Trump_WestPalmFL_NTL_10132016 BROLL OF CROWD CHEERING AFTER TRUMP RALLY IN PALM BEACH, FLORIDA -- COUNTDOWN TO ELECTION DAY: 26 days By VERONICA STRACQUALURSI Trump Calls Sexual Assault Allegations 'Outright Lies.' At a campaign event in West Palm Beach, Florida. Trump emphatically denied allegations today that he sexually assaulted women, calling the claims "preposterous, ludicrous and defy truth, common sense and logic." Trump said he has "substantial evidence to dispute these lies" and said he would make them "public in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time, very soon." ABC's VERONICA STRACQUALURSI and ADAM KELSEY have more: <http://abcn.ws/2eb2tmz> TRANSCRIPT FROM RALLY: WASH 10 DONALD TRUMP WEST PALM BEACH FL RALLY POOL C16 101316 13:08:39 DT: Thank you folks it's great to be right here in Florida which we love. In 26 days, we are going to win this great, great state and we are going to win the white house. Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt, and when I say corrupt, I'm talking about totally corrupt, political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people. There is nothing the political establishment will not do. No lie that they won't tell. To hold their prestige and power at your expense. And that's what's been happening. 13:09:37 The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it, exist for only one reason. To protect and enrich itself. The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election. As an example, just one single trade deal, they'd like to pass , involved trillions of dollars controlled by many countries, corporations and lobbyists. For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the local special interests, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind. Our campaign represents a true existential threat. Like they haven't seen before. 13:10:39 This is not simply another four-year election. This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization. That will determine whether or not we, the people, reclaim control over our government. The political establishment that is trying to stop this is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals. Massive illegal immigration. And economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry. The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China and other countries all around the world. Our just announced job numbers are anemic. Our gross domestic product or gdp is barely above 1% and going down. Workers in the United States are making less than they were almost 20 years ago. 13:11:57 And yet they are working harder. But so am I, working harder. That I can tell you. It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of it's wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities. Just look at what this corrupt establishment has done to our cities like Detroit, Flint, Michigan. And rural towns in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and all across our country. Take a look at what's going on. They've stripped away these towns bare. And raided the wealth for themselves and taken our jobs away, out of our country. Never to return unless I'm elected president. 13:13:08 The Clinton machine is at the center of this power structure. We've seen this firsthand in the wikileaks documents in which Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors. So true. CROWD: Lock her up! 13:13:57 TRUMP: Honestly, she should be locked up. She should be. She should be locked up. And likewise the e-mails show that the Clinton machine is so closely and irrevocably tied to the media organizations that she -- that she, listen to this, is given the questions and answers in advance of her debate performance with Bernie Sanders. Hillary Clinton is also given approval and veto power over quotes written about her in "The New York Times." They definitely do not do that to me. That I can-- And the e-mails show the reporters collaborate and conspire directly with the Clinton campaign on helping her win the election all over. 13:15:12 With control over our government at stake. With trillions dollars on the line. The Clinton machine is determined to achieve the destruction of our campaign. Not going to happen. Which has now become a great, great movement, the likes of which our country has never seen before, never, ever. They've never seen a movement like this in our country before. Yesterday in Florida, massive crowds. People lined up outside of big arenas. Not able to get in. Never happened before.It's one of the great phenomenas. One of the great political phenomenas. The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media, the press. 13:16:11 Let's be clear on one thing. The corporate media in our country is no longer involved in journalism. They're a political special interest no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with a total political agenda. And the agenda is not for you, it's for themselves. And their agenda is to elect crooked Hillary Clinton at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they destroy. For them, it's a war. And for them, nothing at all is out of bounds. This is a struggle for the survival of our nation. Believe me. 13:17:15 And this will be our last chance to save it on November 8th. Remember that. This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy. But are, in fact, controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system. And our system is rigged. This is reality. You know it. They know it. I know it. And pretty much the whole world knows it. The establishment and their media enablers wield control over this nation through means that are very well known. 13:18:01 Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe and morally deformed. They will attack you. They will slander you.They will seek to destroy your career and your family. They will seek to destroy everything about you including your reputation. They will lie, lie, lie. And then again they will do worse then that. They will do whatever's necessary. The Clintons are criminals, remember that, they're criminals. [ Audience shouting "Lock her up" ] 13:19:13 >> This is well documented and the establishment that protects them has engaged in a massive cover-up of widespread criminal activity at the state department and the Clinton foundation in order to keep the Clintons in power. Never in history have we seen such a cover-up as this. One that includes the total destruction of 33,000 e-mails. 13 iPhones, some by hammer, laptops, missing boxes of evidence and many, many other things. People who are capable of such crimes against our nation are capable of anything. 13:20:10 And so now we address the slander and libels that was just last night thrown at me by the Clinton machine and "New York Times" and other media outlets as part of a concerted coordinated and vicious attack. It's not coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment and altogether at the same time as wikileaks releases documents exposing the massive international corruption of the Clinton machine, including 2000 more emails just this morning. 13:20:58 These vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false. And the Clintons know it. And they know it very well. These claims are all fabricated. They're pure fiction. And they're outright lies. These events never, ever happened. And the people that said them meekly fully understand.You take a look at these people. You study these people and you'll understand also. The claims are preposterous, ludicrous and defy truth, common sense and logic. 13:21:52 We already have substantial evidence to dispute these lies and it will be made public in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time, very soon. These lies come from outlets whose past stories and past claims have already been discredited. The media outlets did not even attempt to confirm the most basic facts. Because even a simple investigation would have shown that these were nothing more than false smears. Six months ago, the failing "New York Times" wrote a massive story attacking me. And the central witness they used said the story was false. That she was quoted inaccurately. She said that I was a great guy. She had great courage I'll be honest with you, she was an amazing person. 13:22:56 And never made those remarks. That I was a great guy, and never made the remarks, And When I read the story, I was sort of surprised she said that. And she didn't say it. We demanded a refraction but they refused to print it. Just like they refused to print the comments from another source who praised me in her book. Or the words of another wonderful woman who said really nice things about me. They put other statements that she didn't say. They misrepresented. The story was a fraud. And a big embarrassment to "The New York Times." And it was a big front-page story. 13:23:38 Front page, center, color picture. A disgrace. They were very embarrassed. It will be part of the lawsuit we are preparing against them. Now, today, the same two discredited writers who should have been fired from "The new York Times" for what they did tell another totally fabricated and false story that supposedly took place on an airplane more than 30 years ago. Another ridiculous tale. No witnesses. No nothing. Then there was a writer from "People" magazine. 13:24:33 Who wrote a story on Melania and myself on our first anniversary. The story was beautiful. It was beautiful. It was lovely. But last night we hear that after 12 years, this took place 12 years ago, this story, a new claim that I made inappropriate advances during the interview to this writer. And I asked a very simple question. Why wasn't it part of the story that appeared 20, or 12 years ago? Why wasn't it part of the story? Why didn't they make it part of the story? I was one of the biggest stars on television with "The apprentice" and it would have been one of the biggest stories of the year. Think of it. She's doing a story on Melania. Who's pregnant at the time. And Donald Trump. Our one-year anniversary.And she said I made inappropriate advances. 13:25:37 And by the way, the area was a public area. People all over the place. Take a look. You take a look. Look at her. Look at her words. You tell me what you think. I don't think so. I don't think so. But it is amazing. Doing a story, a love story on how great we are together. And by the way, we're stronger today than we ever were before. Which is great. But it's a love story. It's a love story. On our one-year. And if I did that. She would have added that. It would have been the headline. And who would have done that? If you're doing this and you're one of the top shows on television? These people are horrible people. They're horrible, horrible liars. And interestingly, it happens to appear 26 days before our very important election. 13:26:41 Isn't that amazing? This invented account has already been debunked by eyewitnesses who were there. They were there. The very witness identified by the author has said the story is totally false. By the way, this is a room that everybody can see in. It's got glass walls. It's at Mar-a-lago it's got glass walls. Can you believe this? Why wasn't it in the story? Biggest story of the year? This weekend, "The New York Times" published a full-page hit piece with another claim from an individual who has been totally discredited based on the many, many, many e-mails and letters she has sent to our office over the years. Looking for work. Donald is great. 13:27:39 Wanting to go to my rallies. But "The New York Times" -- and this was a full op-ed piece. Refused to use the evidence that we presented. Refused to use it. If they used it, if they would have looked, they would have said, oh, there's no story. Others in the media, which almost surprises me, because they're dishonest also, were presented with the story by this woman numerous times. And they got very excited. But after seeing the evidence that we immediately give them, all of them refuse to write the story. There's no story. "The times," though, didn't want to see it, they just wrote the story. And this was a full page opposite the editorials. 13:28:27 This is part of a concerted effort led by "The New York Times" and others. Now, "The New York Times" is fighting desperately for its relevance and its financial survival. And it probably won't even be around in a few years based on its financial outlook. Which wouldn't be a bad thing if you want to know the truth. But as it winds down its years, and it's becoming more and more problematic. It's gotten more and more vicious. More and more vile. And even the other mainstream media is talking about the single greatest pile-on in history. And all between now and November 8th. And you have to see the stories they've written. It's one after another after another. And facts mean nothing. Third rate journalism. The great editors of the past from "The New York Times" and others, ladies and gentlemen,are spinning in their grave. 13:29:38 I will not allow the Clinton machine to turn our campaign into a discussion of their slanders and lies. But will remain focused on the issues facing the American people.Thank you, thank you. But let me state this as clearly as I can. These attacks are orchestrated by the Clintons and their media allies. The only thing Hillary Clinton Has going for herself is the press. Without the press, she is absolutely zero. And you saw that the other night in the debate. Where some people said she made virtually a fool of herself. This is not presidential material. Believe me. What they say is false and slanderous in virtually every respect. 13:30:59 We are now less than a month from the most important election of our lifetime. Indeed, one of the most important elections in the history of our country. And the polls are showing us in a dead heat. Don't believe what she said. The new highly respected Rasmussen poll just came out this morning. Just released. Shows us nationally two points ahead, Trump, you. Just came out. So now the Clinton machine has put forward a small handful of people.Out of tens of thousands of people over the years that I've met. That I've worked with. That I've employed. In order to make wild and false allegations that fail to meet even the most basic test of common sense. 13:32:10 Not even common sense. Again, this is nothing more than an attempt to destroy our movement and for the Clintons to keep their corrupt control over our government. When I declared my candidacy, I knew what bad shape our country was in. And believe me, all you have to do is look at world events. All you have to do is look at the $1.7 billion that we sent to Iran in cash, in cash. All you have to do is see the way ISIS was created in the vacuum left by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama out of Iraq. All you have to do, all you have to do, is look at the 800 people that were very, very not good for our nation. They were going to be deported. 13:33:10 Lo and behold, instead of being deported, they were made citizens of the United States just recently. And lo and behold, sadly, the 800 people is wrong. It turned out to be close to 1,800 people. Our president is incompetent. All he wants to do is campaign. And the last thing he wants to happen is to have Donald Trump terminate Obamacare and do all of the other things that are destroying our country. He's led a very divided nation and it's only gotten worse. And the last thing our country needs is four more years of Barack Obama, believe me. 13:34:07 I've seen firsthand the corruption and the sickness that has taken over our politics. You've seen it and I've seen it and we're all watching together. They knew they would throw every lie they could at me. And my family. And my loved ones. They knew they would stop at nothing to try to stop me. But I never knew, as bad as it would be, I never knew it would be this vile. That it would be this bad. That it would be this vicious.Nevertheless, I take all of these slings and arrows gladly for you. I take them for our movement so we can have our country back. Our great civilization here in America and across the civilized world, has come upon a moment of reckoning. 13:35:13 We've seen it in the United Kingdom. Where they voted to liberate themselves from global government and global trade deals and global immigration deals that have destroyed their sovereignty and have destroyed many of those nations. But the central base of world political power is right here in America. And it is our corrupt political establishment that is the greatest power behind the efforts at radical globalization and the disenfranchisement of working people. Their financial resources are virtually unlimited. Their political resources are unlimited. Their media resources are unmatched. And most importantly, the depths of their immorality is absolutely unlimited. 13:36:19 They will allow radical islamic terrorists to enter our country by the thousands. They will allow the great Trojan horse, and I don't want people looking back in 100 years and 200 years and have that story be told about us. Because we were led by inept incompetent and corrupt people like Barack Obama and like Hillary Clinton. We don't want to be part of that history. And, by the way, president Obama should stop campaigning and start working on creating jobs. Start working on getting our gdp up. 13:37:13 Start working on strengthening our borders. The corrupt political establishment is a machine. It has no soul. I knew these false attacks would come. I knew this day would arrive. It's only a question of when. And I knew the American people would rise above it and vote for the future they deserve. The only thing that can stop this corrupt machine is you. The only force strong enough to save our country is us. The only people brave enough to vote out this corrupt establishment is you, the American people. We are going to have a policy America first. [ Cheers and applause ] [ Audience shouting "Usa, usa" ] 13:38:31 They control incredibly the department of justice. And they even secretly meet with the attorney general of the United States. In the back of her airplane. While on the runway, remember, he was there, he was going to play golf. Oh, gee, there's the attorney general, oh, let me go say hello. Plane's on the runway. Let me go say hello to the attorney general, oh. He never got to play golf I understand. And it was Arizona, a place I love, but the weather was about 100-some odd degrees. No he's not going to play golf. No, he was never there to play golf, folks, don't be foolish. They met for 39 minutes. And most likely it was to discuss her reappointment in a Clinton administration as the attorney general just prior to making a decision over whether or not to prosecute Hillary Clinton, okay, that's what happened. 13:39:43 That's called real life and that's pretty sad. They met for 39 minutes. Remember, he said we talked golf and we talked about our grandchildren. Three minutes for the grandchildren, two minutes for the golf. Then they sat there and they twiddled their thumbs. No, I believe they talked about her remaining in her position under a crooked Hillary Clinton administration. That's what I believe. That's what I believe, folks. That's what I believe. And I think that's what most people in this room believe. Likewise, they've essentially corrupted the director of the FBI. To the point at which stories are already saying that the great -- and they are truly great, men and women who work for the FBI are embarrassed and ashamed of what he's done to one of our truly great institutions, the FBI itself. 13:41:04 Hillary Clinton is guilty of all the things that director Comey stated at his press conference and congressional hearings and far more. He stated many things, but it's far more. And he knows that. And yet after reading all of these items where she's so guilty, he let her off the hook. While other lives, including general Petraeus and many others, have been destroyed for doing far, far less.This is a conspiracy against you, the American people, and we cannot let this happen or continue. 13:41:59 This is our moment of reckoning in our society and as a civilization itself. I didn't need to do this, folks, believe me, believe me. I built a great company. And I had a wonderful life. I could have enjoyed the fruits and benefit of years of successful business deals and businesses for myself and my family. Instead of going through this absolute horror show of lies, deceptions, malicious attacks. Who would have thought. I'm doing it because this country has given me so much. And I feel so strongly that it's my turn to give back to the country that I love. Many of my friends and many political experts warned me that this campaign would be a journey to hell. 13:43:12 Said that. But they're wrong. It will be a journey to heaven. Because we will help so many people that are so desperately in need of help. In my former life, I was an insider as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like. And I still know what it's like. To be an insider. It's not bad. It's not bad. Now I'm being punished for leaving the special club. And revealing to you the terrible things that are going on having to do with our country. Because I used to be part of the club, I'm the only one that can fix it. I'm doing this for the people and the movement. 13:44:21 And we will take back this country for you and we will make America great again. [ Cheers and applause ] The corrupt establishment knows we are a great threat to their criminal enterprise. They know that if we win their power is gone and it's returned to you the people. Will be. The dark clouds hanging over our government can be lifted and replaced with a bright future. But it all depends on whether we let the corrupt media decide our future or whether we let the American people decide our future. 13:45:16 If this Clinton campaign of destruction is allowed to work, then no other highly-- this is so true, I've seen this so many times. I've heard this all of my life. I've heard it all of my life. If we let this happen, then no other highly successful person. Which is what this country needs. It needs a certain thinking. When you look at our trade deals that are so bad.When you look, as an example, on trade. We're going to lose almost $800 billion this year, trade deficit. Almost 800 billion. Our debt has doubled in 7 ½ years to almost $20 trillion under Obama. 13:46:14 No other successful person, after watching this, and no other very successful person, will ever again ever, and who can blame them, even me I'd say you're right will never again run for office. I've heard it for years, if you are very succesful you can't run for high office especially for president. I said I don't care. I don't care. I've done so many deals. I've done so well, it's a certain mindset that we need in our country at least for a period of time, we have to straighten our country out. I will not lie to you. 13:46:57 These false attacks are absolutely hurtful. To be lied about. To be smeared so publicly. And before your family that you love is very painful. What is going on is egregious. Beyond any words. People that know the story. People that see the story. People that know the facts. They can't even believe it. It's reprehensible. Beyond description. It's totally corrupt. But I also know that it's not about me. It's about all of you and it's about our country. I know that. I fully understand. That's why I got involved. It's about all of us together as a country. 13:47:45 It's a movement the likes of which we have never in history in this country seen before. Never in history. Even the pundits. Even the media that truly dislikes Donald Trump for their own reasons will admit this is a movement the likes of which people have never seen before. It's a movement about the veterans that need medical care. The mothers who have lost their beloved children to terrorism and to crime. It's about the inner cities and the border towns who desperately need our help. It's about the millions of jobless people in America. It's about the American workers who can't get jobs because our jobs have left for Mexico and so many other countries. 13:48:53 This election is about the people being crushed by Obamacare. And it's about defeating ISIS. And appointing a supreme court and a supreme court justice. It could be four or five. Who will defend and protect our constitution.This election is also about so importantly to me African-American and hispanic-american people whose communities have been plunged into crime, failing schools by the policies of crooked Hillary Clinton. Believe me. She's crooked. They've robbed these citizens of their future and if we win, I will give them their hope, their jobs, their education. I will give them their security back. The inner cities, education is almost worthless, it's horrible. 13:50:08 We're going to have common core ended.We're going to bring education. But you look at the inner cities and you see bad education, no jobs, no safety, you walk to the grocery store with your child and you get shot. You walk outside to look and see what's happening and you get shot. In Chicago 3,000 people have been shot since January 1. We're not going to let that happen. Our inner cities are almost at an all-time low run by the Democrats for sometimes more than 100 years, chain unbroken. So they have no jobs, they have horrible education, they have no safety or security and I say to the African-American community, what the hell do you have to lose? 13:51:08 I will fix it. I will fix it. I will make it good. I'll bring back our jobs. We'll have good education. We'll have good education. We'll have great safety in the inner city. And we will help the hispanic American people who have been treated so badly and so unfairly in our nation. We will help them. I will deliver like you've never seen before. I deliver. Whether people like Donald Trump or not, they all say he delivers. Vote for Donald Trump, you're going to see something and you'll be so happy. You'll be so thrilled. This election is about every man, woman, and child in our country who deserves to live in safety, prosperity, and peace. 13:52:12 So true. We will rise above the lies, the smears, the ludicrous slanders from ludicrous and very, very dishonest reporters. We will vote for the country we want. We will vote for the future we want, we will vote for the politics we want and we will vote to put this corrupt government cartel out of business and out of business immediately. [ Cheers and applause ] We will vote for the special interests and say lots of luck but you're being voted out of power. They betrayed our workers. They betrayed our borders. And, most of all, they betrayed our freedoms. We will save our sovereign rights as a nation. 13:53:32 We will end the politics of profit. We will end the rule of special interest. We will end the raiding of our jobs by other countries. We will end the total disenfranchisement of the American voter and the American worker. Our Independence day is at hand and it arrives, finally, on November 8. [ Cheers and applause ] Join me in taking back our country and creating a bright, glorious, and prosperous new future for our people. We will make America great again and it will happen quickly. God bless you, god bless you, thank you. 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DONALD TRUMP PORTLAND MAINE RALLY 080416 PORTLAND, MAINE- Speaking to a lively crowd of close to 2000, Donald Trump sought to knock down any reports of a "fissure" between him and his running mate. Though he has yet to endorse Speaker Ryan, Trump did praise him today, saying "Paul Ryan is a good guy actually."(A few in the crowd booed). Then Trump went on to discuss how Pence talked to him, seemingly asking permission, before he publicly announced Ryan. 16:00:00 "Mike called me and he said, yesterday, and he said would you mind if I endorse? I won't do that if it cause any complications or problems, I would absolutely not do it. He's the greatest guy. He's the greatest human being. And he said that , he said, But I like him, he's a friend of mine, would you mind if I endorsed him? And I will not do it if you say no. I say, Mike, you like him? Yes, go ahead and do it, 100%. And he endorsed him. And then, and then, we have like a great relationship, it's short but we, you know, it hasn't been that long, but I've known him through the campaign. " Today, for the first time in a while, we saw several protests inside the venue. Near the beginning of the rally a group of protesters silently stood up carrying pocket constitutions in their hands. We also heard shouts of "Trump's a racist" and saw a Bernie supporter yell at Trump to release his tax returns. Footage came in on TVU3. Also, shockingly, Trump AGAIN talked about a tape that he saw of cash being unloaded in Iran. His campaign has admitted that he saw file footage of detainees arriving in Geneva from January used a broll during a Fox News broadcast. ABC News reporting indicates that no such video has been released publicly and likely does not exist; even if it does exist, would not have been shown to Trump, as his intelligence briefings have not started and such video would not normally been shown in such a setting. Here's what he said today: 15:25:32 "I woke up yesterday and I saw $400 million dollars, different currencies they probably don't want our currency. 400 million dollars being flown to Iran. I mean folks, what's going on here? What is going on? You see it, you don't believe it. 400 million in cash! Being flown to Iran on an airplane to Iran. I wonder where that money really goes by the way right. I wonder where it really goes. 15:26:09 Well, it went to -- either in their pockets, which I actually think more so. Or towards terrorism. Probably a combination of both. // 15:26:51 You saw that, with the airplane coming in. Nice plane. And the airplane coming in. And the money coming off, I guess. Right? That was given to us -- has to be -- by the Iranians. And You know why the tape was given to us? Because they want to embarrass our country." I can't underscore how astounding it is that he would reference this video again, the day after his own campaign debunked his claim! Aside from this, Trump stayed largely on message, speaking extensively about radical terrorism, the perils of illegal immigration and the Obama-Clinton administration. He listed off several examples of immigrants coming into the country with aims to do Americans ill. He rattled off a few countries; I would imagine that these would be territories from which he'd ban immigration. Some that he listed: Somalia, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Pakistan. HIGHLIGHTS LOG: WASH 9 DONALD TRUMP PORTLAND ME EVENT POOL C16 080416 highlights 15:24:16 You happen to have a truly great governor. And he said something that really caught my imagination. He used the term: the Queen of corruption. I think we are gonna have to-- we are gonna have to use that a little bit. She is the Queen of corruption. $400 MILLION IN CASH FOR IRAN 15:25:32 I woke up yesterday and I saw $400 million dollars, different currencies they probably don't want our currency. 400 million dollars being flown to Iran. I mean folks, what's going on here? What is going on? You see it, you don't believe it. 400 million in cash! Being flown to Iran on an airplane to Iran. I wonder where that money really goes by the way right. I wonder where it really goes. 15:26:09 Well, it went to -- either in their pockets, which I actually think more so. Or towards terrorism. Probably a combination of both. So $400 million in cash. Now you'd really -- who can authorize even in terms of a president, who can authorize $400,000 in cash? Different currencies. They didn't want the dollar. They wanted different countries, different currencies. They've got a little bit of everything over there. I guess spread it around. How stupid are we. How stupid are we. To allow this to continue to go on. To see what's happening. You know, it was interesting because a tape was made. 15:26:51 You saw that, with the airplane coming in. Nice plane. And the airplane coming in. And the money coming off, I guess. Right? That was given to us -- has to be -- by the Iranians. And You know why the tape was given to us? Because they want to embarrass our country. They want to embarrass our country. And they want to embarrass our president. Because we have a president who's incompetent. They want to embarrass -- they want to embarrass our president. I mean who would ever think that there would be taking all of this money off the plane and then providing us with a tape? It's only for one reason. It's very, very sad. So we have a lot of problems in our country. We have border problems. 15:27:37 People are pouring into our country. We have no idea who they are. We have people -- we're going to build a wall, folks. Don't worry about it. Up here you have tremendous heroin problems. Comes from the southern border. But you have tremendous problems. And I'll tell you what, we're going to get -- we're going to build a wall. You know, we have another thing. We have 16,500 -- you can do whatever you want -- go ahead. Do whatever you want. Do whatever you want. [USA chants] 15:28:52 Well, you have to say, you know? A trump rally is the safest place in our country to be. Believe me. Believe me. Right? They're safe. But, if we keep going the way it is, our whole country's becoming different. They're shooting our police at record levels. You saw where I said in my speech, 50% higher. And then they went out and they looked -- PROTESTERS [ someone blowing a whistle ] 15:30:00 >> Isn't that amazing? Isn't that amazing? Sort of rude. You know, when you think of it. And what are we looking for? We want strong military. We want jobs. We want good education. Health care. Right? We're all like looking for the first -- we're looking for the same thing, sort of. You want to have a good life. You want to have a good life. You want safety. And then we have people interrupting constantly. But actually, it hasn't been happening much. It's happening a little bit today, but it hasn't been happening much. I sort of missed my protesters. You know? And we don't get them from Hillary because there's no--. Because, you know, the Bernie people had spirit. We don't get it from Hillary. Because they don't care. They don't care. 15:30:51 But you look at what's happening in terms of our police where they're shooting our police at record levels. 50% up. And I said 50%, it's actually much higher than that from last year. So we need law and order. We have to have it. We have to have it. We need law and order. We got to protect our police. And our police have to be careful. And they have to do their job and they have to do it correctly and they will do it correctly. But we have to take care of our police. I'll tell you. They're really going through a tough time. 15:31:25 So, I wrote a little thing down that I thought I'd have. Because in light of the $400 million that just got ripped away from our country, all right, and you know, the real number -- you look at it -- $150 billion. We got nothing. We got nothing. And they think they probably paid the $400 million for the hostages which is even worse. And now since then, I don't know if you know, we have two more hostages right now. Why wouldn't they? We have two more hostages right now were fairly recently grabbed and they're in Iran. And I guess what are we going to do with that one, right? So they do $400 million gets flown at night into Iran. 15:32:08 I think it is so sad and so disgusting and you also wonder about a government, who could approve a thing like that where they take cash into a country and just hand it to them?Bushels and bushels of cash? And then you look at our country where we owe $20 trillion -- I used to a18 trillion. Used to say $17. When I started I was saying 16 and 17. Now it's 18 and 19. It will very soon be 20. It is going to be 22 very soon because we have a budget that is very, very expensive but it doesn't take care of our military. Our military is depleted.We have to mix our military. I know for the Navy, one of the reporters was talking about -- one of the reporters, how do you feel about building ships because you have a lot of ships you're building up here. 15:32:59 Good ones, right? So our Navy, as you know, has one of the lowest numbers of ships that they've had in decades and decades. And we've got to rebuild our Navy. We've got to rebuild our whole military, folks. And we're going to do it. Probably almost never have needed it more than we need it now with all of the people out there that don't like us very much. And we're going to be very strong, we're going to be very smart. We're going to build up our military. It is so depleted. We're going to take care of our vets. We're going to take care of our vets. Our vets -- our vets are so badly treated, you look at what's going on where they wait online six, seven, eight days. Think of it. You're not a vet. Think of it, in the audience, think of it. Six, seven, eight days. People are dying online waiting for doctors. And committing suicide. 15:33:57 The suicides are at numbers that nobody's ever thought possible. We're going to take care of our vets. I put a plan in. People are loving the plan. People are loving the plan. And if you're waiting -- if you're waiting in line for an extended period of time, you're going to walk outside, you're going to go to a doctor who's looking for business, go to a hospital, private or public, you're going to get taken care of and it is going to be less expensive. The government is going to pay the bill. It's going to be far less expensive than what has been happening. People are dying waiting in line for a simple pill or a simple prescription. IS ISIS COMING INTO OUR COUNTRY? 15:34:35 They're dying. Our great veterans are dying waiting on line. And we're not going to do it. We're not going to do it. No more. No more. So, I wrote a few things down, and I just -- the obama-clinton -- she is a disaster. She is a disaster. The obama-clinton foreign policy has handed huge portions of Iraq, Libya, Syria, and other areas, to ISIS ok. Huge portions. We don't know. Is ISIS coming into our country? With all of the people that are pouring in, we have no idea who they are. We have absolutely no -- you know the harm they want to inflict. 15:35:17 You look at what has taken place in our country, San Bernardino, and Orlando, and look at what's going on over all over world. I mean, Look at the world trade center, look at what's happening. Look at what's happening-- [Booing] [Booing] [Chanting: trump! Trump] [turns around to shake hands with audience] 15:36:18 Oh boy. It's a wild life. So you look at what we've sacrificed and what we've given up and the level of viciousness, where heads are being dropped off, where people are being drowned in steel cages. We haven't seen this since medieval times. I mean-- 15:36:42 You know I loved history you talked about Medieval times and you would never have thought you would have seen the things you are seeing today and it's gotten out of control and Obama has let it get out of control and then you have Hillary's made tremendous mistakes in every way. I guarantee you this, If Obama had it to do again, he would have never picked her, never, as secretary of state because he has gotten into such trouble with the decisions she probably made or convinced him to make, that it's ridiculous. 15:37:18 So the obama-clinton foreign policy has handed huge portions of Iraq, Libya, and Syria, to ISIS. I mean, huge portions. Undermining the stability and strength in Egypt, and empowered Iran as never before. Iran is like this major power. And when they made this horrible deal, why didn't they solve other problems with iran, you know Iran's fighting us in other places. Right? They're fighting news other places. 15:37:52 Why didn't we say, wait a minute, we're giving you back all of this money, we are giving you all- this is a horrible deal in every way. We got nothing in that deal. We got our hostages back and now we find out what we actually paid for the hostages and it was in cash, which is terrible.Because that sets a terrible, terrible precedent, and it's just sickening, and you'll have four more years of Obama if you elect Hillary Clinton. Four more years. 15:38:21 The most important issues facing civilization right now is radical islamic terrorism, and we have a president-- we have a president that won't use the term, he won't say it. He won't say it. Maybe he doesn't believe it. He right now thinks that global warming is the greatest threat that this world has. So we've just seen many many crimes, getting worse all the time, and as Maine knows 15:39:00 A major destination for Somali refugees. Right? Am I right? They are all talking about it. Maine, somali refugees. We admit hundreds of thousands, you admit into Maine, and to others places in the United States, hundreds of thousands of refugees and they're coming from among the most dangerous territories and countries anywhere in the world. Right. A practice which has to be-- has to stop. Has to stop. This isn't like you're smarter than other people. This is a practice that has to stop. Not like we say oh let's do something we wanna be nice, and we wanna as in the case of Syria we'll build safe havens. We'll do something, we'll get other nations that are near the Gulf states as an example. They don't spend money, they don't spend money. They don't take people. We take people. They don't take people and they are right there/. They'll spend money, believe me folks. They are gonna spend money. They wouldn't be there if it weren't for us. 15:40:09 So the Washington Times reported of a Somali refugee program in Minnesota, that the effort to resettle large groups of Somali refugees is having the unintended consequence of creating an enclave of immigrants with high unemployment that is both stressing the states, I mean the state is having tremendous problems-- its safety net. And creating a rich pool of potential recruiting targets for Islamist terror groups. It's happening, you see it happening, you read about it. 15:41:00 All you have to do is take a look what's happening in Germany, it's a mess. Take a look what's happening in France two weeks ago NIce, you remember in Paris, in Paris we had the disaster 130 people viciously violently killed. And by the way if you had some guns on the other side of the equation it wouldn't have happened believe me. You wouldn't have had the tragedy that you have. 15:41:52 Remember this, Hillary Clinton essentially wants to take away your rights under the second Amendment. She wants to take away your guns. She wants to take away those bullets. She wants to take away your rights. Now the NRA not only endorsed me, I think they endorsed me earlier than anybody they have ever endorsed. We need to protect our second amendment. Have to do it have to do it. Believe me, believe me you are going to have things happening -if she gets in, remember justices of the Supreme Court goes along with that Second Amendment and they will be ruling very negatively if you put her there. 15:43:12 But you have a situation where she could have, or the next president could have as many as 5, more likely it will be 3 or 4, but it's gonna be perhaps a record number of justices of the supreme court. And if for no other reason you have to go and you have to vote for Trump. Right. You have to. Have to. So just few other instances. The Boston bombers, remember the boston bombers? What a horrible thing that was, arrived through the political asylum process, right. They younger brother applied for citizenship and was naturalized on September 11th 2012. The older brother had a pending application for citizenship, oh that's wonderful, we take them, right, we take them. And you see what happened. How violent and how vicious and how horrible was that? Okay. And if they are not here we don't have that incident which kills so many and so badly wounded so many. 15:44:27 And what I said, and what I said it's so true, so many of these, you look at san bernardino, what I said it's so true, second amendment, if guns, a couple, one, were on one of the people, two of the people, three of the people in san bernardino so the bullets are flying in the opposite direction, number one they probably would not have made the attack, and number two if they were-- right, and number two, the carnage, and it was carnage, 14 people killed many many people in the hospital, even to this day. It wouldn't have happened. Or it certainly would have been a lot less. 15:46:17 Uzbek refugees living in Idaho was arrested and charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization in the form of teaching terror. And this is what they do. Teaching terror recruits how to build bombs. How wonderful, I don't want them in this country. By the way, you gotta turn these people in. 15:47:00 An immigrant from Syria who later applied and received United States citizenship was accused by federal prosecutors of planning to go to a military base in texas and kill 3 or 4 american soldiers, but preferably execution style. We are dealing with animals. Preferably execution style. 15:52:15 We don't even know where they are located. I am telling you, I said it before, this could be the great Trojan horse of all time. They are coming in, they are coming in. And you have many more like that. Many more. Thousands. Thousands, thousands. We have more people right now being looked at by the FBI and others than we've ever had in the history of our country, okay. And it's impossible to do this. Thousands of people are being looked at and studied, thousands. And this is what we are living with. And she wants to allow 550% more than obama has allowed coming into the country. 15:53:00 So, if you wanna, if you wanna let her do it, folks, that's gonna be your choice, but I think you're making a very big mistake. Hillary Clinton, furthermore, can never be trusted with national security- can't [chanting "lock her up"] 15:53:36 In fact we're both supposed to be briefed in the not too distant future, I'm saying you can't breif her. You can't brief her. Let's protest. Her email scandal email scandal put our entire country at risk. Made our sensitive secrets vulnerable to hacking by foreign adversaries, I mean, they hacked all over the place. They're hacked. I guess, who's got them? She lost 33,000 emails. What happened? 33,000 Ok. So What happened? How is this possible? FIrst of all what kind of a number is that? She said it was the wedding and yoga and then they accused her of lying, they said she lied- they said she was negligent, all these things and the other day this weekend she went out and said no no, no, I think you must have misunderstood-- she's a big problem. I mean she's-- she's I don't know, there's something going on there. Look look. MISSING EMAILS: IF ANYONE THINKS THAT WAS WEDDING AND YOGA.. 15:54:38 There's something going on there. Look, look. She has got, a problem-- Did you see this weekend when she was interviewed? She said, no, I think you misunderstood, no we didn't lie-- I've never seen, has anyone ever seen a liar like that ever before? She's made everybody less safe.Those 33,000 emails are potentially a danger to our country. And if anybody thinks that was for a wedding and for yoga- and when she got away with that, I said that's probably the greatest accomplishment that she's ever had in politics. It's true. And I think it's a great insult to our country. 15:56:12 And she walks, and then the president has a meeting for 39 minutes with a very important person, in the back of an airplane. And they talked about grandchildren and golf. No. It's sad, and then deleted the emails to cover up her crime, she deleted them to cover up her crime folks, 100%. Not 99%. 100%. She deleted those emails to cover up what could be a major crime. And it is actually a major crime. I would watch it, I would read and I found it very interesting. DO WE HAVE BERNIE SUPPORTERS HERE? 15:57:26 By the way in all fairness I know we have some bernie sanders people here actually, do we have Bernie Sanders people here? I hear we do, yeah? So we are gonna get a lot of Bernie sanders votes, because of trade. Because Bernie sanders was right about one thing that I really believe it, no, I believe it it's a fact: we are dying with our trade deals. Our trade deals are a disaster. Our trade deals with other countries-- we are going to lose almost 800 billion dollars this year in trade deficit with other countries. China alone 500 billion dollars. He was right on that. He was right on that. But had Bernie Sanders not made that deal- And he made the deal with the devil, I've said it before. Had he not made that deal and then she picked a Vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, Tim Kaine! Now, I thought it would be a really popular guy, cause I just left Virginia, I was in Loudon (?) county virginia, we had a tremendous crowd of people, tremendous crowd. Great people. ABOUT KAINE 15:58:25 I figured he'd be gone--you know really a popular guy. He wasn't popular. You know, when he was governor of Virginia in the first week, he raised taxes by 4 million dollars. Does anyone know that? And unemployment doubled, unemployment doubled under his governorship. I mean, and I said, Oh gee, are we going to have to sacrifice Virginia? Because-- and people said no, I think you probably just won Virginia, he's not popular at all. 15:59:03 And by the way we have a great vice president, we have a great-- Mike Pence, Mike Pence from Indiana, triple A rating. One of the most incredible stories for any state, Indiana great state. ON MIKE PENCE ENDORSING PAUL RYAN 16:00:00 He came to me he called me the other day, said do you mind, cause he likes paul Ryan, Paul Ryan is a good guy actually. Paul Ryan's-- no, he's a good guy. So mike called me and he said, yesterday, and he said would you mind if I endorse? I won't do that if it cause any complications or problems, I would absolutely not do it. He's the greatest guy. He's the greatest human being. And he said that , he said, But I like him, he's a friend of mine, would you mind if I endorsed him? And I will not do it if you say no. I say, Mike, you like him? Yes, go ahead and do it, 100%. And he endorsed him. And then, and then, we have like a great relationship, it's short but we, you know, it hasn't been that long, but I've known him through the campaign. 16:00:47 And then, a couple of the papers, not all of them, I must say, most of them wrote it legitimately, but a couple of them said there is a fissure between Pence and trump. There's a fissure, it's so so dishonest, these newspapers, the media folks, they are so dishonest, there's nothing so dishonest. HILLARY CLINTON AND HEDGE FUND MONEY- TRUMP TRYING TO GIVE IT BACK 16:03:10 Hillary Clinton, and I've been saying this for a long time, Hillary clinton works only for her donors, special interests and lobbyists. You have lobbyists that have stamped on their forehead "I can produce Hilary." And they are very good. And they raise millions of dollars. Did you see yesterday it was announced that Hillary Clinton got 48 million or so from hedge funds and Donald trump got 18,000 from hedge funds. Or 19. I'm trying to figure out who they were, I wanna give it back. Who is it? Folks, folks, look, there was nobody better in the game or certainly much better in the game than I was. I was on the other side for a long time. Don't forget, on June 15th, I was establishment, on June 16th when I announced that I was running coming down that now very famous escalator with Melania. I announced -- She did a great job, did a great job with the speech, she did, and Ivanka did, and eric did, and Don did, and Tiffany did-- great job. [applause] They did a great job. Thank you, that's so- I'm gonna tell them about this. CUTTING TAXES 16:07:06 So we're going to have much lower taxes, we are gonna cut taxes, very importantly, we are gonna cut our taxes for the middle class, we're going to cut our taxes for business, we're going to have massive dollars pouring into this country, and we are going to create jobs like we've never seen before. Taxes are so high that businesses cannot produce jobs. And one other thing which is actually more important to these people, to everybody: regulations. MIKE FLYNN 16:10:45 How about General Flynn, we love General Flynn right? Mike Flynn. We have those people. But I guess we are not using them. I guess we are not using them. We can't defeat ISIS. So here is the story folks-- yes we can, you're right. Very quickly. DRUGS EPIDEMIC 16:13:03 This is so beautiful who would think that you're loaded up with drugs in maine? And they are coming, mostly from the southern border. We are gonna stop it 100%. We are gonna stop it. We are gonna stop it. And then we are gonna work with people to get them unhooked. We gotta get them unhooked. There's tremendous problems-- we gotta get them unhooked. And that's all over the country, by the way, but I really learned more about that problem from New Hampshire than anyplace else, so here is the story folks. We are gonna start winning again. AMERICA FIRST 16:14:08 And we are going to make america safe again, we are going to make america first remember we don't make American first, not anymore, we don't make america, we are more worried about other nations than we are of ourselves, that's why they are ripping us off. We are using the wrong people. We are going to make America First, we are going to make America Great Again. Thank you, thank you everybody. Thank you. -------

