighting ISIS, and Assad has to be saying to himself, “They have the nicest or dumbest people that I’ve ever imagined.”

Pelley: Let me get this right, so we lay off ISIS for now?

Trump: Excuse me, let—

Pelley: Lay off in Syria, let them destroy Assad. And then we go in behind that?

Trump: That’s what I would say. Yes, that’s what I would say … If you look at Syria, Russia wants to get rid of ISIS. We want to get rid of ISIS. Maybe let Russia do it. Let ’em get rid of ISIS. What the hell do we care?

Pelley: OK, that’s Syria. What do you do in Iraq—

Trump: With that—

Pelley: —with ISIS?

Trump: Look, with ISIS in Iraq, you gotta knock ’em out. You gotta knock ’em out. You gotta fight ’em. You gotta fight ’em. You have to stand—

Pelley: On the ground?

Trump: If you need, you’re going to have to do that, yes.

Pelley: Troops on the ground.

Trump: Yes.

Donald Trump speaks during an event hosted by the Family Research Council Action, in Washington, D.C., last week. (Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP)