A leaked transcript of the pair's heated conversation in January provides a rare glimpse into how the prime minister corralled the new president into endorsing the refugee deal.
Transcripts of US President Donald Trump's phone calls to his Mexican and Australian counterparts after taking office reveal he pressured them on immigration issues.
The transcripts show a president in his first week struggling to reconcile his campaign promises with the realities of governing, and the contrasting efforts of two heads of government to bend him to their will. But the fact is we are both in a little bit of a political bind because I have to have Mexico pay for the wall - I have to.
But the transcripts show the United States president acknowledged the funding would come from other sources, saying the money "will work out in the formula somehow". By law, Mexican presidents can only serve one six-year term.
Mr Turnbull also said: "I say this to you sincerely that it is in the mutual interest of the United States to say, "Yes, we can conform with that deal - we are not obliged to take anybody we do not want, we will go through extreme vetting" and that way you are seen to show the respect that a trusted ally wants and deserves".
Up in New Hampshire - I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den - is coming from the southern border. Trump captured New Hampshire in the Republican primary race, but lost it to Hillary Clinton in the general election.
Mr Trump and Mr Turnbull before a meeting onboard the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in NY.
The agreement, struck with the Obama administration, involved the USA accepting up to 1250 refugees held on Manus Island and Nauru, in return for Australia taking asylum seekers from Central America.
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It was "extraordinary" to get the transcripts, said Miller, as "this isn't the kind of thing we're accustomed to seeing".
The conversation between the two leaders grew sour as Trump rejected an agreement to take refugees.
"This is going to kill me".
At a rally in OH last week, Trump praised Cotton and Perdue and said he was working with the senators to replace "today's low-scale system, just a bad system where anybody comes in".
"I guarantee you they [refugees] are bad".
"I have been making these calls all day and this is the most unpleasant call all day", Trump told Turnbull. That is why they are in prison right now.
More than 1600 refugees have expressed interest in the USA resettlement deal, which is expected to offer about 1200 places.
"I have had it". But immigration advocacy groups are opposed, as are many economists who say the nation, with an aging population and low fertility rate, should be encouraging an influx of younger workers to spur economic growth. "It is entirely up to you", Mr Turnbull told the president, later explaining he could also take none.
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