TVU 28 JOE BIDEN CONWAY SC COMMUNITY EVENT ABC UNI 022720 2020 CONWAY, South Carolina -- Former Vice President Joe Biden drew one of his largest crowds in the Palmetto State on Thursday evening, holding a community event at Coastal Carolina University with 650 people in attendance (thought local police say it was likely over 700) and another 71 in an overflow location (numbers that still remain relatively small compared to the rest of the front-runners). Biden briefly addressed the overflow crowd but the press was not present. During his stump speech Biden took a veiled swipe at Sen. Bernie Sanders, saying: "This nation isn't looking for a revolution. It's looking for results. It's looking for results to improve people's lives." (18:46:53) Biden also name-checked Sanders a few times, again blasting his record on gun control and saying later that while he likes the Vermont Senator, he resents him over his consideration of a primary challenge against President Barack Obama during the 2012 election. On Bernie/guns: "But guess what? With the Brady bill, which I got passed, that was when I was -- Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. And I know people disagreed, Bernie voted against it five times. He didn't think there should be background checks for that. But I think look what's happened. It's kept the hands out of the -- guns out of the hands of terrorists," Biden said. (18:55:03) On Bernie/Obama primary challenge (also talks about Obamas post-White House): "I like Bernie, one of the reasons I resent Bernie though, is he wanted to primary Barack in 2012. He said he should be primaried. People are disappointed. Doing a lousy job. I fundamentally disagree with that. And here's the deal. You know, I -- how can I say it? Michelle, as they say, has given it the office. She's done a great deal and she's still doing a great deal for people. And I think that the fact that they're out of the White House is something they find somewhat liberating after 8 years. No, I really mean it," Biden said. (19:27:22) Biden also brought up the misleading television advertisement run in South Carolina by a pro-Trump group that takes Obama's words out of context to make it look like he is criticizing Biden. The former President has demanded the group take down the ads, sending them a cease and desist letter last night. "But here's -- take what's going on right now. Right now Barack Obama has sent letters to all the television stations, 'Take down that ad where it says that I'm criticizing Joe Biden. Because it's a lie.' No, look at this...Can you ever think of any time in a primary the incumbent president of the other party has spent, in my case, well over $14 million dollars. And for -- just for the South Carolina primary, they spend $125,000 bucks putting up ads that are flat lies to keep me from getting the nomination. I wonder why. Because if I get the nomination, I will beat him like a drum," Biden said. (19:17:02) Asked if he would consider Michelle Obama as a running mate, Biden said he would "in a heartbeat," if he thought there was any chance of her accepting the position. 192533 Q>> Just wanted to ask you whether you've asked Michelle Obama to be your running mate? (applause) 192550 BIDEN>> I'd do that in a heartbeat if I think there'd be any chance of her doing it. Biden was also asked a question by a young woman about how he spent time in South Africa as an example of his work in the Civil Rights Movement (NOTE: the woman did not ask about the questions surrounding whether or not Biden was arrested, a subject of recent controversy). Recounting the story of meeting Mandela in Washington as a Senator, Biden called him the most "Christ-like" figures he's ever met, but made no mention of an arrest in his answer. "[Mandela] came to Washington. And I hosted him. And he came to my office to say thank you. And I looked at him, and I got to tell you this story, it'll just take a second. I said, President Mandela, I said, what you said it was incredible, I don't know how you cannot feel hatred for the people who kept you in solitary for 7 years among other things. Know what he said to me? If you excuse the expression, I'm not proselytizing here, but the most Christ-like figure I've ever met. He said, quote, "they were just doing their job." They were just doing their job. And then he said when I left, they each grabbed my hand and said, 'Good luck Nelson. Good. Luck. We wish you luck.' This is -- imagine that they had a man who came out full of hate. There would have been a civil war. There would have been carnage. But what did he do? He reached out. He reached out and he brought that country together," Biden said. (19:20:15) Biden also gave an interesting answer when asked how he plans to reach out to Trump voters if elected, going in-depth about the demographic groups he considers to be his base, and how the Democratic Party has stopped talking to the white and black working class voters who used to be it's heart. "The basis of my winning over the years, and one of the reasons Barack was able -- picked me to be his vice president, was because I've always had overwhelming support from high-school educated blacks and whites. As well as overwhelming support in the black community. That combination. That used to be the base of the Democratic Party...One of the things that happened was, the Democratic party stopped talking to that base. That was the base that we always had. I've never stopped talking to them. The reason why the president asked me to be on the ticket was the polling data showed, with me on the ticket, we win Pennsylvania. We win Ohio. We win Virginia. We win Colorado," Biden said. (19:11:50) Biden said the way to win back those Trump voters that may have supported Democrats in the past is to go out and talk to them, recounting a conversation with a Trump supporter outside of tonight's rally. "We stopped talking to them. And so, that is not going to happen with me. And the way we do it is, we go in and we listen. You listen to people who strongly disagree with you as well. I ran into a young man outside, all those folks were waiting outside. And he said, I had a Trump hat on, they wouldn't let me in. I said, well, you should be able to come in. I don't -- because I want to speak to the Trump supporters. I want them to know. He said he was going to take care of the forgotten man. And then he forgot them," Biden said. (19:14:30) HIGHLIGHTS The Nation's Not Looking for a Revolution 184629 And we have to regain the soul of this country, because everything that has made us special has been the fact that we are as diverse and as consequential as we are. We're the most powerful nation in the history of the world. The world of fact is built on our diversity, and that's what we're about. And it's got to be restored. The second point I'd like to make too, is that, you know, there's an awful lot -- this nation isn't looking for a revolution. 184653 It's looking for results. It's looking for results to improve people's lives. I got involved for three basic reasons. One, to restore the soul, to bring back decency. Decency. Or -- my dad would say our children are listening. It matters. Our silence is complicity. We must speak out against hate. We must speak out against division. We must speak out up against prejudice. Bernie Voting Against Suing Gun Manufacturers. 185503 But guess what? With the Brady bill, which I got passed, that was when I was -- chairman of the judiciary committee. And I know people disagreed, Bernie voted against it five times. He didn't think there should be background checks for that. But I think look what's happened. It's kept the hands out of the -- guns out of the hands of terrorists. 185519 It's kept the guns out of hands of people who do bad things. Over a couple million of them. But it hadn't kept the guns out of the hands of people who in fact, have good records and they're not in trouble and they're not a threat to society. So there'd need to be a balance. Need to be a balance here. 185534 And one other thing I want to make clear to you. The only -- if I stood here before you all today and said by the way, I got a great idea: let's exempt the drug companies, the same ones that put 9 billion opioid pills out on the market in a short period of time without warning about the problem, but we should exempt them from being able to be sued. 185555 I don't imagine I'd stay on this stage very much longer for all y'all. But guess what? In 2003, there were Democrats including Bernie and others who voted for, and other Republicans, voted to exempt the gun industry. They can not be sued. You ever wonder why they're not being sued for the carnage out there in the street? 185617 The only major industry that's exempt from being sued, is the gun industry for false advertising. By the way, all of you need an extra silencer on your weapon, don't you? Oh, I mean, come on. Come on. So my point is, we can make people a whole lot safer. How many of you sent your children off to school or your grandchildren in September, and they were scared? Because they learned how to cower under their desk? Duck and cover. Zigzag running down a hallway. Talk about our soul. A sick soul. Q and A 1 191117 Q>> When you get elected in November that you're gonna have quite a challenge ahead of you to bring on President Trump's 35%. What are you going to say to those people bringing them around? 191140 BIDEN>> That's a really important question. Look, the 35 percent of the population that is very strongly supportive of Donald Trump, I think some -- look. The basis of my winning over the years, and one of the reasons Barack was able -- picked me to be his vice president, was because I've always had overwhelming support from high-school educated blacks and whites. As well as overwhelming support in the black community. That combination. 191207 That used to be the base of the Democratic Party. The base of the Democratic party was hard working people, who weren't college educated, as well as the African American community. Now, what this President was able to do is split that. Make it so that, convincing hardworking high school educated folks in states like Pennsylvania and South Carolina all across the country that we didn't care anymore. 191230 One of the things that happened was, the Democratic party stopped talking to that base. That was the base that we always had. I've never stopped talking to them. The reason why the president asked me to be on the ticket was the polling data showed, with me on the ticket, we win Pennsylvania. We win Ohio. We win Virginia. We win colorado. Because I have never left where I came form, And there's no inconsistency -- no, I really mean this. 191255 There's no inconsistency for overwhelming African American support as well as support from basically white working class folks. Because guess what's happened? They've figured it out by now. They in fact, we didn't -- you know, I went out and campaigned in 2018. I went into 24, quote, purple states. The states that were toss up states or leaning, could go either way. 191312 I campaigned for 65 candidates in those 24 states. And I said we were gonna win back the House of Representatives. Including a guy named Cunningham here in this state, won one of those races. Well, look. Here's what happened. We won back 41 seats. 191342 Because my dad used to have an expression, he said, "Joey, I don't expect the government to solve my problem, but I at least expect them to understand my problem." We stopped talking to people. We stopped talking to people where they live. Dealing with the problems they had. The problems they have are how do I maintain -- I lost everything in the crash. I no longer have my house. How do I build wealth again? 191402 Because that's how most people build their wealth, in the value of their home. It accrues. How do I get access to capital? How do I -- we stopped talking to people. We stopped talking to them. And so, that is not going to happen with me. And the way we do it is, we go in and we listen. You listen to people who strongly disagree with you as well. I ran into a young man outside, all those folks were waiting outside. And he said, I had a Trump hat on, they wouldn't let me in. 191430 I said, well, you should be able to come in. I don't -- because I want to speak to the Trump supporters. I want them to know. He said he was going to take care of the forgotten man. And then he forgot them. TRUMP ADS 191702 But here's -- take what's going on right now. Right now Barack Obama has sent letters to all the television stations, "Take down that ad where it says that I'm criticizing Joe Biden. Because it's a lie." No, look at this. Think of -- you folks are a little bit older, and been in more than one election. 191723 Can you ever think of any time in a primary the incumbent president of the other party has spent , in my case, well over $14 million dollars. And for -- just for the south carolina primary, they spend $125,000 bucks putting up ads that are flat lies to keep me from getting the nomination. I wonder why. Because if I get the nomination, I will beat him like a drum. SOUTH AFRICA (Q and A 2) 191804 Q>> There are a lot of candidates touting their Civil Rights background because they want votes. And I consider them allies. Because they say they stand with African Americans but don't necessarily stand with African Americans. But with you, I consider you an accomplice. Meaning, you don't just tell me you're gonna stand with me, you stand with me. And one of the stories I don't think you tell enough is about when you went to South Africa with African American delegation with Amb. (?). If you could tell us how you stood with me on that. 191846 BIDEN>> Well, look, one of the things that -- I was on the foreign relations committee. And I was a maybe one of themost vocal opponents of apartheid. Because I believed it was criminal. If you wonder whether that's true or not, I'm not saying you don't believe me, but go to Joe Biden.com and look at JoeBiden.com George Schultz, the secretary of state. 191915 Where I got into -- and just check it out on your phone. And you'll see how deparately concerned I was about the failuire of the Reagan administration to take on apartheid. It's a criminal enterprise. And I talked about how when they were not going to push apartheid, because we needed South Africa. I made the case, and unfortunately got in a shouting match with my hollering at and George Shultz hollering back at me. 191943 Saying, as -- I pointed out, they fill up tires, empty tires, fill them with gasoline and put them around the heads of young people, on their necks, and then light them. It is criminal. And one of the greatest honors I had was as the chairman of the foreign relations committee, when one of the most incredible men that I've ever met, he's a fella who was held in jailed for 7 years on Robin's Island. HE was led out finally ebcause we killed apartheid. 192015 And the -- organized the world to do it. And he came to Washington. And I hosted him. And he came to my office to say thank you. And I looked at him, and I got to tell you this story, it'll just take a second. I said, President Mandela, I said, what you said it was incredible, I don't know how you cannot feel hatred for the people who kept you in solitary for 7 years among other things. 192040 Know what he said to me? If you excuse the expression, I'm not prostetizing here, but the most christ-like figure I've ever met. He said, quote, "they were just doing their job." They were just doing their job. And then he said when I left, they each grabbed my hand and said, "Good luck nelson." 192059 Good. Luck. We wish you luck. This is -- imagine that they had a man who came out full of hate. There would have been a civil war. There would have been carnage. But what did he do? He reached out. He reached out and he brought that country together. And he had peace. So I thought everything we tried to do with regard to apartheid, was worth it. Last point I'll make on this. Ladies and gentleman, if the united states no longer speaks out on human rights, who will? RUNNING MATE 192533 Q>> Just wanted to ask you whether you've asked Michelle Obama to be your running mate? (applause) 192550 BIDEN>> I'd do that in a heartbeat if I think there'd be any chance of her doing it. Look, Michelle and Jill, my granddaughters and their daughters, are each others best friend. For example, every year, at -- on Valentines day, my, two of my granddaughters, a young woman who's a freshman at Penn now, two team all state in 2 different sports, and my other granddaughter who's a junior, her name is Finn -- we named her Finnegan Biden after my mom's last name. 192626 But she lives up to the name, at an rate. She is, Malia and Sasha's, they're each other's best friend. They've been going to school together in the same small school for 11 years. They're each other's best buddies. And so every Thanksgiving, for example, I mean, excuse me, every Valentines Day, my daughter in law and my 2 granddaughters and Michelle and her 2 daughters, they go off skiing for 4 days. 192658 And they, oh yeah, and I'm not kidding. They don't invite barack. They don't invite me. I mean, they go out for two days. But all kidding aside, look, this is a -- one of the great things and I must tell you, I'll be just straight with you, one of the reasons I like Bernie, one of the reasons I resent Bernie though, is he wanted to primary Barack in 2012. 192722 He said he should be primaried. People are disappointed. Doing a lousy job. I fundamentally disagree with that. And here's the deal. You know, I -- how can I say it? Michelle, as they say, has given it the office. She's done a great deal and she's still doing a great deal for people. And I think that the fact that they're out of the White House is something they find somewhat liberating after 8 years. No, I really mean it. TRINT [18:39:07] Thank you. Look. Right. Come on. People said it is hard for me. [18:39:15] I had no idea what I was going to get in the parking lot. Okay, man, I apologize. It up for you to say. Obviously. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My mother's. As my mother would say, please excuse my back, I apologize. I vote. Let me get to a point. [18:39:48] What I want to do is get to some of your questions right here. First of all, you know, talk about reduction, actually, nurse. She's going to. [18:39:59] Bottle vodka. Thank you, very nice. Out. You know, I also want to thank the congressman for being you're up with anything. You do see me out here earlier today. I want to get right to it. You know what? I wanted to. The other day to see one of the most powerful endorsements ever received. I'd say the Santa Margherita excuse a point of personal privilege. [18:40:29] Flatworms loves the nurse with me. A great deal to me just because we've been friends for so long. It was so heartfelt. And I want to publicly argue for one day. Jeff says, We're at an inflection point in history, quite a ways that if we don't get things straight, they're going to be changed for a long. [18:41:00] Long time for years about drunk. With the right nominee, we could, in fact, turn that four years of an aberration in American history. So that's not who we are. Thirty eight years ago, from the fundamentally changing nature of who we are. But the very moment that stands in absolute terms of division globally, we're coming down. As we talked about rabies vaccines, where you treat African-Americans, the way he deals with people with disabilities makes one of the great talks about people with language uses that. [18:41:41] What do you parents. I'm not I don't think I. Exactly. And it's our parents. Grandparents actually pulled your children or grandchildren away from the television. The bar, you know. I thought that you were making the most of our address. I can not surprise my state by state. He was there. It was like North South Carolina where I stated to say that it was Gordon Brown versus Board of Education. The same. It's safe to say that it is the largest African-American population in the country, my state is 20 percent. I find myself in a position where I got involved as a kid. Civil rights was as a young kid. [18:42:29] I had to decide to make a long story short, I. When I got home from law school, I had a job with a fancy law firm. I want to because no one was compelled to talk. I went away to serve at the University of North Carolina. [18:42:49] I knew you'd be buried as a. Look, what happened was I gave all my job with a fancy offer, with a good offer. [18:42:59] I was happy to have had the job. But what happened after that? It was a year out of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. Ever assassinate an active role? [18:43:10] I see city burned around about 25 percent where the L.A. city workers occupied the military successes of the war for 10 months. Back, that's everything. After I got home with his dog, I realized that I was doing. I wasn't paid for that job. I became a public defender. I used to I used to get every my clients down on the train station for the northeast corridor. You walk through all right on Amtrak. [18:43:41] And what happened was that I found myself in a situation where I did that. And then in January, after I went into the bar 40 years later, moved into the bar, I would stand on a same platform, looking out all the same parks and see even a burned out girl. I thought at the time it happened. Blacks and whites last time would never be able to get together. Yeah, things would never be the same, but they're being rebuilt and the city is thriving. [18:44:14] Things are moving. And I was riding. That January, January 17, waiting for a BlackBerry, 21 March. Philadelphia decision to pick me up on the screen. One hundred twenty seven miles for me and I was sworn in as president of W3C United States. And I thought to myself, I had my three children with me. One passed away. One was the attorney general's daughter. And my son will bring my daughters, a social worker and my other son, who's 10 in the World Food Program USA. And I got all the help. I said, don't tell me things can't change. [18:44:49] Here I am, 40 years. Right. I think there should ever be forced to happen. And we don't know what's going on. Ten thousand people on the tracks waiting for us to get on in Delaware where we need for us to go and make sure we, in fact, got to abortion. [18:45:06] But then I thought he could be defeated. I thought you can defeat him so he could make it go away. [18:45:14] But hang on. A vise. Hey, don't. Hi. [18:45:17] And when I applied in real life, I thought I a lot when those folks came out of the of Georgia to carry torches carrying torches, photographs around the scene. [18:45:28] Their veins, balls deep with hay candy, the same anti-Semetic Wild's candidate streets of Berlin and Germany all through the thirties. [18:45:39] And then the young man was killed. What happened? The was asked. He said, quote, A very fine people on both sides. No president. I say Americans that have said anything like that ever. This guy or George Wallace of George Washington and. [18:45:56] And draw. He's going out. After that, I said I said at the time, I said America. [18:46:12] America will lose its soul. We know are from a magazine that maybe this was not what we are not. We are not there. Americans are concerned about America. Everybody to eat. That's not who we are. We have to regain the soul of this country because everything has made us special, has made the fact that we are diverse. And as a consequence of this powerful nation in history, the world. We're a nation that, in fact, is built on our. And that's how it's got to restore. [18:46:48] The second point I'd like to make to you is that, you know, there's an awful lot of the station, a motive for a revolution, just looking for results. It's looking for results. By. I two basic reasons, one, they're of the of bringing back decency. [18:47:09] These are ours and our children are listening. [18:47:13] In matters of our silence is complicity. We must speak out and entertain. We must speak out against the regime. We must speak out against rather. [18:47:28] For the middle class, middle class, but the economy is, by the way, here is Ross. We've created more jobs in the last two years by. [18:47:44] Let's go to the middle class and working folks left behind. Go back to your old neighbor. Go back to your neighbors. Ask yourself the question first. First time for the first time is the life you want in this room about how old you are. [18:47:59] America is no longer as the wealthiest middle class in the world. We're no longer the wealthiest. [18:48:05] Americans believe you have 55 percent of people leaving. Their job will never achieve the same standard. They cheat. You find yourself in a position where it's harder and harder and harder to make a service. [18:48:21] If the average worker received $400 a month, you have to borrow the money to pay for or sell something. [18:48:30] That's not that's not access. [18:48:33] I call middle class Joe and not say because it's a compliment. They think I'm not sophisticated, but I'm pretty hard to say. But America, ordinary, hardworking people. [18:48:51] Right now, we have to rebuild it. We have to fight. Look, my dad had mixed reactions. Everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity. [18:48:58] How can a parents say that he did he got a job as an illness, that a preexisting condition could be covered. How do he look at the job opportunity? Know they don't have the money to help him get to college or to go beyond school. It's not dignity. Everyone's entitled. Everyone can rebuild this in a way that, in fact, would rip the Band-Aid off. Everybody knows what's wrong. There's no more secrets. About a second flashpoint is I said earlier. And at that point is that people will know what's happening. I mean, he didn't really roll that one, boy. Not about our tax code. [18:49:41] Really good shape. Right. Really? You did good. Laughs You're doing well. All right. And I guess, what did you been going to have with your taxes? [18:49:52] Redgrave's I get it if you're in this now. Folks like we don't have to we don't have to hurt anyone to get this economy back on track. For example, we can provide health care for everybody everywhere and we provide as a right. [18:50:18] What option? You can choose if you want to. You don't have to make that choice. You don't have to act on that. But we can't afford to do that without hurting anybody who actually is making a very good Taxco. No great quarterback package making it real. Look, if you have a capital gain and you're in a 20 year pay at a rate of 20 percent and your capital gains, your income taxes at 30 percent, guess what? You're going to have 30 percent. [18:50:48] But somebody whose income taxes at 32 are 35 or 37 percent. They get to top 35, 37 percent. They didn't go back up. We just made for everybody who. Eight hundred really dollars just to be able to take a capital gains option. Right now, the taxes you pay their employees, there's a lot we can do without hurting anybody. Speaking of taxes, fair, how are you hearing this great verse? By the way, I came across a lot of what you want to keep your handicap. Your girlfriend of golf drivers was this forty-one-year-old? [18:51:26] I got to reach out to 6O press conference. Don't run for President Bush all with golf. Or she he spend. Look, here's your focus. You know, the third reason, Ibraham is that we've seen what we can do. We haven't any to this. I know my colleagues run around. They say, well, you know, you can unite the country. You can't do that. I refuse to accept the proposition. You can't be right. If that's the case where no job democracies require consensus in the census. [18:52:11] Otherwise it's an abuse of power by a person. Or on the referees can't generate consensus and say, well, I know Joe's done a lot. Joe was able to make the bosses. No. Then we had a 9 billion dollar recovery act fast. And Ron, let's keep taxes one percent ways. Joe was able to do the kind of welcome street job, but that was before after a long time ago, three years ago, and called stale. Our politics become too wild, too based, Bernie. [18:52:44] Too bad you don't have to identify Greek voters every time our administration had a problem. One of the capital facing me. And the reason I did, I learned the lesson early on. It's always appropriate to question the manner in which those moves out, but it's never broken into question. Important, because you don't know the motives. And once you start questioning mode and say you're in the market or you go off to hear this, you're that. And in spite of us work out infrastructure, let's build more and grow on it. [18:53:17] But if you saying we disagree and see where we can work out, you get it wrong a lot. And there's so many opportunities. We have somebody got opportunities sitting right here and saying, you know, I support the Second Amendment. I do a great job of joining a job that I couldn't escape to. I haven't done it a long time. It's the same way. The burnout. But nobody needs an assault weapon. No. [18:53:48] Nobody needs a cliff. The thing that goes up on is the guy in the bar that carries 100 rounds of ammunition. [18:53:55] Who in God's name needs that? By the way, the Second Amendment didn't say anyone could own any kind of weapon. And I know rich people in my state, which is the gun lobby, say and here will say, well, the theory of living here is water with a blood of pictures, if you need to save yourself, doesn't need F15 with Hellfire missiles. You ain't going to do it unless they are 50. OK. [18:54:21] And never, ever, ever has been absolute. You could own anything you wanted. You can't. Well, no bouzouki, no running through it again on Machito. Roy Firebag. That's when the case ended. And not anybody can the. For example, someone stood up all of a sudden yell, fire, fire, fire. [18:54:39] Here in this room with the First Amendment free speech right now, you yell fire. People get hurt. There's nothing. Absolutely. [18:54:46] Any one of the amendments. The second thing is we gotta make sure we have background checks. You know, the. [18:54:55] Because bad folks who have weapons. The vast majority of people who pass a background check. But guess what? With the Brady Bill, we're talking about pass. [18:55:05] I was asked to read and I know people disagree. Bernie voted against it five times. You didn't think you should read background checks. But I think what happening if get the hands out of the gun down. His parents have got out of hand. People who do bad things or Columbine, but had kept in God's hands. People all in Baghdad. Good renters. [18:55:27] And they're not in trouble and they're not there in the society. So there need to be a balance in balance. And you want to be clear that the only advice would hate you for your old age. By the way, you're a very I. Let's exempt drug companies. The same ones put a 9 billion opioid pills out on the market in a short period of time without warning about the problem. Well, we should exempt them from being able to be sued. [18:55:55] I don't have time to say saying very much longer. But guess what? In 2003, there were Democrats, including Bernie, others who voted for and others voted to exempt gun industry. They hated not being sued. Ever wondered why not be sued for the crack down their industry? Well, the only major range students exempt from being sued. The second is the false advertising by which all rights of silence are interrupted. Ha ha ha. So our point is we can make people a whole lot safer. No, you send your children off to school, your grandchildren, never. [18:56:38] And they should be making it interesting because they learn about the power of the desk. Duck and cover zig zag running around a hallway talking about our soul. Sick soul, my. [18:56:52] What do we do? So folks go in talking about health care reform, a project founded on climate change. [18:57:09] I don't want it together black for the Chinese. [18:57:14] We got 200 nations agree. What if this guy comes along and takes us out of the crowd and says we have no problem? [18:57:23] Well, you know what, folks? Folks. So someone who you do. First thing I'm going to do is. Maybe Regina for a hundred days, some of the day for myself. [18:57:40] Because here's the deal, folks, here's the deal. The deal is that we make up 50 percent of all the world's problems. Eighty five percent of the rest of the world. We get to zero emissions in the United States. Zero emissions. Guess what? Still with only just over the horizon. Life's a dollar. Eight years we've gone to war. Whatever the long seacoast, we're going to fight, literally not for you, but not for you. Look what's happening in a. [18:58:11] But talk about having to move the capital because it's going to sink into the ocean. You know, we've got to the United States Senate. The first thing, as best I can tell you, the first thing that, in fact, we were three broken president, Long Island over to depending on the Gulf attack to meet with the Joint Chiefs. Notice the degree of problem facing America was climate change. You know what? Population shifts in communities, people. [18:58:38] What happens? What happens is the sea level rises to more feet. And you have 30, 40 million people leaving the islands in the Pacific war starting on the mainland. Look what happened in Africa. Dar for what was that all about? Was about Black Haribo land, because with climate change you couldn't grow anything anymore. [18:58:59] So you had people killing one weather and massacring folks. This is a big deal. Last one to think about climate and make America. You know, right now it requires someone who not only understands the environment, but is able to generate international support. You know, right now you read about all the time Amazon's farming is burning. Why is she clearcut so they can use it over agriculture? All right. [18:59:29] Years ago, Republican nominee Dick Lugar, we're used to this legislation saying we if you maintain your force, we forgive your debt. Because in everybody's interest to do that. Well, there's more. And a thing called a carbon sink being what it takes, carbon in the air, more carbon stored from here on farms and all the pollutants that stack sound in the air from every source in the United States of America, daily basis there. [19:00:00] Say again, if we eliminate every single solitary contaminant going into the air in the United States of America for a year, it would in fact be no more than what it is absorbed by the Amazon. What are we know? Well, I tell you what, I'm going to do what I did before. I'm going to go down, make sure we have to alter all of our france-klm from ground zero. So here's the deal. I'll organize. [19:00:31] The world will pay 20 billion dollars. Not a clear cut. We'll help you invest in other activities so you don't have to, in fact, increase exponentially the likelihood that climate change is going to continue to be out of control. It's called international relations. It's called policy. Call me slanty. Call me able to put back together. Let me answer the questions. You know, there's much more education. It's a great universe. But guess what? Come on, man. Come on. I'm in graduate debt, right? Well, I know like it's in my right. [19:01:22] I was listed for my entire time as senators course and Congress. You were proud. What a shame. Oh, I'd like to welcome you, Enzo. Well, thank you. You're sworn in. And we're at 17 age to be eligible. So I'm supposed to make money. Why is it that it's hard to feel when I got elected when I elected vise president. [19:01:48] I did. My financial soldier, by the way, I reached 21 years, my tax rate. One of the press outlets said when I got when I did my financial, the vise president, it said, quote, It's probable no man is ever assume the out of the vise president with fewer assets. And Joe Biden. I assume they were speaking intellectual assets. My theory is this, folks, you know, there's so much. So I actually had an opportunity to do if we just decided we were going to do it together. America and the United States. America is in a position where when my kids got off to school, I the good news was that the housing market was going up. So I was able to get three mortgages on my house to pay for school. [19:02:40] I'm working right now with a degree in Jersey, 19 years. Right. But. They began shot in. Georgetown dessert use Georgetown and Yale University of Pennsylvania Center accuse Tulane and Graduate School. But guess what? [19:03:01] The Graduate has never missed payment or anything that could force against the house. They worked 30 hours a week full time playing football. Well, guess what? So graduated with an enormous debt. The average person graduated from a private and public university. He's graduating with somewhere around 28, 30 miles an hour to you go to public and private universities. Local public university graduates to solicit $75000. All right. Everything you. And so we have to make sure we make it available. [19:03:36] First of all, one of the ways to do that is to make sure we provide all Judy Collins for free. Make sure everybody is done cutting costs. Gosh, a lot of money. It six billion dollars a year. You know how much we have? Tax expenditures, tax loopholes. A trillion. Six hundred forty eight billion. Find me an economist in this university. No matter how concerned are you? Can, Tony, justify any more than one trillion, 400 billion? That is a lot of money after we just eliminate a few taxes? Well, we raise horses right off. We do it. Well, I mean, my point is, is there's nothing beyond our capacity. [19:04:23] So we get questions about everything, about all of the things in government that we do this. Know who we are. This is the United States of America. We're all walking around with our heads on woe is me. What are we to do? How can we compete? What's going to happen? Most Democrats already voted. This was. Donald Trump, think about. [19:04:49] In the United States, America, the wealthiest after see the world. If we continue to invest in our people, invest their education, invest in research, invest in technology, invest in medical science. If we do that, we'll maintain that position for far as I could see. I said I was like as a kid. He told me, characterize the ideas of opportunity go by. I don't often hear about American tax evasion and racketeering. We did it all for the 21st century. [19:05:19] The rest of the world needs us to do it. We have the greatest research universities, a more great research universities rather than all the rest of the world combined. And you only have one by one with every major fundamental change in humanity has occurred as a consequence of discoveries. No universities. Number two, most productive workers are workers at three times as productive, factual as workers nation three times. [19:05:48] But we're in a situation where I know I know that every major world leader the last week for not being an absolute Morgenthau's of age. Macko International relations, national security. I live in a city where one would trade places in a heartbeat because a person might say it's America. I remember debating that. A word of school with university. Fascinating about it. It was Japan. Nuti Our land should never have Japan anyway. [19:06:17] Not on notice. Russia. Russia is the bad folks going the right way. All the stuff about the European Union is. What's it all about as well? Goodbye. Come on. He's worried about. Raise your hand. And here's the last point. If you say look at China. China is not China. I decide. I'm happy about this. China doesn't have enough water to go to me. TGR We're talking about spending tens of hundreds of billions of dollars to try to turn around the rivers sort of population, have potable water, drink 40 percent or Wangs Blue with Kagami that can grow things around a situation where that too many Edwina's lawsuits against in the mountains. [19:07:10] You saw it see you see what's happening in Hong Kong and now what they're trying to do with my retirement books. No idea. Yeah, I did. There are competition there in the Reader's Bazaar. Remember who we are, who we are. Finally, get up and take it back. We go with that. [19:07:59] Safeguard our lives. [19:08:03] Some of these questions a little bit earlier today, he was like, bring it down. I'm asking you about this. [19:08:10] This is a experience. This is what we need. Back in the White House, someone I know. Go, go, go. I know you bake cookies, but I'm going to open this boy. You like us? [19:08:37] Yes. You know, it didn't say that you were going to have a 70 bill. Would it be your budget or HBCU universe? And I just thought that was love. But tell us, how is that going to happen? There are things I want to do right here. [19:09:00] I don't know why we have an historic black in the universe. We see use because black folks weren't allowed to go to university. That was the converse. That's why I have no one. Number two, they don't have the endowment that other universities that he's nominated would even make new wealth. [19:09:25] And what that means is they don't get to actually compete for these giant government programs or technology research. For example, if you're able to compete as cabinet personnel through an engineering school, they are one of the leaders from hundreds of millions of times as many dollars invested in university research departments have been dealing like winning medals. So you can make aircraft carriers and let me make plans to go fast and all those kinds of things. [19:09:55] Well, there's a lot of those kind of Darfur out here, in fact, aren't had me down that you could compete for that, but there is no down the track. And speaking of various CBC News and other minority universities. So what I'm doing over 10 years, a 10 year program is making sure that we invest 70 billion dollars, so dollars a year to better us and make sure that they're able to compete, to be able to generate the kind of professors and the kind of research options that universities have. [19:10:30] And it will change the face of the country in many ways, because one thing we learned is that if you give people a chance, no matter what their background, they do well, they did well. And that's what we're going to do. We're going to make sure we have these machines. [19:10:53] So I think my question is going to happen, if you answer yes. [19:11:00] You're not asking questions. I think that I can take a lot more than two. OK. [19:11:05] OK. So we have the next question. Wait, wait. OK. Oh, yes. Yes. [19:11:18] We know you don't like that. We're going to have we're going to have quite a challenge ahead. [19:11:28] The threat on President Trump's heard about and what do got to say, those people bragging, bragging about it? Well, that's a real important first look. Thirty five percent of the population that is in this version of the world takes on the basics in my 24 years. [19:11:52] You wonder if his baroque zeal to be vise president wasn't because I've always had overwhelming support from high school educated blacks and whites as well as overwhelming support of the black community. That combination I used to be the base of the Democratic Party base in that regard. [19:12:10] Hardworking people for college educated as well as the have work. Now what the stress and they will do is split it and make it so that the busy, hardworking, high school educated folks in states like Pennsylvania and South Carolina all across the country that we didn't carry. One of the things that happened was that credit card shop walk into that. That was a fake. So we always have. I have every shop rouges. [19:12:38] When a president asked me to be out. He was pulling that show to the ticket ramparts. We wouldn't know why we went there. We went to Colorado because. Never left our. And there was no consistency. No, I mean, there's no consistency or overwhelming African-American support as well, support from basically white working class selves, because they go all out right now. They in fact, we did. No, I. I went out and campaigned in 2000 and 18 to 20 for, quote, purple states, say seven toss up states and maybe go ahead it. I can't pay for 65 candidate diverse. [19:13:27] And I said we're going to win back the House of Representatives, including the guy coming in here to say one deserves. [19:13:35] Would make you happy you won back 41 seats because my dad was 70 expressions. Joey, I'm want to start the government and my boy expect to understand my problem. [19:13:47] We stopped talking to people who stopped talking to people where they did dealing with the problems they had. But the problem is they have a high gravity. I lost everything in the crash. I no longer have my house. I don't want to walk again because that's what people who are often value on a cruise. How do I get access to capital? We stop. We've stopped talking. So that's not going to happen with me. [19:14:16] The way we do it is we go in and we listen. You listen to people who strongly disagree with you as well. I ran into the young man outside of sports and wait outside and he said, I drop in on you with a little business. We I up because I want to speak to the Fox Sports. I'm not going to alone. He said he going to take care, man for God. No, I'm not joking. [19:14:41] You're a farmer. Going to help farmers. Yes, say farmers are in America today. But what's happened to manufacturing is saying no doubt one of the things that's happened is that we had debt that was simply lost our support around the world. I mean, I sincerely thinking about losing race because of race. [19:15:01] Every thug in the world who stands on a stage not like this saves, he says, with to standing here and say that side of the world, he says. Why would Vladimir approved 100 in our elections? [19:15:17] Rich, why? Well, because 17 intelligence agencies told you and made up. He said not. No president, sign this. Think about this. This email went to Kim Jong un, a thug in North Korea. He sends his love letters, gets them all, it says. I barely made it. That's it. I was, in his words, on my heels. The one thing he wants legitimacy without getting any bad advance. Nothing in advance. He just ripped out the State Department staff. Guess what? [19:16:00] And then comes home. Look, there's three things I learned last three, four months. One, Vladimir Putin doesn't want me to be president. No, no. Not a joke. Not a joke. Because he knows I know him. I've spent a long time with him. He knows me. I know him. He going to work with me. The official news agency for North Korea said you can do. My wife, oppressors, Sen. Joe Biden is a rabid dog and she'd be beaten to death on a stick. I'm very proud of that. [19:16:45] Rocco, he said. He got a love letter from Trump. [19:16:50] And Donald Trump doesn't want me to be president. That's pretty clear. He asked me to be impeached. He went to the big leagues and went down the courage to do it. They all said, no thanks. But here's what's going on right now. Right now, Barack Obama has said it all about his decision. Take down that ad.. We're not criticizing Joe Biden. These folks are a little bit older, but more than one election day, you never think of any time in a primary. The incumbent president of the other party has spent like a small over 14 million dollars in for just the US, just from the South Carolina primary. They spent one hundred twenty five thousand bucks putting up ads or flat lines to keep me from getting the nomination. [19:17:45] I don't know why he's vying for the nomination. I won't beat you. [19:17:59] The number two spot on the side of the stage, I'm noticing there's a lot of candidates right now who are out and about touting their civil rights background because they want goals and I consider them allies and that they say the African-Americans don't associate with African-Americans. But if active duty in an account with me. Just tell me, Kyrgyzstan. You with me a little bit. So. One of the stories I don't think is about when you went to South Africa with an American ambassador. But if you could have told us how so when we were one of the things that. [19:18:52] And I was a maybe one of the most vocal opponents of apartheid because I believe it was critical. You wonder whether that's true or not. I'm not saying, you know, not go to Joe Biden dot com and look at Joe Biden icon George Shultz, secretary of state. I got up and just check it out and see desperately concerned I was about the failure of the Reagan administration to take on apartheid is a criminal enterprise. [19:19:29] I talked about how they said that we're not going to push apartheid because we need to make the case. Course they got shouting matches my hollering at him and George Shultz on my back. And when I pointed out that tigers' appetite for little gasoline around the heads of people next, life is cruel. One of the various honors I had was as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee when one of the most incredible man that I ever met, his fellow. Held in jail for seven years. He was let up finally because he killed far more. Nice old to do it. You came to watch and I watched. Take my office to say thank you. [19:20:24] I got the story because it said I said no. I said, what did you do? I don't know how you can feel hatred, but people kept you soft for seven years. One of the things he said, excuse expression, I for the most Christ like figure I've ever, man. [19:20:47] He said. They're just doing their job and are just doing their job. Then he said, when I left, he grabbed my hand and said, Good luck. Good luck. We wish you luck. This man had a man come out for a vague word in a civil war. We word about the carnage. What did he do? You reach out, you reach out. And while that country together and yet peace. So afterward, everything we tried to do with regard to apartheid was worse. [19:21:26] Last Wednesday, I was lazy down. The United States no longer speak out on human rights. Who? Whose work to. [19:21:44] With your permission, you can read it. I'll take a couple more questions, I'll try to give you a yes or no. [19:21:50] Can anybody, I doubt go up in the back over there? We've got a microphone over that way. [19:22:03] Why is that? We're going to go right back here. Why? [19:22:11] I don't know why it should be. How about let's hear the song? No. How many plans? 83. Singing The first 100 days. My first hundred days pregnant. [19:22:28] I've already written the legislation I've sent to Godsakes Congress. [19:22:34] Pathway, which is the little known undocumented aliens right now, listen up on Dreamer, dreamers or not. [19:22:44] Yes, Hispanics for specific reasons, Asian-Americans, people who've been here, what they like to think about when you think about dreamers. Imagine your five year old mother. Father gets all her own across the country or overstay our visa, violating the law and saying, no, not take me down sandomir service. These young men have become Americans. They've been lost citizens. All of them will be protected. We will re save the dreamer exaction and put them on a path to. By the way, one more thing about immigration. One more thing about immigration. The only people who come here to do it voluntarily. The original sin of American slavery started here. By the way, in South Carolina. [19:23:40] Charles Kupchan. But everybody else. We act. We act like, you know, everybody is out there. There's somebody down in Guadalajara, Mexico City. I had a great idea. Let's sell everything we have. [19:23:53] Get the one he gave to cargo and things across the border. He was in the desert. He got lost. Won't that be fun? My great great grandfather during the potato famine. I'm gonna buy a coffin ship in the Irish Sea. He had no notion whether he made early history. We got same with all of you other than those who descended from slavery. [19:24:20] Guess what? The reason we're the nation we are. I think about this. I mean, I'm not trying to be patronizing any other thing about this. Why are we as a nation? Because we've been able to cherry to the best people from every single country in the world. What I mean by that, people decide to come home and take a risk and optimism. The reason they are fighters, they are ready. [19:24:46] They want to make it work. They think they can do anything. And they bring their families. They care. They care. Really, they could go back in your family history. You're the first people to gain the chance when you came to a. [19:25:06] Where you asked by authorities. It's smart. That's why I have the most beautiful country in all. That's why, I guess, character. That's why he was strong during the media has remained resilient. Offers to. [19:25:33] Just wanted to ask you what you asked Michelle Obama to be your running mate. [19:25:49] I do that in a heartbeat if I. [19:25:52] Go and look. [19:25:54] Michelle and Joe, my granddaughters and their daughters are each other's best friend. [19:26:02] For example, every year at the time, they lie to my granddaughters or young woman's version of bed. Now I'll say to you for sports and my granddaughter Junior and a spin night, know you're saying goodbye after mine. After my last name, when she was up to. Here she is. [19:26:29] She is lean and soft. She's going to his best friend and relative solely represents old school for eleven years. Best buddies every Thanksgiving, for example. We me every Valentine's Day. My daughter in law and my two granddaughters. And. Michelle and her daughters, Pavlovsky, for four days. Oh, yeah. It. They don't like Barack. [19:27:04] All kidding aside, this is one of the great things. First time. The state, one of the reasons I like learned is I resent zie when I was a primary Iraq 2004. He said it should be primary. People were disappointed that a lousy. I fundamentally disagree with that. And here's the deal. [19:27:32] You know, I'm not going to say. Michelle, as they say, is gaming the office. She's done a great deal. She's still doing a great deal. And I think that the fact that. Get out of the White House. It sounded like someone with roof after a really early meeting. So I consider the. [19:28:01] No look at all the presidential stories and various versions of stories and write about the relationship of presidents. On another recent writings of the main historians, presidential historians have pointed out that the two closest to the vise, president of President Bush's America, Mr. Meraki. Burov asked me to consider being vise president. [19:28:32] I said, no. I didn't want to. I really did because his mannerisms tradition is the same argument. And I honestly thought that I could go before our remaining. What was then characterizes our views. More of that, and he called me after it was clear he was the de facto nominee of was on abstract range in age from 36 years to see my boys. My kids, you know, I got a phone call and he said, I'd like you to consider me better. I want to be meaning to do that. [19:29:14] And I said, I don't know why me favor home in Florida with his family, but came back to me within 48 hours where I can be bad for my family and I found fascinating. I was really surprised by way too strong. That I should accept it. I have to see some balls and turn it down with some hot air. My barbecue medicine will give us she wouldn't move in me. Dastyari's either of us better long for. And she finally. [19:29:48] She was at to see backboards. And when I were there. Classic. I for those guys, like a lot of you who had warned not everybody. Everybody said I never worry about. Mean. Rob Danger. Well, if all my friends are surround the house and me in the kitchen, we walk through the door on the spot. You see her in the kitchen. I'm on my little round table there. [19:30:23] She looked at me base, you said Joe Jackson during the Senate last 40 minutes. What do you think? She's further objectionable. He said there are going to get to Syria. I called him about. A month ago, baby in the water asking about Iraq, and you said he's a man of great integrity and he's worth. [19:30:50] You're a kid. [19:30:52] Desegregating my care or securing our security in the neighborhood. Labor now industry is a rarity I servando a real Senate version that sold to black people. [19:31:09] I told you not to be down there and you got to be back here protesting with a black eye. I said, yeah, go ahead. Great job when you were in high school, as a said, Labor had a company called You Want to be an Employer, the side of the largest public swimming pool. You only were an employee. I've never had any pain go to school and you had a great job, but you put it and became a public defender. [19:31:42] What's your point? She looked at me to about. Shoujo first wagram minister has just reelected president, says we need to invest more in the lives of our cities. When you talk. I said, dad, mom, what are you doing? Let's pick up the phone. Okay. All right. Go ahead. Get me. Best decision I ever made. [19:32:11] One of the finest man I've ever known and one of the things I'm proudest of an eyewitness is they say, what do you what are you a proud, so proud of, sir? [19:32:21] We spent eight years together as ministers. There was not one single whiff of scandal. Thank you all for taking time to listen. [19:32:34] I'll stick around a little bit. Oh, my, sure. OK. ZARWAY Lest you notice to be Harbi, he's reading the questions to think about this now. A joke. Climate change is a very serious threat for the environment. But another serious issue that is less discussed in that environment is overpopulation. The majority of the world's population growth will take place in the poorest countries in the world where women are beaten. Howard, what will you do to help empower women in the world's poorest countries or women are dealing with a smile and a really good question. [19:33:11] Let's start off and set a couple record straight about population growth. Spurt 9 population is not right. And this is some small countries and it's in the back of the numbers backward there. Well, for example, the population has dropped strauch throughout the year, strong Japan across the board. The major countries population has gone from. [19:33:37] Exception because of a fear of what's going on. What kind of world? Well, one of the things I did when I wrote. Is incredibly poor. Is that what you're saying, it or not, the rest of the world looks to America, looks nowhere set of moral standards. I was in India meeting with Don, his daughter, in a hotel that he had been hiding out. [19:34:16] And they came to me and said, would you help us get them? You help us get a in this room. And after that law passed in our country. And what's happened since then? Because we rock. And I put enormous pressure on countries to change the culture to be women. What's going to happen for the first time ever? India has now passed a law that you can no longer chastise your wife. You cannot stop that. [19:34:47] You can do all the things you can do to help physically. The economies around the world, the rest of the world is moving in that direction. And I believe we should condition you should this share a very on basic civil rights and so little resistance, by the way. By that I mean those countries and those countries engage in behavior that is contrary to the basic human nature. [19:35:15] They should not forget the foreign aid and that to somebody you and I let you go. I strongly support the way they treat the HP, the the the the L, the LGBTQ community across the board. And that's why if you notice if you notice, we said that you would give the appearance and guess what? Every time our administration of country would, in fact, say continued debt down and when it a homosexual, we argued against it. [19:35:44] Guess what? Number of countries has already changed their policies because period now coming back, you know, is really critical. The critical point is that a lot of women are not in power at all in Unibomber. And you say, Scott, a lot of women around the world are not in power at all in their countries. So what we saw, we saw in our administration is a program whereby we provide for economic alternatives for women to be able to generate economic growth. [19:36:18] And we've had plants that put in place that allow women to start their own enterprises in their countries and be led to the country. In fact, they let women for 20 years in their natural. Yeah. The thing is, I strongly oppose limitations on the ability for the United States to contribute to organizations in these countries and in fact provide oneself alternatives or choice. [19:36:47] We should. As for the Mexico City, well, we should add that. But the best thing we can do is make a difference around the world. I mean, this is our first Japanese expression. It says, women hold up half the world. There's no there's no rule of physics. Finding out what economic physics. No country can succeed in the 21st century. Not go the. No country can see economic 21st century by continuing to keep the renminbi. [19:37:25] It's half the rate, Paul. Half of the past. It's more than that. I know. I know. We should all be just paying incredibly well. [19:37:37] I spent a lot of time there having a policy call it. I'll be a bit of a economics. It is. In Japan, women were as well educated as men. And the culture said once you had a child, you dropped out of the workforce. She couldn't even get to work. And guess what? Because Japan and even China is xenophobic. They don't like outsiders mixes. [19:38:04] They don't have a sufficient workforce. What have they done? They start in the top. Poll numbers, which encourages women and giving them incentives to stay in the job market after fact after fact, they have a job because they provide it also significant, they care enough to. And that's how they're grown. Mark my words, you will not find a single country in the world by the year 2030 that is able to grow economically and once it fully. I may not be able to fully gages half the rate fell at the initiative. [19:38:46] Have the courage to stop talking about starting off as a nation. It's a fact. It's a fact of life. It can not happen. So what is happening now is that if we said we have to say, don't look at the rest of us. What are we? What are they doing? What do I want to opportunism. I said two things that I got roundly criticized. One was I said, we have to change the culture in America. [19:39:20] You know, the phrase also means always expression, no consideration of that as he goes back to not some country that doesn't share our values or our values or it goes back to England, 13 late 13:00. Those who were lawyers obtaining taking law to take any classes in college. There was a thing called the second English Common Law Way of all about the need not to say, but legislate it. It's the courts continue to have are going to merge changes as well. [19:39:58] Well, prior to the late 13 nineties, so many, many more died at the hands of their husband. Literally his back died in the hands of their husband because an order is considered. In any case, still a. That's like a horse. But a pig, a farm. Not no problem. OK. Pinguin not. Breezier. Zambia. Yeah. England. Now so many more die beaten to death by their husbands that a bastard rule in the communal or state saying that you could not beat your wife with a rod thicker than the circumference of your thumb. [19:40:43] We have inherited a cultural culture of depravity that continues to exist in my world. Divorce rates are an out on a child because I say we have to physically change the culture. No man has any right under any circumstances. Marry a man to insist on being able to talk to you without her for that consent. [19:41:17] That's why one of the things I wrote, the legislation I had some really good in helped about right. And by the way, my sister is a brilliant woman and we went to the same university. She graduated. I graduated, she says jokingly. Joe wrote his own ball. I sat down and wrote that because, no, I didn't want to be branded misused in sport industry as a whole. It's going to come into choice. They thought I was going to steal the show on gender mainstreaming, gender preference, and so I couldn't get the story. [19:41:53] And when I wrote the law setting up shelters for women who were barred from the news, mainstream press and by in this setting up indoctrination centers for for women to learn feminist. No. By the way, you know, 75 percent of all the children around on Tuesday because their mothers interviews and looks like criminals know what thing? I have a. While the girls behind our president were there because they have been their mothers were victims of abuse and or ironically, they can agree that two things are based on race. [19:42:32] Those two things, because violence is about behavior. You think of the last thing the world would happen if you watched Mother being beaten. You never, never, never, never regime. But it's a learned behavior. And so. I asked my I asked only Cindy at Ogan is really worth working. The has of the past 17 past. [19:42:54] And I asked her, I said, Jack, you're just a statistic to see how it's working. That's the outfit that determines whether or not laws are made on a bill or not. This bothers me because the amount that went to the women over the age of 35. Violence against women had gone up 67 percent and 40 minutes was up. [19:43:19] Guess most disappointing news ever got. I really mean, this was when I found out she'd be back. She said it's really continue to work for women over 40. [19:43:30] For women between the ages of 15 and 25, nothing's changed. Nothing has changed. Some. [19:43:40] So I went we did a virtual town hall and he told me 30000 young women in high school, college age or halfof. I asked the question. I told you this is devastating. [19:43:53] I said, what would you want me to do? What can we do to fix this? Because what if for going to show up on a college campus in the first year, are raped or abused? The same number existed when we broke the law back in 1996. Same. And so I was embarrassed. Somebody inside, they said I shouldn't have. So better if I say go to this Web site. [19:44:22] Time over to the other to say better writing on campus, more police officers making sure that people in apartment garages can not be all things. In fact, you know, it was. Get men involved. Gay men involved. Rape's the truth of the matter is massive during the vast majority of men, no women. It gets worse the afternoon intervening. Not the same lunch. Same with women. [19:44:58] If, God forbid, you have shoes. When did you hear about abuse? College students as well. If you are abused in this college, what's the first version of. [19:45:09] You go to your female roommate, your best female friend and no supervisor. Very few. I thought you might not listen. That very few will tell you. [19:45:23] Let's go to the police. Let's go to report to the school. Let's go and do something about it. They all know what's available. And then me. What do they do? So I started when I saw this phone call. It's on us. [19:45:42] I went to college campuses all over the country and drew crowds in college campuses. Between 1000 and 10000 people. I said, I want to talk about what was inappropriate behavior to always I challenge the man. I'm sorry. I really hate football teams for the big guys, tough guys. [19:46:04] I say if you seen the interview that's already been of the war. Once a year for those to read to see if you see somebody to be an abuser. 30 Rock you in the first semester. The first month of school. [19:46:21] You have someone at school and you see if during your brother getting a go at drop, you drop out of line. He's walking up the steps. If you don't have the courage to walk over and say, not my house. You're an accomplice. You're an accomplice. By the way, out of respect, one hundred and five instead of one hundred twenty pound freshmen men to walk up to the attack over ways to honor 310 pounds and do it. [19:46:54] But you can call attention to would call attention to. So we started. I would say and so we saw our campuses is making sure that we took the pledge, they take a pledge that they would intervene or intervene by calling someone or calling out that person or saying something about it. So stop. Guess what? When the song a colleague of yours who had a song, the Academy Awards song, what happens to you if you've got any more? [19:47:30] Four years ago, she asked me to introduce her at the Academy Awards. And I did. She had very young people who had excellent views on college campuses. Guess what I saw? But I introduced herself for six minutes about the song on stage. You know how many people watching her grow on my hands? But like two hundred million people, 200 million people watched. But here's the deal, I think, as a need to get a result. But we changed the culture. This is our opportunity, an opportunity to change the culture. [19:48:11] I say no man has a right to way for any other reason than self self-defense. I need a any of those today. If someone in this room believes you walk out the door, nobody in his right to touch you could be arrested for indecent exposure. But guess what stands out? Now you ever see inner city sleaze departments? What you should be asking is so disastrous. Wrong. I got 150 college courses together. This is why you came off campus. Well, guess what? When they go down report, they still get the same questions asked. [19:48:55] What we were doing was wrong. Here's your headline shirt, sir. What did you say? How did you do it? Give me one example. Now, that young woman named Marla was in New York City. She was a mom and she was the only one to leave her apartment. Every time she was trying to get from having a utility, I did not know the area. You know, there's nobody else. Studio, studio, apartment, wanted or whatever working in this complex. [19:49:31] And while this midtown Manhattan upscale building, it's not going to ask about her bought. The owner, the language rehab. She says, I want my deposit back. I. She was on location in New York City University doing a shoot. She got a phone call on her cell from her landlord saying, I have a lot bad news for you if you'll stop yourself on the way back into the restaurant bar on the first floor, upscale restaurant bar. [19:50:06] The first floor of this is on. New York and being extremely sad. You sound like that. [19:50:15] So she's out walking in and he hit her again. She got up and walked out. It's not just gonna remember. You remember, it's hard to lose weight if all around. They slashed your face a phrase. So she said she was going to be going in and testifying last minute. I want to warn her. Did she become victimized by what happened? Anita Hill devised by. And I say, let me ask you a question. What did your mother say? She laughed. [19:50:49] My question is, why are we going to war? What does your girlfriend say? Your where we were going to war. I'm show you, sir. What did you say? It's never appropriate. Never appropriate for a man. [19:51:09] It's not it's not. It's like saying you man, you're go to a bad neighborhood and A.T.M. machine and it's drug infested and everything, you put the car in and you get your money out of it. [19:51:22] Hold up. Was I going to say you're stupid? You shouldn't have had that thing. You guys, excellent. Oh, my God. [19:51:37] Fort Bragg, our daughter was grilled by the guards blog about life, they are likely to do anything and the man didn't want her to do certain taxes and no one has the right to let down. Thank you all so very much.

WASH 8 MILWAUKEE GOP EVENT POOL 040116 C16 ***MOSTLY LOG FROM SNAPSTREAM - NOT 100% ACCURATE*** ***HIGHLIGHTS CORRECTED*** KASICH 20:50:24 Mr. Kasich: How about a round of applause for your four term governor, Tommie Thompson? You know people always wonder, how could you bring that congress together? How can you get things done? I want to tell you that I just had the man that runs the Serbian hall come to me and introduce himself and say, my wife and I voted for you. Now, let me also tell you, that back in 1977 when I was an awfully young man running for the state legislature, I sat down with another man that reminded me of him. This man had a shock white hair and piercing blue eyes. He called me into his office. And you'll understand why I say this. He said, young man, you know that I am Serbian. I said, yes sir. I know that. He said, I happen to know you are Croatian. 20:51:25 Why don't we set that aside for the rest of this election. And let's win an election and move forward. So I brought us together, the Serbians and the Croats. If you can do that, you can bring anybody together in life, believe me. I want you to know just a little bit about me cause I just heard that about 38% of people that live in this state don't know anything about me to even form an opinion. It's pretty interesting. I guess that's what happens when you are positive all the time and you don't enter a demolition derby. But I am glad I didn't. Let me also tell you that, you know, I grew up-- The reason why I am so comfortable here is I grew up in a blue-collar town outside of Pittsburgh called Mckees Rocks. It was blue-collar. Frankly, I don't remember meeting a Republican when I was a young man. They were all Democrats. My father was a Democrat. He carried mail on his back. Delivered mail to our home for almost 30 years. His father was a coal miner. 20:52:28 My grandfather died of black lung. As He was getting older he was losing his eyesight because of the time he spent in the mine. My mother's mother could barely speak English. She was Croatian. And she was an immigrant. It was hard to communicate with her, really, because she just had very few things that she could say. My mother, I was told just a couple of weeks ago,because you know as ethnics there's two ways to think about yourself as an ethnic. You either think of yourself as somebody that kind of clings to that and honors it all the time, or somebody who says we are going to put that beside us and we are gonna become Americans. My mother was one that said, we are going to emphasize the fact that we are Americans. I did not know a lot about the history until my cousin a couple of weeks ago told me that in my mother's family, there were four, her, her sister, and two brothers. 20:53:28 And 3 of them never moved beyond the 8th grade. My mother walked across a footbridge over a railroad track to get her high school diploma. My childhood was one of common sense, God-fearing, playing by the rules. My mother and father always told me, Johnny, you believe you can change the world. What is most important is wherever you are, you make the world a little bit a better place for the fact that you were there. They also so strongly believed in what America represents in the ability of people to really be able to rise. I got my values there. 20:54:12 But I have to tell you, that in that little town of Mckees Rocks, it's a town where if the wind blew the wrong way, people found themselves out of work. You see, I understand people who are Donald Trump voters. Cause let me to you who they are and what they worry about. They worry about the fact they could lose their job. That they are 52 years old and somebody walks in one day and says you are out of work. 20:54:37 Or frankly some politician did something to create some agreement and somehow they lost out. There are people who say I have been playing by the rules, I have been working and I can't get a pay raise. My grandfather when he worked in that coal mine would come up at the end of a long day and he would think he get good pay, and they'd say, but you only brought up half of coal and the other was peat, we are only gonna pay you for the coal you brought up. It was the ripoff. And there are many people in this country who feel as though they are experiencing the ripoff. They put their money in a bank. It used to be you get interest for it. The bank uses your money and they pay you. Today we get no interest for it. And what they really worry about, more than anything else, what they really worry about is that their sons and daughters went to college to get an education because they were told that if your kids get educated, they are going to have a better life. And now their kids are still living at home without a job but with big debt. 20:55:40 You see, this anxiety is something that people feel very strongly about. And they are looking for a vehicle to express their frustration. I've got to tell you, that those people that I grew up with in Mckees Rocks who played by the rules, and things rarely worked out in a special way for them, are the people that have been in my mind's eye since I was a young politician. I have always been independent. And I must tell you the Republican party has been my vehicle and not my master. The Republican party has given me an opportunity to be able to contribute to our society. But I have always been an independent operator, somebody that's looked at problems and not really been concerned about who I may be upsetting on the way. I was a young state senator. Yeah, they raised their pay. I run a campaign that said we shouldn't. So when the pay raise passed, I didn't take it. 08:56:37PM When Republicans said they needed to raise taxes, I ran a campaign that said we should have none. When we won the majority at age 28, they decided to raise taxes. I said no, I promised I would not. They said, you are you responsible. I said, I will write my own budget for the state. I had people sneaking in, telling me how to improve the government. I did not win the budget fight but I kept my promise and I kept my word. I made suggestions that ultimately got adopted into the law. I left the state senate. They took my district away from me. They wanted to to end my career, but at age 30, Iran for congress. -- I ran for congress. I had campaigned with Ronald Reagan. He was an inspiration to me. What he taught me was a couple of things. 8:57:57 PM You have to have strength when it comes to national security. Second, you have to give people an incentive to work and give them the opportunity to rise. In 1982, I ran for the congress. Iran on the Reagan agenda. There were not many people running on the Reagan agenda. They were running away because the economy was not doing well. Iran against a Democrat and comment on the fact that we could shrink taxes and rebuild the defense. In 1982, there was only one Republican candidate for the U.S. Congress who defeated and encumbered Democrat and that person was John Kasich, me -- and incumbent Democrat and that person was me. I served on the armed services committee for 18 years. Let me tell you, these are difficult times. 8:58:59 PM There is no timebeing a United States congressman in 1983, I worked with Republicans and conservative Democrats to rebuild the military. Do that experience, I worked with my friends to reform the Pentagon, to change the operation of that building, with members of congress committed to a strong national defense. I was there and I remember the night, that because of the strength of Ronald Reagan, that Berlin wall came tumbling down. That was an amazing time in American history. Not as in modern history. [Applause] Mr. Kasich: I was also there when I saw the muslims push Saddam hussein out of Kuwait. And I remember when we won so decisively, and people said we should of gone into Baghdad to complete the job, and a remember how smart George H.W. Bush was 9:00:02 PM with advisers, in not going to Baghdad and the getting the job done and coming home. I was called into the Pentagon after 9/11 by secretary Rumsfeld, with the former secretary of defense, and from that meeting forward for a number of years I led technology experts into the Pentagon to deal with technology problems. Think about that arc, all the way from defeating the soviet union, the Berlin wall collapsing, to a united coalition of Arabs and westerners, to defeat us on -- to defeat Saddam hussein, all the way to 9/11. That is why am prepared today. As a congressman, I found myself on the budget committee. I was complaining that the Republicans and Democrats were not serious about balancing the budget. I wanted to budget -- balance the budget for two reasons, the immorality of leaving debt to. Being a United States congressman in 1983, I worked with Republicans and conservative Democrats to rebuild the military. Do that experience, I worked with my friends to reform the Pentagon, to change the operation of that building, with members of congress committed to a strong national defense. I was there and I remember the night, that because of the strength of Ronald Reagan, that Berlin wall came tumbling down. That was an amazing time in American history. Not as in modern history. [Applause] Mr. Kasich: I was also there when I saw the muslims push Saddam hussein out of Kuwait. And I remember when we won so decisively, and people said we should of gone into Baghdad to complete the job, and a remember how smart George H.W. Bush was 9:00:01 PM with advisers, in not going to Baghdad and the getting the job done and coming home. I was called into the Pentagon after 9/11 by secretary Rumsfeld, with the former secretary of defense, and from that meeting forward for a number of years I led technology experts into the Pentagon to deal with technology problems. Think about that arc, all the way from defeating the soviet union, the Berlin wall collapsing, to a united coalition of Arabs and westerners, to defeat us on -- to defeat Saddam hussein, all the way to 9/11. That is why am prepared today. As a congressman, I found myself on the budget committee. I was complaining that the Republicans and Democrats were not serious about balancing the budget. I wanted to budget -- balance the budget for two reasons, the immorality of leaving debt to the children, and I knew that if 9:01:03 PM you could balance a budget and reduce taxes, you could put yourself in a position where you could have economic growth. What I learned was three things, creating jobs, creating more jobs, and creating all the jobs you could, because it is through job creation that allows people to recognize their god-given purpose in life to change the world and live out their destiny. I knew that fighting to balance the budget was the right thing to do. But it did not come easy. It took 10 years of my efforts and efforts of the team built to get us to the point where he actually balanced the budget for the first time since man walked on the moon. We paved out the largest amount of debt in modern history, half $1 trillion. We also were any position where we had a $5 trillion surplus projected, it could have been used to fix social security and there was no discussion at that 9:02:04 PM time about income inequality or the lack of rising wages, because when you finally balance the budget, cut taxes, restored common sense in Washington, we had an explosion of economic growth and it was a glorious time in my life. I created a goal and I had met it. And after being in a position that position where we were able to balance the budget, leaving surpluses behind, I left Washington because I never wanted to be a professional politician. I do not even like politics. [Applause] Mr. Kasich: I left for 10 years and I did a variety of things that gave me more experience. Some of you will remember me from when I was a giants are on Fox News. Anyway, I went out for 10 years. I was having a great time, I did not want to go back into politics. But I got a call. Have any of you ever had a call? 9:03:06 PM It was not a phone call, it was not a text, it was not an e-mail. I think, when the lord blesses you and gives you so much, you can barely contain yourself, you also begin to understand about your responsibilities and continue to do things that can change the world. The call was, I needed to go back in and run for governor. Iran at the perfect time. Things could get not much worse in Ohio. We had lost jobs, our credit was going down the drain, 20% of the operating budget in the whole and I went to New York and they told me, we are going to cut up your credit cards, because Ohio is about dead. Iran -- I ran in the election, and I had never run statewide in the state of Ohio. The only time before that somebody who had never won statewide against an incumbent, 9:04:08 PM was 95 years earlier. Iran -- I ran and I won. And people said, we needed to raise taxes, expand government. Let me tell you what we did. I cut taxes more than any other governor in America, including no income tax for small business, killing the debt tax, so that people could pass businesses onto their families. Now that we have done that, we are killing debt. We are working at it. We cut taxes more than anybody, our budget deficit went from 20% in hole, a billion dollars with of deficits to a $2 billion surplus. And we went from a loss of 350,000 jobs, to a gain of 400,000 jobs with wages growing faster than the national average. [Applause] Mr. Kasich: And, I want you to know that we have left nobody behind, because we believe it is 9:05:09 PM a moral for the -- immoral for those people to live under the bridges, and in the prison system we are rehabilitating with an 80% success rate of those who are drug addicted in the prisons. And we believe the working poor, instead of being punished commission be rewarded. And we believe the disabled should be fully mainstreamed. As a result of that, Iran for reelection and I want 86 out of 88 counties in -- and would take 2-3 days to figure out the election. The most important swing states -- [applause] Mr. Kasich: So I decided to run for president. You know why? Because there are two critical issues today, economic strength. As the budget committee chairman in Washington, we had a massive economic is ancient -- expansion and tremendous growth. 9:06:11 PM In Ohio, I entered at a very tough time. And now people across the state are hopeful again. People are getting work, children can have a future. You see that model is not complicated, it takes guts. What it means is you have commonsense regulation so that you do not crush small business, and I will have a program that will freeze all federal regulations for one year, except health and safety, force congress to vote on regulation that aircraft -- that bureaucrats are writing laws, keeping us from having the kind of economic growth we want. Secondly, we need to reduce taxes on corporations that have seen fit to invest profits in Europe, because we punish them if they come back. We can cut the corporate tax rate and stop double taxing businesses, I know it, because I 9:07:12 PM have been in business. And we need to reduce individual tax rates. But we need to do it in such a way that we can pass it. We can go to the old Reagan model with a capital gain of 15 to provide incentives and we can make the tax code clear and realistically being able to pass. I will put us, I will put us on a path to a balanced budget as I have in the past. No problems with entitlements, innovation, and I want you to know one other thing. I will welfare, medicaid, job training, and for structure back to the states, so they can provide a program in innovation and change that we all see, by shifting the power from Washington. [Applause] Mr. Kasich: What I also would like you to know, as I get ready to leave the stage, is 9:08:14 PM that it does matter who is the president. I remember when Ronald Reagan said it was morning in America, that we were a shining city on the hill. You think I do not know about what Winston Churchill said about never, never ever give up. Of course I know. But the strength of our country does not rest on the president. The strength of our country rests in us. When I was a kid, we do not worship presidents, our hero was Roberto Clemente, who gave up his life trying to help earthquake victims in Nicaragua. He died. I remember the morning when my mother came into my room, one of the very few times I saw my mother cry, because children do not like to see their mother cry. 9:09:14 PM It is unsettling, and my mother came in and said, our hero died lastnight. You see, I remember back then, we do not wait for somebody to come in on a white horse to try to save us. The strength of our country rests in our families. It rests in our communities. It rests in our neighborhoods. You want to fix your schools, you want to make sure that your kids are getting the skills they need, then go do it. Do not wait for somebody else from Madison, or somebody in Washington, you do it. Change the world. If you want to fight the problem of drug abuse in this state, you grab a kid and tell that young man or young woman, that they have a god-given purpose that will be obscured and destroyed if they cave to the evils of drug addiction. Can you change it? You better believe it. 9:10:14 PM We have a program called, start talking, we start talking to kids and we all need to across the country. We do not need to wait for government officials, we do it in our churches, synagogues, community organization and our schools. You want to fight poverty? You have a welfare office that brings businesses in and when a person comes for a welfare check, you train them for the jobs that are in the welfare offices. You go do it. People in Milwaukee did not way to fix schools, they fixed them because they drove change and innovation and took matters into their own hands. Ladies and gentlemen, the lord made us all special, for purpose. To live a life bigger than ourselves. And when we live a life bigger than ourselves, if we are a nurse, we spend 15 next are minutes with a family when the nurse is tired and tells the family, it will be ok. Or a teacher, the most underpaid 9:11:15 PM people on Earth, who give up pay to change people's lives. I will give you another way to change the world, you have a lady who was married for 50 years. Her husband died, her fund is not ring anymore. -- Phone does not ring anymore. Call her on Monday, you say, we are taking you to dinner on Saturday night. And you know where she is going on Thursday? To get her hair done. Somehow, when Saturday night comes, despite the fact that she slept on it Thursday night, Friday night, that hair is perfect. And when you pick her up, she is wearing a dress that she had not worn for sixmonths. Did you change the world? You did. You see, let's stop thinking about where we fall short. Let's start thinking about all that is wrong and that celebrate 9:12:16 PM the great fact that America's best days are ahead of them, if we remember the formula that made us great. It is not very complicated. It takes leadership, it takes guts, and it gets a leader to remind all of the people who make the laws in this country, that you may be a Republican, you may be a Democrat, but before any of that, you are an American. You are an American that is there to change the world and give everybody a chance to realize our god-given purpose. If I become president, all -- I will fix the economy, but you will restore the spirit of America and your families, neighborhoods, communities by changing the world in which you live. Thank you all very much, god bless you. SARA PALIN 21:25:05 Sarah Palin: Thank you so much. I am so happy to be here. Thank you. It is always so good to be in Wisconsin. I got off the airplane today and as I walked into the airport, and seeing all the green and gold, and green and gold till I am (dead?) and cold, paraphernalia everywhere, the packers, it reminds me of my dad's man cave. He is the biggest cheese head. And his connection, his connection, I know it's kind of a stretch, but his connection is he played ball with, he was a teammate of Jerry Kramer back in the day. Remember? Yeah, number 64? Was he? Back with the packers sweep, such a great player, granted it was high school football when they were teammates. Get a load of this, both guys are inducted in the high school hall of fame, but Jerry Kramer still the best player to never be inducted. 21:26:06 I have a unity pledge, I have a unity pledge that I want to propose for all the guys running, why don't they unify in that mission for Wisconsin, to do whatever it takes to get Jerry Kramer finally inducted where he belongs, in the NFL hall of fame. No matter their political leanings on the spectrum in the republican party. That's something they can all work towards. But you hear-- you all know, specially Packers fans, you guys know competition is so good. Competition elevates the best, and Wisconsin you deserve the best. Cause what, what you are getting from the federal government right now is not the best. And here In Wisconsin, your middle-class has been harmed probably more than any other state in the union, because of federal policies that just don't make sense and really have shrunk the middle class here more than anywhere else. 9:27:21 PM I want to talk about three core issues that need to be addressed , and I think Donald Trump is the want to tackle these issues and to succeed in growing and prospering the middle class. The three core issues that the political class curses -- purs ues, really be train -- B etraying all of us, these are the same GOP folks who do not see the GOP as an expression of the people's will, but more as an atm for their own wallets. They are really shaken up right now, they do not know what to do about the Donald Trump train, the momentum and the movement of outsiders, independents. GOP participants that really fed up with politics as usual. They do not know what to do about it and they are shaken up 9:28:23 PM and this shifting and awakening, the exposing of rapid -- rabid bites, to hang onto any relevancy or their gravy train, it is moving onto a very healthy cleansing of the body politics, to kill the body politic and save the nation. The Wall Street connected, they do not suffer, they process and prosper, they do not suffer, they profit when jobs are shoved offshore. They do not suffer, they profit when consultants and lobbyists push foreign policies that cost us treasures and more important, they cost us the blood of our finest, America's sons and daughters in uniform. 21:29:00 The establishment's interest runs counter to the interest of the people. And it runs counter to common sense, which I swear common sense is an endangered species in Washington. Consider these three policy issues, first, immigration. We've admitted more immigrants than any other country on earth, four times as many. 43 million, now. More, more crossing the border, of course, every single day. Well, with Washington though mismanaging our money and the burdens put upon the private sector, stifling opportunity. This uncontrolled immigration has so destabilized the middle class and that massive crowding at the low end of the wage scale, it kicked away the ladder to income stability and it suffocated wages and it really surged the number of people who aren't working. And sure the corporate (shields?) who are funding today's kind of secretive pro-establishment mind-boggling $100 million dollars worth of super PACs, they love the open borders. 21:30:14 And the wrong headed Visa programs, and those that flood the market with more foreign workers. But really, it is a disaster for we the people. Donald Trump is the only one who really understands this reality. He is the only one who creates private sector jobs and balances budgets, and builds things, he builds big things. And he has forced candidates to finally own up to their actual support of, and participation in perpetuating the problem of the immigration issues that we are facing. And the other candidates didn't want to talk about it, but Trump made them. Now, because he beat the media on that issue, 'cause you know, they like to let their chosen one, kinda or chosen ones get away with not really answering questions about their betrayals, but knowing that Trump won on that issue, it should empower you to go ahead and ask the candidates -- what the heck are you thinking candidates? 21:31:17 What are you thinking when you're going ahead and you're actually asking for more immigrants, even illegal immigrants, welcoming them in, even inducing and seducing them with gift baskets. Come on over the border and we'll-- here is a gift basket of teddy bears and soccer balls. What are you thinking? It's just inviting more. The candidates they can say anything that they want to about immigration, amnesty, but actions scream so much louder than a politician's words. Take the gang of 8 bill to increase foreign workers by 500%. And green cards increased by 200%. Who offered the amendments for that, to further collapse US incomes and jobs and security, which candidate? 9:32:28 PM Oh, second messed up policy -- trade. The loss of industry jobs represent one of the greatest betrayals of the working people in the history of modern civilization. For shame, politicians. They know who they are who have been a part of this problem. We have the greatest manufacturing sector known to man. Well, it was dismantled and shipped overseas, right under our noses because of political incompetence and corruption and nonsensical ideology. A third of our manufacturing jobs, either of them -- a third of them, they disappeared after major policies, China entering the world trade organization. Our trade treaties, they are not even enforced, it is kind of a joke around the globe. Trading partners, like China, 9:33:29 PM they are contractually banned from unfairly subsidizing products. They do it anyway and they laughed all the way to the bank. They are cheating with tactics and is manipulation and we cannot compete when they are devaluing their currency. Donald Trump is hot on this, because he is the only one who understands the art of the deal. Our partners cheating is how are middle-class disappears. The trade ideologues, they say we cannot respond, we need to scare people, talk about trade wars. Wisconsin, these are the voices responsible for trade surrender. They say, we cannot enforce the rules, because then maybe it will cost a penny more. Well, a country, a company, if 9:34:29 PM they to -- cheat us, they will pretend it does not happen and we will lose jobs. Ultimately, though, what happens is if we move the American work ethic that built this nation, politicians create a people dependent on government and grow government control over the people and it is a very warped and a dangerous road that politicians have put us on. Where we are heading with trade, it will ultimately fundamentally transform America into something that we do not recognize. And our kids, our grandkids, they may never know then what is to be rewarded for the entrepreneurial spirit within us, in order to work and produce, and strive, thrive, to really be alive in the greatest country on Earth. I think god that Donald Trump gets it, because he lives it. 9:35:31 PM He succeeds, because he knows the art of the deal and we root him on because he reads -- roots us on, and he wants the same success for our kids and our grandkids. The ideology of trade surrender, that is not conservative, it is radical. Who is the biggest proponent of this? What candidate helped pass Obama's trade bill and actually removed the hurdle for fast tracking, and actually purposefully has opened the door for China and Russia to come on in and join TPP, with zero congressional consuls? REAGAN 21:36:01 Who opposed a crackdown on currency cheating? Who kind of freaks out now (against?) putting any tariffs on Chinese trinkets and goods. You have to ask yourself, who is this? Well, it's not someone who understands Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan pushed trade enforcement harder than any other president in our lifetime. Wisconsin, Reagan saved the hog, here, your Harley Davidson. It was Reagan who saved that, he saved it with a 45% tariff that he put on Japanese motorcycles to combat their cheating. He also saved the semiconductor industry with a 100% tariff. Let's learn from Reagan. 21:36:48 In the establishment, maybe they are going to start some new #movement. #neverReagan. They don't like that. Every country knows now that there is no consequence for their cheating, so now they finding more aggressive ways to really screw us. And to kill American opportunity. Like our steel towns. Tragically, they have been hollowed out, and the world is not that the world stopped using steel Now it's needed more than ever today, but the industry died here because D.C., our politicians they allowed foreign governments to target our businesses for extinction, they let it happen. Trump sees that we are the only country that doesn't defend own economic interest. And he has said, enough, we are bringing the jobs back home. He says, we are rebuilding America. He is gonna put us to work. Remember, when a candidate says, look, now, we don't want to do anything to increase import -- what he is really saying is he is aokay with cheating, and may be it's really kind of awesome to him, let them rip us off, 'cause maybe he's got his. ISIS 21:38:07 Finally our third issue. Foreign policy and military might. Our freedom should be the GOP's number one priority. Only one candidate left standing though knows that military superiority to protect our interest, not just piecemeal together some reckless nation building scheme overseas. It's our military might, protecting our interests, that keeps us free. The threat of our times is that unwavering and horrid islamic belief that we, peace loving, generous Americans, that we are the infidels and that we must die. Only Trump talks rationally about listening to top brass as president. And hiring the best of the best to work alongside our commander in chief, to work with those who share our interests in stopping the islamic threat, by defeating ISIS overseas with strong, strong military strikes and intelligence ops, and (spurring?) allies to get more engaged. 21:39:22 And at the same time to keep extremists from using our (porous?) borders that are purposely left open, using those borders and our Visa system to let them come here, where they will recruit to unleash terror here and it's not something to laugh at, friends. Well, that's just more of that common sense stuff thought that I guess in campaigns nowadays, that only those independent a big donor demands, get to exercise. Hey there is a reason that big-money and open borders and radical special interests are so madly anti-trump. Think about it, his positions, they are not radically anti-gop platform positions at all. But they are radically anti-trump, these folks are and they are lining up behind the others, because they know that nothing's gonna change unless an outsider who the people support gets in there. T 21:40:23 Same politicians continuing the same old policies, trashing our economy and shipping out jobs, and letting us for the bill for everyone else. Palling around with the same old politicos and insiders who've betrayed us over and over and over again. Enough. You deserve better. It is funny, but not really. The same sanctimonious ones lecturing us about Mr. Trump's tone, are personally responsible for policies that actually cost American lives. And trillions of dollars. Enough is enough. Enough of the holier then thou lecture from those steering us into rocky shores. So in America, first, foreign policy, and smart immigration, where we vet who's actually coming ashore, so as not to invite trouble like evil recruits setting up shop here. VETS 21:41:30 That is the essence of the long-term strategy to contain evil. That, and respecting our red, white and blue, making a military second to none, caring for our troops, loving our vets, paying them what is due, like their earned healthcare, physical and mental health care. And not pretending like tragedy doesn't rage in our military community today. For instance 22 vets a day commit suicide, 22 of America's finest. I see no reason to keep on, well , I don't hear a lot of other candidates campaigns talking about our vets. But we are, because we care. Their sacrifices will not be in vain. So we'll elect a commander in chief who shares that, and we will never, never leave our men and women behind. BENGHAZI 21:42:32 And that's why we go to (mat?) for the front runner. And we won't retreat. We'll reload. We won't retreat though. And we are willing to stand on the front lines, even, because whatever it takes to defeat the one who did leave our boys behind, with no apology, but a just a flippant, ah Benghazi, what difference does it make? That, that embodiment of all that is so so wrong with what we are really up against, Republicans. [Applause] PATTON 21:43:10 And, what we are really up against, well, general George Patton he said it best he leading the greatest generation, he said, politicians are the lowest form of life on Earth. He said it, I didn't, ok, he said it. And he said " Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians." [laughter] SAVE THE NATION/VOTE FOR TRUMP/UNITE 21:43:32 So remember what it will take to save our nation. Remember what it 's gonna take, it's all of us working together at the end of the line here, by God's grace, we will be up to save the nation. And it's going to take unity among patriots who love this country as much as we love our own families. So yes, engage in vigorous healthy competition, be civil, then vote. And I say vote for Donald J. Trump, and then unite to make America great again. And I thank you so much for your graciousness in allowing me to kind of crash your fish fry, letting me to come on in and speak my mind about the candidate whom I am supporting. I just thank you all so much for believing in the planks the Republican platform, we know, that we know, that we know, they are the planks that will build this great nation again. It will build a stronger, safer, it will save our sovereignty. So thank you so much for all of us united in that mission. God bless you, Wisconsin. Thank you, very much. Thank you guys. Thank you. SCOTT WALKER 9:55:59 PM Governor Scott walker. [Applause] ?? [applause] ?? governor walker: Thank you. What a great crowd. Welcome to the best fish tried -- fry in the country. It is good to beclose to home. Good to see you, sheriff. I feel safe already with David Clark in the front row. [Laughter] Governor walker: I will spend a couple of minutes telling you a couple of things, but I have a question. How many of you think that Wisconsin is better off than it 9:57:00 PM was five years ago? [Applause] Governor walker: That is because of all of you, because of all of you here tonight. Think aboutit. We will take a minute or two to give a commercial about the great state of Wisconsin, because of common sense printable conservative leadership you helped us obtain, not just electing me, but the state assembly and senate. Then you helped me in 2012 with a recall election, a reelection in 2014, and each of those election years, adding numbers to the Republican majority in the senate. Look what we got, a better economy, the better budget, better schools, a better Wisconsin. Sounded? -- Sound good? Governor walker: Think about it, in each category, a report 9:58:01 PM coming out from the federal government on jobs just these couple of weeks ago for the previous month, January, showed that in the state of Wisconsin we had one of the lowest unemployment rates we have had in a decade and a half, the percentage of people working in the state is now the sixth highest in the entire country. [Applause] Governor walker: And it was simple, we got government out of the way, we lowered taxes, froze tuition for the first time ever, four years in a row. We got government regulation and red tape out of the way. We pulled back on frivolous laws and put you in charge of the state economy and you know what happened? You responded. More people are working in the state of Wisconsin than at any point in our state's history. Common sense principles work. 9:59:01 PM [Applause] Governor walker: They do not just work with the economy, we have a budget surplus every year that we have been in office, a rainy day fund that is 55 times bigger than when we took office. And remember those protesters, remember how they said that public education was going to be in trouble, I am proud to say that our public schools, atc -- a ct scores the second-best in the country and graduation rates the third best in the country. [Applause] Governor walker: Common sense principles work and all of you understand that, all of you that helped knock on doors and make phone calls, and talk to neighbors and coworkers and friends, and most importantly, all of you who prayed for us when we went through those protests, you know, you know what the battle is all about. 10:00:01 PM You know it is worth it, not just for us, not just for Republican majorities, but for our children and grandchildren. We fought more for the next generation, more than the next election and people from thank you for making that possible. Tonight I'm going to ask for your help one more time. Not just here but for the country. There are a lot of who helped us out. Some may be thinking about this candidate or thatcandidate. I can tell you about who I am casting my vote for on Tuesday. Not just for what is going to happen in Tuesday's primary but what's going to happen from the moment some in the impact it will have on this nomination, on They do not just work with the economy, we have a budget surplus every year that we have been in office, a rainy day fund that is 55 times bigger than when we took office. And remember those protesters, remember how they said that public education was going to be in trouble, I am proud to say that our public schools, atc -- a ct scores the second-best in the country and graduation rates the third best in the country. [Applause] Governor walker: Common sense principles work and all of you understand that, all of you that helped knock on doors and make phone calls, and talk to neighbors and coworkers and friends, and most importantly, all of you who prayed for us when we went through those protests, you know, you know what the battle is all about. You know it is worth it, not 10:00:04 PM just for us, not just for Republican majorities, but for our children and grandchildren. We fought more for the next generation, more than the next election and people from thank you for making that possible. ASK TO VOTE FOR CRUZ 22:00:13 And so tonight I'm going to ask for your help one more time. Not just here in this state but for this country. Now I know there is a lot people who helped us out. Some of you maybe are thinking about this candidate or that candidate. Some of you may already have made up your mind. But I hope particularly for those of you who haven't yet made up your mind, I can tell you about who I am casting my vote for on Tuesday. And hope that you'll join with me not just for what's gonna happen in Tuesday's primary but what's going to happen from the momentum that will come from that and the impact it will have on this country, on this nomination, on this party and most importantly the country as a whole. ENDORSEMENT 22:00:47 I am proud to tell you that I am endorsing Ted Cruz to be the next president of the united States. [Applause] Let me give you three quick reasons why. We don't shout, we just talk in this state. You see, the protesters five years ago, they tried to shout us out and we just quietly got the work done and show that our results work. So I am going to give you three simple reasons why I'm proud to support Ted on Tuesday to be our nominee and to be ultimately our president come this fall. First off Ted Cruz is a constitutional conservative. Do you know why that matters? We have shown in this state why that matters. Because you see, he understands that the founders of this country some 240 years ago, the incredibly unbelievably brave founders of this country had a pretty good vision. CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE / SHOOK STATUS QUO 22:01:51 They understood that power should not be concentrated in Washington. Instead it should flow to the states. And more important to the people. When that happens the people in states like Wisconsin can take charge of their government, not just here but take back their federal government. We need someone committed to the constitution and that is Ted Cruz. Secondly, what I love is something we can really relate to in Wisconsin. And that is Ted Cruz is someone who is not afraid to take on the status quo. Right? He showed America what it means to take power out of the hands of the big government special interest and put it firmly into the hands of hardworking taxpayers. It's worked year after year after year. It has worked. It is about time we have that kind of commonsense leadership in our nation's capital. Ted Cruz didn't just talk about when he run for the senate, he brought that kind of approach and opinion to Washington. And you know what? It shook things up. It shook up the Democrats. It shook up the Liberals, it shook up the status quo. And yes occasionally it shook up Republicans in Washington. But he doesn't care because his constituency is you, the American hard-working people. ANd that's exactly what he is going to do as your next president. PRACTICAL REASON: THE ONLY CANDIDATE THAT CAN WIN 21:03:13 And to me there is one more reason, third reason, so you got the philosophical and the policy reason why I am supporting Ted Cruz to be president. Notice my reasons are all about who I am for, not about who I am against. I think that is important in Wisconsin. We like to be for something, not against something. The third reason is a practical reason. You see Ted Cruz without a doubt is the candidate who can both win the nomination of this party, bring the party together at the convention and defeat Hillary Clinton this fall. CANNOT TRUST HILLARY CLINTON 22:04:07 Cause between now and Tuesday, let's remember here in Wisconsin, and then let's remind other across the country that as Republicans our opponents aren't the people on the primary ballot. Our opponent is Hillary Clinton, someone who so far out of touch with reality someone that even the Democrats understand -- that's part of the reason why Bernie Sanders has so much support here and elsewhere. Is because even Democrats understand we cannot trust Hillary Clinton on Benghazi, on the server, on her emails, on leading this country. 22:04:42 It is my honor to tell you I am for, and I just came from (?) I was there talking a little bit with folks at the Lincoln day dinner in (?) county. I had the good fortune to sit for a few minutes next to Ted Cruz's dad. Who is a minister. My dad is a preacher. Both of us are preachers kids. We know what it is like to grow up with the scrutiny of being preachers kids. We understand how our kids feel. Hopefully one of them will be a president. Thinking about big next to his dad it brought a smile to my face. I could see some of the things my dad does. I thought about it. Thinking about growing up during the 1980's. Growing up not just the kid of a preacher but growing up in a time when the leader of our country was someone we could look up to. Someone who thought about the 10:06:12 PM future more than just his own. Someone who had a vision of how to bring this country together not by running away from principles but by embracing those principles and applying them to leading our nation. That was Ronald ReaganWe came of age at that time. REAGAN/INTRO TO CRUZ 22:06:20 Ted and I both came of age not in office. We both came of age. Cause we were in high school. In school at that time and Ted and I and people like Paul Ryan and probably a lot of you here, remember that Ronald Reagan was our president. He was our leader. He was the leader of the free world. And we believed in him because he had a plan to move this country forward in the right direction. He was a principled conservative who was optimistic about the American people. I believe ladies and gentlemen that's who we have with us here tonight, the gentleman who is going to win the Wisconsin primary tuesday, who is going to unite this party together when he receives the nomination in Cleveland and who will once and for all put us on the right track after he is elected the 45th president of the United States. Ladies and gentlemen put your hands together for Ted Cruz. TED CRUZ Mr. Cruz: God bless the great 10:08:15 PM state of Wisconsin. I have to say. Your governor is a rock star. Let me tell you. When governor Scott walker stood up and took on the union bosses, when we saw vicious personal attacks, when we solve vicious threats, and millions of men and women across the state of Wisconsin stood with your governor and said we got your back. I want to tell you it inspired millions of Americans across this country. It inspiredme. It demonstrated when we the people stand together we can beat the special interests bankrupting our kids and grandkids. 10:09:17 PM And the courage and principle that Scott walker and the people of Wisconsin demonstrated in that fight over and over again is exactly in the courage -- the courage we need ndc to turn this country around. [Applause] Mr. Cruz: I am so humbled, so honored to be standing here with governor walker. Thank you for your friendship and tremendous leadership. [Applause] Mr. Cruz: You know, you can learn of a lot about a word looking to its roots. If you look at the roots of the word politics, it has two parts. Polly, meaning many and ticks, 10:10:17 PM meaning bloodsucking parasites. That is an accurate description. We are here tonight for something important politics. We are bankrupting our kids andgrandkids. America has receded from leadership in the world and it has made the world a more dangerous place. I am here with a word of hope and encouragement. All across the state of Wisconsin people are waking up. Help is on the way. [Applause] 10:11:19 PM This next election will focus on three critical issues. Jobs, freedom and security. Let's start with jobs. I want to take a minute to talk to the single moms. They are working to, three part-time jobs. I want to talk to all the truck drivers, all the plumbers and electricians, all the union members, all the working men and women with calluses on your hands, who have seen wages stagnate year over year. Cost of living keeps going up. Somehow your paycheck doesn't keep pace. I want to talk to the young people coming out of school, 10:12:21 PM student loans up to your eyeballs. Scared. In mild going to get a job? What does the future hold for me? The mainstream media try to tell us this is the new Normal. This is as good as it gets. That is an absolute lie. [Applause] It is easy to talk about making America great again. You can even print that on a baseball cap. [Applause] The real question is do you understand the principles and values that made America great in the first place? The heart of our economy is not Washington DC. The heart of our economy is millions of small businesses across the United States of 10:13:22 PM America. [Applause] You want to unleash jobs, you have to take the boot of the federal government off the back of the next of small business. If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obama care. [Applause] We will pass commonsense health care reform that makes health insurance personal and portable and affordable, and keeps government from getting in between us and our doctors. [Applause] Mr. Cruz: We will pass a simple flat tax. [Applause] 10:14:23 PM Every American can fill out our taxes on a postcard. When we do that, we should abolish the irs. [Applause] We're going to rain in the EPA. And the regulations killing jobs all across this country. We are going to stop amnesty and secure the border is an in the sanctuary cities and and welfare benefits f for those here illegally. [Applause] Let me tell you what's going to happen when we do all of that. We will see millions and millions of high-paying jobs. 10:15:24 PM Jobs coming back to America, back to China, back from Mexico. Manufacturing jobs coming back to the state of Wisconsin, wages rising for Americans across this country, young people coming out of school with 2, 5 jobs. [Applause] We will see morning in America again. The second critical issue, freedom. The passing a few weeks ago of justice Scalia underscores the stakes of this election. It is not just one but two branches of government that hang in the balance. We are one liberal justice away from a radical five justice majority the likes of which this country has never seen. We are one justice away from a 10:16:25 PM supreme court that would strip the religious liberty for Americans across this country. We are one justice away from a supreme court that would effectively erase the second amendment from the bill of rights. One justice away from the supreme court making a subject to the world court in the united nations and international law, and giving away U.S. Sovereignty. Two debates ago, Hugh Hewitt asked a question about religious liberty and the supreme court. Donald Trump turned to me. He said test, I have known more politicians than you have. In that he is correct. Donald Trump has been supporting liberal democratic politicians for 40 years. I have no experience with that. 10:17:25 PM [Applause] Mr. Cruz: Donald continued. He said when it comes to the supreme court, when it comes to religious liberty you have to learn to compromise. You have to learn to cut deals with the Democrats and go along to get along. Let me be very clear to the men and women of Wisconsin. I will not compromise away your religious liberty. [Applause] I will not compromise away your second amendment rights to keep and bear arms. The third critical issue in this race, security. For seven years we've had a 10:18:25 PM president who abandon our friend and ally. Two debates ago, Donald Trump explained if he were president, he said he would be neutral between Israel and the Palestinians. Let me be very clear. As president I will not be neutral America will stand on a hot ill genetically with the nation of Israel -- unapologetically with the nation of Israel. Anyone who can't tell the difference between our friends and our enemies, anyone who can't tell the difference between Israel and islamic terrorists, that raises real questions about their fitness 10:19:28 PM and judgment to be commander-in-chief. We were all horrified by an attack in Brussels. Every time we see one of these attacks, Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, president Obama goes on national television and refuses to even utter the word radical islamic terrorism. Instead he lectures Americans on islamophobia. The last attack, president Obama found it very inconvenient. It interrupted his baseball game with the Castro's. Wasn't a delightful to see the president palling around with communist dictators in front of the giant orchard of Che Guevara 10:20:30 PM -- giant portrait of Che Guevara ? To see a joint press conference where rival class to said let me tell you all the horrible things about president Obama -- about America and have president Obama say I agree with you, America is terrible. It is asking too much to have a president who will defend the United States of America? [Applause] Over the next -- last seven years we've seen our military week -- weaken. We've seen this before. We've seen another left-wing democratic president Jimmy Carter, we can the military. - Weaken the military. 10:21:34 PM Then we had president Reagan. It generated trillions in new government revenue. Use the revenue to rebuild the military and we bankrupted the soviet union and won the cold war. [Applause] I intend to do the same thing radical islamic terrorism. We are going to repeal Obama care and pass a flat tax and pulled back the regulators and stop amnesty. We will see millions of more jobs created. It will create millions for the government and we will use that revenue to rebuild the military so it remains the mightiest fighting force on the face of the planet. [Applause] No longer will our military be 10:22:35 PM governed by political correctness. [Applause] We have principled leaders that keep us safe here at home. Sheriff knows how to make a tax and at home by wearing his boots. I will tell you, sheriff, for the jihadists across the globe, come January 2017 a day of reckoning is coming [Applause] We are not going to weaken. We are going to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. [Applause] 10:23:43 PM One of the most shameful aspects of the last seven years has been this president sending our fighting men and women into combat. With rules of engagement so strict their arms are tied behind their backs and they cannot fight, they cannot win, they cannot defeat the enemy. That is wrong. It is immoral. Come 2017 it will end. [Applause] America has always been reluctant to use military force. We are slow to anger. If and when military force is needed we should use overwhelming force, kill the enemy and get the heck out. [Applause] 10:24:43 PM Let's talk politics. We had 17 Republican candidates. It was a dynamic field. What a contrast. With the Democrats a wild eyed socialist with ideas that are dangerous for America and the With the Democrats a wild eyed socialist with ideas that are dangerous for America and the world and Bernie Sanders. [Laughter] [Applause] Over the course of the air we have seen what a primary is supposed to do. The field has narrowed. The field has narrowed, there 10:25:50 PM are only two candidates who have the path to the nomination. Me and Donald Trump. Wisconsin is a battleground. The entire country, their eyes are on the state of Wisconsin. He men and women here have a platform. You were speaking not just for the state but the entire country. For the 65-70% of Republicans who recognize nominating Donald Trump is a train wreck, that is actually not fair to train >>. -- Train wreck. Hillary not only wins, she wins by a big margin. If Hillary is the next president, the supreme court is 10:26:52 PM lost for a generation. The bill of rights is lost. Our kids are buried. Trillions are more in debt. What we're seeing happening in Wisconsin and across the country is Republicans are coming together and uniting behind this campaign. [Applause] Of the 17 candidates who started we have seen five candidates come together supporting this campaign. Rick Perry, Carly Fiorina, Lindsey graham, Jeb Bush, and your own governor Scott walker. [Applause] That is the real manifestation 10:27:52 PM of the unity we need across this country, to win, Republicans have to stand together. If we are divided we will lose the primary and hand the general election to Hillary Clinton. It is men and women here you are taking the lead to make that happen. I am here tonight asking for your help. I'm asking for each of you to continue standing up between now and Tuesday, to take it upon yourself not just to voteI want to ask everyone here to vote for me 10 times. Now look. We are not Democrats. I am not suggesting voter fraud. If everyone here gets nine other people to come out and vote on 10:28:53 PM Tuesday you will have voted 10 times. [Applause] That is how we win. The power of the grassroots. The same power that stood with governor walker in the battle with the union bosses. The same power of the grassroots. The men and women who stood together and said we can we can do this. -- We can do this. We are going to turn this country around. [Applause]. [END] Highlights: Sarah Palin attacks Cruz on immigration, referencing gift baskets of teddy bears being used to lure illegal immigrants Sarah Palin says Reagan saved the Harley Davidson Gov. Scott Walker paints Ted Cruz as uniter, describes his endorsement as "standing for" not "standing against" somebody Cruz jokes that a Trump nomination would be a train wreck and "that's actually not fair to train wrecks" MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN- Ted Cruz appeared on stage with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for the first time since Walker endorsed him. Cruz got a physical embrace from Gov. Scott Walker at the Milwaukee County Republican Dinner and Walker used his speech to encourage Republicans to embrace and unite behind Cruz. On the other hand, Donald Trump's surrogate Sarah Palin gave a rambling speech that left the audience of more than 700 often silent and sometimes laughing. Ohio Gov. John Kasich spoke first and began by saying that he'd heard 38 percent of Wisconsinites didn't know much about him. He said nothing new and only mentioned Trump once, using a typical line from his stump speech: "I understand people who are Donald Trump voters." (20:54:12) Palin gave a speech that some supporters told me afterwards they found incoherent. She jumped around from immigration to trade to the treatment of veterans. She did not mention religious liberty or the right to life. Palin made a joke about a unity ticket, encouraging Republicans to form a unity ticket to get former Green Bay Packer Jerry Kramer into the hall of fame. "I have a unity pledge, I have a unity pledge that I want to propose for all the guys running, why don't they unify in that mission for Wisconsin, to do whatever it takes to get Jerry Kramer finally inducted where he belongs, in the NFL hall of fame. No matter their political leanings on the spectrum in the republican party. That's something they can all work towards," Palin said. (21:26:06) Palin came very close to referencing Cruz by name but offered veiled attacks at him regarding the amendments he proposed to the Gang of 8 bill. She also made a reference to illegal immigrants being lured with gift baskets. That could be a reference to this Breitbart report about Cruz and Glenn Beck reportedly brining teddy bears to the border in July 2014. (<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/07/18/mike-lee-sends-regrets-ted-cruz-signs-up-for-glenn-beck-soccer-balls-teddy-bears/>) "What are you thinking when you're going ahead and you're actually asking for more immigrants, even illegal immigrants, welcoming them in, even inducing and seducing them with gift baskets. Come on over the border and we'll-- here is a gift basket of teddy bears and soccer balls. What are you thinking? It's just inviting more. The candidates they can say anything that they want to about immigration, amnesty, but actions scream so much louder than a politician's words. Take the gang of 8 bill to increase foreign workers by 500%. And green cards increased by 200%. Who offered the amendments for that, to further collapse US incomes and jobs and security, which candidate?" Palin said. (21:31:17) She also offered this line about Reagan saving the Harley Davidson in Wisconsin: " Reagan saved the hog, here, your Harley Davidson. It was Reagan who saved that, he saved it with a 45% tariff that he put on Japanese motorcycles to combat their cheating." (21:36:01) The crowd was most enthusiastic for Walker and Cruz. Walker used the end of his speech to hammer home why he was supporting Cruz and in what seemed to reference Trump, he said: "Notice my reasons are all about who I am for, not about who I am against. I think that is important in Wisconsin. We like to be for something, not against something." (21:03:13). Walker painted Cruz as a uniter. "Tonight, the gentleman who is going to win the Wisconsin primary tuesday, who is going to unite this party together when he receives the nomination in Cleveland and who will once and for all put us on the right track after he is elected the 45th president of the United States. Ladies and gentlemen put your hands together for Ted Cruz," Walker said. (22:06:20) Walker described a Cruz win in Wisconsin as leading to nationwide momentum for the Cruz campaign. "And so tonight I'm going to ask for your help one more time. Not just here in this state but for this country," Walker said. "I hope particularly for those of you who haven't yet made up your mind, I can tell you about who I am casting my vote for on Tuesday. And hope that you'll join with me not just for what's gonna happen in Tuesday's primary but what's going to happen from the momentum that will come from that and the impact it will have on this country, on this nomination, on this party and most importantly the country as a whole," (22:00:13) Cruz stuck to his stump speech and did not shy away from attacking Trump. He actually expanded an attack line on Trump. "For the 65 to 70 percent of Republicans nationwide who recognize that nominating Donald Trump is a train wreck. That's actually not fair to train wrecks," Cruz said. 22:25:20 His typical jab poking fun at Trump's slogan went over well here. "It's easy to talk about making America great again you can even print that on a baseball cap (cheers and laughs) but the real question is do you understand the principles and values that made america great in the first place," Cruz said. 22:12;35 H/T Paola Contardo for log

WASH 8 MILWAUKEE GOP EVENT POOL 040116 C16 ***MOSTLY LOG FROM SNAPSTREAM - NOT 100% ACCURATE*** ***HIGHLIGHTS CORRECTED*** KASICH 20:50:24 Mr. Kasich: How about a round of applause for your four term governor, Tommie Thompson? You know people always wonder, how could you bring that congress together? How can you get things done? I want to tell you that I just had the man that runs the Serbian hall come to me and introduce himself and say, my wife and I voted for you. Now, let me also tell you, that back in 1977 when I was an awfully young man running for the state legislature, I sat down with another man that reminded me of him. This man had a shock white hair and piercing blue eyes. He called me into his office. And you'll understand why I say this. He said, young man, you know that I am Serbian. I said, yes sir. I know that. He said, I happen to know you are Croatian. 20:51:25 Why don't we set that aside for the rest of this election. And let's win an election and move forward. So I brought us together, the Serbians and the Croats. If you can do that, you can bring anybody together in life, believe me. I want you to know just a little bit about me cause I just heard that about 38% of people that live in this state don't know anything about me to even form an opinion. It's pretty interesting. I guess that's what happens when you are positive all the time and you don't enter a demolition derby. But I am glad I didn't. Let me also tell you that, you know, I grew up-- The reason why I am so comfortable here is I grew up in a blue-collar town outside of Pittsburgh called Mckees Rocks. It was blue-collar. Frankly, I don't remember meeting a Republican when I was a young man. They were all Democrats. My father was a Democrat. He carried mail on his back. Delivered mail to our home for almost 30 years. His father was a coal miner. 20:52:28 My grandfather died of black lung. As He was getting older he was losing his eyesight because of the time he spent in the mine. My mother's mother could barely speak English. She was Croatian. And she was an immigrant. It was hard to communicate with her, really, because she just had very few things that she could say. My mother, I was told just a couple of weeks ago,because you know as ethnics there's two ways to think about yourself as an ethnic. You either think of yourself as somebody that kind of clings to that and honors it all the time, or somebody who says we are going to put that beside us and we are gonna become Americans. My mother was one that said, we are going to emphasize the fact that we are Americans. I did not know a lot about the history until my cousin a couple of weeks ago told me that in my mother's family, there were four, her, her sister, and two brothers. 20:53:28 And 3 of them never moved beyond the 8th grade. My mother walked across a footbridge over a railroad track to get her high school diploma. My childhood was one of common sense, God-fearing, playing by the rules. My mother and father always told me, Johnny, you believe you can change the world. What is most important is wherever you are, you make the world a little bit a better place for the fact that you were there. They also so strongly believed in what America represents in the ability of people to really be able to rise. I got my values there. 20:54:12 But I have to tell you, that in that little town of Mckees Rocks, it's a town where if the wind blew the wrong way, people found themselves out of work. You see, I understand people who are Donald Trump voters. Cause let me to you who they are and what they worry about. They worry about the fact they could lose their job. That they are 52 years old and somebody walks in one day and says you are out of work. 20:54:37 Or frankly some politician did something to create some agreement and somehow they lost out. There are people who say I have been playing by the rules, I have been working and I can't get a pay raise. My grandfather when he worked in that coal mine would come up at the end of a long day and he would think he get good pay, and they'd say, but you only brought up half of coal and the other was peat, we are only gonna pay you for the coal you brought up. It was the ripoff. And there are many people in this country who feel as though they are experiencing the ripoff. They put their money in a bank. It used to be you get interest for it. The bank uses your money and they pay you. Today we get no interest for it. And what they really worry about, more than anything else, what they really worry about is that their sons and daughters went to college to get an education because they were told that if your kids get educated, they are going to have a better life. And now their kids are still living at home without a job but with big debt. 20:55:40 You see, this anxiety is something that people feel very strongly about. And they are looking for a vehicle to express their frustration. I've got to tell you, that those people that I grew up with in Mckees Rocks who played by the rules, and things rarely worked out in a special way for them, are the people that have been in my mind's eye since I was a young politician. I have always been independent. And I must tell you the Republican party has been my vehicle and not my master. The Republican party has given me an opportunity to be able to contribute to our society. But I have always been an independent operator, somebody that's looked at problems and not really been concerned about who I may be upsetting on the way. I was a young state senator. Yeah, they raised their pay. I run a campaign that said we shouldn't. So when the pay raise passed, I didn't take it. 08:56:37PM When Republicans said they needed to raise taxes, I ran a campaign that said we should have none. When we won the majority at age 28, they decided to raise taxes. I said no, I promised I would not. They said, you are you responsible. I said, I will write my own budget for the state. I had people sneaking in, telling me how to improve the government. I did not win the budget fight but I kept my promise and I kept my word. I made suggestions that ultimately got adopted into the law. I left the state senate. They took my district away from me. They wanted to to end my career, but at age 30, Iran for congress. -- I ran for congress. I had campaigned with Ronald Reagan. He was an inspiration to me. What he taught me was a couple of things. 8:57:57 PM You have to have strength when it comes to national security. Second, you have to give people an incentive to work and give them the opportunity to rise. In 1982, I ran for the congress. Iran on the Reagan agenda. There were not many people running on the Reagan agenda. They were running away because the economy was not doing well. Iran against a Democrat and comment on the fact that we could shrink taxes and rebuild the defense. In 1982, there was only one Republican candidate for the U.S. Congress who defeated and encumbered Democrat and that person was John Kasich, me -- and incumbent Democrat and that person was me. I served on the armed services committee for 18 years. Let me tell you, these are difficult times. 8:58:59 PM There is no timebeing a United States congressman in 1983, I worked with Republicans and conservative Democrats to rebuild the military. Do that experience, I worked with my friends to reform the Pentagon, to change the operation of that building, with members of congress committed to a strong national defense. I was there and I remember the night, that because of the strength of Ronald Reagan, that Berlin wall came tumbling down. That was an amazing time in American history. Not as in modern history. [Applause] Mr. Kasich: I was also there when I saw the muslims push Saddam hussein out of Kuwait. And I remember when we won so decisively, and people said we should of gone into Baghdad to complete the job, and a remember how smart George H.W. Bush was 9:00:02 PM with advisers, in not going to Baghdad and the getting the job done and coming home. I was called into the Pentagon after 9/11 by secretary Rumsfeld, with the former secretary of defense, and from that meeting forward for a number of years I led technology experts into the Pentagon to deal with technology problems. Think about that arc, all the way from defeating the soviet union, the Berlin wall collapsing, to a united coalition of Arabs and westerners, to defeat us on -- to defeat Saddam hussein, all the way to 9/11. That is why am prepared today. As a congressman, I found myself on the budget committee. I was complaining that the Republicans and Democrats were not serious about balancing the budget. I wanted to budget -- balance the budget for two reasons, the immorality of leaving debt to. Being a United States congressman in 1983, I worked with Republicans and conservative Democrats to rebuild the military. Do that experience, I worked with my friends to reform the Pentagon, to change the operation of that building, with members of congress committed to a strong national defense. I was there and I remember the night, that because of the strength of Ronald Reagan, that Berlin wall came tumbling down. That was an amazing time in American history. Not as in modern history. [Applause] Mr. Kasich: I was also there when I saw the muslims push Saddam hussein out of Kuwait. And I remember when we won so decisively, and people said we should of gone into Baghdad to complete the job, and a remember how smart George H.W. Bush was 9:00:01 PM with advisers, in not going to Baghdad and the getting the job done and coming home. I was called into the Pentagon after 9/11 by secretary Rumsfeld, with the former secretary of defense, and from that meeting forward for a number of years I led technology experts into the Pentagon to deal with technology problems. Think about that arc, all the way from defeating the soviet union, the Berlin wall collapsing, to a united coalition of Arabs and westerners, to defeat us on -- to defeat Saddam hussein, all the way to 9/11. That is why am prepared today. As a congressman, I found myself on the budget committee. I was complaining that the Republicans and Democrats were not serious about balancing the budget. I wanted to budget -- balance the budget for two reasons, the immorality of leaving debt to the children, and I knew that if 9:01:03 PM you could balance a budget and reduce taxes, you could put yourself in a position where you could have economic growth. What I learned was three things, creating jobs, creating more jobs, and creating all the jobs you could, because it is through job creation that allows people to recognize their god-given purpose in life to change the world and live out their destiny. I knew that fighting to balance the budget was the right thing to do. But it did not come easy. It took 10 years of my efforts and efforts of the team built to get us to the point where he actually balanced the budget for the first time since man walked on the moon. We paved out the largest amount of debt in modern history, half $1 trillion. We also were any position where we had a $5 trillion surplus projected, it could have been used to fix social security and there was no discussion at that 9:02:04 PM time about income inequality or the lack of rising wages, because when you finally balance the budget, cut taxes, restored common sense in Washington, we had an explosion of economic growth and it was a glorious time in my life. I created a goal and I had met it. And after being in a position that position where we were able to balance the budget, leaving surpluses behind, I left Washington because I never wanted to be a professional politician. I do not even like politics. [Applause] Mr. Kasich: I left for 10 years and I did a variety of things that gave me more experience. Some of you will remember me from when I was a giants are on Fox News. Anyway, I went out for 10 years. I was having a great time, I did not want to go back into politics. But I got a call. Have any of you ever had a call? 9:03:06 PM It was not a phone call, it was not a text, it was not an e-mail. I think, when the lord blesses you and gives you so much, you can barely contain yourself, you also begin to understand about your responsibilities and continue to do things that can change the world. The call was, I needed to go back in and run for governor. Iran at the perfect time. Things could get not much worse in Ohio. We had lost jobs, our credit was going down the drain, 20% of the operating budget in the whole and I went to New York and they told me, we are going to cut up your credit cards, because Ohio is about dead. Iran -- I ran in the election, and I had never run statewide in the state of Ohio. The only time before that somebody who had never won statewide against an incumbent, 9:04:08 PM was 95 years earlier. Iran -- I ran and I won. And people said, we needed to raise taxes, expand government. Let me tell you what we did. I cut taxes more than any other governor in America, including no income tax for small business, killing the debt tax, so that people could pass businesses onto their families. Now that we have done that, we are killing debt. We are working at it. We cut taxes more than anybody, our budget deficit went from 20% in hole, a billion dollars with of deficits to a $2 billion surplus. And we went from a loss of 350,000 jobs, to a gain of 400,000 jobs with wages growing faster than the national average. [Applause] Mr. Kasich: And, I want you to know that we have left nobody behind, because we believe it is 9:05:09 PM a moral for the -- immoral for those people to live under the bridges, and in the prison system we are rehabilitating with an 80% success rate of those who are drug addicted in the prisons. And we believe the working poor, instead of being punished commission be rewarded. And we believe the disabled should be fully mainstreamed. As a result of that, Iran for reelection and I want 86 out of 88 counties in -- and would take 2-3 days to figure out the election. The most important swing states -- [applause] Mr. Kasich: So I decided to run for president. You know why? Because there are two critical issues today, economic strength. As the budget committee chairman in Washington, we had a massive economic is ancient -- expansion and tremendous growth. 9:06:11 PM In Ohio, I entered at a very tough time. And now people across the state are hopeful again. People are getting work, children can have a future. You see that model is not complicated, it takes guts. What it means is you have commonsense regulation so that you do not crush small business, and I will have a program that will freeze all federal regulations for one year, except health and safety, force congress to vote on regulation that aircraft -- that bureaucrats are writing laws, keeping us from having the kind of economic growth we want. Secondly, we need to reduce taxes on corporations that have seen fit to invest profits in Europe, because we punish them if they come back. We can cut the corporate tax rate and stop double taxing businesses, I know it, because I 9:07:12 PM have been in business. And we need to reduce individual tax rates. But we need to do it in such a way that we can pass it. We can go to the old Reagan model with a capital gain of 15 to provide incentives and we can make the tax code clear and realistically being able to pass. I will put us, I will put us on a path to a balanced budget as I have in the past. No problems with entitlements, innovation, and I want you to know one other thing. I will welfare, medicaid, job training, and for structure back to the states, so they can provide a program in innovation and change that we all see, by shifting the power from Washington. [Applause] Mr. Kasich: What I also would like you to know, as I get ready to leave the stage, is 9:08:14 PM that it does matter who is the president. I remember when Ronald Reagan said it was morning in America, that we were a shining city on the hill. You think I do not know about what Winston Churchill said about never, never ever give up. Of course I know. But the strength of our country does not rest on the president. The strength of our country rests in us. When I was a kid, we do not worship presidents, our hero was Roberto Clemente, who gave up his life trying to help earthquake victims in Nicaragua. He died. I remember the morning when my mother came into my room, one of the very few times I saw my mother cry, because children do not like to see their mother cry. 9:09:14 PM It is unsettling, and my mother came in and said, our hero died lastnight. You see, I remember back then, we do not wait for somebody to come in on a white horse to try to save us. The strength of our country rests in our families. It rests in our communities. It rests in our neighborhoods. You want to fix your schools, you want to make sure that your kids are getting the skills they need, then go do it. Do not wait for somebody else from Madison, or somebody in Washington, you do it. Change the world. If you want to fight the problem of drug abuse in this state, you grab a kid and tell that young man or young woman, that they have a god-given purpose that will be obscured and destroyed if they cave to the evils of drug addiction. Can you change it? You better believe it. 9:10:14 PM We have a program called, start talking, we start talking to kids and we all need to across the country. We do not need to wait for government officials, we do it in our churches, synagogues, community organization and our schools. You want to fight poverty? You have a welfare office that brings businesses in and when a person comes for a welfare check, you train them for the jobs that are in the welfare offices. You go do it. People in Milwaukee did not way to fix schools, they fixed them because they drove change and innovation and took matters into their own hands. Ladies and gentlemen, the lord made us all special, for purpose. To live a life bigger than ourselves. And when we live a life bigger than ourselves, if we are a nurse, we spend 15 next are minutes with a family when the nurse is tired and tells the family, it will be ok. Or a teacher, the most underpaid 9:11:15 PM people on Earth, who give up pay to change people's lives. I will give you another way to change the world, you have a lady who was married for 50 years. Her husband died, her fund is not ring anymore. -- Phone does not ring anymore. Call her on Monday, you say, we are taking you to dinner on Saturday night. And you know where she is going on Thursday? To get her hair done. Somehow, when Saturday night comes, despite the fact that she slept on it Thursday night, Friday night, that hair is perfect. And when you pick her up, she is wearing a dress that she had not worn for sixmonths. Did you change the world? You did. You see, let's stop thinking about where we fall short. Let's start thinking about all that is wrong and that celebrate 9:12:16 PM the great fact that America's best days are ahead of them, if we remember the formula that made us great. It is not very complicated. It takes leadership, it takes guts, and it gets a leader to remind all of the people who make the laws in this country, that you may be a Republican, you may be a Democrat, but before any of that, you are an American. You are an American that is there to change the world and give everybody a chance to realize our god-given purpose. If I become president, all -- I will fix the economy, but you will restore the spirit of America and your families, neighborhoods, communities by changing the world in which you live. Thank you all very much, god bless you. SARA PALIN 21:25:05 Sarah Palin: Thank you so much. I am so happy to be here. Thank you. It is always so good to be in Wisconsin. I got off the airplane today and as I walked into the airport, and seeing all the green and gold, and green and gold till I am (dead?) and cold, paraphernalia everywhere, the packers, it reminds me of my dad's man cave. He is the biggest cheese head. And his connection, his connection, I know it's kind of a stretch, but his connection is he played ball with, he was a teammate of Jerry Kramer back in the day. Remember? Yeah, number 64? Was he? Back with the packers sweep, such a great player, granted it was high school football when they were teammates. Get a load of this, both guys are inducted in the high school hall of fame, but Jerry Kramer still the best player to never be inducted. 21:26:06 I have a unity pledge, I have a unity pledge that I want to propose for all the guys running, why don't they unify in that mission for Wisconsin, to do whatever it takes to get Jerry Kramer finally inducted where he belongs, in the NFL hall of fame. No matter their political leanings on the spectrum in the republican party. That's something they can all work towards. But you hear-- you all know, specially Packers fans, you guys know competition is so good. Competition elevates the best, and Wisconsin you deserve the best. Cause what, what you are getting from the federal government right now is not the best. And here In Wisconsin, your middle-class has been harmed probably more than any other state in the union, because of federal policies that just don't make sense and really have shrunk the middle class here more than anywhere else. 9:27:21 PM I want to talk about three core issues that need to be addressed , and I think Donald Trump is the want to tackle these issues and to succeed in growing and prospering the middle class. The three core issues that the political class curses -- purs ues, really be train -- B etraying all of us, these are the same GOP folks who do not see the GOP as an expression of the people's will, but more as an atm for their own wallets. They are really shaken up right now, they do not know what to do about the Donald Trump train, the momentum and the movement of outsiders, independents. GOP participants that really fed up with politics as usual. They do not know what to do about it and they are shaken up 9:28:23 PM and this shifting and awakening, the exposing of rapid -- rabid bites, to hang onto any relevancy or their gravy train, it is moving onto a very healthy cleansing of the body politics, to kill the body politic and save the nation. The Wall Street connected, they do not suffer, they process and prosper, they do not suffer, they profit when jobs are shoved offshore. They do not suffer, they profit when consultants and lobbyists push foreign policies that cost us treasures and more important, they cost us the blood of our finest, America's sons and daughters in uniform. 21:29:00 The establishment's interest runs counter to the interest of the people. And it runs counter to common sense, which I swear common sense is an endangered species in Washington. Consider these three policy issues, first, immigration. We've admitted more immigrants than any other country on earth, four times as many. 43 million, now. More, more crossing the border, of course, every single day. Well, with Washington though mismanaging our money and the burdens put upon the private sector, stifling opportunity. This uncontrolled immigration has so destabilized the middle class and that massive crowding at the low end of the wage scale, it kicked away the ladder to income stability and it suffocated wages and it really surged the number of people who aren't working. And sure the corporate (shields?) who are funding today's kind of secretive pro-establishment mind-boggling $100 million dollars worth of super PACs, they love the open borders. 21:30:14 And the wrong headed Visa programs, and those that flood the market with more foreign workers. But really, it is a disaster for we the people. Donald Trump is the only one who really understands this reality. He is the only one who creates private sector jobs and balances budgets, and builds things, he builds big things. And he has forced candidates to finally own up to their actual support of, and participation in perpetuating the problem of the immigration issues that we are facing. And the other candidates didn't want to talk about it, but Trump made them. Now, because he beat the media on that issue, 'cause you know, they like to let their chosen one, kinda or chosen ones get away with not really answering questions about their betrayals, but knowing that Trump won on that issue, it should empower you to go ahead and ask the candidates -- what the heck are you thinking candidates? 21:31:17 What are you thinking when you're going ahead and you're actually asking for more immigrants, even illegal immigrants, welcoming them in, even inducing and seducing them with gift baskets. Come on over the border and we'll-- here is a gift basket of teddy bears and soccer balls. What are you thinking? It's just inviting more. The candidates they can say anything that they want to about immigration, amnesty, but actions scream so much louder than a politician's words. Take the gang of 8 bill to increase foreign workers by 500%. And green cards increased by 200%. Who offered the amendments for that, to further collapse US incomes and jobs and security, which candidate? 9:32:28 PM Oh, second messed up policy -- trade. The loss of industry jobs represent one of the greatest betrayals of the working people in the history of modern civilization. For shame, politicians. They know who they are who have been a part of this problem. We have the greatest manufacturing sector known to man. Well, it was dismantled and shipped overseas, right under our noses because of political incompetence and corruption and nonsensical ideology. A third of our manufacturing jobs, either of them -- a third of them, they disappeared after major policies, China entering the world trade organization. Our trade treaties, they are not even enforced, it is kind of a joke around the globe. Trading partners, like China, 9:33:29 PM they are contractually banned from unfairly subsidizing products. They do it anyway and they laughed all the way to the bank. They are cheating with tactics and is manipulation and we cannot compete when they are devaluing their currency. Donald Trump is hot on this, because he is the only one who understands the art of the deal. Our partners cheating is how are middle-class disappears. The trade ideologues, they say we cannot respond, we need to scare people, talk about trade wars. Wisconsin, these are the voices responsible for trade surrender. They say, we cannot enforce the rules, because then maybe it will cost a penny more. Well, a country, a company, if 9:34:29 PM they to -- cheat us, they will pretend it does not happen and we will lose jobs. Ultimately, though, what happens is if we move the American work ethic that built this nation, politicians create a people dependent on government and grow government control over the people and it is a very warped and a dangerous road that politicians have put us on. Where we are heading with trade, it will ultimately fundamentally transform America into something that we do not recognize. And our kids, our grandkids, they may never know then what is to be rewarded for the entrepreneurial spirit within us, in order to work and produce, and strive, thrive, to really be alive in the greatest country on Earth. I think god that Donald Trump gets it, because he lives it. 9:35:31 PM He succeeds, because he knows the art of the deal and we root him on because he reads -- roots us on, and he wants the same success for our kids and our grandkids. The ideology of trade surrender, that is not conservative, it is radical. Who is the biggest proponent of this? What candidate helped pass Obama's trade bill and actually removed the hurdle for fast tracking, and actually purposefully has opened the door for China and Russia to come on in and join TPP, with zero congressional consuls? REAGAN 21:36:01 Who opposed a crackdown on currency cheating? Who kind of freaks out now (against?) putting any tariffs on Chinese trinkets and goods. You have to ask yourself, who is this? Well, it's not someone who understands Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan pushed trade enforcement harder than any other president in our lifetime. Wisconsin, Reagan saved the hog, here, your Harley Davidson. It was Reagan who saved that, he saved it with a 45% tariff that he put on Japanese motorcycles to combat their cheating. He also saved the semiconductor industry with a 100% tariff. Let's learn from Reagan. 21:36:48 In the establishment, maybe they are going to start some new #movement. #neverReagan. They don't like that. Every country knows now that there is no consequence for their cheating, so now they finding more aggressive ways to really screw us. And to kill American opportunity. Like our steel towns. Tragically, they have been hollowed out, and the world is not that the world stopped using steel Now it's needed more than ever today, but the industry died here because D.C., our politicians they allowed foreign governments to target our businesses for extinction, they let it happen. Trump sees that we are the only country that doesn't defend own economic interest. And he has said, enough, we are bringing the jobs back home. He says, we are rebuilding America. He is gonna put us to work. Remember, when a candidate says, look, now, we don't want to do anything to increase import -- what he is really saying is he is aokay with cheating, and may be it's really kind of awesome to him, let them rip us off, 'cause maybe he's got his. ISIS 21:38:07 Finally our third issue. Foreign policy and military might. Our freedom should be the GOP's number one priority. Only one candidate left standing though knows that military superiority to protect our interest, not just piecemeal together some reckless nation building scheme overseas. It's our military might, protecting our interests, that keeps us free. The threat of our times is that unwavering and horrid islamic belief that we, peace loving, generous Americans, that we are the infidels and that we must die. Only Trump talks rationally about listening to top brass as president. And hiring the best of the best to work alongside our commander in chief, to work with those who share our interests in stopping the islamic threat, by defeating ISIS overseas with strong, strong military strikes and intelligence ops, and (spurring?) allies to get more engaged. 21:39:22 And at the same time to keep extremists from using our (porous?) borders that are purposely left open, using those borders and our Visa system to let them come here, where they will recruit to unleash terror here and it's not something to laugh at, friends. Well, that's just more of that common sense stuff thought that I guess in campaigns nowadays, that only those independent a big donor demands, get to exercise. Hey there is a reason that big-money and open borders and radical special interests are so madly anti-trump. Think about it, his positions, they are not radically anti-gop platform positions at all. But they are radically anti-trump, these folks are and they are lining up behind the others, because they know that nothing's gonna change unless an outsider who the people support gets in there. T 21:40:23 Same politicians continuing the same old policies, trashing our economy and shipping out jobs, and letting us for the bill for everyone else. Palling around with the same old politicos and insiders who've betrayed us over and over and over again. Enough. You deserve better. It is funny, but not really. The same sanctimonious ones lecturing us about Mr. Trump's tone, are personally responsible for policies that actually cost American lives. And trillions of dollars. Enough is enough. Enough of the holier then thou lecture from those steering us into rocky shores. So in America, first, foreign policy, and smart immigration, where we vet who's actually coming ashore, so as not to invite trouble like evil recruits setting up shop here. VETS 21:41:30 That is the essence of the long-term strategy to contain evil. That, and respecting our red, white and blue, making a military second to none, caring for our troops, loving our vets, paying them what is due, like their earned healthcare, physical and mental health care. And not pretending like tragedy doesn't rage in our military community today. For instance 22 vets a day commit suicide, 22 of America's finest. I see no reason to keep on, well , I don't hear a lot of other candidates campaigns talking about our vets. But we are, because we care. Their sacrifices will not be in vain. So we'll elect a commander in chief who shares that, and we will never, never leave our men and women behind. BENGHAZI 21:42:32 And that's why we go to (mat?) for the front runner. And we won't retreat. We'll reload. We won't retreat though. And we are willing to stand on the front lines, even, because whatever it takes to defeat the one who did leave our boys behind, with no apology, but a just a flippant, ah Benghazi, what difference does it make? That, that embodiment of all that is so so wrong with what we are really up against, Republicans. [Applause] PATTON 21:43:10 And, what we are really up against, well, general George Patton he said it best he leading the greatest generation, he said, politicians are the lowest form of life on Earth. He said it, I didn't, ok, he said it. And he said " Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians." [laughter] SAVE THE NATION/VOTE FOR TRUMP/UNITE 21:43:32 So remember what it will take to save our nation. Remember what it 's gonna take, it's all of us working together at the end of the line here, by God's grace, we will be up to save the nation. And it's going to take unity among patriots who love this country as much as we love our own families. So yes, engage in vigorous healthy competition, be civil, then vote. And I say vote for Donald J. Trump, and then unite to make America great again. And I thank you so much for your graciousness in allowing me to kind of crash your fish fry, letting me to come on in and speak my mind about the candidate whom I am supporting. I just thank you all so much for believing in the planks the Republican platform, we know, that we know, that we know, they are the planks that will build this great nation again. It will build a stronger, safer, it will save our sovereignty. So thank you so much for all of us united in that mission. God bless you, Wisconsin. Thank you, very much. Thank you guys. Thank you. SCOTT WALKER 9:55:59 PM Governor Scott walker. [Applause] ?? [applause] ?? governor walker: Thank you. What a great crowd. Welcome to the best fish tried -- fry in the country. It is good to beclose to home. Good to see you, sheriff. I feel safe already with David Clark in the front row. [Laughter] Governor walker: I will spend a couple of minutes telling you a couple of things, but I have a question. How many of you think that Wisconsin is better off than it 9:57:00 PM was five years ago? [Applause] Governor walker: That is because of all of you, because of all of you here tonight. Think aboutit. We will take a minute or two to give a commercial about the great state of Wisconsin, because of common sense printable conservative leadership you helped us obtain, not just electing me, but the state assembly and senate. Then you helped me in 2012 with a recall election, a reelection in 2014, and each of those election years, adding numbers to the Republican majority in the senate. Look what we got, a better economy, the better budget, better schools, a better Wisconsin. Sounded? -- Sound good? Governor walker: Think about it, in each category, a report 9:58:01 PM coming out from the federal government on jobs just these couple of weeks ago for the previous month, January, showed that in the state of Wisconsin we had one of the lowest unemployment rates we have had in a decade and a half, the percentage of people working in the state is now the sixth highest in the entire country. [Applause] Governor walker: And it was simple, we got government out of the way, we lowered taxes, froze tuition for the first time ever, four years in a row. We got government regulation and red tape out of the way. We pulled back on frivolous laws and put you in charge of the state economy and you know what happened? You responded. More people are working in the state of Wisconsin than at any point in our state's history. Common sense principles work. 9:59:01 PM [Applause] Governor walker: They do not just work with the economy, we have a budget surplus every year that we have been in office, a rainy day fund that is 55 times bigger than when we took office. And remember those protesters, remember how they said that public education was going to be in trouble, I am proud to say that our public schools, atc -- a ct scores the second-best in the country and graduation rates the third best in the country. [Applause] Governor walker: Common sense principles work and all of you understand that, all of you that helped knock on doors and make phone calls, and talk to neighbors and coworkers and friends, and most importantly, all of you who prayed for us when we went through those protests, you know, you know what the battle is all about. 10:00:01 PM You know it is worth it, not just for us, not just for Republican majorities, but for our children and grandchildren. We fought more for the next generation, more than the next election and people from thank you for making that possible. Tonight I'm going to ask for your help one more time. Not just here but for the country. There are a lot of who helped us out. Some may be thinking about this candidate or thatcandidate. I can tell you about who I am casting my vote for on Tuesday. Not just for what is going to happen in Tuesday's primary but what's going to happen from the moment some in the impact it will have on this nomination, on They do not just work with the economy, we have a budget surplus every year that we have been in office, a rainy day fund that is 55 times bigger than when we took office. And remember those protesters, remember how they said that public education was going to be in trouble, I am proud to say that our public schools, atc -- a ct scores the second-best in the country and graduation rates the third best in the country. [Applause] Governor walker: Common sense principles work and all of you understand that, all of you that helped knock on doors and make phone calls, and talk to neighbors and coworkers and friends, and most importantly, all of you who prayed for us when we went through those protests, you know, you know what the battle is all about. You know it is worth it, not 10:00:04 PM just for us, not just for Republican majorities, but for our children and grandchildren. We fought more for the next generation, more than the next election and people from thank you for making that possible. ASK TO VOTE FOR CRUZ 22:00:13 And so tonight I'm going to ask for your help one more time. Not just here in this state but for this country. Now I know there is a lot people who helped us out. Some of you maybe are thinking about this candidate or that candidate. Some of you may already have made up your mind. But I hope particularly for those of you who haven't yet made up your mind, I can tell you about who I am casting my vote for on Tuesday. And hope that you'll join with me not just for what's gonna happen in Tuesday's primary but what's going to happen from the momentum that will come from that and the impact it will have on this country, on this nomination, on this party and most importantly the country as a whole. ENDORSEMENT 22:00:47 I am proud to tell you that I am endorsing Ted Cruz to be the next president of the united States. [Applause] Let me give you three quick reasons why. We don't shout, we just talk in this state. You see, the protesters five years ago, they tried to shout us out and we just quietly got the work done and show that our results work. So I am going to give you three simple reasons why I'm proud to support Ted on Tuesday to be our nominee and to be ultimately our president come this fall. First off Ted Cruz is a constitutional conservative. Do you know why that matters? We have shown in this state why that matters. Because you see, he understands that the founders of this country some 240 years ago, the incredibly unbelievably brave founders of this country had a pretty good vision. CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE / SHOOK STATUS QUO 22:01:51 They understood that power should not be concentrated in Washington. Instead it should flow to the states. And more important to the people. When that happens the people in states like Wisconsin can take charge of their government, not just here but take back their federal government. We need someone committed to the constitution and that is Ted Cruz. Secondly, what I love is something we can really relate to in Wisconsin. And that is Ted Cruz is someone who is not afraid to take on the status quo. Right? He showed America what it means to take power out of the hands of the big government special interest and put it firmly into the hands of hardworking taxpayers. It's worked year after year after year. It has worked. It is about time we have that kind of commonsense leadership in our nation's capital. Ted Cruz didn't just talk about when he run for the senate, he brought that kind of approach and opinion to Washington. And you know what? It shook things up. It shook up the Democrats. It shook up the Liberals, it shook up the status quo. And yes occasionally it shook up Republicans in Washington. But he doesn't care because his constituency is you, the American hard-working people. ANd that's exactly what he is going to do as your next president. PRACTICAL REASON: THE ONLY CANDIDATE THAT CAN WIN 21:03:13 And to me there is one more reason, third reason, so you got the philosophical and the policy reason why I am supporting Ted Cruz to be president. Notice my reasons are all about who I am for, not about who I am against. I think that is important in Wisconsin. We like to be for something, not against something. The third reason is a practical reason. You see Ted Cruz without a doubt is the candidate who can both win the nomination of this party, bring the party together at the convention and defeat Hillary Clinton this fall. CANNOT TRUST HILLARY CLINTON 22:04:07 Cause between now and Tuesday, let's remember here in Wisconsin, and then let's remind other across the country that as Republicans our opponents aren't the people on the primary ballot. Our opponent is Hillary Clinton, someone who so far out of touch with reality someone that even the Democrats understand -- that's part of the reason why Bernie Sanders has so much support here and elsewhere. Is because even Democrats understand we cannot trust Hillary Clinton on Benghazi, on the server, on her emails, on leading this country. 22:04:42 It is my honor to tell you I am for, and I just came from (?) I was there talking a little bit with folks at the Lincoln day dinner in (?) county. I had the good fortune to sit for a few minutes next to Ted Cruz's dad. Who is a minister. My dad is a preacher. Both of us are preachers kids. We know what it is like to grow up with the scrutiny of being preachers kids. We understand how our kids feel. Hopefully one of them will be a president. Thinking about big next to his dad it brought a smile to my face. I could see some of the things my dad does. I thought about it. Thinking about growing up during the 1980's. Growing up not just the kid of a preacher but growing up in a time when the leader of our country was someone we could look up to. Someone who thought about the 10:06:12 PM future more than just his own. Someone who had a vision of how to bring this country together not by running away from principles but by embracing those principles and applying them to leading our nation. That was Ronald ReaganWe came of age at that time. REAGAN/INTRO TO CRUZ 22:06:20 Ted and I both came of age not in office. We both came of age. Cause we were in high school. In school at that time and Ted and I and people like Paul Ryan and probably a lot of you here, remember that Ronald Reagan was our president. He was our leader. He was the leader of the free world. And we believed in him because he had a plan to move this country forward in the right direction. He was a principled conservative who was optimistic about the American people. I believe ladies and gentlemen that's who we have with us here tonight, the gentleman who is going to win the Wisconsin primary tuesday, who is going to unite this party together when he receives the nomination in Cleveland and who will once and for all put us on the right track after he is elected the 45th president of the United States. Ladies and gentlemen put your hands together for Ted Cruz. TED CRUZ Mr. Cruz: God bless the great 10:08:15 PM state of Wisconsin. I have to say. Your governor is a rock star. Let me tell you. When governor Scott walker stood up and took on the union bosses, when we saw vicious personal attacks, when we solve vicious threats, and millions of men and women across the state of Wisconsin stood with your governor and said we got your back. I want to tell you it inspired millions of Americans across this country. It inspiredme. It demonstrated when we the people stand together we can beat the special interests bankrupting our kids and grandkids. 10:09:17 PM And the courage and principle that Scott walker and the people of Wisconsin demonstrated in that fight over and over again is exactly in the courage -- the courage we need ndc to turn this country around. [Applause] Mr. Cruz: I am so humbled, so honored to be standing here with governor walker. Thank you for your friendship and tremendous leadership. [Applause] Mr. Cruz: You know, you can learn of a lot about a word looking to its roots. If you look at the roots of the word politics, it has two parts. Polly, meaning many and ticks, 10:10:17 PM meaning bloodsucking parasites. That is an accurate description. We are here tonight for something important politics. We are bankrupting our kids andgrandkids. America has receded from leadership in the world and it has made the world a more dangerous place. I am here with a word of hope and encouragement. All across the state of Wisconsin people are waking up. Help is on the way. [Applause] 10:11:19 PM This next election will focus on three critical issues. Jobs, freedom and security. Let's start with jobs. I want to take a minute to talk to the single moms. They are working to, three part-time jobs. I want to talk to all the truck drivers, all the plumbers and electricians, all the union members, all the working men and women with calluses on your hands, who have seen wages stagnate year over year. Cost of living keeps going up. Somehow your paycheck doesn't keep pace. I want to talk to the young people coming out of school, 10:12:21 PM student loans up to your eyeballs. Scared. In mild going to get a job? What does the future hold for me? The mainstream media try to tell us this is the new Normal. This is as good as it gets. That is an absolute lie. [Applause] It is easy to talk about making America great again. You can even print that on a baseball cap. [Applause] The real question is do you understand the principles and values that made America great in the first place? The heart of our economy is not Washington DC. The heart of our economy is millions of small businesses across the United States of 10:13:22 PM America. [Applause] You want to unleash jobs, you have to take the boot of the federal government off the back of the next of small business. If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obama care. [Applause] We will pass commonsense health care reform that makes health insurance personal and portable and affordable, and keeps government from getting in between us and our doctors. [Applause] Mr. Cruz: We will pass a simple flat tax. [Applause] 10:14:23 PM Every American can fill out our taxes on a postcard. When we do that, we should abolish the irs. [Applause] We're going to rain in the EPA. And the regulations killing jobs all across this country. We are going to stop amnesty and secure the border is an in the sanctuary cities and and welfare benefits f for those here illegally. [Applause] Let me tell you what's going to happen when we do all of that. We will see millions and millions of high-paying jobs. 10:15:24 PM Jobs coming back to America, back to China, back from Mexico. Manufacturing jobs coming back to the state of Wisconsin, wages rising for Americans across this country, young people coming out of school with 2, 5 jobs. [Applause] We will see morning in America again. The second critical issue, freedom. The passing a few weeks ago of justice Scalia underscores the stakes of this election. It is not just one but two branches of government that hang in the balance. We are one liberal justice away from a radical five justice majority the likes of which this country has never seen. We are one justice away from a 10:16:25 PM supreme court that would strip the religious liberty for Americans across this country. We are one justice away from a supreme court that would effectively erase the second amendment from the bill of rights. One justice away from the supreme court making a subject to the world court in the united nations and international law, and giving away U.S. Sovereignty. Two debates ago, Hugh Hewitt asked a question about religious liberty and the supreme court. Donald Trump turned to me. He said test, I have known more politicians than you have. In that he is correct. Donald Trump has been supporting liberal democratic politicians for 40 years. I have no experience with that. 10:17:25 PM [Applause] Mr. Cruz: Donald continued. He said when it comes to the supreme court, when it comes to religious liberty you have to learn to compromise. You have to learn to cut deals with the Democrats and go along to get along. Let me be very clear to the men and women of Wisconsin. I will not compromise away your religious liberty. [Applause] I will not compromise away your second amendment rights to keep and bear arms. The third critical issue in this race, security. For seven years we've had a 10:18:25 PM president who abandon our friend and ally. Two debates ago, Donald Trump explained if he were president, he said he would be neutral between Israel and the Palestinians. Let me be very clear. As president I will not be neutral America will stand on a hot ill genetically with the nation of Israel -- unapologetically with the nation of Israel. Anyone who can't tell the difference between our friends and our enemies, anyone who can't tell the difference between Israel and islamic terrorists, that raises real questions about their fitness 10:19:28 PM and judgment to be commander-in-chief. We were all horrified by an attack in Brussels. Every time we see one of these attacks, Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, president Obama goes on national television and refuses to even utter the word radical islamic terrorism. Instead he lectures Americans on islamophobia. The last attack, president Obama found it very inconvenient. It interrupted his baseball game with the Castro's. Wasn't a delightful to see the president palling around with communist dictators in front of the giant orchard of Che Guevara 10:20:30 PM -- giant portrait of Che Guevara ? To see a joint press conference where rival class to said let me tell you all the horrible things about president Obama -- about America and have president Obama say I agree with you, America is terrible. It is asking too much to have a president who will defend the United States of America? [Applause] Over the next -- last seven years we've seen our military week -- weaken. We've seen this before. We've seen another left-wing democratic president Jimmy Carter, we can the military. - Weaken the military. 10:21:34 PM Then we had president Reagan. It generated trillions in new government revenue. Use the revenue to rebuild the military and we bankrupted the soviet union and won the cold war. [Applause] I intend to do the same thing radical islamic terrorism. We are going to repeal Obama care and pass a flat tax and pulled back the regulators and stop amnesty. We will see millions of more jobs created. It will create millions for the government and we will use that revenue to rebuild the military so it remains the mightiest fighting force on the face of the planet. [Applause] No longer will our military be 10:22:35 PM governed by political correctness. [Applause] We have principled leaders that keep us safe here at home. Sheriff knows how to make a tax and at home by wearing his boots. I will tell you, sheriff, for the jihadists across the globe, come January 2017 a day of reckoning is coming [Applause] We are not going to weaken. We are going to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. [Applause] 10:23:43 PM One of the most shameful aspects of the last seven years has been this president sending our fighting men and women into combat. With rules of engagement so strict their arms are tied behind their backs and they cannot fight, they cannot win, they cannot defeat the enemy. That is wrong. It is immoral. Come 2017 it will end. [Applause] America has always been reluctant to use military force. We are slow to anger. If and when military force is needed we should use overwhelming force, kill the enemy and get the heck out. [Applause] 10:24:43 PM Let's talk politics. We had 17 Republican candidates. It was a dynamic field. What a contrast. With the Democrats a wild eyed socialist with ideas that are dangerous for America and the With the Democrats a wild eyed socialist with ideas that are dangerous for America and the world and Bernie Sanders. [Laughter] [Applause] Over the course of the air we have seen what a primary is supposed to do. The field has narrowed. The field has narrowed, there 10:25:50 PM are only two candidates who have the path to the nomination. Me and Donald Trump. Wisconsin is a battleground. The entire country, their eyes are on the state of Wisconsin. He men and women here have a platform. You were speaking not just for the state but the entire country. For the 65-70% of Republicans who recognize nominating Donald Trump is a train wreck, that is actually not fair to train >>. -- Train wreck. Hillary not only wins, she wins by a big margin. If Hillary is the next president, the supreme court is 10:26:52 PM lost for a generation. The bill of rights is lost. Our kids are buried. Trillions are more in debt. What we're seeing happening in Wisconsin and across the country is Republicans are coming together and uniting behind this campaign. [Applause] Of the 17 candidates who started we have seen five candidates come together supporting this campaign. Rick Perry, Carly Fiorina, Lindsey graham, Jeb Bush, and your own governor Scott walker. [Applause] That is the real manifestation 10:27:52 PM of the unity we need across this country, to win, Republicans have to stand together. If we are divided we will lose the primary and hand the general election to Hillary Clinton. It is men and women here you are taking the lead to make that happen. I am here tonight asking for your help. I'm asking for each of you to continue standing up between now and Tuesday, to take it upon yourself not just to voteI want to ask everyone here to vote for me 10 times. Now look. We are not Democrats. I am not suggesting voter fraud. If everyone here gets nine other people to come out and vote on 10:28:53 PM Tuesday you will have voted 10 times. [Applause] That is how we win. The power of the grassroots. The same power that stood with governor walker in the battle with the union bosses. The same power of the grassroots. The men and women who stood together and said we can we can do this. -- We can do this. We are going to turn this country around. [Applause]. [END] Highlights: Sarah Palin attacks Cruz on immigration, referencing gift baskets of teddy bears being used to lure illegal immigrants Sarah Palin says Reagan saved the Harley Davidson Gov. Scott Walker paints Ted Cruz as uniter, describes his endorsement as "standing for" not "standing against" somebody Cruz jokes that a Trump nomination would be a train wreck and "that's actually not fair to train wrecks" MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN- Ted Cruz appeared on stage with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for the first time since Walker endorsed him. Cruz got a physical embrace from Gov. Scott Walker at the Milwaukee County Republican Dinner and Walker used his speech to encourage Republicans to embrace and unite behind Cruz. On the other hand, Donald Trump's surrogate Sarah Palin gave a rambling speech that left the audience of more than 700 often silent and sometimes laughing. Ohio Gov. John Kasich spoke first and began by saying that he'd heard 38 percent of Wisconsinites didn't know much about him. He said nothing new and only mentioned Trump once, using a typical line from his stump speech: "I understand people who are Donald Trump voters." (20:54:12) Palin gave a speech that some supporters told me afterwards they found incoherent. She jumped around from immigration to trade to the treatment of veterans. She did not mention religious liberty or the right to life. Palin made a joke about a unity ticket, encouraging Republicans to form a unity ticket to get former Green Bay Packer Jerry Kramer into the hall of fame. "I have a unity pledge, I have a unity pledge that I want to propose for all the guys running, why don't they unify in that mission for Wisconsin, to do whatever it takes to get Jerry Kramer finally inducted where he belongs, in the NFL hall of fame. No matter their political leanings on the spectrum in the republican party. That's something they can all work towards," Palin said. (21:26:06) Palin came very close to referencing Cruz by name but offered veiled attacks at him regarding the amendments he proposed to the Gang of 8 bill. She also made a reference to illegal immigrants being lured with gift baskets. That could be a reference to this Breitbart report about Cruz and Glenn Beck reportedly brining teddy bears to the border in July 2014. (<http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/07/18/mike-lee-sends-regrets-ted-cruz-signs-up-for-glenn-beck-soccer-balls-teddy-bears/>) "What are you thinking when you're going ahead and you're actually asking for more immigrants, even illegal immigrants, welcoming them in, even inducing and seducing them with gift baskets. Come on over the border and we'll-- here is a gift basket of teddy bears and soccer balls. What are you thinking? It's just inviting more. The candidates they can say anything that they want to about immigration, amnesty, but actions scream so much louder than a politician's words. Take the gang of 8 bill to increase foreign workers by 500%. And green cards increased by 200%. Who offered the amendments for that, to further collapse US incomes and jobs and security, which candidate?" Palin said. (21:31:17) She also offered this line about Reagan saving the Harley Davidson in Wisconsin: " Reagan saved the hog, here, your Harley Davidson. It was Reagan who saved that, he saved it with a 45% tariff that he put on Japanese motorcycles to combat their cheating." (21:36:01) The crowd was most enthusiastic for Walker and Cruz. Walker used the end of his speech to hammer home why he was supporting Cruz and in what seemed to reference Trump, he said: "Notice my reasons are all about who I am for, not about who I am against. I think that is important in Wisconsin. We like to be for something, not against something." (21:03:13). Walker painted Cruz as a uniter. "Tonight, the gentleman who is going to win the Wisconsin primary tuesday, who is going to unite this party together when he receives the nomination in Cleveland and who will once and for all put us on the right track after he is elected the 45th president of the United States. Ladies and gentlemen put your hands together for Ted Cruz," Walker said. (22:06:20) Walker described a Cruz win in Wisconsin as leading to nationwide momentum for the Cruz campaign. "And so tonight I'm going to ask for your help one more time. Not just here in this state but for this country," Walker said. "I hope particularly for those of you who haven't yet made up your mind, I can tell you about who I am casting my vote for on Tuesday. And hope that you'll join with me not just for what's gonna happen in Tuesday's primary but what's going to happen from the momentum that will come from that and the impact it will have on this country, on this nomination, on this party and most importantly the country as a whole," (22:00:13) Cruz stuck to his stump speech and did not shy away from attacking Trump. He actually expanded an attack line on Trump. "For the 65 to 70 percent of Republicans nationwide who recognize that nominating Donald Trump is a train wreck. That's actually not fair to train wrecks," Cruz said. 22:25:20 His typical jab poking fun at Trump's slogan went over well here. "It's easy to talk about making America great again you can even print that on a baseball cap (cheers and laughs) but the real question is do you understand the principles and values that made america great in the first place," Cruz said. 22:12;35 H/T Paola Contardo for log

WASH 6 DONALD TRUMP RALLY FRESNO CA POOL 052716 C16 13:37:31 Wow. Thank you everybody. What a crowd. What a crowd! It's so beautiful to have this many people. I saw on television this morning. 5 o'clock in the morning, people were lining up. This is crazy, crazy. Well I wanna thank everybody. I know Fresno very well. You know that, right? Because, I came here, probably ten or twelve years ago. And they had a problem. You remember the problem, right? They had a problem. 13:38:06 I think it was running horse. Right? Running horse. And I was going to take it over and do a beautiful job. Fortunately, I did not do it because there is no water anymore because they send all the water out to the ocean, right? I got lucky that I didn't do it. But I would have changed the water, I would have worked it out. Don't worry. But you know, so it was interesting. And some of the radio guys, one in particular who is here, where are you? Wherever you are. He was so great, where is that guy? Where is he? He was so great to me -- I'll tell you, he was so good that I almost did the project. That would have been terrible, right? But good, thank you. But we had great support, great community support. There were a couple of politicians who are against it. A couple of politicians who didn't like me. They said I wasn't a nice person, and that thing is just sitting there. 13:38:55 And you know, no, you don't want to go wild because I do that a lot. You go in, if they want you to love you and everything else. I didn't do it and I made a fortune by not doing it. Good, I mean everyone's. You know, some of the best deals are the deals that you don't do. You understand that. And we're gonna solve your water problem. You have a water problem that's so insane. It is so ridiculous where they're taking the water and shoving it out to sea. [ Cheers ] 13:39:28 And I just met with a lot of the farmers who are great people and they say we don't even understand it. They don't understand - nobody understands it, and I have heard this from other friends of mine in California, where they have farms up here. And they don't get water. I said oh, that's too bad, is it a drought? No, we have plenty of water. I said, what's wrong? Well, we shove it out to sea. And I said why? And nobodyeven knows why. And the environmentalists don't know why. Now they're trying to protect a certain kind of three-inch fish but -- >> [ Crowd boos ] >> No, no think of it. So nobody even knows why. And by the way, the environmentalists don't know why. And you know, I should say this. 13:40:09 I have received many, many environmental rewards. I, you know, really. Rewards and awards. I have done very well environmentally. And I'm all for it. But you have some people that really want to just get in the way. And I don't know if it's for their ego or what but there are so many things and, you know, we want jobs and we have to bring jobs back. And if we can bring this part of the world water that we have, that we have -- [ cheers ] 13:40:39 >> But it's true, I've gotten so many of the awards and I am proud of them. And there are some great environmentalists and some great environmental people and they really do. You know my environmental standard is very simple. And I've said it to everybody. I want clean air and I want clean water. That's what I want. Clean air, clean water. Very, very simple. So anyway, we're gonna be back up here. If I win, believe me, we're gonna start opening up the water so that you can have your farmers survive. [ Cheers ] >>So that your job market will get better. [ Cheers ] 13:41:16 No, but there are some things that are inconceivable that, you know, they happen and you wonder why. And I am asking everybody, why, why, why. And nobody can really explain why they do this but they do it. Your senators are for it but they're totally ineffective. They are for it for you and to the other side there, they're for it for them. Then you wonder why nothing happens. When you are with the senator, they want you -- then they go over to the environmental side and they want them and then you say gee, that's strange, they're for me, we want the water but the environmental is just endorsed them, I wonder why. I will tell you how it works. They play both sides of it but they're actually not for you. We'll get it done and done quick, don't think about it. That's an easy one. [ Cheers ] So...yesterday was a big day, you know yesterday -- 13:42:17 [ cheers ] Yeah, we'll bring it back, folks. We'll bring this country back. You know what it is? Look at all those red hats, white hats, black hats. The gun shooting hats, they do pretty well, I will tell you. Speaking of that the NRA last week endorsed Donald Trump in the earliest endorsement they ever given. The earliest they've ever given. That was a great honor. Wayne and Chris and all the guys, these are great people. These are great Americans. These are people that want to see great thing for the country. They try to build them like sort of a radical agenda, it's not a radical agenda. It's called the second amendment folks. 13:43:20 now, Hillary Clinton, wants to abolish the second amendment, remember that. She wants to abolish it. You know I watched her on television and it is really hard for me to watch her. Because honestly, it is very boring, you know? It is very boring. I watched her last night and she lies so much. She lies so much. She was saying last night so many things -- Donald Trump wants to see Japan get nuclear weapons. I never said that. Donald Trump wants to see Germany get nuclear weapons. He wants to see South Korea to arm themselves. I didn't say that. I never even said close to that. Donald Trump loves North Korea, he loves the maniac that's running North Korea. Donald Trump is a friend of Putin. 13:44:20 Well, actually Putin did call me a genius and he said I am the future of the Republican party. He's off to a good start. I will say -- [ cheers ] I will say he's off to a good start, right, folks? By the way, I am not a friend of Putin, I don't know Putin, I have never met Putin. I respect Putin, he's a strong leader. Unlike what we have, we have a pathetic leader. Pathetic. We don't even have a leader, the word leader. You go "leader" in quotes. We don't even have a leader. Would it be nice if we actually could get along with Russia? Wouldn't it be nice? 13:45:00 We spend almost $5 trillion in the Middle East and we are in more shape today than 15 years ago. If these presidents would have gone away in vacation and not done anything we'd be in better shape that we are today if you think about it, right? I was against the war in Iraq, totally against the war in Iraq, totally against it. And Hillary raised her hand, hey, it happened and it was a disaster, one of the worst things this country's ever done. Obama got us out very badly. He said a date, we are going to be out a certain date. The other side did not believe it and could not believe it. 13:45:41 They thought it was misinformation. So they weren't totally prepared. Then he left on that date. I think General Douglas and general George patent mcarthur, they're spinning in their graves. When they see what's happening with our country, when this great country can't beat ISIS which is essentially 30,000 people -- vicious people, smart people -- but, when they see that we cannot beat them and you know we are fighting not to win. We now fight war in a politically correct manner. We got to get out of there. We gotta win. 13:46:22 We got to get out of there, we got to win, we got to build up our military bigger, better, stronger than ever before. [ Cheers ] [ Whistling ] In a certain way it's the cheapest thing we can do. Because look at what's going on. Everyone's laughing at us. And we send our allies over there. They're fighting Syria. We don't even know who we're send-- we send information, we send armaments and military and rifles and we send them so much stuff. And a friend of mine has a son. He's been over in Iraq for a long time. Numerous times and he's been there for a long time. And he's a good boy, He's a great guy. And he's a great american kid. And I love talking to him, but it's very depressing. 13:47:10 He said the most depressing thing is when we're fighting and we see what's coming on the other side, and they have newer equipment than we have. They take the humvees, they shoot a bullet in the air, the guys that are given -- our so-called allies -- they run, they run for the hills. And ISIS or whoever, comes in and takes the equipment -- they have brand new equipment. And this guy, who's great -- he loves his country -- but he finds it so sad. He said, we deliver equipment to our allies. There's a skirmish, the allies run away, drop the equipment, they run, and the enemy comes and takes our equipment.. And they end up with armor-plated humvees. You know they sold 2,300 humvees. Think of it. 2,300. Two-thousand -- all armor plated. And we have our guys driving around in things where they lose their legs, they lose their arms. And it's really a sad thing. And it's not gonna happen anymore folks, not gonna happen anymore. 13:48:15 But I watched Hillary Clinton -- as I say, Crooked Hillary. She is crooked. But she lies, she lies so much. And it's sad you know she lies so much, but I can't really use that term because I've already used that term. I don't like to use a term twice. But she lies so much and she's saying all these things like I respect the kid from Korea. I mean can you imagine this, I respect--- I have total respect and like him very much. 13:48:40 Hillary is a disaster folks. She has bad judgment. That was said by Bernie Sanders. He's giving me a lot of my best lines. I mean he has given me such great lines on her, and if I say it, they're gonna say that's not nice, I'll just say, oh I was referring to Bernie Sanders. And we do get much bigger crowds than him. DEBATING BERNIE 13:49:17 And I wanna debate him so badly -- I would love to debate Bernie. First of all, I said give 10 million, 15 million to women's health issues or pick the charities, but the networks wanna keep the money for themselves. The second thing is, we got the nomination yesterday, so we have the nomination. So we're number one. And, it was tough but we won by such big margins because it's a rigged process. I mean very rarely would a guy like me just come in and just win. We won by so much. I tell the prize fighters. They say no Mr. Trump we don't worry about a decision because if we knock them out we don't have to worry about decisions. That's what we did. We won by such big margins that we had knockouts and we got the nomination. And by the way do you notice, it wasn't supposed to have been gotten till July. 13:50:11 And then some of these pundits who are among the most dishonest people in the world by the way. They said we don't think it's even going to happen in cleveland in July. We think it's going to take another convention. Can you believe that, would that be a mess. And I said I don't know what you're talking about we're gonna win on the first ballot. And it actually happened even sooner because remember Indiana, we won New York right? We won Pennsylvania, big, all of them big. We won--and these are all landslides I won't have to use the word too often. We won massive in new york we won massive in Pennsylvania in maryland in connecticut in delaware in rhode island. And then they had the answer because they had indiana but indiana liked me better than it liked them by a lot. And we went to indiana and won in a massive landslide. 13:51:07 And we won with the evangelicals, and we won with the women thank you. You know we're breaking records in the polls with men. See they're all screaming women love you. I love women. Believe me, I love women. I LOVE Women. [cheers] And you know what else? I have great respect for women, believe me. Great respect for women. But I won with women i won with men. Now with men, I'm setting records that's why I'm leading. The men I'm setting polling records, they've never seen numbers like this, the men like Trump. I would rather have the women like Trump! To hell with the men, I don't care about the men I want the women. We're setting records with the men and we're doing fine. We're going up up up with the women. Let me tell you, one of the things with this Bernie I wanted to go to (?)-- a lot of money but the networks are very greedy and they're making a fortune off this whole election. 13:52:24 I don't know if you've seen the numbers with CNN and Fox and MS, all of them they're through the roof they're making a fortune because of me. Because honestly nobody else--who the hell are they gonna watch? I can't use any of the people that have vanquished because I'm trying to get along with them all now. I have to be a good republican and love everybody that I've beaten. So I won't use them. But you think they're gonna watch hillary and bernie? Let me tell you the debates for as Variety Magazine and Hollywood Reporter they call it the trump debate. They said the trump debate drew record numbers so the trump debate. Now let's say I wasn't in the group I'm not saying this braggingly folks I don't want to get into that. 13:53:07 But let's say I wasn't in. They had the highest number in the history of cable television, 24 million people. Now if I wasn't in they would've had what 3 people? Okay. But I don't say that. I refuse to say that. Three weeks later CNN had a debate and they had 23 million people, more than that, the highest number in the history of CNN and then the debates did great all the way along I mean they did. Now the democrats had debates too. And they did fine but they were much much lower. And you ever notice that even though hillary scored in another scandal you know the inspector general who's a democrat did a big big number on her. I don't know how she can continue to run I'll be honest with you, how does she continue to run. 13:53:56 How does she continue--it could be I'll have to debate because you know what if you're in first place you don't want to really debate a guy who's in second place but it could be i'll end up with bernie but I hear what they're going to do they don't want bernie. 'Cause look he's a socialist I mean give me a break. Have we come that far? Have we come that far? I don't think so. Look he's a socialist. So what they're going to do i hear if she doesn't make it because if things somewhat beyond her control although personally I think she's being totally protected. Because they would've done it by now. But this inspector general report was a real doozy this was a bad report. This was page after page and you know it goes back to judgement it goes back to competence. HILLARY IS ALWAYS SKIRTED ON THE EDGE 13:54:43 She's not competent. If you look, she's essentially not competent. It goes to her judgement, it goes to her level of competence. And she's not competent. And it's always been this way. She's always skirted on the edge, whether it's white water or whether it's all of these things. Or going into -- how about Benghazi? But look at, look at -- and you know what? And I say this, and I say it, cause Benghazi to me was a horrific situation. But for whatever reason, the mainstream media, because they're trying to protect her, they never picked it up. Fox picked it up more than anybody in all fairness. But they never picked it up. And a lot of people don't know so much about Benghazi. Benghazi, like they should know. 13:55:24 But her decision to go in, and this was her baby, Libya, was a disaster. And she got rid of Gaddafi. And now, you have a mess. And you know who has the oil? Who has the oil in Libya? ISIS has the oil. So you know what we got out of it? We got death, we got destruction, we got ISIS rebuilding stronger than ever in Libya and having among the greatest, the level of quality of oil in Libya is among the best in the world. It's high up, it's extremely sweet. It's just phenomenal oil. ISIS has the oil. And then you say, if ISIS has the oil, why aren't we blockading so we can't sell it? Why aren't bombing the hell out of -- we have -- [ cheers and applause ] -- let me tell you. 13:56:08 Let me tell you. Our Washington leadership, in particular, our president is grossly incompetent. Just remember I said that. [ cheers and applause ] Grossly incompetent. So, so it's sad. So we'll see happens, but it looks like it's going to be Hillary. It should not be Hillary. What other people have been accused of is far less than what she's been accused of. I mean, by (?) you look at what General Petraeus, you look at other people who have done a fraction of what she's done. And their lives are destroyed, their lives are destroyed. So, we'll see what happens. 13:56:54 I just don't understand why it's not happening. You know, how long does it take? How long does it take? And you know, gets to a point, when do you do it? One day before she gets it, or two weeks after she gets it? It's almost, we almost don't want that. We want to have it, if it's gonna be done, let it be done. And if it's not gonna be done, we're going after her verbally. Because, what she did is so wrong. What she did is so wrong. [ cheers and applause ] But, when I watched her speech last night, it was so sad, because everything she said was like a lie. I wonder, I wonder if I could start, instead of saying crooked Hillary, which is a very accurate description, I wonder if I could say, you know, remember lyin', lyin', I won't say lyin' Ted, I refuse to say it. Lyin' Ted. 13:57:41 Holds that Bible high, puts it down, and then he lies. Lyin' Ted. Well I'm gonna retire that from Ted. I'm not gonna call Ted that any more. Not gonna call him. But I wonder if I could redo it, because after watching her last night with the lies that I love the leader of North Korea. The leader of North Korea. You know, I said -- here's what I said. They asked me, some newspaper. Asked me -- and you know, just, they're all bad, cause any answer you give, it's always like, you know, slanted negative. If you happen to be a conservative republican. NYTIMES ARTICLE ABOUT TRUMP AND WOMEN 13:58:18 If you're a democrat, especially if you're liberal, they'll take your answer and say, no, no, no, you don't mean that, you gotta say it this way, this way -- they'll correct your answer. So it's absolutely perfect, right? But if you're a conservative republican, you know, they'll put ? of the answer in and then they'll write your own words. I'll tell you what, I've had, look at the New York Times story. Did you see the New York Times with me and the women? Front page of the New York Times. Above the fold, middle picture, me standing there with Miss Universe contestants. This was done -- this was the National Inquirer. And then they did stories with certain women. You've seen what happened. It's like -- they don't know what to do, the New York Times. 13:58:52 They don't know what to do. I know that, because we're talking to them. They are so embarrassed - they put it. And then they talked about different women. One of them was named Roxanne, and one of them, another -- I won't even go into it. But they all came, they said, that's not what we said. That's not what we meant. We think Mr. Trump is fantastic. One of them said he's a great man. One of them said he's a great man, I'm gonna vote for him. I mean, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable. And they all came out. And Rowanne, Rowanne was incredible. Because, it's Rowanne Brewer Lane, who's a wonderful person. 13:59:31 But I figured, you know, it would be a story, it was a false story, I knew it was a false story. But I figured, you know, too bad, how do you fight it? Because they're dirty, rotten liars, these people. I'll tell you. They're the most dishonest people. They're dirty, rotten liars. And Rowanne came out and she said, that's not it. And she got on CNN, in all fairness, I give a lot of credit to CNN and Fox and I think MS, maybe they put her on, maybe they didn't, probably they didn't, cause they're like a pipe organ for the Times. But, she got on a lot of television and she wanted the record set straight. And she said the nicest things about me. And then they had another one. Then they had a construction person -- let me tell you about this person. 14:00:10 So she didn't come out and say nice -- She wrote a book that I'm fantastic. She wrote that I am a non-sexist person. I am non-sexist. Now, who ever even thinks of this. If you're talking about somebody, you don't say, think of it, you're writing about somebody. She worked for me. I gave her a job in charge of putting up big building. Probably there's never been a woman, in all fairness, in charge of such a big project, certainly in New York. You know, it was way, way ahead of schedule. In fact, my father said, my father's from the old school, it's okay, it's okay to say this, right women? And he said, don't put her in there, don't put her -- I said dad, I'm telling you, she's gonna be fine. Don't put her. I said, pop, she's gonna be fine. Besides that, it's my building, I can do what I want, okay? 14:00:51 [ laughter ] Trump Tower. [ cheers ] No. No. I had the greatest father. He's the greatest teacher you could ever have, he was a great guy. He said, alright, look, if you wanna do it. And now I think he was right, because of this. She was fine, she did her job and got it done. And that was it. Then she left, went to another company, and didn't -- she hasn't had a good career after that. She had a good career with me. She writes a book, and she said nice things in the book. I didn't read it, but she said nice things, was said to me the other day. And, and one of the media sent it. In all fairness, the Daily Mail wrote a fantastic story about it. Because it's a scam. 14:01:34 So then she said, now, the Times never called me about her, so I gave her a job that no other woman would have ever gotten. So I was way ahead, and I still am, I have so many women executives. I have women executives -- [ cheers and applause ] -- I have women executives that are paid more than men executives for the same jobs. Now you know what that means, tomorrow I'll be sued by men. You get sued by everybody. I guarantee you I will get a suit from the men in my company they're not getting enough money. I have a lot of women executives, I've been way ahead they're fantastic. So she writes a book, and the book says he's not sexist. 14:02:14 You know now anybody that puts that in a statement I never even thought about it, it means they're into that. They're into trouble. So she writes that, he's not sexist OK, writes me emails, letters, emails, many many I have no interest in taking her back. No interest and one of my men came in and said oh that's Barbara, she's the most foul mouth human being. We had to bring her in my office years ago and say you gotta clean up your language. She would go into a group of men and start cursing and using the F word, the most foul mouth person we had to tell her don't do it. So now, she ends up in the New York Times and I said OK, that's good I'm glad because she's gonna say nice things, wrote nine books, and said great things about me and she gets on and says, 'he's not good, he's this, he's that, and he said to me, don't have that piece of candy.' [laughter] And I would never wanna say she was heavy or not heavy, I would never do it. 14:03:25 But he said to me, don't have that- and I actually had friends that are watching this whole game and they are saying with all of them, if that's the worst things you've done with women, I gotta tell you you are in a class by yourself and they went a lot further than that. In fact, some of them said you gotta be the nicest guy in the world, this is a front page story by the failing NY Times above the fold, with a biggest picture and beautiful colors and all these girls standing around. I owned it, I owned it, I sold it recently made a lot of money recently which was-- 14:04:08 I sold it, IMG great company, they are going to do a great job with it and I sold it because TV didn't wanna give me the ads because they said, I want to stop illegal immigration so, TV, Univision and NBC and all we settled it it turned out to be great I'm very happy. Let's put it this way. In the history of beauty pageants nobody ever made the money I made, I wanna tell you. It was good. But and I lost a lot by doing this, Macy's turned out to be a total trator, Macy's head of Macy's calls me up 'Donald I'm very concerned'. What? You know, I said we gotta stop illegal immigration and I have not a big deal I was selling ties and shirts at Macy's big deal who cares. A lot of them were made in China so I didn't care to be honest with you. 14:04:58 You have no choice, they don't make things here any more, they make it in other countries, they don't make it here. So I called up and he goes, Donald I'm very concerned. I'll never forget I was in NH I was getting ready, and then Richard said to me, you're starting to do well - I'm getting ready to go up and make a speech, I'm standing here on the stage, and a nice guy is introducing me and there's over a thousand people which is a small crowd now, a thousand people- but in NH they have small venues. The place was packed and I'm getting ready and the man is saying, Donald Trump is the personification of The America-- so he's saying all the different things and I get a call and it's the head of Macy's. He was a friend of mine, I haven't spoken to him since, I won't talk to him. 15:05:53 " Donald, I am so concerned, I hear they are going to picket Macy's.' Who? ' Some people we don't know.' Donald, could I announce that we are dropping your line? I said, drop my line for what? LEt them have a picket for half an hour then they are going to want to go to lunch you have it all the time. No no they are going to picket. He was so afraid, I said Terry I'm going up to make a speech. No, please don't get off the phone. Please. Could we talk about it? And I'm saying to myself, can you believe this guy? And this was a friend of mine. I said Terry let them-- no please talk. In the meantime, ladies and gentlemen Mr. Donald Trump and I can't get this guy off the phone. I said do whatever you wanna do, I don't care. 14:06:34 They cancelled my ties and shirts and they were doing well. When I do - very disloyal we ought to boycott Macy's. I'll tell you what happened.Because of that, thousands of people who are customers at Macy's cut up their credit cards. 14:07:00 Because it showed a couple of things. Number one, it showed no loyalty to a friend. I was a friend of the guy. Well, I don't have to play golf with him any more. That's okay. But I was a friend of the guy. But it shows that people aren't willing to take on the tough issues. Illegal immigration's a tremendous issue, a big issue [ protester ] -- oh that's okay. Oh, thank you so much. You have such a beautiful voice. [ boos ] 14:07:29 Alright, get him out. Get him out. >> [ chant ] Trump! Trump! Trump! Get him outta here. So what it really shows -- and by the way, do we love our police? Our police, we love our police. We gotta let them know. Because ,our police are not treated fairly I will tell you that. Alright, thank you very much, that's good. She had a very meek, mild voice. Usually you're better off just letting her shout, it's my people that cause the problem. When they start screaming, look over here, over here. And you can't even hear the person, right? That's alright. Well it's good, because then the cameras go around. 14:08:33 You know, the cameras never take the camera off me. The only way they take the camera off me, the only way, is when there's a protester. So I love my protesters. I love my protesters. So, when I ran, I gave up a lot. I gave up "The Apprentice." You know, they wanted to sign me for a lot of shows. And I gave up "The Apprentice." And now, we put in Arnold Schwarzenegger, I have the show. But, we put in Arnold, we'll see how he does. Who the hell knows. But, I gave up the shirts and ties. I gave up a lot of things. And I gave up a lot of deals. 14:09:08 But I want to do this, because we are gonna make our country so great again. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. And what it showed to Macy's, what it showed to me, really, was great disloyalty to the country, because it's an issue that has to be discussed. And people understand. And it's become, probably, the number one issue. And if I weren't running, you wouldn't even be talking about it right now. And then you have the killing of Kate and the killing of Jamil. And so many other killings and so much crime going. And it's the number one. 14:09:46 And by the way, we will build a wall, and the wall we paid -- [ cheers ] >> [ chant ] Build the wall! Build the wall! Build the wall! TRUMP>> No, we'll build the wall. Alright, you ready? Are you ready? And who is gonna pay for that wall? >> Mexico! TRUMP>> Mexico, 100%. 100%. WASH 6 DONALD TRUMP RALLY FRESNO CA POOL 052716 C16 P2 14:10:25 Did you see vincente fox couple of weeks ago he was on CNN. And they asked him and we're making progress because 2 years ago he said we will never allow a wall now he said we will never pay for the wall he doesn't talk about allowing it. But he said 2 weeks ago, 3 weeks ago and he was very nice he actually apologized to me which is nice most people don't do that. But vincente fox he was the president of mexico not so long away and he was being interviewed and he said we will not pay for that and then he gave the f bomb wall. And I said oh this is gonna blow up this is gonna be a disaster I feel so badly for the guy and nobody even talked about it. Can you imagine if I said that? If i said that I'd get the electric chair. He said it you know past president, nobody even talked about it. I will not and we will now build that f bomb wall. 14:11:16 I said oh what a poor guy he shouldn't have said that it's terrible. Nobody picked it up nobody cared. I do it it's i'm telling you it maybe that they will demand that the death penalty be brought back okay? If i do it. But he was very nice and he just doesn't understand that this is gonna happen and as you know the border patrol agent 16500 last week they endorsed donald trump first time they've ever endorsed. And Sheriff joe we love sheriff joe sheriff joe arpaio he knows a little bit about borders, he knows a little bit. I have to tell this story because I deal with strong people weak people I deal with everybody, smart people dumb people I deal with everybody. So I'm in arizona and we have this massive crowd and the roads are blocked. And there were certain law enforcement i love law enforcement guys but there were certain guys they wanted to be very politically correct they didn't want to do anything about it. 14:12:16 And sheriff joe was there. And he comes over and he says what's the problem. Now they chain themselves to their cars on a highway. And there was only one highway in. And we had 20,000 people it was massive. And it was all blocked up. And these people were calling names to other enforcement agencies and cursing at them and everything. And when joe heard about it he went what? What? He didn't even understand, what? And sheriff joe arpaio from that area he goes up--we love sheriff joe wait you gotta hear this one he goes over there no guns, no nothing he's standing there they know who he is. What are you doing? Sheriff we're chained to the car. We're not gonna move. You got 30 seconds to unchain yourself. Now in the mean time there are about 400 people. Of the 400 there are only about 3 or 4 chained to the car. 14:13:12 The 400 people all ran. They dispersed. The 4 people they had and by the way he had behind him a couple of guys with chain cutters right the jaws they call them boom. Boom Boom. To jail. Cars were moved they were thrown apart. They were--it took--and I'm not saying this to build him up he's a friend of mine he's a great guy. And he and your former governor Jan and so many people they're friends of mine they're great people they endorsed me early sheriff joe arpaio endorsed me early. But i got to watch what respect is, i got to watch it. Here we are we have a road it's being held up for a long time. Thousands and thousands of people they wanna come see a rally are being horribly treated i mean they're sitting in their car their cars are turned off you couldn't get through the highway. And other people didn't want to do anything they're probably afraid to be sued and i understand that. You know today a policeman talks if you talk the wrong way to somebody you end up going to jail for the rest of your life. 14:14:12 But seriously they take away your pension they fire you from the force. Joe looked at them and says what are you doing what are you doing. I'll never forget. Couple of guys standing behind him and they're only standing there with the cutters. And he said what are you doing everybody left with other people they were standing there chanting chanting chanting, cut them up, I think it took three or four people to jail they were put in jail and that was the end of it they moved the cars they pushed the cars out of the way. It took like five minutes it was so beautiful to watch. It's called respect. It's called respect. And we had a rally of 25,000 people at least and there wasn't one protest and I don't mind protest. I mean when that young woman screamed I couldn't hear her too much but could only hear my people saying there she is. I wanna get my people to shut up every once in awhile just leave her. 14:15:03 But we had, I always say a Trump rally is the safest place. First of all do we have fun at Trump rallies? Do we have fun? Right? Do we have fun? You know, it's the safest place on earth, it's the safest place on earth. We have more safety, it's all, we were in Costa Mesa in California. 31 thousand people in this incredible dome, this amphitheatre and it was a love fest but they had people outside burning the American flag [boos] and waving flags from other countries ok I'll be nice. They are waving flags, burning that was the one they started stomping on the police car it was very (?). And the whole story, they probably had 150, the whole story was about that. They showed a couple of helicopter shots and I had people whose children were killed, whose family were killed, whose relatives were killed by illegal immigrants so they had them on the stage with me. 14:16:02 It was an unbelievable evening, an unbelievable success but 90% of the coverage was this guy stomping on a policemans car. By the way, if that were Sherrif Joe he wouldn't be stomping I guarantee it. He wouldn't be stomping on sheriff joe's car I can tell you that much now. I'd be a long long term prison sentence for that guy. That guy did some major destruction. Then he almost broke his ass when he got off did you see? He tried to pretend, he tried to pretend it didn't hurt oh he was in pain he took a heavy fall he will probably now sue the police because the car was too slippery on the hood right. 14:16:40 So we are doing really well and one of the things I will tell you, so we got the I think we have a real shot. One of the things we're going to do because Hillary is terrible. She is terrible as a candidate and Bernie assuming it's bernie, and remember this I think and I'm pretty good with this stuff, when I was a business person I got along with everybody, all sides I get along with everybody it was my job. I got along with democrats, republicans, Hillary, Bill. I get along with everybody I do what-- we do what we have to do folks and I'll tell you what, if you look at what's going on and if you look at what we see just look at what's going on around you. 14:17:18 We don't make good deals anymore. We're like the dummies of the world. We have the worst trade deals ever done. Nafta was signed by Bill Clinton right, signed by Bill Clinton . NAFTA has single handedly destroyed much of the economic viability of our country. They have moved to Mexico they have moved all over the place, it's one of the saddest things. When i won all these state's and I'm from New York so I understood Syracuse and Rome, New York the real Rome. And Albany and out on Long Island. MAKING A KILLING FROM BUYING OLD FACTORIES 14:17:48 And I'd look at these factories that have been absolutely abandoned and left to die and you can see 20-25 years ago they were vibrant places but now they are just dead. You can buy them for two dollars. Actually I'll give you a good clip. If I win what I would do is before I win, go buy all those empty factories all over the place I'm telling you. You will buy them for 37 cents. Because if I win those factories will be vibrant again and you will have made a killing in the real estate market ok. Good idea. 14:18:24 And if I don't win you will have wasted a couple of bucks so it's not so bad. I really mean it, I tell you what I really mean it. I might have a conflict of interest but I saw some I said man I'd like to buy that thing I bet I can buy that for nothing. Most of them are crumbling. You know the bricks are all rotted out, they are crumbling, falling down. But they were all over. Syracuse and all over long island and all over Pennsylvania. And then you have Hillary Clinton and West Virginia and she says, we will put the coal miners out of work, we will put the coal miners out of business. We will end the mines. We will put the mines out of business right? We will put the coal miners out of business- coal miners. Why would you want to put the coal miners out of business. 14:19:05 It takes guts to be a coal miner. I personally I love the coal miners you saw how I did with West Virginia. I don't have the guts to be a coal miner. That's a tough job. I actually said to them, I said fellas cause I got such support, I won with massive numbers in West Virginia. And I won in Kentucky, big area people don't even realize. I won't Kentucky, I won in Pennsylvania with massive numbers. They I mean these are incredible people and I had a group of 20 of them in front of me. 14:19:32 We had a crowd that was so big, I think we had 40 thousand people. We had this incredible Arena that was packed and there are 20 thousand people outside, we put the loudspeakers outside in West Virginia. The people are looking for help, they are looking for hope. They are looking for something to having nothing, to having nothing. The EPA is destroying coal and you know coal is an incredible fuel. WIND AND BALD EAGLES 14:19:59 This is something that built, we built our country with coal. And you know who uses coal, china uses coal, we can't use it I mean they are making it impossible. And now they want to put everything else out of business and yet a wind turbine that kills all the bald eagles all (muddled) -- that's ok with them right. Even though it needs subsidy. 14:20:16 But there's a place for everything, I know a lot about Solar, I love solar. Except there's a problem with it, it's got a lot of problems with it. One problem is it's so expensive. They give me a 30 year payback oh that's great let me buy some and I'll get my money back over 30 years period. I mean you gotta make it so it works. Solar, the concept of solar is good but it has a problem. You know when the sun isn't shining you also need some like Juice. You need a little electricity. I have a friend he says-- he's really into it. He said so how are you doing. He said I built an all solar house but I have a problem. I have 3 months in the year when the sun isn't enough and I can't live I have no electricity. I said what did you do? "I bought a big ugly generator and I fill it up with gasoline and it spews fumes". But he needs help. Another friend of mine I tell you these stories--isn't it great when you don't use teleprompters when you use the same speech all the time? Isn't that great, isn't that great. 14:21:16 And this has to do, all this stuff has to do with leadership because our country has gone wrong.So I have a friend, he went into an all lead, you know what a lead is some people call it a lead beuilding. But they call it a lead, it's highly rated and he's a very substantial guy, very wealthy guy has a tremendous, has a lot of office space and he said Donald I'm so proud and he wants to be, he wants to give back to the country and that's why I'm doing this, I want to give back that's why I'm doing this. Am I doing a good job we just won the nomination. So he's a good guy but he's a tough guys. Tough, smart, very rich and he took many floors of an office building and this building is rated like, very high. In other words environmentally unbelievable. Right and he said Donald I feel so good, I've just signed a lease with an all lead building and he said I feel so good about it. 14:22:09 I say, which building? That one. I say, well congratulations, I said by the way do you like- how's your vision, he goes what does that have to do with it? I said how is your vision? He said my vision is good. I said in three years it won't be because you won't have enough light to see. He said what do you mean , I said do you mind being freezing in the winter? And hot as hell in the summer? Of course I do. I said you will freeze your ass off in the winter and in the summer you will be a disaster. What do you mean, he said Donald Look I'm very proud of what I have done. He called me up the other day, he said it's the dumbest thing he's ever done. He said, it was a warm day, it's like 85 degrees in my office. 14:22:51 I said of course they don't give you enough juice. I can do that too, just don't give enough electric. I'm going to be environmentally friendly but everyone is going to sweat to death. ANd he said you know and you were right about another thing, I don't have enough light. So I took lights and they are operated by batteries and I put them on my desk so I can see. So you know, because when he said I just moved into an all lead building I said no that's too bad, he didn't know what I was talking about. So look folks, we gotta be smart. It's just like what's coming over the border. We have people coming over the border, we don't know who they are, we don't know where they come from. 14:23:29 They come from Syria, they come from the migration but they come from all over the place. They are putting them in your community and we've had some big problems you know. You take a look at Paris 130 people dead, hundreds of people still in the hospital. Their lives are, many (?) lives are destroyed. So badly. And by the way speaking of that, speaking of that. If in Paris or if in San Bernardino where these young radicals-- Radical Islamic Terrorism! Problem. We have a problem, we have a problem, we have a president who is so incompetent he won't even mention the words. And there's nothing wrong with mentioning the words. We gotta solve it. If you're not going to address the problem, if you're not going to talk about the problem then you're never going to solve it. 14:24:13 So radical islamic terrorism right we have a problem and we are going to solve the problem. But they have to report, they have to report the bad ones. You see there's like a very close bond- not working so well but like the San Bernadino people everyone knew they were up to bad stuff. They had bombs all over their floor. That's not exactly normal. If I go to your floor these three beautiful young ladies in front, do you have any bombs on you rfloor? And you know what if you did I would report you. I would say, I would call up the local sheriff who I just met. Where's the woman? She's fantastic. Where is she? The sheriff. So Sherrif, I would call you and I would call the chief, where's the chief the chief was great. All those stars. And I'd call the chief but I'd call up and I'd say Sheriff, I have a person here I mean I don't know much about them but honestly there's bombs all over their floor. 14:25:18 Do you think that would be helpful sheriff right? But people don't report them right. They see what's going on and not going to happen folks, they got to report. Because we can solve a lot of the problems. When they look for the thug, you know the press used to call him mastermind, the mastermind. And then we wonder why our kids are so attracted to joining ISIS. Over the internet, they are using the internet better than we do. 14:25:42 And you have to talk about that because why are we allowing them to get to our kids like this. Our kids are going over there. These kids don't even know what they are doing and they are going over to fight for ISIS because a lot of things but the press is calling the leader the mastermind. I call him the guy with the dirty filthy cap. All dirty disgusting. All dirty, the mastermind. But they haven't been doing it so much lately. But we have to solve, we have to stop this stuff. We Have to be smart. We have to be vigilant and they have to report. And you know what they have to report? They guy, the mastermind that they called him, they guy with the cap. The guy that they have been looking for for months. You know where he was living? Right next door to his apartment. 14:26:24 In the same location, right next door to his apartment. And everybody in the community religious people, they all knew he was there. And yet it took like what 9 months almost a year to find him.And they found him only by mistake, he wasn't reported. So they all knew he was there he was living in the community he was the number one wanted person in the world. And he was living right next to where he lived. The same people and they were protecting him. And they had just killed 130 people and hundreds of people in the hospital. So when that goes on that's no good folks. You gotta report. You gotta report. When you see trouble you gotta report. 14:27:02 And if you don't report, we can't handle it. If you don't report we can't handle it. I'll just finish up a couple of these because it's like current events, it's like a current events class. I like this better than my normal speech right? Because you've already heard a lot of this stuff. But yesterday our president has said "Donald Trump has foreign countries rattled". Great, that's so great. ANd he said, rattled. Now look here is the thing. We protect, we spend millions and billions and billions and actually trillions and trillions. We owe 19 trillion but we spend billions and hundreds of billions of dollars protecting other countries and that's all fine. That's all fine. We protect Japan, nobody knows that. We protect Germany, nobody knows that. We protect Saudi Arabia. 14:28:03 Do you know how much money Saudi Arabia makes? They wouldn't be there for two minutes if we ever said we are leaving. So they are going to pay right. Guy said they are going to pay for it. So one of the biggest diplomats of the country he is a friend of mine you saw recently I actually met with him it was all over the place so you can figure it out. And he said Donald, I thought you were wrong in your approach. I thought it was too tough but you know what, all of those countries are calling me, what do we do, what do we do, how can we make him happy. What can we do. If he wins what can we do. RESPECT US! Who said that? Oh man what a great, what a great line that is. This guy had the best line of the morning I'm very embarrassed. That's good. 14:28:58 Am I allowed to use that or will you sue me if I use it? That's great no that's an (?) I said what can we do what can we do he shouts out respect us! That's really it we want to be respected, we don't want to be the dummies anymore. We don't want to be the dummies. So I'm with this man and they say they are all calling and he knows all the nation's he's highly respected he's a great guy, great guy and he said they want to know, we want to get along, we want to get along. They take such advantage of our president it's so sad to see what's happening. They take such advantage. And Hillary, they I mean give me a break. HILLARY SCREAMING INTO THE MIC 14:29:39 You know, we talk about presidential. Do I look presidential? [ cheers ] Do you think -- honestly, honestly, honestly. Do you think Hillary looks presidential? In all fairness. >> No! I don't think so. And I'm not gonna say it, because I'm not allowed to say it, because I wanna be politically correct, so I refuse to say that I cannot stand her screaming into the microphone all the time. [ covers his ears ] Actually, that's why I turned it off last night. It wasn't that she was lying about me at every single corner. I just couldn't stand it. I got such a headache, ugh. Please. No, but I won't say it, because we're not allowed to say that, right? Talking to these women in front, is that right? Was I good in not saying it? Yes. Alright, look. 14:30:35 So, so, Obama gets on television, first of all, he's not supposed to be talking when he's in Japan about politics in our nation. Okay? He's not supposed to. I think I got him rattled. He's the one that's rattled, you wanna know the truth. I remember when I was looking to run, when I was looking to run four years ago, and I guess I'm glad I didn't do it, cause I think this is gonna be great. And we needed four more years of incompetence to, you know, to get us there. Okay? Maybe we did. But I was looking -- you remember, I was leading in the polls, I was doing great in the polls, I never announced I was running. And boy, did Romney let us down. Man, did he choke. Boy, did he choke. He was like, he couldn't breathe. Like, can't breathe, I can't breathe. Boy, did he choke. He was a choking dog. Cause that was an electing that should have been won. 14:31:33 Now, in all fairness, he had the worse campaign manager in the history of campaigns. I watched this guy on television all the time. And he's constantly talking about, yes, I don't like Donald Trump's attitude. There's a guy, took an election that's a guaranteed win, and he lost it. I don't even think it was Romney so much. You know his name? Anybody know his name? Huh? Should I bring it up? Oh, to hell with it. He had the worst campaign manager. I'll give you a hint. Stuart. Okay? The worst campaign manager that I think I've ever seen, cause I was there. I said, listen I don't believe what's going on with the polls. You gotta get out there. You gotta get on television, you gotta -- and for like a month and a half, he was like a lost soul. He didn't do anything. And say what you want about Obama, he was on Jay Leno at the time, he was on all the different shows, he was on Letterman, he was all over the place. 14:32:29 I said, you better start getting on television, you're gonna lose. And he took an election that should have been won and he lost. And I backed John McCain, but I don't -- you know, I think, I think for him to have won would have been very tough, because he had a little thing like, you know, a lot of bad things were happening for the republicans. So I don't blame him, I backed him. And what happened is, I backed McCain, I backed Romney, I backed Romney big. And this time, I said, we're gonna do it ourselves, folks. We're gonna just go, we're gonna win, okay? We're gonna win. We're gonna win. And, and when I hear, and when I heard the word rattled, to me that's a perfect -- 14:33:08 You know when you're negotiated, has anybody read The Art of the Deal? When you're negotiating, because we have to negotiate. We have horrible trade deals. China, and I'm -- I love China, China's great. I have a lot of friends in China. Very smart people. I've made a lot of money dealing with China. The Bank of America building, through China. 1290 Avenue of the Americas, I sell a lot of condos. The biggest bank in the world from China is, is one of my tenants, right? Pay me a lot of rent. And we don't have to worry about the rent the rent either, they're good for it, I can tell you. What they for us, the devaluation of their currency, what they do to our businesses, where they make all our product and everything else. And you look at South Korea, you look at all these countries, we're all taking advantage of this. 14:33:49 They all think we're stupid people. They all think we're like Obama. They all think we're stupid people. Let me tell you, we have the greatest people in the world, we have business people that don't fail. We have business people that are so much better than the Chinese negotiators. And we're gonna use those people. And we're gonna make great trade deals. And we're gonna bring our jobs back. And we're gonna have great relationships with China. And with Mexico. And with Japan. Look at Japan, they're sending millions of cars. You know what we give them? Beef. And they don't even want it. They send it back. It goes back and forth, no, no send it back. After about four trips, they call it Colby, you know that's aged, it ages for about six -- it's true. 14:34:31 And they sell it for about 15 times more money. It's not a bad deal. But look, look. We've gotta be smart. [ audience interruption ] Oh, he's on our side, that's okay. No, no. He's on our side. He's on our side. So, here's the story, folks. Here's the story. Here's the story. Why didn't you do it a little earlier, you dope? Okay, folks. Do you wanna wait, alright, let's get him outta here. DON'T HAVE TO BE DOING THESE SPEECHES 14:35:15 So, folks, so here's the story. No other republican, you know we won by landslides, we won big. And by the way, who would have thought, you know they were saying, Trump will be in this race for a long time, maybe he can eek it out at the end, the end? I've been watching, I wanna get into action, I'm getting a little bored. That's why I'm here. I'm doing these speeches. I don't even have to be doing them. What the hell am I doing? Somebody said, why are you doing a speech in Fresno, and now I'm going to San Diego. And why are you doing a speech in San Diego? You won the nomination? You don't have to do any speeches for a while. I said, you know why? Because I promised the people I was gonna come and make a speech, that's all. That's all. 14:36:04 Now I, with that being said, we, cause it's we, this is a movement. You know, we're on the cover of Time Magazine all the time. I've never -- I've been on the cover of Time Magazine so much. I think it was two times in like 35 years. And it's four or five times in the last 5 months. That means politics is more important than real estate, right? But, but look, here's the story. In the history -- this is the thing I'm most proud of -- in the history of the republican party. Now, you're talking about Dwight D. Eisenhower. You're talking about Richard Nixon. You're talking about Ronald Reagan. You're talking -- I love it. I like him too. You're talking Reagan. You're talking about all these people. In the history of the republican party, nobody has ever gotten as much votes in the primaries than I have, right? By far. And -- what's the big secret? And, and -- 14:37:00 We have ten state's to go and there's one other thing. I've been competing against 16 other people. Right. Hillary said the other night-- I have more votes than Donald0-- she has one guy she's competing with and he's a socialist. She's got one guy. I got governors I got all these other different people. I have governors and senators, respected people. Ben Carson who endorsed me who's a great guy but I have respected people. And if I had one two or three, I would have broken the records for democrats and republicans. GO OUT AND VOTE JUST DO IT / WHAT WE HAVE IS A MANDATE 14:37:38 And I still think I can. Now we have broken-- look here's what I'm saying, in two weeks you gotta vote. Go out and vote in the primaries just do it just do it ok. As you know I got the nomination anyway but don't waste it. Let's knock a record because the bigger vote we get, the more of a mandate it is. It's a mandate what we have is a mandate and that's why we are on the cover of all the mag-- and it's we, I'm the messenger, I have done a really good job as a messenger but I'm the messenger. It's we it's a whole thing. Time magazine has one great picture where I am standing like this and I have this big crowd in front of me and there's a picture from the top and I was happy because it didn't show a bald spot so I was happy -- I combed that hair just (noise). I was so happy. I don't know maybe the did a little airbrushing who knows, I doubt it I doubt it. 14:38:31 But they have all these incredible, all these incredible stories they are incredible stories. And basically I told you, Bill O'reilly said and Bill O'Reilly is a tough cookie. In fact watch his show tonight. He is doing a special on Trump. Can you believe it. It's going to be a big show, but it's called the best of trump, I don't know if that's good or bad. But Bill O'reilly said two weeks ago he said, I mean here's a guy he's a tough guy smart guy, he said, in his history in his lifetime he has never seen a more important political event than what has happened with Donald Trump. That's a big statement. 14:39: 14 That's a big statement. And a lot of the event is you I mean look at this 11 o'clock on a friday morning and we have all these thousands of people I mean it's you. And when we go out on weekends we have 35, 40 thousand people happening and it's beautiful and it's a love fest and it's sort of easy to do and it's fun to do here's the thing. So get out and vote in a couple of weeks and get out and vote cause here's what we're going to do and I'll tell you this right now and I shouldn't say it because, although Hillary has got bigger problems right now. But we are going to make a strong play for California. Maybe I can't do it, maybe I can't do it. No no maybe I can't do it. Maybe I can't do it. Now the smart money would say that a Republican candidate cannot win California. 14:40:01 But when i go to Costa Mesa, when i just left 50 or 60 farmers in the back and they can't get water and I say how tough is it, how bad is the drought there is no drought, they turn the water out into the ocean and I said I've been hearting it and I spent a half an hour with them it's hard to believe. ON WINNING CALIFORNIA 14:40:19 But listen, we're gonna win the election. So I wanna make a big play for California. Should I? [ cheers ] I think so. Now, I'll say this, I'll say this. No other republican, let's say Ted Cruz won, or let's say anyone of them won, they wouldn't even come here for dinner. Because, they are told that as a republican, you have zero chance, okay? I really believe we're gonna win it. I think we have a real chance to win it. [ cheers and applause ] And you know what? I view it strategically also. Because if we don't win it, they are gonna spend one hell of a fortune in fighting me off, that I can tell you. Money that could've been spent some place else, right? Right? But I think we can win it. 14:41:12 We have great group -- Tim and all of his people. We have amazing people. So I just wanna say to this group, you're the first one. I am gonna make a heavy, heavy, heavy play, because I think that we're getting these massive crowds all over the place. I actually think we're gonna win California. Plus, I have property here. I have employees here/. So we're gonna make, we're gonna make a big thing. I'm just laughing, I did this last night at another place. Here are my notes -- see? Isn't that better than a teleprompter? Isn't that better? One of the things I have here, two of the things I have here, TSA. Did you ever see a more disgusting situation than what's going on at your airports? 14:41:54 We'll straighten that out. And the other thing I have here, remember this, you know, they talk about, oh third party. All these stupid people like Bill Kristol. This guy's like a moron. We are going to find a third party. He's been saying that for like three years. We are going to -- he's the one that wanted to go into Iraq. We have to attack Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. Only problem is, they never knocked down the World Trade Center. It was somebody else, right? So listen, listen. These are stupid people. Because remember this. And he's, I think they've given up now pretty much, except the libertarian party is, nothing. But listen, listen. 14:42:25 If we win, the most important thing we have other than our national security, even more important than the economy in a sense, is the appointment of Supreme Court judges. If Hillary wins, our country will never be the same, for a lot of reasons. The military will be weak, the borders will be swiss cheese. If we win, if we win, we are going to have phenomenal Supreme Court justices. And I put out a list of eleven. [ cheers ] And I've gotten A+ reviews. And we're gonna protect our second amendment. 100%. She's gonna abolish it. She is gonna abolish it. Remember that. We're gonna protect our second amendment, but here's the story folks. We don't win anymore. But we're gonna start winning again. We're gonna win with our military, and we are gonna knock the hell out of ISIS. [ cheers ] 14:43:25 We're gonna win big on trade and we're gonna still have great relationships. But we're gonna win big. We're gonna bring our jobs back. We're gonna bring money back. We're gonna save your social security. We're gonna cut your taxes, because the middle class and business are being destroyed with taxes. So we're cutting your taxes more than any other candidate by far. We're cutting your taxes, and we're simplifying your taxes, so you don't have to and spend all that money to get people that take half of your money in order -- because it's so complicated. So we're gonna cut your taxes, remember. We're gonna save your social security and medicare. We are going to do a great job at our border. We're gonna create a country again. We're gonna have a country again. 14:44:09 [ cheers ] We're gonna repeal and replace Obamacare with something great. We're gonna get rid of common core and bring your education locally, which will be phenomenal. And we're gonna start winning again. We're gonna win with everything. We're gonna win with military and trade and healthcare. We're gonna win with education. We're gonna win so much, and I do this cause I have fun doing this, to be honest. And you've seen it before. And we're gonna build that wall, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. And people are gonna come through that wall, but they're gonna come through -- just remember -- they're gonna come through legally. I wanna say that. I have to say that. 14:44:59 We want people to come into the country. But they have to come in legally. So here's the story. We're gonna win, we're gonna win, we're gonna keep winning. We're gonna win so much that you people are gonna say, let's have a protest at the White House, we're winning too much. We can't stand it anymore. Because, we're not used to winning. WE can't take it anymore. Mr. President, please, we don't wanna win so much. And I'm gonna say, I'm sorry, we're gonna keep winning, winning, winning. And we are gonna make America great again! ###end### FRESNO, CA - As signs that read "Farmers for Trump" welcomed him to the stage in Fresno, GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump spent a great deal of time in the top of his speech selling the farming community on his plans to help them - "I just met with a lot of the farmers who are great people and they say we don't even understand it. They don't understand - nobody understands it, and I have heard this from other friends of mine in California, where they have farms up here. And they don't get water. I said oh, that's too bad, is it a drought? No, we have plenty of water. I said, what's wrong? Well, we shove it out to sea. And I said why? And nobody even knows why. And the environmentalists don't know why." On Clinton today not a lot that wasn't said before - he called the Inspector General report a "real doozy" - but he did seem to recap his version of Clinton's greatest hits. 13:54:43) "She's not competent. If you look, she's essentially not competent. It goes to her judgement, it goes to her level of competence. And she's not competent. And it's always been this way. She's always skirted on the edge, whether it's white water or whether it's all of these things. Or going into -- how about Benghazi? But look at, look at -- and you know what? And I say this, and I say it, cause Benghazi to me was a horrific situation. But for whatever reason, the mainstream media, because they're trying to protect her, they never picked it up. Fox picked it up more than anybody in all fairness. But they never picked it up. And a lot of people don't know so much about Benghazi. Benghazi, like they should know.- 13:55:24 - But her decision to go in, and this was her baby, Libya, was a disaster. And she got rid of Gaddafi. And now, you have a mess. And you know who has the oil? Who has the oil in Libya? ISIS has the oil." He then said Hillary doesn't look presidential. (14:29:39) "You know, we talk about presidential. Do I look presidential? [ cheers ] Do you think -- honestly, honestly, honestly. Do you think Hillary looks presidential? In all fairness. CROWD >> No! "I don't think so. And I'm not gonna say it, because I'm not allowed to say it, because I wanna be politically correct, so I refuse to say that I cannot stand her screaming into the microphone all the time. [ covers his ears ] Actually, that's why I turned it off last night. It wasn't that she was lying about me at every single corner. I just couldn't stand it. I got such a headache, ugh." On some foreign policy stuff he said Clinton was attacking him for saying he would give Japan and some European nations nuclear capabilities - which is true - he said it's false. (13:43:20) "Now, Hillary Clinton, wants to abolish the second amendment, remember that. She wants to abolish it. You know I watched her on television and it is really hard for me to watch her. Because honestly, it is very boring, you know? It is very boring. I watched her last night and she lies so much. She lies so much. She was saying last night so many things -- Donald Trump wants to see Japan get nuclear weapons. I never said that. Donald Trump wants to see Germany get nuclear weapons. He wants to see South Korea to arm themselves. I didn't say that. I never even said close to that. Donald Trump loves North Korea, he loves the maniac that's running North Korea. Donald Trump is a friend of Putin." And on Bernie, still wants to do it. (13:49:17) "And I wanna debate him so badly -- I would love to debate Bernie." And he thinks he rattled Obama - 14:30:35 - "So, so, Obama gets on television, first of all, he's not supposed to be talking when he's in Japan about politics in our nation. Okay? He's not supposed to. I think I got him rattled. He's the one that's rattled, you wanna know the truth. " He wants to go for California in the general. (14:40:19) But listen, we're gonna win the election. So I wanna make a big play for California. Should I? [ cheers ] I think so. Now, I'll say this, I'll say this. No other republican, let's say Ted Cruz won, or let's say anyone of them won, they wouldn't even come here for dinner. Because, they are told that as a republican, you have zero chance, okay? I really believe we're gonna win it. I think we have a real chance to win it. [ cheers and applause ] And you know what? I view it strategically also.

WASH 6 DONALD TRUMP RALLY FRESNO CA POOL 052716 C16 13:37:31 Wow. Thank you everybody. What a crowd. What a crowd! It's so beautiful to have this many people. I saw on television this morning. 5 o'clock in the morning, people were lining up. This is crazy, crazy. Well I wanna thank everybody. I know Fresno very well. You know that, right? Because, I came here, probably ten or twelve years ago. And they had a problem. You remember the problem, right? They had a problem. 13:38:06 I think it was running horse. Right? Running horse. And I was going to take it over and do a beautiful job. Fortunately, I did not do it because there is no water anymore because they send all the water out to the ocean, right? I got lucky that I didn't do it. But I would have changed the water, I would have worked it out. Don't worry. But you know, so it was interesting. And some of the radio guys, one in particular who is here, where are you? Wherever you are. He was so great, where is that guy? Where is he? He was so great to me -- I'll tell you, he was so good that I almost did the project. That would have been terrible, right? But good, thank you. But we had great support, great community support. There were a couple of politicians who are against it. A couple of politicians who didn't like me. They said I wasn't a nice person, and that thing is just sitting there. 13:38:55 And you know, no, you don't want to go wild because I do that a lot. You go in, if they want you to love you and everything else. I didn't do it and I made a fortune by not doing it. Good, I mean everyone's. You know, some of the best deals are the deals that you don't do. You understand that. And we're gonna solve your water problem. You have a water problem that's so insane. It is so ridiculous where they're taking the water and shoving it out to sea. [ Cheers ] 13:39:28 And I just met with a lot of the farmers who are great people and they say we don't even understand it. They don't understand - nobody understands it, and I have heard this from other friends of mine in California, where they have farms up here. And they don't get water. I said oh, that's too bad, is it a drought? No, we have plenty of water. I said, what's wrong? Well, we shove it out to sea. And I said why? And nobodyeven knows why. And the environmentalists don't know why. Now they're trying to protect a certain kind of three-inch fish but -- >> [ Crowd boos ] >> No, no think of it. So nobody even knows why. And by the way, the environmentalists don't know why. And you know, I should say this. 13:40:09 I have received many, many environmental rewards. I, you know, really. Rewards and awards. I have done very well environmentally. And I'm all for it. But you have some people that really want to just get in the way. And I don't know if it's for their ego or what but there are so many things and, you know, we want jobs and we have to bring jobs back. And if we can bring this part of the world water that we have, that we have -- [ cheers ] 13:40:39 >> But it's true, I've gotten so many of the awards and I am proud of them. And there are some great environmentalists and some great environmental people and they really do. You know my environmental standard is very simple. And I've said it to everybody. I want clean air and I want clean water. That's what I want. Clean air, clean water. Very, very simple. So anyway, we're gonna be back up here. If I win, believe me, we're gonna start opening up the water so that you can have your farmers survive. [ Cheers ] >>So that your job market will get better. [ Cheers ] 13:41:16 No, but there are some things that are inconceivable that, you know, they happen and you wonder why. And I am asking everybody, why, why, why. And nobody can really explain why they do this but they do it. Your senators are for it but they're totally ineffective. They are for it for you and to the other side there, they're for it for them. Then you wonder why nothing happens. When you are with the senator, they want you -- then they go over to the environmental side and they want them and then you say gee, that's strange, they're for me, we want the water but the environmental is just endorsed them, I wonder why. I will tell you how it works. They play both sides of it but they're actually not for you. We'll get it done and done quick, don't think about it. That's an easy one. [ Cheers ] So...yesterday was a big day, you know yesterday -- 13:42:17 [ cheers ] Yeah, we'll bring it back, folks. We'll bring this country back. You know what it is? Look at all those red hats, white hats, black hats. The gun shooting hats, they do pretty well, I will tell you. Speaking of that the NRA last week endorsed Donald Trump in the earliest endorsement they ever given. The earliest they've ever given. That was a great honor. Wayne and Chris and all the guys, these are great people. These are great Americans. These are people that want to see great thing for the country. They try to build them like sort of a radical agenda, it's not a radical agenda. It's called the second amendment folks. 13:43:20 now, Hillary Clinton, wants to abolish the second amendment, remember that. She wants to abolish it. You know I watched her on television and it is really hard for me to watch her. Because honestly, it is very boring, you know? It is very boring. I watched her last night and she lies so much. She lies so much. She was saying last night so many things -- Donald Trump wants to see Japan get nuclear weapons. I never said that. Donald Trump wants to see Germany get nuclear weapons. He wants to see South Korea to arm themselves. I didn't say that. I never even said close to that. Donald Trump loves North Korea, he loves the maniac that's running North Korea. Donald Trump is a friend of Putin. 13:44:20 Well, actually Putin did call me a genius and he said I am the future of the Republican party. He's off to a good start. I will say -- [ cheers ] I will say he's off to a good start, right, folks? By the way, I am not a friend of Putin, I don't know Putin, I have never met Putin. I respect Putin, he's a strong leader. Unlike what we have, we have a pathetic leader. Pathetic. We don't even have a leader, the word leader. You go "leader" in quotes. We don't even have a leader. Would it be nice if we actually could get along with Russia? Wouldn't it be nice? 13:45:00 We spend almost $5 trillion in the Middle East and we are in more shape today than 15 years ago. If these presidents would have gone away in vacation and not done anything we'd be in better shape that we are today if you think about it, right? I was against the war in Iraq, totally against the war in Iraq, totally against it. And Hillary raised her hand, hey, it happened and it was a disaster, one of the worst things this country's ever done. Obama got us out very badly. He said a date, we are going to be out a certain date. The other side did not believe it and could not believe it. 13:45:41 They thought it was misinformation. So they weren't totally prepared. Then he left on that date. I think General Douglas and general George patent mcarthur, they're spinning in their graves. When they see what's happening with our country, when this great country can't beat ISIS which is essentially 30,000 people -- vicious people, smart people -- but, when they see that we cannot beat them and you know we are fighting not to win. We now fight war in a politically correct manner. We got to get out of there. We gotta win. 13:46:22 We got to get out of there, we got to win, we got to build up our military bigger, better, stronger than ever before. [ Cheers ] [ Whistling ] In a certain way it's the cheapest thing we can do. Because look at what's going on. Everyone's laughing at us. And we send our allies over there. They're fighting Syria. We don't even know who we're send-- we send information, we send armaments and military and rifles and we send them so much stuff. And a friend of mine has a son. He's been over in Iraq for a long time. Numerous times and he's been there for a long time. And he's a good boy, He's a great guy. And he's a great american kid. And I love talking to him, but it's very depressing. 13:47:10 He said the most depressing thing is when we're fighting and we see what's coming on the other side, and they have newer equipment than we have. They take the humvees, they shoot a bullet in the air, the guys that are given -- our so-called allies -- they run, they run for the hills. And ISIS or whoever, comes in and takes the equipment -- they have brand new equipment. And this guy, who's great -- he loves his country -- but he finds it so sad. He said, we deliver equipment to our allies. There's a skirmish, the allies run away, drop the equipment, they run, and the enemy comes and takes our equipment.. And they end up with armor-plated humvees. You know they sold 2,300 humvees. Think of it. 2,300. Two-thousand -- all armor plated. And we have our guys driving around in things where they lose their legs, they lose their arms. And it's really a sad thing. And it's not gonna happen anymore folks, not gonna happen anymore. 13:48:15 But I watched Hillary Clinton -- as I say, Crooked Hillary. She is crooked. But she lies, she lies so much. And it's sad you know she lies so much, but I can't really use that term because I've already used that term. I don't like to use a term twice. But she lies so much and she's saying all these things like I respect the kid from Korea. I mean can you imagine this, I respect--- I have total respect and like him very much. 13:48:40 Hillary is a disaster folks. She has bad judgment. That was said by Bernie Sanders. He's giving me a lot of my best lines. I mean he has given me such great lines on her, and if I say it, they're gonna say that's not nice, I'll just say, oh I was referring to Bernie Sanders. And we do get much bigger crowds than him. DEBATING BERNIE 13:49:17 And I wanna debate him so badly -- I would love to debate Bernie. First of all, I said give 10 million, 15 million to women's health issues or pick the charities, but the networks wanna keep the money for themselves. The second thing is, we got the nomination yesterday, so we have the nomination. So we're number one. And, it was tough but we won by such big margins because it's a rigged process. I mean very rarely would a guy like me just come in and just win. We won by so much. I tell the prize fighters. They say no Mr. Trump we don't worry about a decision because if we knock them out we don't have to worry about decisions. That's what we did. We won by such big margins that we had knockouts and we got the nomination. And by the way do you notice, it wasn't supposed to have been gotten till July. 13:50:11 And then some of these pundits who are among the most dishonest people in the world by the way. They said we don't think it's even going to happen in cleveland in July. We think it's going to take another convention. Can you believe that, would that be a mess. And I said I don't know what you're talking about we're gonna win on the first ballot. And it actually happened even sooner because remember Indiana, we won New York right? We won Pennsylvania, big, all of them big. We won--and these are all landslides I won't have to use the word too often. We won massive in new york we won massive in Pennsylvania in maryland in connecticut in delaware in rhode island. And then they had the answer because they had indiana but indiana liked me better than it liked them by a lot. And we went to indiana and won in a massive landslide. 13:51:07 And we won with the evangelicals, and we won with the women thank you. You know we're breaking records in the polls with men. See they're all screaming women love you. I love women. Believe me, I love women. I LOVE Women. [cheers] And you know what else? I have great respect for women, believe me. Great respect for women. But I won with women i won with men. Now with men, I'm setting records that's why I'm leading. The men I'm setting polling records, they've never seen numbers like this, the men like Trump. I would rather have the women like Trump! To hell with the men, I don't care about the men I want the women. We're setting records with the men and we're doing fine. We're going up up up with the women. Let me tell you, one of the things with this Bernie I wanted to go to (?)-- a lot of money but the networks are very greedy and they're making a fortune off this whole election. 13:52:24 I don't know if you've seen the numbers with CNN and Fox and MS, all of them they're through the roof they're making a fortune because of me. Because honestly nobody else--who the hell are they gonna watch? I can't use any of the people that have vanquished because I'm trying to get along with them all now. I have to be a good republican and love everybody that I've beaten. So I won't use them. But you think they're gonna watch hillary and bernie? Let me tell you the debates for as Variety Magazine and Hollywood Reporter they call it the trump debate. They said the trump debate drew record numbers so the trump debate. Now let's say I wasn't in the group I'm not saying this braggingly folks I don't want to get into that. 13:53:07 But let's say I wasn't in. They had the highest number in the history of cable television, 24 million people. Now if I wasn't in they would've had what 3 people? Okay. But I don't say that. I refuse to say that. Three weeks later CNN had a debate and they had 23 million people, more than that, the highest number in the history of CNN and then the debates did great all the way along I mean they did. Now the democrats had debates too. And they did fine but they were much much lower. And you ever notice that even though hillary scored in another scandal you know the inspector general who's a democrat did a big big number on her. I don't know how she can continue to run I'll be honest with you, how does she continue to run. 13:53:56 How does she continue--it could be I'll have to debate because you know what if you're in first place you don't want to really debate a guy who's in second place but it could be i'll end up with bernie but I hear what they're going to do they don't want bernie. 'Cause look he's a socialist I mean give me a break. Have we come that far? Have we come that far? I don't think so. Look he's a socialist. So what they're going to do i hear if she doesn't make it because if things somewhat beyond her control although personally I think she's being totally protected. Because they would've done it by now. But this inspector general report was a real doozy this was a bad report. This was page after page and you know it goes back to judgement it goes back to competence. HILLARY IS ALWAYS SKIRTED ON THE EDGE 13:54:43 She's not competent. If you look, she's essentially not competent. It goes to her judgement, it goes to her level of competence. And she's not competent. And it's always been this way. She's always skirted on the edge, whether it's white water or whether it's all of these things. Or going into -- how about Benghazi? But look at, look at -- and you know what? And I say this, and I say it, cause Benghazi to me was a horrific situation. But for whatever reason, the mainstream media, because they're trying to protect her, they never picked it up. Fox picked it up more than anybody in all fairness. But they never picked it up. And a lot of people don't know so much about Benghazi. Benghazi, like they should know. 13:55:24 But her decision to go in, and this was her baby, Libya, was a disaster. And she got rid of Gaddafi. And now, you have a mess. And you know who has the oil? Who has the oil in Libya? ISIS has the oil. So you know what we got out of it? We got death, we got destruction, we got ISIS rebuilding stronger than ever in Libya and having among the greatest, the level of quality of oil in Libya is among the best in the world. It's high up, it's extremely sweet. It's just phenomenal oil. ISIS has the oil. And then you say, if ISIS has the oil, why aren't we blockading so we can't sell it? Why aren't bombing the hell out of -- we have -- [ cheers and applause ] -- let me tell you. 13:56:08 Let me tell you. Our Washington leadership, in particular, our president is grossly incompetent. Just remember I said that. [ cheers and applause ] Grossly incompetent. So, so it's sad. So we'll see happens, but it looks like it's going to be Hillary. It should not be Hillary. What other people have been accused of is far less than what she's been accused of. I mean, by (?) you look at what General Petraeus, you look at other people who have done a fraction of what she's done. And their lives are destroyed, their lives are destroyed. So, we'll see what happens. 13:56:54 I just don't understand why it's not happening. You know, how long does it take? How long does it take? And you know, gets to a point, when do you do it? One day before she gets it, or two weeks after she gets it? It's almost, we almost don't want that. We want to have it, if it's gonna be done, let it be done. And if it's not gonna be done, we're going after her verbally. Because, what she did is so wrong. What she did is so wrong. [ cheers and applause ] But, when I watched her speech last night, it was so sad, because everything she said was like a lie. I wonder, I wonder if I could start, instead of saying crooked Hillary, which is a very accurate description, I wonder if I could say, you know, remember lyin', lyin', I won't say lyin' Ted, I refuse to say it. Lyin' Ted. 13:57:41 Holds that Bible high, puts it down, and then he lies. Lyin' Ted. Well I'm gonna retire that from Ted. I'm not gonna call Ted that any more. Not gonna call him. But I wonder if I could redo it, because after watching her last night with the lies that I love the leader of North Korea. The leader of North Korea. You know, I said -- here's what I said. They asked me, some newspaper. Asked me -- and you know, just, they're all bad, cause any answer you give, it's always like, you know, slanted negative. If you happen to be a conservative republican. NYTIMES ARTICLE ABOUT TRUMP AND WOMEN 13:58:18 If you're a democrat, especially if you're liberal, they'll take your answer and say, no, no, no, you don't mean that, you gotta say it this way, this way -- they'll correct your answer. So it's absolutely perfect, right? But if you're a conservative republican, you know, they'll put ? of the answer in and then they'll write your own words. I'll tell you what, I've had, look at the New York Times story. Did you see the New York Times with me and the women? Front page of the New York Times. Above the fold, middle picture, me standing there with Miss Universe contestants. This was done -- this was the National Inquirer. And then they did stories with certain women. You've seen what happened. It's like -- they don't know what to do, the New York Times. 13:58:52 They don't know what to do. I know that, because we're talking to them. They are so embarrassed - they put it. And then they talked about different women. One of them was named Roxanne, and one of them, another -- I won't even go into it. But they all came, they said, that's not what we said. That's not what we meant. We think Mr. Trump is fantastic. One of them said he's a great man. One of them said he's a great man, I'm gonna vote for him. I mean, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable. And they all came out. And Rowanne, Rowanne was incredible. Because, it's Rowanne Brewer Lane, who's a wonderful person. 13:59:31 But I figured, you know, it would be a story, it was a false story, I knew it was a false story. But I figured, you know, too bad, how do you fight it? Because they're dirty, rotten liars, these people. I'll tell you. They're the most dishonest people. They're dirty, rotten liars. And Rowanne came out and she said, that's not it. And she got on CNN, in all fairness, I give a lot of credit to CNN and Fox and I think MS, maybe they put her on, maybe they didn't, probably they didn't, cause they're like a pipe organ for the Times. But, she got on a lot of television and she wanted the record set straight. And she said the nicest things about me. And then they had another one. Then they had a construction person -- let me tell you about this person. 14:00:10 So she didn't come out and say nice -- She wrote a book that I'm fantastic. She wrote that I am a non-sexist person. I am non-sexist. Now, who ever even thinks of this. If you're talking about somebody, you don't say, think of it, you're writing about somebody. She worked for me. I gave her a job in charge of putting up big building. Probably there's never been a woman, in all fairness, in charge of such a big project, certainly in New York. You know, it was way, way ahead of schedule. In fact, my father said, my father's from the old school, it's okay, it's okay to say this, right women? And he said, don't put her in there, don't put her -- I said dad, I'm telling you, she's gonna be fine. Don't put her. I said, pop, she's gonna be fine. Besides that, it's my building, I can do what I want, okay? 14:00:51 [ laughter ] Trump Tower. [ cheers ] No. No. I had the greatest father. He's the greatest teacher you could ever have, he was a great guy. He said, alright, look, if you wanna do it. And now I think he was right, because of this. She was fine, she did her job and got it done. And that was it. Then she left, went to another company, and didn't -- she hasn't had a good career after that. She had a good career with me. She writes a book, and she said nice things in the book. I didn't read it, but she said nice things, was said to me the other day. And, and one of the media sent it. In all fairness, the Daily Mail wrote a fantastic story about it. Because it's a scam. 14:01:34 So then she said, now, the Times never called me about her, so I gave her a job that no other woman would have ever gotten. So I was way ahead, and I still am, I have so many women executives. I have women executives -- [ cheers and applause ] -- I have women executives that are paid more than men executives for the same jobs. Now you know what that means, tomorrow I'll be sued by men. You get sued by everybody. I guarantee you I will get a suit from the men in my company they're not getting enough money. I have a lot of women executives, I've been way ahead they're fantastic. So she writes a book, and the book says he's not sexist. 14:02:14 You know now anybody that puts that in a statement I never even thought about it, it means they're into that. They're into trouble. So she writes that, he's not sexist OK, writes me emails, letters, emails, many many I have no interest in taking her back. No interest and one of my men came in and said oh that's Barbara, she's the most foul mouth human being. We had to bring her in my office years ago and say you gotta clean up your language. She would go into a group of men and start cursing and using the F word, the most foul mouth person we had to tell her don't do it. So now, she ends up in the New York Times and I said OK, that's good I'm glad because she's gonna say nice things, wrote nine books, and said great things about me and she gets on and says, 'he's not good, he's this, he's that, and he said to me, don't have that piece of candy.' [laughter] And I would never wanna say she was heavy or not heavy, I would never do it. 14:03:25 But he said to me, don't have that- and I actually had friends that are watching this whole game and they are saying with all of them, if that's the worst things you've done with women, I gotta tell you you are in a class by yourself and they went a lot further than that. In fact, some of them said you gotta be the nicest guy in the world, this is a front page story by the failing NY Times above the fold, with a biggest picture and beautiful colors and all these girls standing around. I owned it, I owned it, I sold it recently made a lot of money recently which was-- 14:04:08 I sold it, IMG great company, they are going to do a great job with it and I sold it because TV didn't wanna give me the ads because they said, I want to stop illegal immigration so, TV, Univision and NBC and all we settled it it turned out to be great I'm very happy. Let's put it this way. In the history of beauty pageants nobody ever made the money I made, I wanna tell you. It was good. But and I lost a lot by doing this, Macy's turned out to be a total trator, Macy's head of Macy's calls me up 'Donald I'm very concerned'. What? You know, I said we gotta stop illegal immigration and I have not a big deal I was selling ties and shirts at Macy's big deal who cares. A lot of them were made in China so I didn't care to be honest with you. 14:04:58 You have no choice, they don't make things here any more, they make it in other countries, they don't make it here. So I called up and he goes, Donald I'm very concerned. I'll never forget I was in NH I was getting ready, and then Richard said to me, you're starting to do well - I'm getting ready to go up and make a speech, I'm standing here on the stage, and a nice guy is introducing me and there's over a thousand people which is a small crowd now, a thousand people- but in NH they have small venues. The place was packed and I'm getting ready and the man is saying, Donald Trump is the personification of The America-- so he's saying all the different things and I get a call and it's the head of Macy's. He was a friend of mine, I haven't spoken to him since, I won't talk to him. 15:05:53 " Donald, I am so concerned, I hear they are going to picket Macy's.' Who? ' Some people we don't know.' Donald, could I announce that we are dropping your line? I said, drop my line for what? LEt them have a picket for half an hour then they are going to want to go to lunch you have it all the time. No no they are going to picket. He was so afraid, I said Terry I'm going up to make a speech. No, please don't get off the phone. Please. Could we talk about it? And I'm saying to myself, can you believe this guy? And this was a friend of mine. I said Terry let them-- no please talk. In the meantime, ladies and gentlemen Mr. Donald Trump and I can't get this guy off the phone. I said do whatever you wanna do, I don't care. 14:06:34 They cancelled my ties and shirts and they were doing well. When I do - very disloyal we ought to boycott Macy's. I'll tell you what happened.Because of that, thousands of people who are customers at Macy's cut up their credit cards. 14:07:00 Because it showed a couple of things. Number one, it showed no loyalty to a friend. I was a friend of the guy. Well, I don't have to play golf with him any more. That's okay. But I was a friend of the guy. But it shows that people aren't willing to take on the tough issues. Illegal immigration's a tremendous issue, a big issue [ protester ] -- oh that's okay. Oh, thank you so much. You have such a beautiful voice. [ boos ] 14:07:29 Alright, get him out. Get him out. >> [ chant ] Trump! Trump! Trump! Get him outta here. So what it really shows -- and by the way, do we love our police? Our police, we love our police. We gotta let them know. Because ,our police are not treated fairly I will tell you that. Alright, thank you very much, that's good. She had a very meek, mild voice. Usually you're better off just letting her shout, it's my people that cause the problem. When they start screaming, look over here, over here. And you can't even hear the person, right? That's alright. Well it's good, because then the cameras go around. 14:08:33 You know, the cameras never take the camera off me. The only way they take the camera off me, the only way, is when there's a protester. So I love my protesters. I love my protesters. So, when I ran, I gave up a lot. I gave up "The Apprentice." You know, they wanted to sign me for a lot of shows. And I gave up "The Apprentice." And now, we put in Arnold Schwarzenegger, I have the show. But, we put in Arnold, we'll see how he does. Who the hell knows. But, I gave up the shirts and ties. I gave up a lot of things. And I gave up a lot of deals. 14:09:08 But I want to do this, because we are gonna make our country so great again. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. And what it showed to Macy's, what it showed to me, really, was great disloyalty to the country, because it's an issue that has to be discussed. And people understand. And it's become, probably, the number one issue. And if I weren't running, you wouldn't even be talking about it right now. And then you have the killing of Kate and the killing of Jamil. And so many other killings and so much crime going. And it's the number one. 14:09:46 And by the way, we will build a wall, and the wall we paid -- [ cheers ] >> [ chant ] Build the wall! Build the wall! Build the wall! TRUMP>> No, we'll build the wall. Alright, you ready? Are you ready? And who is gonna pay for that wall? >> Mexico! TRUMP>> Mexico, 100%. 100%. WASH 6 DONALD TRUMP RALLY FRESNO CA POOL 052716 C16 P2 14:10:25 Did you see vincente fox couple of weeks ago he was on CNN. And they asked him and we're making progress because 2 years ago he said we will never allow a wall now he said we will never pay for the wall he doesn't talk about allowing it. But he said 2 weeks ago, 3 weeks ago and he was very nice he actually apologized to me which is nice most people don't do that. But vincente fox he was the president of mexico not so long away and he was being interviewed and he said we will not pay for that and then he gave the f bomb wall. And I said oh this is gonna blow up this is gonna be a disaster I feel so badly for the guy and nobody even talked about it. Can you imagine if I said that? If i said that I'd get the electric chair. He said it you know past president, nobody even talked about it. I will not and we will now build that f bomb wall. 14:11:16 I said oh what a poor guy he shouldn't have said that it's terrible. Nobody picked it up nobody cared. I do it it's i'm telling you it maybe that they will demand that the death penalty be brought back okay? If i do it. But he was very nice and he just doesn't understand that this is gonna happen and as you know the border patrol agent 16500 last week they endorsed donald trump first time they've ever endorsed. And Sheriff joe we love sheriff joe sheriff joe arpaio he knows a little bit about borders, he knows a little bit. I have to tell this story because I deal with strong people weak people I deal with everybody, smart people dumb people I deal with everybody. So I'm in arizona and we have this massive crowd and the roads are blocked. And there were certain law enforcement i love law enforcement guys but there were certain guys they wanted to be very politically correct they didn't want to do anything about it. 14:12:16 And sheriff joe was there. And he comes over and he says what's the problem. Now they chain themselves to their cars on a highway. And there was only one highway in. And we had 20,000 people it was massive. And it was all blocked up. And these people were calling names to other enforcement agencies and cursing at them and everything. And when joe heard about it he went what? What? He didn't even understand, what? And sheriff joe arpaio from that area he goes up--we love sheriff joe wait you gotta hear this one he goes over there no guns, no nothing he's standing there they know who he is. What are you doing? Sheriff we're chained to the car. We're not gonna move. You got 30 seconds to unchain yourself. Now in the mean time there are about 400 people. Of the 400 there are only about 3 or 4 chained to the car. 14:13:12 The 400 people all ran. They dispersed. The 4 people they had and by the way he had behind him a couple of guys with chain cutters right the jaws they call them boom. Boom Boom. To jail. Cars were moved they were thrown apart. They were--it took--and I'm not saying this to build him up he's a friend of mine he's a great guy. And he and your former governor Jan and so many people they're friends of mine they're great people they endorsed me early sheriff joe arpaio endorsed me early. But i got to watch what respect is, i got to watch it. Here we are we have a road it's being held up for a long time. Thousands and thousands of people they wanna come see a rally are being horribly treated i mean they're sitting in their car their cars are turned off you couldn't get through the highway. And other people didn't want to do anything they're probably afraid to be sued and i understand that. You know today a policeman talks if you talk the wrong way to somebody you end up going to jail for the rest of your life. 14:14:12 But seriously they take away your pension they fire you from the force. Joe looked at them and says what are you doing what are you doing. I'll never forget. Couple of guys standing behind him and they're only standing there with the cutters. And he said what are you doing everybody left with other people they were standing there chanting chanting chanting, cut them up, I think it took three or four people to jail they were put in jail and that was the end of it they moved the cars they pushed the cars out of the way. It took like five minutes it was so beautiful to watch. It's called respect. It's called respect. And we had a rally of 25,000 people at least and there wasn't one protest and I don't mind protest. I mean when that young woman screamed I couldn't hear her too much but could only hear my people saying there she is. I wanna get my people to shut up every once in awhile just leave her. 14:15:03 But we had, I always say a Trump rally is the safest place. First of all do we have fun at Trump rallies? Do we have fun? Right? Do we have fun? You know, it's the safest place on earth, it's the safest place on earth. We have more safety, it's all, we were in Costa Mesa in California. 31 thousand people in this incredible dome, this amphitheatre and it was a love fest but they had people outside burning the American flag [boos] and waving flags from other countries ok I'll be nice. They are waving flags, burning that was the one they started stomping on the police car it was very (?). And the whole story, they probably had 150, the whole story was about that. They showed a couple of helicopter shots and I had people whose children were killed, whose family were killed, whose relatives were killed by illegal immigrants so they had them on the stage with me. 14:16:02 It was an unbelievable evening, an unbelievable success but 90% of the coverage was this guy stomping on a policemans car. By the way, if that were Sherrif Joe he wouldn't be stomping I guarantee it. He wouldn't be stomping on sheriff joe's car I can tell you that much now. I'd be a long long term prison sentence for that guy. That guy did some major destruction. Then he almost broke his ass when he got off did you see? He tried to pretend, he tried to pretend it didn't hurt oh he was in pain he took a heavy fall he will probably now sue the police because the car was too slippery on the hood right. 14:16:40 So we are doing really well and one of the things I will tell you, so we got the I think we have a real shot. One of the things we're going to do because Hillary is terrible. She is terrible as a candidate and Bernie assuming it's bernie, and remember this I think and I'm pretty good with this stuff, when I was a business person I got along with everybody, all sides I get along with everybody it was my job. I got along with democrats, republicans, Hillary, Bill. I get along with everybody I do what-- we do what we have to do folks and I'll tell you what, if you look at what's going on and if you look at what we see just look at what's going on around you. 14:17:18 We don't make good deals anymore. We're like the dummies of the world. We have the worst trade deals ever done. Nafta was signed by Bill Clinton right, signed by Bill Clinton . NAFTA has single handedly destroyed much of the economic viability of our country. They have moved to Mexico they have moved all over the place, it's one of the saddest things. When i won all these state's and I'm from New York so I understood Syracuse and Rome, New York the real Rome. And Albany and out on Long Island. MAKING A KILLING FROM BUYING OLD FACTORIES 14:17:48 And I'd look at these factories that have been absolutely abandoned and left to die and you can see 20-25 years ago they were vibrant places but now they are just dead. You can buy them for two dollars. Actually I'll give you a good clip. If I win what I would do is before I win, go buy all those empty factories all over the place I'm telling you. You will buy them for 37 cents. Because if I win those factories will be vibrant again and you will have made a killing in the real estate market ok. Good idea. 14:18:24 And if I don't win you will have wasted a couple of bucks so it's not so bad. I really mean it, I tell you what I really mean it. I might have a conflict of interest but I saw some I said man I'd like to buy that thing I bet I can buy that for nothing. Most of them are crumbling. You know the bricks are all rotted out, they are crumbling, falling down. But they were all over. Syracuse and all over long island and all over Pennsylvania. And then you have Hillary Clinton and West Virginia and she says, we will put the coal miners out of work, we will put the coal miners out of business. We will end the mines. We will put the mines out of business right? We will put the coal miners out of business- coal miners. Why would you want to put the coal miners out of business. 14:19:05 It takes guts to be a coal miner. I personally I love the coal miners you saw how I did with West Virginia. I don't have the guts to be a coal miner. That's a tough job. I actually said to them, I said fellas cause I got such support, I won with massive numbers in West Virginia. And I won in Kentucky, big area people don't even realize. I won't Kentucky, I won in Pennsylvania with massive numbers. They I mean these are incredible people and I had a group of 20 of them in front of me. 14:19:32 We had a crowd that was so big, I think we had 40 thousand people. We had this incredible Arena that was packed and there are 20 thousand people outside, we put the loudspeakers outside in West Virginia. The people are looking for help, they are looking for hope. They are looking for something to having nothing, to having nothing. The EPA is destroying coal and you know coal is an incredible fuel. WIND AND BALD EAGLES 14:19:59 This is something that built, we built our country with coal. And you know who uses coal, china uses coal, we can't use it I mean they are making it impossible. And now they want to put everything else out of business and yet a wind turbine that kills all the bald eagles all (muddled) -- that's ok with them right. Even though it needs subsidy. 14:20:16 But there's a place for everything, I know a lot about Solar, I love solar. Except there's a problem with it, it's got a lot of problems with it. One problem is it's so expensive. They give me a 30 year payback oh that's great let me buy some and I'll get my money back over 30 years period. I mean you gotta make it so it works. Solar, the concept of solar is good but it has a problem. You know when the sun isn't shining you also need some like Juice. You need a little electricity. I have a friend he says-- he's really into it. He said so how are you doing. He said I built an all solar house but I have a problem. I have 3 months in the year when the sun isn't enough and I can't live I have no electricity. I said what did you do? "I bought a big ugly generator and I fill it up with gasoline and it spews fumes". But he needs help. Another friend of mine I tell you these stories--isn't it great when you don't use teleprompters when you use the same speech all the time? Isn't that great, isn't that great. 14:21:16 And this has to do, all this stuff has to do with leadership because our country has gone wrong.So I have a friend, he went into an all lead, you know what a lead is some people call it a lead beuilding. But they call it a lead, it's highly rated and he's a very substantial guy, very wealthy guy has a tremendous, has a lot of office space and he said Donald I'm so proud and he wants to be, he wants to give back to the country and that's why I'm doing this, I want to give back that's why I'm doing this. Am I doing a good job we just won the nomination. So he's a good guy but he's a tough guys. Tough, smart, very rich and he took many floors of an office building and this building is rated like, very high. In other words environmentally unbelievable. Right and he said Donald I feel so good, I've just signed a lease with an all lead building and he said I feel so good about it. 14:22:09 I say, which building? That one. I say, well congratulations, I said by the way do you like- how's your vision, he goes what does that have to do with it? I said how is your vision? He said my vision is good. I said in three years it won't be because you won't have enough light to see. He said what do you mean , I said do you mind being freezing in the winter? And hot as hell in the summer? Of course I do. I said you will freeze your ass off in the winter and in the summer you will be a disaster. What do you mean, he said Donald Look I'm very proud of what I have done. He called me up the other day, he said it's the dumbest thing he's ever done. He said, it was a warm day, it's like 85 degrees in my office. 14:22:51 I said of course they don't give you enough juice. I can do that too, just don't give enough electric. I'm going to be environmentally friendly but everyone is going to sweat to death. ANd he said you know and you were right about another thing, I don't have enough light. So I took lights and they are operated by batteries and I put them on my desk so I can see. So you know, because when he said I just moved into an all lead building I said no that's too bad, he didn't know what I was talking about. So look folks, we gotta be smart. It's just like what's coming over the border. We have people coming over the border, we don't know who they are, we don't know where they come from. 14:23:29 They come from Syria, they come from the migration but they come from all over the place. They are putting them in your community and we've had some big problems you know. You take a look at Paris 130 people dead, hundreds of people still in the hospital. Their lives are, many (?) lives are destroyed. So badly. And by the way speaking of that, speaking of that. If in Paris or if in San Bernardino where these young radicals-- Radical Islamic Terrorism! Problem. We have a problem, we have a problem, we have a president who is so incompetent he won't even mention the words. And there's nothing wrong with mentioning the words. We gotta solve it. If you're not going to address the problem, if you're not going to talk about the problem then you're never going to solve it. 14:24:13 So radical islamic terrorism right we have a problem and we are going to solve the problem. But they have to report, they have to report the bad ones. You see there's like a very close bond- not working so well but like the San Bernadino people everyone knew they were up to bad stuff. They had bombs all over their floor. That's not exactly normal. If I go to your floor these three beautiful young ladies in front, do you have any bombs on you rfloor? And you know what if you did I would report you. I would say, I would call up the local sheriff who I just met. Where's the woman? She's fantastic. Where is she? The sheriff. So Sherrif, I would call you and I would call the chief, where's the chief the chief was great. All those stars. And I'd call the chief but I'd call up and I'd say Sheriff, I have a person here I mean I don't know much about them but honestly there's bombs all over their floor. 14:25:18 Do you think that would be helpful sheriff right? But people don't report them right. They see what's going on and not going to happen folks, they got to report. Because we can solve a lot of the problems. When they look for the thug, you know the press used to call him mastermind, the mastermind. And then we wonder why our kids are so attracted to joining ISIS. Over the internet, they are using the internet better than we do. 14:25:42 And you have to talk about that because why are we allowing them to get to our kids like this. Our kids are going over there. These kids don't even know what they are doing and they are going over to fight for ISIS because a lot of things but the press is calling the leader the mastermind. I call him the guy with the dirty filthy cap. All dirty disgusting. All dirty, the mastermind. But they haven't been doing it so much lately. But we have to solve, we have to stop this stuff. We Have to be smart. We have to be vigilant and they have to report. And you know what they have to report? They guy, the mastermind that they called him, they guy with the cap. The guy that they have been looking for for months. You know where he was living? Right next door to his apartment. 14:26:24 In the same location, right next door to his apartment. And everybody in the community religious people, they all knew he was there. And yet it took like what 9 months almost a year to find him.And they found him only by mistake, he wasn't reported. So they all knew he was there he was living in the community he was the number one wanted person in the world. And he was living right next to where he lived. The same people and they were protecting him. And they had just killed 130 people and hundreds of people in the hospital. So when that goes on that's no good folks. You gotta report. You gotta report. When you see trouble you gotta report. 14:27:02 And if you don't report, we can't handle it. If you don't report we can't handle it. I'll just finish up a couple of these because it's like current events, it's like a current events class. I like this better than my normal speech right? Because you've already heard a lot of this stuff. But yesterday our president has said "Donald Trump has foreign countries rattled". Great, that's so great. ANd he said, rattled. Now look here is the thing. We protect, we spend millions and billions and billions and actually trillions and trillions. We owe 19 trillion but we spend billions and hundreds of billions of dollars protecting other countries and that's all fine. That's all fine. We protect Japan, nobody knows that. We protect Germany, nobody knows that. We protect Saudi Arabia. 14:28:03 Do you know how much money Saudi Arabia makes? They wouldn't be there for two minutes if we ever said we are leaving. So they are going to pay right. Guy said they are going to pay for it. So one of the biggest diplomats of the country he is a friend of mine you saw recently I actually met with him it was all over the place so you can figure it out. And he said Donald, I thought you were wrong in your approach. I thought it was too tough but you know what, all of those countries are calling me, what do we do, what do we do, how can we make him happy. What can we do. If he wins what can we do. RESPECT US! Who said that? Oh man what a great, what a great line that is. This guy had the best line of the morning I'm very embarrassed. That's good. 14:28:58 Am I allowed to use that or will you sue me if I use it? That's great no that's an (?) I said what can we do what can we do he shouts out respect us! That's really it we want to be respected, we don't want to be the dummies anymore. We don't want to be the dummies. So I'm with this man and they say they are all calling and he knows all the nation's he's highly respected he's a great guy, great guy and he said they want to know, we want to get along, we want to get along. They take such advantage of our president it's so sad to see what's happening. They take such advantage. And Hillary, they I mean give me a break. HILLARY SCREAMING INTO THE MIC 14:29:39 You know, we talk about presidential. Do I look presidential? [ cheers ] Do you think -- honestly, honestly, honestly. Do you think Hillary looks presidential? In all fairness. >> No! I don't think so. And I'm not gonna say it, because I'm not allowed to say it, because I wanna be politically correct, so I refuse to say that I cannot stand her screaming into the microphone all the time. [ covers his ears ] Actually, that's why I turned it off last night. It wasn't that she was lying about me at every single corner. I just couldn't stand it. I got such a headache, ugh. Please. No, but I won't say it, because we're not allowed to say that, right? Talking to these women in front, is that right? Was I good in not saying it? Yes. Alright, look. 14:30:35 So, so, Obama gets on television, first of all, he's not supposed to be talking when he's in Japan about politics in our nation. Okay? He's not supposed to. I think I got him rattled. He's the one that's rattled, you wanna know the truth. I remember when I was looking to run, when I was looking to run four years ago, and I guess I'm glad I didn't do it, cause I think this is gonna be great. And we needed four more years of incompetence to, you know, to get us there. Okay? Maybe we did. But I was looking -- you remember, I was leading in the polls, I was doing great in the polls, I never announced I was running. And boy, did Romney let us down. Man, did he choke. Boy, did he choke. He was like, he couldn't breathe. Like, can't breathe, I can't breathe. Boy, did he choke. He was a choking dog. Cause that was an electing that should have been won. 14:31:33 Now, in all fairness, he had the worse campaign manager in the history of campaigns. I watched this guy on television all the time. And he's constantly talking about, yes, I don't like Donald Trump's attitude. There's a guy, took an election that's a guaranteed win, and he lost it. I don't even think it was Romney so much. You know his name? Anybody know his name? Huh? Should I bring it up? Oh, to hell with it. He had the worst campaign manager. I'll give you a hint. Stuart. Okay? The worst campaign manager that I think I've ever seen, cause I was there. I said, listen I don't believe what's going on with the polls. You gotta get out there. You gotta get on television, you gotta -- and for like a month and a half, he was like a lost soul. He didn't do anything. And say what you want about Obama, he was on Jay Leno at the time, he was on all the different shows, he was on Letterman, he was all over the place. 14:32:29 I said, you better start getting on television, you're gonna lose. And he took an election that should have been won and he lost. And I backed John McCain, but I don't -- you know, I think, I think for him to have won would have been very tough, because he had a little thing like, you know, a lot of bad things were happening for the republicans. So I don't blame him, I backed him. And what happened is, I backed McCain, I backed Romney, I backed Romney big. And this time, I said, we're gonna do it ourselves, folks. We're gonna just go, we're gonna win, okay? We're gonna win. We're gonna win. And, and when I hear, and when I heard the word rattled, to me that's a perfect -- 14:33:08 You know when you're negotiated, has anybody read The Art of the Deal? When you're negotiating, because we have to negotiate. We have horrible trade deals. China, and I'm -- I love China, China's great. I have a lot of friends in China. Very smart people. I've made a lot of money dealing with China. The Bank of America building, through China. 1290 Avenue of the Americas, I sell a lot of condos. The biggest bank in the world from China is, is one of my tenants, right? Pay me a lot of rent. And we don't have to worry about the rent the rent either, they're good for it, I can tell you. What they for us, the devaluation of their currency, what they do to our businesses, where they make all our product and everything else. And you look at South Korea, you look at all these countries, we're all taking advantage of this. 14:33:49 They all think we're stupid people. They all think we're like Obama. They all think we're stupid people. Let me tell you, we have the greatest people in the world, we have business people that don't fail. We have business people that are so much better than the Chinese negotiators. And we're gonna use those people. And we're gonna make great trade deals. And we're gonna bring our jobs back. And we're gonna have great relationships with China. And with Mexico. And with Japan. Look at Japan, they're sending millions of cars. You know what we give them? Beef. And they don't even want it. They send it back. It goes back and forth, no, no send it back. After about four trips, they call it Colby, you know that's aged, it ages for about six -- it's true. 14:34:31 And they sell it for about 15 times more money. It's not a bad deal. But look, look. We've gotta be smart. [ audience interruption ] Oh, he's on our side, that's okay. No, no. He's on our side. He's on our side. So, here's the story, folks. Here's the story. Here's the story. Why didn't you do it a little earlier, you dope? Okay, folks. Do you wanna wait, alright, let's get him outta here. DON'T HAVE TO BE DOING THESE SPEECHES 14:35:15 So, folks, so here's the story. No other republican, you know we won by landslides, we won big. And by the way, who would have thought, you know they were saying, Trump will be in this race for a long time, maybe he can eek it out at the end, the end? I've been watching, I wanna get into action, I'm getting a little bored. That's why I'm here. I'm doing these speeches. I don't even have to be doing them. What the hell am I doing? Somebody said, why are you doing a speech in Fresno, and now I'm going to San Diego. And why are you doing a speech in San Diego? You won the nomination? You don't have to do any speeches for a while. I said, you know why? Because I promised the people I was gonna come and make a speech, that's all. That's all. 14:36:04 Now I, with that being said, we, cause it's we, this is a movement. You know, we're on the cover of Time Magazine all the time. I've never -- I've been on the cover of Time Magazine so much. I think it was two times in like 35 years. And it's four or five times in the last 5 months. That means politics is more important than real estate, right? But, but look, here's the story. In the history -- this is the thing I'm most proud of -- in the history of the republican party. Now, you're talking about Dwight D. Eisenhower. You're talking about Richard Nixon. You're talking about Ronald Reagan. You're talking -- I love it. I like him too. You're talking Reagan. You're talking about all these people. In the history of the republican party, nobody has ever gotten as much votes in the primaries than I have, right? By far. And -- what's the big secret? And, and -- 14:37:00 We have ten state's to go and there's one other thing. I've been competing against 16 other people. Right. Hillary said the other night-- I have more votes than Donald0-- she has one guy she's competing with and he's a socialist. She's got one guy. I got governors I got all these other different people. I have governors and senators, respected people. Ben Carson who endorsed me who's a great guy but I have respected people. And if I had one two or three, I would have broken the records for democrats and republicans. GO OUT AND VOTE JUST DO IT / WHAT WE HAVE IS A MANDATE 14:37:38 And I still think I can. Now we have broken-- look here's what I'm saying, in two weeks you gotta vote. Go out and vote in the primaries just do it just do it ok. As you know I got the nomination anyway but don't waste it. Let's knock a record because the bigger vote we get, the more of a mandate it is. It's a mandate what we have is a mandate and that's why we are on the cover of all the mag-- and it's we, I'm the messenger, I have done a really good job as a messenger but I'm the messenger. It's we it's a whole thing. Time magazine has one great picture where I am standing like this and I have this big crowd in front of me and there's a picture from the top and I was happy because it didn't show a bald spot so I was happy -- I combed that hair just (noise). I was so happy. I don't know maybe the did a little airbrushing who knows, I doubt it I doubt it. 14:38:31 But they have all these incredible, all these incredible stories they are incredible stories. And basically I told you, Bill O'reilly said and Bill O'Reilly is a tough cookie. In fact watch his show tonight. He is doing a special on Trump. Can you believe it. It's going to be a big show, but it's called the best of trump, I don't know if that's good or bad. But Bill O'reilly said two weeks ago he said, I mean here's a guy he's a tough guy smart guy, he said, in his history in his lifetime he has never seen a more important political event than what has happened with Donald Trump. That's a big statement. 14:39: 14 That's a big statement. And a lot of the event is you I mean look at this 11 o'clock on a friday morning and we have all these thousands of people I mean it's you. And when we go out on weekends we have 35, 40 thousand people happening and it's beautiful and it's a love fest and it's sort of easy to do and it's fun to do here's the thing. So get out and vote in a couple of weeks and get out and vote cause here's what we're going to do and I'll tell you this right now and I shouldn't say it because, although Hillary has got bigger problems right now. But we are going to make a strong play for California. Maybe I can't do it, maybe I can't do it. No no maybe I can't do it. Maybe I can't do it. Now the smart money would say that a Republican candidate cannot win California. 14:40:01 But when i go to Costa Mesa, when i just left 50 or 60 farmers in the back and they can't get water and I say how tough is it, how bad is the drought there is no drought, they turn the water out into the ocean and I said I've been hearting it and I spent a half an hour with them it's hard to believe. ON WINNING CALIFORNIA 14:40:19 But listen, we're gonna win the election. So I wanna make a big play for California. Should I? [ cheers ] I think so. Now, I'll say this, I'll say this. No other republican, let's say Ted Cruz won, or let's say anyone of them won, they wouldn't even come here for dinner. Because, they are told that as a republican, you have zero chance, okay? I really believe we're gonna win it. I think we have a real chance to win it. [ cheers and applause ] And you know what? I view it strategically also. Because if we don't win it, they are gonna spend one hell of a fortune in fighting me off, that I can tell you. Money that could've been spent some place else, right? Right? But I think we can win it. 14:41:12 We have great group -- Tim and all of his people. We have amazing people. So I just wanna say to this group, you're the first one. I am gonna make a heavy, heavy, heavy play, because I think that we're getting these massive crowds all over the place. I actually think we're gonna win California. Plus, I have property here. I have employees here/. So we're gonna make, we're gonna make a big thing. I'm just laughing, I did this last night at another place. Here are my notes -- see? Isn't that better than a teleprompter? Isn't that better? One of the things I have here, two of the things I have here, TSA. Did you ever see a more disgusting situation than what's going on at your airports? 14:41:54 We'll straighten that out. And the other thing I have here, remember this, you know, they talk about, oh third party. All these stupid people like Bill Kristol. This guy's like a moron. We are going to find a third party. He's been saying that for like three years. We are going to -- he's the one that wanted to go into Iraq. We have to attack Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. Only problem is, they never knocked down the World Trade Center. It was somebody else, right? So listen, listen. These are stupid people. Because remember this. And he's, I think they've given up now pretty much, except the libertarian party is, nothing. But listen, listen. 14:42:25 If we win, the most important thing we have other than our national security, even more important than the economy in a sense, is the appointment of Supreme Court judges. If Hillary wins, our country will never be the same, for a lot of reasons. The military will be weak, the borders will be swiss cheese. If we win, if we win, we are going to have phenomenal Supreme Court justices. And I put out a list of eleven. [ cheers ] And I've gotten A+ reviews. And we're gonna protect our second amendment. 100%. She's gonna abolish it. She is gonna abolish it. Remember that. We're gonna protect our second amendment, but here's the story folks. We don't win anymore. But we're gonna start winning again. We're gonna win with our military, and we are gonna knock the hell out of ISIS. [ cheers ] 14:43:25 We're gonna win big on trade and we're gonna still have great relationships. But we're gonna win big. We're gonna bring our jobs back. We're gonna bring money back. We're gonna save your social security. We're gonna cut your taxes, because the middle class and business are being destroyed with taxes. So we're cutting your taxes more than any other candidate by far. We're cutting your taxes, and we're simplifying your taxes, so you don't have to and spend all that money to get people that take half of your money in order -- because it's so complicated. So we're gonna cut your taxes, remember. We're gonna save your social security and medicare. We are going to do a great job at our border. We're gonna create a country again. We're gonna have a country again. 14:44:09 [ cheers ] We're gonna repeal and replace Obamacare with something great. We're gonna get rid of common core and bring your education locally, which will be phenomenal. And we're gonna start winning again. We're gonna win with everything. We're gonna win with military and trade and healthcare. We're gonna win with education. We're gonna win so much, and I do this cause I have fun doing this, to be honest. And you've seen it before. And we're gonna build that wall, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. And people are gonna come through that wall, but they're gonna come through -- just remember -- they're gonna come through legally. I wanna say that. I have to say that. 14:44:59 We want people to come into the country. But they have to come in legally. So here's the story. We're gonna win, we're gonna win, we're gonna keep winning. We're gonna win so much that you people are gonna say, let's have a protest at the White House, we're winning too much. We can't stand it anymore. Because, we're not used to winning. WE can't take it anymore. Mr. President, please, we don't wanna win so much. And I'm gonna say, I'm sorry, we're gonna keep winning, winning, winning. And we are gonna make America great again! ###end### FRESNO, CA - As signs that read "Farmers for Trump" welcomed him to the stage in Fresno, GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump spent a great deal of time in the top of his speech selling the farming community on his plans to help them - "I just met with a lot of the farmers who are great people and they say we don't even understand it. They don't understand - nobody understands it, and I have heard this from other friends of mine in California, where they have farms up here. And they don't get water. I said oh, that's too bad, is it a drought? No, we have plenty of water. I said, what's wrong? Well, we shove it out to sea. And I said why? And nobody even knows why. And the environmentalists don't know why." On Clinton today not a lot that wasn't said before - he called the Inspector General report a "real doozy" - but he did seem to recap his version of Clinton's greatest hits. 13:54:43) "She's not competent. If you look, she's essentially not competent. It goes to her judgement, it goes to her level of competence. And she's not competent. And it's always been this way. She's always skirted on the edge, whether it's white water or whether it's all of these things. Or going into -- how about Benghazi? But look at, look at -- and you know what? And I say this, and I say it, cause Benghazi to me was a horrific situation. But for whatever reason, the mainstream media, because they're trying to protect her, they never picked it up. Fox picked it up more than anybody in all fairness. But they never picked it up. And a lot of people don't know so much about Benghazi. Benghazi, like they should know.- 13:55:24 - But her decision to go in, and this was her baby, Libya, was a disaster. And she got rid of Gaddafi. And now, you have a mess. And you know who has the oil? Who has the oil in Libya? ISIS has the oil." He then said Hillary doesn't look presidential. (14:29:39) "You know, we talk about presidential. Do I look presidential? [ cheers ] Do you think -- honestly, honestly, honestly. Do you think Hillary looks presidential? In all fairness. CROWD >> No! "I don't think so. And I'm not gonna say it, because I'm not allowed to say it, because I wanna be politically correct, so I refuse to say that I cannot stand her screaming into the microphone all the time. [ covers his ears ] Actually, that's why I turned it off last night. It wasn't that she was lying about me at every single corner. I just couldn't stand it. I got such a headache, ugh." On some foreign policy stuff he said Clinton was attacking him for saying he would give Japan and some European nations nuclear capabilities - which is true - he said it's false. (13:43:20) "Now, Hillary Clinton, wants to abolish the second amendment, remember that. She wants to abolish it. You know I watched her on television and it is really hard for me to watch her. Because honestly, it is very boring, you know? It is very boring. I watched her last night and she lies so much. She lies so much. She was saying last night so many things -- Donald Trump wants to see Japan get nuclear weapons. I never said that. Donald Trump wants to see Germany get nuclear weapons. He wants to see South Korea to arm themselves. I didn't say that. I never even said close to that. Donald Trump loves North Korea, he loves the maniac that's running North Korea. Donald Trump is a friend of Putin." And on Bernie, still wants to do it. (13:49:17) "And I wanna debate him so badly -- I would love to debate Bernie." And he thinks he rattled Obama - 14:30:35 - "So, so, Obama gets on television, first of all, he's not supposed to be talking when he's in Japan about politics in our nation. Okay? He's not supposed to. I think I got him rattled. He's the one that's rattled, you wanna know the truth. " He wants to go for California in the general. (14:40:19) But listen, we're gonna win the election. So I wanna make a big play for California. Should I? [ cheers ] I think so. Now, I'll say this, I'll say this. No other republican, let's say Ted Cruz won, or let's say anyone of them won, they wouldn't even come here for dinner. Because, they are told that as a republican, you have zero chance, okay? I really believe we're gonna win it. I think we have a real chance to win it. [ cheers and applause ] And you know what? I view it strategically also.

HEAD ON PODIUM SHOT FROM THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION AT THE WELLS FARGO CENTER IN PHILADELPHIA / 17:00:35 Oh yes, women of America, women of the world, oh, we're gonna be treated with dignity and respect. We will not be judged by our appearance or our thighs or our accents. We will not be denied freedom of choice. We will demonstrate our talents, and we will prosper. Hillary's experience as the first lady, as a United States senator, as the best Secretary State we ever had really unique qualifies her to be the next president of the United States of America. Thank you. PRESIDENT OF NARAL ILYSE HOGUE 17:01:34 I am a 4th generation Texan. Texas women are tough. We approach challenges with clear eyes and full hearts. To succeed in life, all we need are the tools, the trust, and the chance to chart our own path. I was fortunate enough to have these things when I found out I was pregnant years ago. I wanted a family, but it was the wrong time. I made the decision that was best for me - to have an abortion - and get compassionate care at a clinic in my own community. Now, years later, my husband and I are parents to two incredible children. 17:02:27 My story is not unique. About one in three American women have abortions by the age of 45, and the majority are mothers just trying to take care of the families they already have. You see, it's not as simple as bad girls get abortions and good girls have families. We are the same women at different times in our lives - each making decisions that are the best for us. 17:02:59 If we want families to succeed, we start by empowering women. Give us accurate information and access to health care. Keep politicians out of our business when we're not ready to parent, and support us when we are. That's what gives our families the best chance to get ahead and stay ahead. And that is what Hillary Clinton has spent decades fighting for. 17:03:33 Donald Trump he is different. He said women who have abortions like me should be punished. He calls women "pigs" and says breastfeeding is "disgusting."Now some people think he doesn't really mean any of that. But, look who he picked for VP. 17:03:53 Mike Pence led the charge to defund Planned Parenthood, pushed to let hospitals turn a woman away if she needs an abortion to save her life, and signed a bill with some of the most outrageous abortion restrictions in the country. He has even said he can't wait to send Roe v. Wade "into the ash heap of history." Together, Donald Trump and Mike Pence have united to form the "make misogyny great again" ticket. 17:04:28 And the people who so loudly oppose abortion rights? Let me let you in to their dirty little secret: They're not only against abortions. Many of these people are also fighting to restrict access to contraception and block commonsense policies to support working moms. 17:04:48 It's not abortion that bothers them. It's empowering women to live our own lives. And -- that's right. And when we have power over our own destiny, we not only strengthen our families, we honor our most cherished traditions of liberty and equality. These aren't just "women's issues" - these are the very foundation of our freedom. We need a president who has the experience, the wisdom, and the grit to stand up against the bullies. We need a president who knows that "women's rights are human rights." We need a president who will keep expanding the frontiers of freedom for all Americans. We need Hillary Clinton. ANDREW GILLUM MAYOR OF TALLAHASSEE 17:06:04 Hello, my fellow Democrats and hello my fellow Floridians. In case you all needed a reminder, Florida is in the house. 17:06:25 As I prepared for tonight, I thought back on the path that led me to this moment. Born the fifth of seven kids in Miami Day, Florida to my daddy, Charles, a construction worker, and my mother, Francis, a school bus driver. My parents worked their entire lives to provide for me and for my siblings greater opportunities than they had ever been afforded. 17:06:56 Creating the possibility for me to be the first in my family to go to college and graduate from the Florida A&M University. [ applause ] They dared us to fly higher than they could ever see - and they always provided us the opportunity and a path to pay it forward. I can still hear my grandmother's voice telling me "boy," she said it just like that, " go to school, mind your teachers, get your lesson, and one bring that education home." She'd say, "Bring it home for your baby sister or your little brother who may not know what education is. She'd say bring it home for that little boy down the street that you play with. God knows where he'll end up, bring it home. 17:07:49 It was a reminder that if we were going to get anywhere, we would get there together. My friends, this is the story of our party. And it's what drives our nominee.Hillary Clinton has shown us her heart, her strength, and her passion for this country's future. A future quite frankly which means more to me now than ever before. Because in addition to being Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, the capital city of our nation's third largest state, I'm also a father. Along with my wife R. Jai, we are raising two-year-old twins, Jackson and Caroline. 17: 08:37 So when I head to the voting booth, I want you all to know that they are coming with me. Because I want them to know that I'm not just casting my vote for Hillary Clinton and my fellow Democrats, I am casting my vote for them. Ensuring the kind of future they deserve will require leadership that can unify and inspire us. That can build on this country's best instincts for inclusion and optimism. The world can feel scary enough - without so-called leaders leading with fear for political gain. That's right. 17:09: 21 Every day, everyday in this country black parents send their sons out with a deep sense of anxiety, hoping they will return home to them safely. And every day, police officers kiss their loved ones heading to work -to protect and to serve and they hold that same sense of hope and fear in their hearts. In these times of anger and fear, we can't afford retreat to our respective corners. We can't let this animosity grow and get stronger. That's right. And we've seen examples of communities and law enforcement coming together during a crisis to grieve together and help each other heal. That is how it is exactly how it is supposed to work - and it's on all of us to make that a reality in our communities. 17:10:23 Because in the end y'all,in the end, we all want the same things for our families. Our fates are inextricably tied together. And with the right leadership, we can renew our trust in one another again. I believe with every fiber of my being that Hillary Clinton is the leader we need. 17:10:54 So on Inauguration Day - I look forward to holding my babies tightly -I look forward to watching history unfold before their eyes and before mine and I look forward to shouting with you toward that big stage in Washington DC and saying "Congratulations, Madam President!" Thank you, and God bless! [ VIDEO ON ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLAND AMERICANS ] CONGRESSIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN CAUCUS Rep. Judy Chu: 17:14:36 I am Congresswoman Judy Chu from California, and I am proud to be the first Chinese-American woman ever elected to Congress! Standing with me are my fellow Asian-American and Pacific Islander - or AAPI - Members of Congress. Many of them, too, are trailblazers in their own right. And we are all proud to support Hillary Clinton for President of the United States! 17:15:23 It wasn't too long ago that if you saw an Asian Pacific American walking in the U.S. Capitol, you had to stop and do a double-take. But how things have changed. We now have a record number of AAPI Members of Congress - and most importantly, we are organizing and making our voices heard. We have gone from being marginalized to becoming the margin of victory in key swing states and districts all across our nation. 17:15:58 America needs a president who will fight for us - someone who rejects the hateful rhetoric that is too often used to divide us and believes that America's diversity is our greatest strength. That's why we've got to elect Hillary Clinton as our next President of the United States! When it comes to the issues most important to us, Hillary Clinton gets it. 17:16:30 On immigration reform, she gets it. So many families have been kept apart for decades by an incredibly long family visa backlog. Hillary will fight to clear that backlog so that millions of American families can finally be reunited with their loved ones. We're with Hillary because she is committed to comprehensive immigration reform! 17:17:01 On education, she gets it. So many of our parents and grandparents sacrificed to come to the United States because they wanted their children to get a better education and live the American Dream. We're with Hillary because she'll make debt-free college available for all Americans. On voting rights, she gets it. Today, almost 70 percent of AAPI adults are foreign born. Access to translated and absentee ballots is critical. We're with Hillary because she will work with Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act and ensure fair access to the ballot box. 17:17:50 On making sure we have a diverse federal government, she gets it. We're with Hillary because she will appoint an administration that looks like America. And on safeguarding our civil liberties, she gets it. I am proud to have Congresswoman Doris Matsui and Congressman Mike Honda as members of our caucus. During World War II, both Doris and Mike were imprisoned in internment camps for no other reason than their ethnicity. Donald Trump doesn't seem to see a problem with this part of our history. With Hillary Clinton, we know the civil and constitutional rights of all Americans will be protected! 17:18:52 Tonight, we are also grieving for our dear friend and colleague, Congress member Mark Takai from Hawai'i, who passed away last week at the age of 49 after a hard-fought battle with pancreatic cancer. Mark truly had the aloha spirit, and was deeply committed to advancing the priorities of the people of Hawai'i and our veterans. I will never forget the tears in his eyes when he learned about the Cancer Moonshot initiative. It gave him and millions of Americans hope that we will finally find a cure for cancer. In his memory, we've got to keep hoping - and fighting. 17:19:40 Hillary Clinton is the best choice for all Americans to move our country forward. Our caucus members reflect the diversity of America. And that is why we are proud to stand with her. Sen. Mazie Hirono: 17:20:05 Aloha. I am Senator Mazie Hirono from Hawai'i, an immigrant, the first Asian-American woman elected to the United States Senate. I support Hillary Clinton because she is a lifelong champion for women, children, and families. And with the help of all of us, she will fight for all families - including immigrant families - in the White House. Aloha, mahalo. Rep. Madeleine Bordallo: 17:20:50 Hafa Adai. I am Congresswoman Bordallo from Guam, and I support Hillary Clinton because she understands the unique needs of the territories, and is committed to the Asia-Pacific rebalance. She is a strong leader we need her to move forward as a nation. Thank you. Rep. Mark Takano: 17:21:30 I am Congressman Mark Takano from California, and I'm the first openly gay person of color to be elected to the United States Congress. As a proud "gaysian," I support Hillary Clinton because she is a strong champion for LGBT rights. She will to fight to end employment discrimination against LGBT Americans. Rep. Ami Bera: 17:22:07 I am Congressman Ami Bera from California. As the only South Asian member of Congress, and as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I support Hillary Clinton because she is the only candidate that understands the complexity of the world and is prepared from day one to lead America. Rep. Bobby Scott: 17:22:38 I'm Congressman Bobby Scott from Virginia, the first person with Filipino ancestry to be elected voting member of Congress, and I support Hillary Clinton because she believes that all children deserve equality affordable education so that they can reach their full potential. Rep. Ted Lieu: 17:23:06 I am Congressman Ted Lieu from California and a colonel in the U.S. Air Force reserve. I support Hillary Clinton for president because she will l fight for our military personnel, veterans, and families. She will make sure that those who risked their lives for our country get the health care and the resources that they need. Rep. Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan: 17:23:40 Good evening, my name is Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan and I am from the Northern Mariana Islands. I support Hillary Clinton because she believes that all Americans should have - including those in the Pacific Island territories - should have access to quality, affordable health care. Thank you very much. Rep. Grace Meng: 17:24:31 I am Congresswoman Grace Meng from New York, the first Asian-American elected to Congress from the East Coast, and I support Hillary Clinton because she is the best candidate to bring Americans together and move our country forward! This election is so important, and Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders can make the difference. Our voting power has doubled over the last decade - we are now the swing vote in swing states like Virginia, Nevada, and also right here in Pennsylvania! And I call upon my fellow AAPIs to organize, to campaign, and to vote, so that we will be the margin of victory in 2016 and beyond! As our community continues to grow - and as we begin to see more AAPI candidates like Raja Krishnamoorthi from Illinois and Stephanie Murphy from Florida begin to run for higher office - it is critical that we elect a person who will make history for America and build a brighter future for generations to come. And that person is Hillary Clinton! BROOKS BELL 17:26:39 Hello, Democrats! I'm Brooks Bell, a technology entrepreneur in Raleigh, North Carolina. When I was 23 years old, I started my own company. It wasn't easy. Six months later, I had a stroke. I had to relearn to read, write, and talk. I was lucky. I recovered, and so did my fledgling company. 17:27:12 But that wasn't my only struggle. In fact, it was one of my many ups and downs - familiar to any small business with big dreams. I've gained and lost big clients. I've had to let wonderful employees go. It's given me the scars that I know many entrepreneurs share. 17:27:37 I believe in Hillary, because I know she also carries battle scars. Her relentless dedication to serve America over the past 30 years has been marked by hard choices - which makes this historic achievement all the more impressive. Her tenacity her toughness - her seasoned judgment - is exactly what we need in a president. We need someone ready for the hardest job on earth, day one. And that someone is Hillary Rodham Clinton! 17:28: 27 Today, my company employs 40 people. We partner with some of the largest organizations in America to help make the internet easier to use. We're growing quickly. My company is strong, as is my health, thanks in part to ongoing investment in education, healthcare, and innovation. Like they say, "Thanks, Obama!" 17:29:04 However, I am worried - terrified - about what might happen if we elect Trump. I'm not just scared for my business, but for other young entrepreneurs like me. We've already seen the preview in my state of North Carolina. Earlier this year, our legislature passed what's known as the "bathroom bill," which caused the New York Times to describe North Carolina as a "pioneer in bigotry." 17:29:50 Besides being deeply embarrassing and morally wrong, it had an immediate and dramatic effect on our state economy. I watched a large company cancel their expansion, taking 400 good jobs with them. Two influential technology investors immediately banned investments in our state. The NBA just pulled the All-Star Game out of town. The total economic cost is already $190 million and counting. 17:30:31 What does this have to do with Trump? For starters, Trump selected Mike Pence as his running mate, the same Mike Pence who signed a discriminatory bill into Indiana law, with similar disastrous consequences. It's no surprise that The Economist has listed a Trump presidency as one of the top-ten risks to the world economy. 17:31:05 Friends, I'm here tonight because the story of my startup is the story of America. Because how we write our next chapter is up to us. Please join me in standing up for an inclusive country, with innovation and entrepreneurship fueling our economic prosperity. Let's put Hillary Clinton where we need her most, as President of the United States of America. NEW YORK CITY MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO 17:32:02 >> Thank you. Thank you democrats. Now as a New Yorker, I am quite familiar with both presidential nominees. But despite sharing a home state, these two people are worlds apart. I was honored to manage her first campaign for the U.S. Senate. And here's the Hillary that I know. When she graduated from law school, she could have begun a lucrative career at the prestigious law firm of her choice. Instead, her heart led her to take a noble job at modest pay at the defense fund. Advocating for families and children who needed a champion. That is who she is. 17:33:06 What did Donald Trump do? He was born rich, and then he made a career out of ripping people off, racking up billions in debt, and bankrupting his companies. Instead of public service or philanthropy, he became one of the least generous billionaires our country has ever seen. When Hillary Clinton was first lady of the United States, she made it her personal mission to take on the insurance giants, to get health care for every American. Now despite millions of dollars spent attacking her, she never gave up. She helped deliver the children's health insurance program against all of the odds. 17:34:07 Who did Donald take on? The small business owners he contracted with on his real estate projects. Too many times, Donald simply stiffed them. If we know that trump is the great pretender. How can he pretend to be for workers when he did not pay his own workers what he owed them. When Hillary Clinton was in the senate, she helped get $11 billion after 9/11 protecting our first responders that offered so much. 17:34:57 Who did Donald protect? Certainly not the students at trump University. A place where his employees call a scam. Where vulnerable Americans were pushed to spend more and more money on worthless classes. The only person that Donald took care of was himself. As Secretary of state, Hillary fought for the dignity of women and girls. Passionately, passionately fighting the scourge of human trafficking and the horror of child marriage in Saudi Arabia. 17:35:42 What did Donald do? He's called women dogs. And fat pigs. And blamed military sexual assault on the presence of women in our armed forces. [ boos ] He's degraded women to make himself feel big. While showing us the truly little man that he is. 17:36:20 When, when Hillary Clinton raises her right hand on inauguration day,she will be armed with the most progressive agenda in modern times. One that rewards work instead of wealth. One that flips the script on economic policies of and by and for the 1%. From paid sick leave and paid family leave to universal pre-k and debt free college, from ending tax loopholes for Wall Street and billionaire investors to addressing the needs of American cities on housing, infrastructure, immigration. 17:37:12 Hillary Clinton will tackle inequality and be a force for real Progressive change in this nation. Now, how does Donald see the economic realities facing the American people? Actually, he roots for economic turmoil for his own personal gain. You want a real life example? When asked in 2006 about a possible real estate crash, he said, quote, I sort of hope that happens, because then people like me will go in and buy. That is the very definition of the predator class. 17:38:03 And now he wants to go further and repeal the new rules we put in place to make Wall Street more accountable. Throughout her career, as we heard so clearly last night, Hillary Clinton has taken on the tough battles for one reason. Because standing up for those without much money and without much power has been her life's calling. Hillary Clinton, she's smart she is steady, she is right, and she is ready. Donald Trump he's reckless, he's risky, he's wrong, and he's scary. If you care about fighting income inequality, about lifting up families and children, about building up America's great cities, then let's come together, fight together, and let's elect Hillary Clinton the next president of these united States. Thank you. [ Applause ] IN MEMORIAM MARCIA FUDGE 17:39:46 >> Democrats, over the last four years, we have lost a number of wonderful leaders in accidents, each of us have friends or family who we will remember fondly as we watch this memorial highlighting some of our Democrats who have helped us all in so many ways. 17:40:09 [ VIDEO PLAYS ] REMARKS CHAIR, U.S. REPRESENTATIVE BEN RAY LUJÁN (NEW MEXICO) DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN 17:46:40 I come from a family of pioneers. My grandparents took on the elements, lived through the great depression, survived poverty and family tragedy, and made a place for themselves in New Mexico before it was a state. There they tilled their land, raised their crops, protected what they had and tried to help others. I grew up on that small farm. I spent my childhood churning dirt, stacking wood, feeding animals. 17:47:18 We didn't have much, but we had each other. We had familia. My dad was a union iron worker local 495. My mom had a job with the local school district. They were married for 53 years before dad passed. Dads parents before him, celedon and Nestora were married even longer. 74 years. Grandpa Seledon the sheep herder who first put down roots in New Mexico was born in the era of the horse and buggy but he lived to see the space shuttle soar into the heavens. 17:47:59 My mom's dad, Grandpa Luis, he was a union carpenter who went off to serve in WW II. While his wife (name) raised the family, I was expecting their seventh child. He earned a bronze star for his heroism. When I was young grandpa seledon and grandma nestora helped care for us. When I was older Grandpa Luis and grandma (name) were hurt in a car crash. So we helped care for them, because that's what families do. Those are the values I learned growing up. That's why I'm here today. I know I might not look like you typical member of congress, and it's true I haven't really gotten the bowtie look to catch on. 17:48:49 But the story of my family is the story of millions and millions of other families. It's the story of the great American family. Carpenters and ironworkers, sheep herders and soldiers. generations of Americans have worked hard and looked out for each other ,serving and sacrificing for the next generation. We all gather together to celebrate the good times. We all rally around each other in times of hardship and tragedy. We all try to leave things a little better than we found them. 17:49:25 And these values hold true no matter who you are or where you come from. As democrats, we believe that everybody in America should have the same opportunity my grandparents and parents had. To have a place of your own. To build some real economic security that you don't have to worry will disappear overnight. To pass something onto your kids and grandkids. Those are the values that built our party. And for a century, we have the led the fight for social security and medicare, for pell grants and the GI bill. For universal healthcare. For inclusion and equality and opportunity for all. 17:50:11 We are proud of our accomplishments. But now, it's our turn to continue that tradition. We too must leave things better than we found them. And Hillary Clinton is the president who will lead us. [ cheers ] But she needs a congress that will work with her. For nearly 6 years, republicans have led the majority in the people's house. But clinging to that majority is the only thing they've accomplished. For nearly 6 years, house republicans have put party over country. 17:50:49 For nearly 6 years, they've been afraid to stand up to the birthres and bigots and conspiracy theorists, like the one they just nominated for president. Millions of Americans who don't consider themselves democrats have now joined us in rejecting Donald Trump's bullying, racism, and his attempts to divide our American family. Growing up, my grandparents shared with me the age old wisdom: [ speaking spanish ] 17:51:26 Tell me who you walk with and I'll tell you who you are. For me the choice is easy. I am for real leadership. Someone with character and values. I'm proud to walk with Hillary Clinton. But if your member of congress is supporting Donald Trump, instead ask yourself this, what is that say about their leadership, their character, their values. If they won't even stand up to Donald Trump, what makes you think they will stand up to you and your family. 17:52:06 [video on republican party loyalty] 17:52:38 It's time for leaders who will put families first. Leaders who will keep our nation and our neighborhood safe. Leaders who will help every american family build a more secure financial future. Leaders who will fight to level the playing field and put the people's voice back in th epeoples house. I would like you to meet some of those leaders. [VIDEO ON DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES] 17:55:09 >> Securing our nation, securing our democracy, and securing our future, democrats are focussed on what matters most. And the fresh faces we'll elect this November will join a team of democratic leaders in congress who, like Hillary Clinton, have spent their lives working to improve the lives of others. Together, we'll work to create jobs and raise wages, secure equal pay for women and paid leave for every family, make it easier to pay down student debt and possible for every American to attend college debt free. If there is one thing you can count on, it's that House democrats will always be in the fight. 17:55:59 [ VIDEO PLAYS ] 17:58:40 >> Tonight, democrats are united. We are passionate. We are fearless. And we are ready to get to work alongside the next president of the United States of America, Hillary Clinton. And if you are ready to get to work alongside us, then stand with us tonight. Go to dcc.org/stronger and stand with us all the way to November. Because when we stand together and work together ,we win together. Now let's get to work. [ VIDEO PLAYS: "OUR AMERICA" ] "OUR AMERICA" ROBERT RODRIGUEZ FILMMAKER AND FOUNDER OF EL REY NETWORK 18:02:00 I'm robert Rodriguez,I'm a filmmaker and founder of El rey network. I made this film we jsut saw because there has never been a more important time for building understanding among people by telling our stories. I grew up in San Antonio texas in a family of ten kids. And it was there that I realized that storytelling amplifies our voice. To our fellow latinos, that voice is our vote. It can be more powerful than ever before. We can decide this election but only if we wield that power it's not enough to agree. We have to get out there and vote. We all stand here together each with our own story, that's our America. It's time to take a stand.It's time to tell our story, it's time to elect Hillary Clinton the next president of our America. TRIBAL CHAIRMAN 18:03:02 I am Jeff Grubbe. (?) Hello DNC. I am a Native American. I am a chairman of my tribe, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in Palm Springs, California. Like tribes across the United States, we have faced hardships and discrimination. Our ancestors fought to preserve our tribes and our culture just as I do with other tribal leaders today. Hillary Clinton is a leader that all of Indian country needs. She is a leader for America. Ah cha ma. PARK CANNON JUDGE 18:04:40 I'm Park Cannon, I am a woman, I'm African American, I'm queer, and I'm the newest member of the Georgia House of Representatives. [ cheers ] I ran for office, because I represent the rainbow of voices that too often went unheard in our state's capital. We need to trust black women. Our America is unapologetically ready to stand together. DR. DEBBIE ALMONTASER AMERICAN MUSLIM SCHOOLTEACHER AND FOUNDING PRINCIPAL OF THE KHALIL GIBRAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY 18:04:22 I'm Dr. Debbie Almontaser. Salam Alaikum Greetings of peace. I am a teacher and a proud american muslim. I spent the days after september 11th building bridges amongst students in NYC> I started a school designed to foster multicultural education, teach arabic and embrace diversity. Our America is not about fear and ignorance.it is abot acceptance. To my fellow american muslims, this november get out there and vote. DULCE CANDY DIGITAL CELEBRITY HOST 18:05:29 My name is Dulce Candy. I am an immigrant and I'm also a veteran of the US army. I'm a blogger on YouTube, and I see everyday people using social media to take action and create really great things. That's our America. With one click, you can create change. But we can't stop there. This November, we need to get offline and get to the polls and keep telling your story. It will make the biggest difference. Thank you. PERFORMANCE OF "AMERICA" BY RAUL ESPARZA, LA INDIA, HUEY DUNBAR 18:06:20 REVEREND JESSE L. JACKSON SR. CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER 18:13:09 Thank you. Thank you very much. Tonight I stand proudly in support of the next president of the United State's, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Let me also congratulate Bernie Sanders for energizing this campaign with his ideas of hope, the Bern must never grow cold. Paul (?) once said when where (hate?) abounds, love must abound even more. Where fear bounds, hope must abound even more. In the stormy season of violent campaign rhetoric, recall to be (steady in the face of the whirlwind?). There's a tug of war for America's soul. We have a clear choice, take down walls of separation, build bridges of hope and unity. 18:14:11 Love must trump ignorance and fear and hatred and violence. We love (inaudible) none must be left behind. We learned to survive a problem let's now learn to live together as brothers and sisters. And when Hillary (inaudible) in the (?) of Arkansas. Delivering legal protection for poor people in the (belt?) We brand her trusted, and tested and tried. Hillary can be trusted to appoint (in our?) supreme court a skilled administrator in including a man of faith like Senator Tim Kaine. Can. Can be trusted to ban assault weapons, turn our communities into the killing fields. (inaudible) shot in Chicago this year, (?) 250 killed this year alone. Ban these assault weapons now. 18:15:12 She can be trusted to honor the most Progressive platform our party's ever had. She will never forget our pain. She will never forget us. Nationally, there are about 45 million people still illiterate. More blacks incarcerated than graduated from college. They're scarred, there must be a change. Hillary understands the historical dimensions of the (?) that hope and promise that black lives matter. 18:15:38 Show knows our scars and our suffering from trayvon martin to Michael Brown Alton Sterling and far too many others. The shootings of young black men must stop. And we deeply regret the killing of police officers with powerful assault weapons. They resonate deep in us, so those police should be alive today. Ban assault weapons now. 18:16:06 We must choose reconciliation over retaliation and revenge today. And stop -- we can trust Hillary not to insult our Hispanic neighbors. We share 2,000 miles of border with Mexico. They are our neighbors, our eternal neighbors. We trade more with Mexico than we do with China and Japan every day. Stop insulting hispanics, stop insulting muslims now. 18:16:37 We can trust her not to mass deport 15 million people and disrupt or families now. Expand trade and development. She'll support historically black colleges, where 42% of our black engineers come from and teachers and lawyers. She'll grant (?) of Mr. Obama -- more jobs. He came into office, we lost 800 thousand jobs. We have not lost a single job, a single month since Barack has been president. 18:17:08 She'll sustain that drive and keep the hope alive. We never lost a battle that we fought. Never won a battle unless we fought. That journey began in 1984 and '88. We built the winning coalition, the rainbow coalition, registering and empowering millions of voters. This is a new day. Someone has to win and lose in the primary. Now we're beyond the primary. Now it's superbowl time. It's (?) It's superbowl time. 18:17:43 It's another day. If blacks register and vote in great numbers, progressive whites win. It's the only way they win. If hispanics and Latinos vote in great win, women win. When women win, children win. When women and children win, mothers win. We must all come together and win and fight for hope and go forth in hope and not fear. This land is our land. And we all come together, red and yellow, brown, black and white. 18:18:23 It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. I know it gets dark sometimes, but the morning cometh. The lord is our light and our salvation. Whom shall we fear? Don't let opposition break your spirit. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. [ Applause ] 18:18:59 The scripture says, If my people will call by my name, seek my face, and turn the wicked ways in I will hear their prays, forgive their sins and heal their land. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. t's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time.It's Hillary time. It's healing time. Louder. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time.It's Hillary time. It's healing time. Louder. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. God bless you. STAR JONES ACTRESS 18:20:12 "I will fight for you," she said, "no matter how long it takes." I have known Hillary Rodham Clinton for over two decades now. And years ago, when she visited us on "The View," I told her, "When you decide that you're ready to be the first woman President of the United States, I'll be there to help." 18:20:43 So, here I am! But most importantly, here we all are. And we are all with her, because she has always been with us! As a former prosecutor, you know I like to deal in facts. Here's a fact: "There has never been any man or woman more qualified for this office than Hillary, ever." The 44th president of the United States Barack Obama said that. 18:21:28 Here's another fact: Nobody else in the race has the same unique connection to women, children, families, and our day-to-day challenges. I'm saying that. And that's very different from some very loud, obnoxious, race-baiting folk on the other side, who I also know. Shade. Boy, bye. 18:22:07 And we all know, there's nowhere do we need a president who cares about all Americans more than in the place we're about to visit: Flint, Michigan. VIDEO: HILARY'S AMERICA: FLINT 18:22:27 KAREN WEAVER FLINT MAYOR 18:26:36 Good evening. I am Karen Weaver, and I am the mayor of the great city of Flint, Michigan. Flint is a community of 100,000 strong, hard-working people, living in the birthplace of General Motors, and the place where the great sit-down strike led to the creation of the United Auto Workers. 18:27:06 Flint is also a city in crisis. Five years ago, our Republican state government used a Michigan law to take over control of the city. In 2014, the state switched our water source to a polluted river to save a handful of dollars - causing lead contamination to leach into our drinking water, poisoning, poisoning a whole community, and leading to health impacts that may haunt our children for generations. 18:27:41 The problems in Flint are not over. The water is still not safe to drink or cook with from the tap. Our infrastructure is broken, leaking, and rusting away. Our local economy struggles to rebound, and there are many more Flints across the country where environmental issues are hurting our kids and families. 18:28:10 Today, the help we need from our federal government to start rebuilding our drinking water infrastructure still sits blocked in the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress -- [ boos ] I am a voice for Flint. And we need your help. Do you know who has also heard the call from Flint? Hillary Clinton! She came to Flint when the water crisis hit. She joined with our community groups, and our civic leaders, and our churches. Hillary said, "I will do everything I can to help you get back up and to help you get your strength and resilience flowing through Flint again." 18:29:02 With direct help from Hillary Clinton's team, the Flint WaterWorks program is now putting the young adults of Flint into new jobs and rebuilding their own community. Hillary's wonderful daughter, Chelsea, even came to Flint to bring people together to start this work and to create new opportunities for our families. 18:29:29 A month later, Hillary Clinton came back to Flint again and called out to say that lead poisoning, broken infrastructure, and struggling cities are a national crisis, not just a Flint crisis. She made a commitment that, when she is President, she will work for a lead-free America. And that's why I'm with Her! So join with Flint to get behind Hillary Clinton, to raise our voices for Hillary Clinton, and to make her the next President of the United States. God bless Flint and God bless America. CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS REPRESENTATIVE GK BUTTERFIELD (NC) CHAIR 18:32:08 Fellow democrats, I'm congressman GK Butterfield from North Carolina! In my community, tyou judge a man's heart by his wordsa n deeds. Donald J Trump, your words ahve been hostile. They have been bigoted and insulting. You've used every opporuntity to talk about your wealth ,to denegrate people who don't hold your views, even within your own party. YOu are not qualified to serve as president of the United States. 18:32:4 Instead of putting forth details to address income inequality and opporunity for everyday Americans, you use your celebrity status to paitn a picture of gloom and doom. You use your status to alienate African Americans and other groups. And you would use the office of president to take our great nation in the wrong direction. You wanna know why your polling numbers are so dismal among African Americans? I will tell you. We know. We know you have gotten rich through your business, but we also know your wealth has come at the expense of other people. We know. We know. We know you have no plan to address issues directly affecting African American communities, such as gun violence and voting rights, historically black colleges and universities, raising the minimum wage, and addressing persisting poverty. 18:33:46 Democrats want a better future for all of our people, for all of our families. Read our platform and compare it to the republican platform. Give us this chance. Give us this chance by electing Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine to lead our great country. [ cheers ] REP. ANDRE CARSON OF INDIANA 18:34:22 My name is Andre Carson, I stand here today not just as a rep of the great state of IN, but as a young African American Muslim and former police officer. [applause] YOu know, over the last year millions of good hearted Muslims and African Americans like me, have watched the deep seeded hatred of the past, once again become mainstream. Together, we have been singled out in the national spotlight, as threats to be dealt with and not a part of the American family. If Donald trump, my buddy Mike Pence have their way, this slide into hatred and bigotry will only get worse. 18:35:15 Now, I'm from Indiana. And I have seen Mike Pence's terrible judgement up close. Pence, has fought against same sex couples having equal rights. Pence, rejected fed funding for Pre K education. And for years, Pence has fought to defund planned parenthood both in IN and across this country. We can't let the terrible judgement of Mike Pence and Donald trump impact our civil rights. That's why we need Hillary Clinton. She believes that if every uniform makes you fear profiling and suspicion, if you watch your kids leave in the morning and wonder if they'll come home at night, you deserve compassion and understanding. 18:36:25 Hillary Clinton is undaunted by the challenges that have plagued our communities for far too long. She stands with us and we need you to stand with her. REP. KAREN BASS OF CA 18:36:54 Democrats, we have 103 days to tell the nation that there is a better path for our country than the one Donald trump offers. 103 days to ensure our nation will not slide backwards to the bigotry of our past. 103 days to stop our country from giving in to the incoherent rage which Trump has taken advantage of, to declare war on common sense. Donald Trump, when you take pride of your outright ignorance of world affairs, when you promise the deportation of latino families, when you dismiss officer involved shootings of African Americans, when you degrade women, Donald Trump you unite us. We are democrats and we embrace the full diversity of the American rainbow. Look around you democrats, the diversity in this room reflects all of America, not part of America. Not like last week's Republican convention. My fellow democrats I challenge you to take all of Donald Trump's hateful energy and turn it into the fuel we need to take back the house! To take back the Senate! 18:38:18 And to make Madam Secretary, madam President. Thank you. REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES OF NY 18:38:28 I'm Hakeem Jeffries from the great state of New York. We are here today, standing on the shoulders of giants. Like Shirley Chisholm, Adam Clayton Powell Jr, Barbara Jordan, Charlie Rangel, and so many others who have made it possible for a kid like me to serve in the United States congress. In november, the American people face a clear choice between the most qualified person ever to seek the presidency and the least qualified ever to seek the presidency. 18:39:10 It's a choice between a commander in chief and a bankrupter in chief. It's a choice between a secretary of state and the secretary of hate. Donald Trump is a bounced check, but Hillary CLinton is money in the bank. She believes that America is a better place today because of the presidency of Barack Obama. She believes we should provide for the poor, work for working families, make sense for the middle class, and stand up for senior citizens. She believes we should innovate in the inner cities, strengthen suburban communities, and revitalize rural America. 18:39:54 She believes we should increase economic opportunity, end the era of mass incarceration, and eradicate police brutality once and for all. And, she believes that whether you're black or white, Latino or Asian, Jewish or Muslim, Catholic or Protestant, gay or straight, young or old, that in this great country, every single American deserves equal protection under the law. And that's why together, we're gonna elect Hillary Rodham Clinton as the next president of the United States of America. God bless you. REP. YVETTE CLARKE OF NEW YORK 18:40:44 My fellow democrats. Envision an America where you can graduate from college without crushing debt. Where American manufacturing jobs are on the rise again, women are paid equally, and seniors with the dignity and comfort thanks to a strong social security system. Where we stand united with the conviction that we can make our great country even greater by lifting each other up, not tearing each other apart. We cannot get there with the serial divider, Donald Trump. A bottomless vessel of egotism who exploits every fault line to advance his favorite cause, himself. 18:41:41 We can get there with Hillary Rodham Clinton: a leader with experience and statesmanship. Who lived the life of public service to advance the noblest cause, our great nation. I am congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke from Brooklyn, New York. My mother, the honorable Yuna Clark, is the first caribbean born American woman to be elected to the New YOrk City council. And my congressional district was once represented by the first African Caribbean Congressman, the honorable Shirley Chisholm. 18:42:30 So, I know a great leader when I see her. Hillary Rodham Clinton is our great leader and our next president of the United States of America. REP. GREGORY MEEKS OF NY 18:43:01 I'm honored to unite around our nominee, and my good friend Hillary Rodham Clinton. As a lifelong New Yorker, I've seen two presidential candidates up close and personal and let me tell you, Hillary offers everything that Donald Trump can't. She would fight for American workers, he refuses to pay them. She plans to make college debt free for all, he creates a sham university to exploit others. 18:43:33 She offers unity and thinking, he offers division and plans that take us backwards. Donald says I'm always right but the truth is, he's wrong. He's wrong for our families, he's wrong for our communities, he's wrong for our country, Hillary Clinton cares about the aspirations of all Americans she's going to tackle income inequality, provide opportunity for the poor and strengthen the middle class and she's going to invest in communities that have been neglected for far too long. 18:44:12 So my fellow Americans, it's time for us to band together, it's time for us to work together, it's time for us to aspire for a more and a greater challenge so that we could be better ourselves. It's time for us to build a strong future for our kids and our country and we my fellow Americans can do that by sending Hillary Clinton to the White House this November. PRESIDENT OF EMILY'S LIST STEPHANIE SCHRIOCK 18:45:56 One hundred years ago this November, a social worker from my home state of Montana, Jeannette Rankin, became the first woman ever elected to Congress. The first, but not the last. Once that barrier fell, there was no turning back. And, for over 31 years, EMILY's List has helped elect hundreds more women to the House, and the Senate, and every other office on the ballot. Except one. 18:46:33 Hillary Clinton may be our first woman president. But she will not be our last. Once that barrier falls, it will never, ever, ever be put back up. The women we've elected haven't just brought new voices to the debate. They've brought new momentum to the progressive movement. You see, women don't just fight for women. They fight for families. They fight for fairness. Inclusion. Justice. 18:47:09 No wonder Republican leaders oppose equal pay for women, and refuse to stand up for working mothers trying to balance career and family. That's why they'd let your boss fire you for using birth control, and force us to undergo invasive trans-vaginal ultrasounds. They don't respect women. They don't trust women. They want to control women. 18:47:41 They're afraid of the change we bring, the progress we make, when we get a chance to lead. And they're terrified of Hillary Clinton. Because no matter what they throw at her, they've never ever been able to stop her. From the Children's Defense Fund to the Senate, from Little Rock to Beijing, she's fought for fairness, for inclusion, for justice, and she's won. 18:48:14 Now, they're making their last stand. Not just against her, but against all of us who have worked so hard and so long to make progress in America. They're panicking. They're desperate. And that means they're dangerous. They've nominated a man who said women should be punished for having an abortion. Said, "Putting a wife to work is a dangerous thing." Called us "fat pigs" and "animals." He picked a running mate who led the fight to destroy Planned Parenthood, tried to redefine rape, suggested that mothers who work "stunt the emotional growth" of their kids by putting them in daycare. 18:49:07 If they win, they'll erase every ounce of progress we've dared to make. But we have fought too hard and come too far to let that happen. Let's stand together to elect more Democratic women up and down the ballot. More women in local office. More women in the House. More women in the Senate and enough to take back the majority! Let's decide right here and now to break through that last barrier. And, yes, at long last, put a woman in the White House: Hillary Clinton, our first woman president, but not our last! HARRY REID VIDEO 18:50:02 SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER HARRY REID (NEVADA) 18:53:55 Thank you everybody. Thank you. [ cheers ] Thanks everybody. Thank you very much. >> [ chant ] Harry! Harry! Harry! Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. 18:54:51 You know, I spend a lot of time in the Republican Senate, so it's nice to be in a room that respects reason and facts! I appreciate the tribute, I really do, I appreciate the tribute. But anything I've accomplished in the Senate, I owe to the great teammates I've had: my Democratic Senate Caucus; Nancy Pelosi in the House; President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden. And I give a never-ending tribute to our next President, Hillary Clinton! 18:55:36 As a team, we've fought for the belief that affordable health care is a right, not a privilege. As a team, we've fought for the idea that you shouldn't get the bill for Wall Street's bad bets. As a team, we've fought for the promise that your hard-earned Social Security is a sacred trust. 18:56:04 Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to put insurance companies back in charge of your health. Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to let big banks run wild again. And Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to gamble with your retirement benefits in the stock market. Republicans want to tear down the pillars of middle-class security. We won't let that happen! 18:56:37 And I've never seen anything more craven than Mitch McConnell and what he has done to our democracy. His Republican Party decided that the answer to hard-working American dreams is to slander our African-American President, stoke fear of Muslims, sow hatred of Latinos, insult Asians, and, of course, wage war against women. In other words, the only thing Republicans, like Mitch McConnell, have accomplished is setting the stage for a hateful con man, Donald Trump. 18:57:20 When Trump decided to run for President, he probably said to himself: "I'm an egomaniac. I don't believe in science. I think women are inferior. Where would I feel at home?" We know where that is. Parents: You're right to worry about your children hearing what comes out of Donald Trump's mouth. Republicans: You should have been careful, also, because Donald learned it from watching you. 18:57:57 You know, they say they believe in "Country First." What a joke. Republicans who won't stand up to Trump believe in one thing and one thing only: "Party First." And this year, 2016, they've gone even further, nominating the poster child of "Me First." Trump knew that hateful rhetoric and dangerous policies are the way to win in today's GOP. But that's not how you win in America. And that's not how America wins in the world. 18:48:24 Democrats know we win with an economy that works for everybody. With a strong, smart national security that v alues our allies and doesn't invite a cyber attack on our country. And we know winning is the work of a team. With Hillary in the White House and a majority in the Senate, Democrats will keep fighting for immigration reform that keeps America true; clean energy that keeps America strong; and a Supreme Court that keeps America just, and background checks for gun buyers and an assault-weapons ban that keep America safe. 18:59:27 Since my boxing days, I've fought my share of fights. In my 50 years of fighting for Nevadans, I've also realized a leader is actually a corner man, a corner man: someone who stands on your side, who has your back in a fight. Middle-class families fighting to give your kids a better life - Democrats stand in your corner. Americans fighting for the equality and respect our nation promises you - we're in your corner. New Americans risking everything to get here, and then fighting to make it here - we're in your corner.

SWITCHED PROGRAM FEED FROM THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION AT THE WELLS FARGO CENTER IN PHILADELPHIA / 17:00:35 MAXINE WATERS Oh yes, women of America, women of the world, oh, we're gonna be treated with dignity and respect. We will not be judged by our appearance or our thighs or our accents. We will not be denied freedom of choice. We will demonstrate our talents, and we will prosper. Hillary's experience as the first lady, as a United States senator, as the best Secretary State we ever had really unique qualifies her to be the next president of the United States of America. Thank you. PRESIDENT OF NARAL ILYSE HOGUE 17:01:34 I am a 4th generation Texan. Texas women are tough. We approach challenges with clear eyes and full hearts. To succeed in life, all we need are the tools, the trust, and the chance to chart our own path. I was fortunate enough to have these things when I found out I was pregnant years ago. I wanted a family, but it was the wrong time. I made the decision that was best for me - to have an abortion - and get compassionate care at a clinic in my own community. Now, years later, my husband and I are parents to two incredible children. 17:02:27 My story is not unique. About one in three American women have abortions by the age of 45, and the majority are mothers just trying to take care of the families they already have. You see, it's not as simple as bad girls get abortions and good girls have families. We are the same women at different times in our lives - each making decisions that are the best for us. 17:02:59 If we want families to succeed, we start by empowering women. Give us accurate information and access to health care. Keep politicians out of our business when we're not ready to parent, and support us when we are. That's what gives our families the best chance to get ahead and stay ahead. And that is what Hillary Clinton has spent decades fighting for. 17:03:33 Donald Trump he is different. He said women who have abortions like me should be punished. He calls women "pigs" and says breastfeeding is "disgusting."Now some people think he doesn't really mean any of that. But, look who he picked for VP. 17:03:53 Mike Pence led the charge to defund Planned Parenthood, pushed to let hospitals turn a woman away if she needs an abortion to save her life, and signed a bill with some of the most outrageous abortion restrictions in the country. He has even said he can't wait to send Roe v. Wade "into the ash heap of history." Together, Donald Trump and Mike Pence have united to form the "make misogyny great again" ticket. 17:04:28 And the people who so loudly oppose abortion rights? Let me let you in to their dirty little secret: They're not only against abortions. Many of these people are also fighting to restrict access to contraception and block commonsense policies to support working moms. 17:04:48 It's not abortion that bothers them. It's empowering women to live our own lives. And -- that's right. And when we have power over our own destiny, we not only strengthen our families, we honor our most cherished traditions of liberty and equality. These aren't just "women's issues" - these are the very foundation of our freedom. We need a president who has the experience, the wisdom, and the grit to stand up against the bullies. We need a president who knows that "women's rights are human rights." We need a president who will keep expanding the frontiers of freedom for all Americans. We need Hillary Clinton. ANDREW GILLUM MAYOR OF TALLAHASSEE 17:06:04 Hello, my fellow Democrats and hello my fellow Floridians. In case you all needed a reminder, Florida is in the house. 17:06:25 As I prepared for tonight, I thought back on the path that led me to this moment. Born the fifth of seven kids in Miami Day, Florida to my daddy, Charles, a construction worker, and my mother, Francis, a school bus driver. My parents worked their entire lives to provide for me and for my siblings greater opportunities than they had ever been afforded. 17:06:56 Creating the possibility for me to be the first in my family to go to college and graduate from the Florida A&M University. [ applause ] They dared us to fly higher than they could ever see - and they always provided us the opportunity and a path to pay it forward. I can still hear my grandmother's voice telling me "boy," she said it just like that, " go to school, mind your teachers, get your lesson, and one bring that education home." She'd say, "Bring it home for your baby sister or your little brother who may not know what education is. She'd say bring it home for that little boy down the street that you play with. God knows where he'll end up, bring it home. 17:07:49 It was a reminder that if we were going to get anywhere, we would get there together. My friends, this is the story of our party. And it's what drives our nominee.Hillary Clinton has shown us her heart, her strength, and her passion for this country's future. A future quite frankly which means more to me now than ever before. Because in addition to being Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, the capital city of our nation's third largest state, I'm also a father. Along with my wife R. Jai, we are raising two-year-old twins, Jackson and Caroline. 17: 08:37 So when I head to the voting booth, I want you all to know that they are coming with me. Because I want them to know that I'm not just casting my vote for Hillary Clinton and my fellow Democrats, I am casting my vote for them. Ensuring the kind of future they deserve will require leadership that can unify and inspire us. That can build on this country's best instincts for inclusion and optimism. The world can feel scary enough - without so-called leaders leading with fear for political gain. That's right. 17:09: 21 Every day, everyday in this country black parents send their sons out with a deep sense of anxiety, hoping they will return home to them safely. And every day, police officers kiss their loved ones heading to work -to protect and to serve and they hold that same sense of hope and fear in their hearts. In these times of anger and fear, we can't afford retreat to our respective corners. We can't let this animosity grow and get stronger. That's right. And we've seen examples of communities and law enforcement coming together during a crisis to grieve together and help each other heal. That is how it is exactly how it is supposed to work - and it's on all of us to make that a reality in our communities. 17:10:23 Because in the end y'all,in the end, we all want the same things for our families. Our fates are inextricably tied together. And with the right leadership, we can renew our trust in one another again. I believe with every fiber of my being that Hillary Clinton is the leader we need. 17:10:54 So on Inauguration Day - I look forward to holding my babies tightly -I look forward to watching history unfold before their eyes and before mine and I look forward to shouting with you toward that big stage in Washington DC and saying "Congratulations, Madam President!" Thank you, and God bless! [ VIDEO ON ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLAND AMERICANS ] CONGRESSIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN CAUCUS Rep. Judy Chu: 17:14:36 I am Congresswoman Judy Chu from California, and I am proud to be the first Chinese-American woman ever elected to Congress! Standing with me are my fellow Asian-American and Pacific Islander - or AAPI - Members of Congress. Many of them, too, are trailblazers in their own right. And we are all proud to support Hillary Clinton for President of the United States! 17:15:23 It wasn't too long ago that if you saw an Asian Pacific American walking in the U.S. Capitol, you had to stop and do a double-take. But how things have changed. We now have a record number of AAPI Members of Congress - and most importantly, we are organizing and making our voices heard. We have gone from being marginalized to becoming the margin of victory in key swing states and districts all across our nation. 17:15:58 America needs a president who will fight for us - someone who rejects the hateful rhetoric that is too often used to divide us and believes that America's diversity is our greatest strength. That's why we've got to elect Hillary Clinton as our next President of the United States! When it comes to the issues most important to us, Hillary Clinton gets it. 17:16:30 On immigration reform, she gets it. So many families have been kept apart for decades by an incredibly long family visa backlog. Hillary will fight to clear that backlog so that millions of American families can finally be reunited with their loved ones. We're with Hillary because she is committed to comprehensive immigration reform! 17:17:01 On education, she gets it. So many of our parents and grandparents sacrificed to come to the United States because they wanted their children to get a better education and live the American Dream. We're with Hillary because she'll make debt-free college available for all Americans. On voting rights, she gets it. Today, almost 70 percent of AAPI adults are foreign born. Access to translated and absentee ballots is critical. We're with Hillary because she will work with Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act and ensure fair access to the ballot box. 17:17:50 On making sure we have a diverse federal government, she gets it. We're with Hillary because she will appoint an administration that looks like America. And on safeguarding our civil liberties, she gets it. I am proud to have Congresswoman Doris Matsui and Congressman Mike Honda as members of our caucus. During World War II, both Doris and Mike were imprisoned in internment camps for no other reason than their ethnicity. Donald Trump doesn't seem to see a problem with this part of our history. With Hillary Clinton, we know the civil and constitutional rights of all Americans will be protected! 17:18:52 Tonight, we are also grieving for our dear friend and colleague, Congress member Mark Takai from Hawai'i, who passed away last week at the age of 49 after a hard-fought battle with pancreatic cancer. Mark truly had the aloha spirit, and was deeply committed to advancing the priorities of the people of Hawai'i and our veterans. I will never forget the tears in his eyes when he learned about the Cancer Moonshot initiative. It gave him and millions of Americans hope that we will finally find a cure for cancer. In his memory, we've got to keep hoping - and fighting. 17:19:40 Hillary Clinton is the best choice for all Americans to move our country forward. Our caucus members reflect the diversity of America. And that is why we are proud to stand with her. Sen. Mazie Hirono: 17:20:05 Aloha. I am Senator Mazie Hirono from Hawai'i, an immigrant, the first Asian-American woman elected to the United States Senate. I support Hillary Clinton because she is a lifelong champion for women, children, and families. And with the help of all of us, she will fight for all families - including immigrant families - in the White House. Aloha, mahalo. Rep. Madeleine Bordallo: 17:20:50 Hafa Adai. I am Congresswoman Bordallo from Guam, and I support Hillary Clinton because she understands the unique needs of the territories, and is committed to the Asia-Pacific rebalance. She is a strong leader we need her to move forward as a nation. Thank you. Rep. Mark Takano: 17:21:30 I am Congressman Mark Takano from California, and I'm the first openly gay person of color to be elected to the United States Congress. As a proud "gaysian," I support Hillary Clinton because she is a strong champion for LGBT rights. She will to fight to end employment discrimination against LGBT Americans. Rep. Ami Bera: 17:22:07 I am Congressman Ami Bera from California. As the only South Asian member of Congress, and as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I support Hillary Clinton because she is the only candidate that understands the complexity of the world and is prepared from day one to lead America. Rep. Bobby Scott: 17:22:38 I'm Congressman Bobby Scott from Virginia, the first person with Filipino ancestry to be elected voting member of Congress, and I support Hillary Clinton because she believes that all children deserve equality affordable education so that they can reach their full potential. Rep. Ted Lieu: 17:23:06 I am Congressman Ted Lieu from California and a colonel in the U.S. Air Force reserve. I support Hillary Clinton for president because she will l fight for our military personnel, veterans, and families. She will make sure that those who risked their lives for our country get the health care and the resources that they need. Rep. Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan: 17:23:40 Good evening, my name is Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan and I am from the Northern Mariana Islands. I support Hillary Clinton because she believes that all Americans should have - including those in the Pacific Island territories - should have access to quality, affordable health care. Thank you very much. Rep. Grace Meng: 17:24:31 I am Congresswoman Grace Meng from New York, the first Asian-American elected to Congress from the East Coast, and I support Hillary Clinton because she is the best candidate to bring Americans together and move our country forward! This election is so important, and Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders can make the difference. Our voting power has doubled over the last decade - we are now the swing vote in swing states like Virginia, Nevada, and also right here in Pennsylvania! And I call upon my fellow AAPIs to organize, to campaign, and to vote, so that we will be the margin of victory in 2016 and beyond! As our community continues to grow - and as we begin to see more AAPI candidates like Raja Krishnamoorthi from Illinois and Stephanie Murphy from Florida begin to run for higher office - it is critical that we elect a person who will make history for America and build a brighter future for generations to come. And that person is Hillary Clinton! BROOKS BELL 17:26:39 Hello, Democrats! I'm Brooks Bell, a technology entrepreneur in Raleigh, North Carolina. When I was 23 years old, I started my own company. It wasn't easy. Six months later, I had a stroke. I had to relearn to read, write, and talk. I was lucky. I recovered, and so did my fledgling company. 17:27:12 But that wasn't my only struggle. In fact, it was one of my many ups and downs - familiar to any small business with big dreams. I've gained and lost big clients. I've had to let wonderful employees go. It's given me the scars that I know many entrepreneurs share. 17:27:37 I believe in Hillary, because I know she also carries battle scars. Her relentless dedication to serve America over the past 30 years has been marked by hard choices - which makes this historic achievement all the more impressive. Her tenacity her toughness - her seasoned judgment - is exactly what we need in a president. We need someone ready for the hardest job on earth, day one. And that someone is Hillary Rodham Clinton! 17:28: 27 Today, my company employs 40 people. We partner with some of the largest organizations in America to help make the internet easier to use. We're growing quickly. My company is strong, as is my health, thanks in part to ongoing investment in education, healthcare, and innovation. Like they say, "Thanks, Obama!" 17:29:04 However, I am worried - terrified - about what might happen if we elect Trump. I'm not just scared for my business, but for other young entrepreneurs like me. We've already seen the preview in my state of North Carolina. Earlier this year, our legislature passed what's known as the "bathroom bill," which caused the New York Times to describe North Carolina as a "pioneer in bigotry." 17:29:50 Besides being deeply embarrassing and morally wrong, it had an immediate and dramatic effect on our state economy. I watched a large company cancel their expansion, taking 400 good jobs with them. Two influential technology investors immediately banned investments in our state. The NBA just pulled the All-Star Game out of town. The total economic cost is already $190 million and counting. 17:30:31 What does this have to do with Trump? For starters, Trump selected Mike Pence as his running mate, the same Mike Pence who signed a discriminatory bill into Indiana law, with similar disastrous consequences. It's no surprise that The Economist has listed a Trump presidency as one of the top-ten risks to the world economy. 17:31:05 Friends, I'm here tonight because the story of my startup is the story of America. Because how we write our next chapter is up to us. Please join me in standing up for an inclusive country, with innovation and entrepreneurship fueling our economic prosperity. Let's put Hillary Clinton where we need her most, as President of the United States of America. NEW YORK CITY MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO 17:32:02 >> Thank you. Thank you democrats. Now as a New Yorker, I am quite familiar with both presidential nominees. But despite sharing a home state, these two people are worlds apart. I was honored to manage her first campaign for the U.S. Senate. And here's the Hillary that I know. When she graduated from law school, she could have begun a lucrative career at the prestigious law firm of her choice. Instead, her heart led her to take a noble job at modest pay at the defense fund. Advocating for families and children who needed a champion. That is who she is. 17:33:06 What did Donald Trump do? He was born rich, and then he made a career out of ripping people off, racking up billions in debt, and bankrupting his companies. Instead of public service or philanthropy, he became one of the least generous billionaires our country has ever seen. When Hillary Clinton was first lady of the United States, she made it her personal mission to take on the insurance giants, to get health care for every American. Now despite millions of dollars spent attacking her, she never gave up. She helped deliver the children's health insurance program against all of the odds. 17:34:07 Who did Donald take on? The small business owners he contracted with on his real estate projects. Too many times, Donald simply stiffed them. If we know that trump is the great pretender. How can he pretend to be for workers when he did not pay his own workers what he owed them. When Hillary Clinton was in the senate, she helped get $11 billion after 9/11 protecting our first responders that offered so much. 17:34:57 Who did Donald protect? Certainly not the students at trump University. A place where his employees call a scam. Where vulnerable Americans were pushed to spend more and more money on worthless classes. The only person that Donald took care of was himself. As Secretary of state, Hillary fought for the dignity of women and girls. Passionately, passionately fighting the scourge of human trafficking and the horror of child marriage in Saudi Arabia. 17:35:42 What did Donald do? He's called women dogs. And fat pigs. And blamed military sexual assault on the presence of women in our armed forces. [ boos ] He's degraded women to make himself feel big. While showing us the truly little man that he is. 17:36:20 When, when Hillary Clinton raises her right hand on inauguration day,she will be armed with the most progressive agenda in modern times. One that rewards work instead of wealth. One that flips the script on economic policies of and by and for the 1%. From paid sick leave and paid family leave to universal pre-k and debt free college, from ending tax loopholes for Wall Street and billionaire investors to addressing the needs of American cities on housing, infrastructure, immigration. 17:37:12 Hillary Clinton will tackle inequality and be a force for real Progressive change in this nation. Now, how does Donald see the economic realities facing the American people? Actually, he roots for economic turmoil for his own personal gain. You want a real life example? When asked in 2006 about a possible real estate crash, he said, quote, I sort of hope that happens, because then people like me will go in and buy. That is the very definition of the predator class. 17:38:03 And now he wants to go further and repeal the new rules we put in place to make Wall Street more accountable. Throughout her career, as we heard so clearly last night, Hillary Clinton has taken on the tough battles for one reason. Because standing up for those without much money and without much power has been her life's calling. Hillary Clinton, she's smart she is steady, she is right, and she is ready. Donald Trump he's reckless, he's risky, he's wrong, and he's scary. If you care about fighting income inequality, about lifting up families and children, about building up America's great cities, then let's come together, fight together, and let's elect Hillary Clinton the next president of these united States. Thank you. [ Applause ] IN MEMORIAM MARCIA FUDGE 17:39:46 >> Democrats, over the last four years, we have lost a number of wonderful leaders in accidents, each of us have friends or family who we will remember fondly as we watch this memorial highlighting some of our Democrats who have helped us all in so many ways. 17:40:09 [ VIDEO PLAYS ] REMARKS CHAIR, U.S. REPRESENTATIVE BEN RAY LUJÁN (NEW MEXICO) DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN 17:46:40 I come from a family of pioneers. My grandparents took on the elements, lived through the great depression, survived poverty and family tragedy, and made a place for themselves in New Mexico before it was a state. There they tilled their land, raised their crops, protected what they had and tried to help others. I grew up on that small farm. I spent my childhood churning dirt, stacking wood, feeding animals. 17:47:18 We didn't have much, but we had each other. We had familia. My dad was a union iron worker local 495. My mom had a job with the local school district. They were married for 53 years before dad passed. Dads parents before him, celedon and Nestora were married even longer. 74 years. Grandpa Seledon the sheep herder who first put down roots in New Mexico was born in the era of the horse and buggy but he lived to see the space shuttle soar into the heavens. 17:47:59 My mom's dad, Grandpa Luis, he was a union carpenter who went off to serve in WW II. While his wife (name) raised the family, I was expecting their seventh child. He earned a bronze star for his heroism. When I was young grandpa seledon and grandma nestora helped care for us. When I was older Grandpa Luis and grandma (name) were hurt in a car crash. So we helped care for them, because that's what families do. Those are the values I learned growing up. That's why I'm here today. I know I might not look like you typical member of congress, and it's true I haven't really gotten the bowtie look to catch on. 17:48:49 But the story of my family is the story of millions and millions of other families. It's the story of the great American family. Carpenters and ironworkers, sheep herders and soldiers. generations of Americans have worked hard and looked out for each other ,serving and sacrificing for the next generation. We all gather together to celebrate the good times. We all rally around each other in times of hardship and tragedy. We all try to leave things a little better than we found them. 17:49:25 And these values hold true no matter who you are or where you come from. As democrats, we believe that everybody in America should have the same opportunity my grandparents and parents had. To have a place of your own. To build some real economic security that you don't have to worry will disappear overnight. To pass something onto your kids and grandkids. Those are the values that built our party. And for a century, we have the led the fight for social security and medicare, for pell grants and the GI bill. For universal healthcare. For inclusion and equality and opportunity for all. 17:50:11 We are proud of our accomplishments. But now, it's our turn to continue that tradition. We too must leave things better than we found them. And Hillary Clinton is the president who will lead us. [ cheers ] But she needs a congress that will work with her. For nearly 6 years, republicans have led the majority in the people's house. But clinging to that majority is the only thing they've accomplished. For nearly 6 years, house republicans have put party over country. 17:50:49 For nearly 6 years, they've been afraid to stand up to the birthres and bigots and conspiracy theorists, like the one they just nominated for president. Millions of Americans who don't consider themselves democrats have now joined us in rejecting Donald Trump's bullying, racism, and his attempts to divide our American family. Growing up, my grandparents shared with me the age old wisdom: [ speaking spanish ] 17:51:26 Tell me who you walk with and I'll tell you who you are. For me the choice is easy. I am for real leadership. Someone with character and values. I'm proud to walk with Hillary Clinton. But if your member of congress is supporting Donald Trump, instead ask yourself this, what is that say about their leadership, their character, their values. If they won't even stand up to Donald Trump, what makes you think they will stand up to you and your family. 17:52:06 [video on republican party loyalty] 17:52:38 It's time for leaders who will put families first. Leaders who will keep our nation and our neighborhood safe. Leaders who will help every american family build a more secure financial future. Leaders who will fight to level the playing field and put the people's voice back in th epeoples house. I would like you to meet some of those leaders. [VIDEO ON DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES] 17:55:09 >> Securing our nation, securing our democracy, and securing our future, democrats are focussed on what matters most. And the fresh faces we'll elect this November will join a team of democratic leaders in congress who, like Hillary Clinton, have spent their lives working to improve the lives of others. Together, we'll work to create jobs and raise wages, secure equal pay for women and paid leave for every family, make it easier to pay down student debt and possible for every American to attend college debt free. If there is one thing you can count on, it's that House democrats will always be in the fight. 17:55:59 [ VIDEO PLAYS ] 17:58:40 >> Tonight, democrats are united. We are passionate. We are fearless. And we are ready to get to work alongside the next president of the United States of America, Hillary Clinton. And if you are ready to get to work alongside us, then stand with us tonight. Go to dcc.org/stronger and stand with us all the way to November. Because when we stand together and work together ,we win together. Now let's get to work. [ VIDEO PLAYS: "OUR AMERICA" ] "OUR AMERICA" ROBERT RODRIGUEZ FILMMAKER AND FOUNDER OF EL REY NETWORK 18:02:00 I'm robert Rodriguez,I'm a filmmaker and founder of El rey network. I made this film we jsut saw because there has never been a more important time for building understanding among people by telling our stories. I grew up in San Antonio texas in a family of ten kids. And it was there that I realized that storytelling amplifies our voice. To our fellow latinos, that voice is our vote. It can be more powerful than ever before. We can decide this election but only if we wield that power it's not enough to agree. We have to get out there and vote. We all stand here together each with our own story, that's our America. It's time to take a stand.It's time to tell our story, it's time to elect Hillary Clinton the next president of our America. TRIBAL CHAIRMAN 18:03:02 I am Jeff Grubbe. (?) Hello DNC. I am a Native American. I am a chairman of my tribe, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in Palm Springs, California. Like tribes across the United States, we have faced hardships and discrimination. Our ancestors fought to preserve our tribes and our culture just as I do with other tribal leaders today. Hillary Clinton is a leader that all of Indian country needs. She is a leader for America. Ah cha ma. PARK CANNON JUDGE 18:04:40 I'm Park Cannon, I am a woman, I'm African American, I'm queer, and I'm the newest member of the Georgia House of Representatives. [ cheers ] I ran for office, because I represent the rainbow of voices that too often went unheard in our state's capital. We need to trust black women. Our America is unapologetically ready to stand together. DR. DEBBIE ALMONTASER AMERICAN MUSLIM SCHOOLTEACHER AND FOUNDING PRINCIPAL OF THE KHALIL GIBRAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY 18:04:22 I'm Dr. Debbie Almontaser. Salam Alaikum Greetings of peace. I am a teacher and a proud american muslim. I spent the days after september 11th building bridges amongst students in NYC> I started a school designed to foster multicultural education, teach arabic and embrace diversity. Our America is not about fear and ignorance.it is abot acceptance. To my fellow american muslims, this november get out there and vote. DULCE CANDY DIGITAL CELEBRITY HOST 18:05:29 My name is Dulce Candy. I am an immigrant and I'm also a veteran of the US army. I'm a blogger on YouTube, and I see everyday people using social media to take action and create really great things. That's our America. With one click, you can create change. But we can't stop there. This November, we need to get offline and get to the polls and keep telling your story. It will make the biggest difference. Thank you. PERFORMANCE OF "AMERICA" BY RAUL ESPARZA, LA INDIA, HUEY DUNBAR 18:06:20 REVEREND JESSE L. JACKSON SR. CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER 18:13:09 Thank you. Thank you very much. Tonight I stand proudly in support of the next president of the United State's, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Let me also congratulate Bernie Sanders for energizing this campaign with his ideas of hope, the Bern must never grow cold. Paul (?) once said when where (hate?) abounds, love must abound even more. Where fear bounds, hope must abound even more. In the stormy season of violent campaign rhetoric, recall to be (steady in the face of the whirlwind?). There's a tug of war for America's soul. We have a clear choice, take down walls of separation, build bridges of hope and unity. 18:14:11 Love must trump ignorance and fear and hatred and violence. We love (inaudible) none must be left behind. We learned to survive a problem let's now learn to live together as brothers and sisters. And when Hillary (inaudible) in the (?) of Arkansas. Delivering legal protection for poor people in the (belt?) We brand her trusted, and tested and tried. Hillary can be trusted to appoint (in our?) supreme court a skilled administrator in including a man of faith like Senator Tim Kaine. Can. Can be trusted to ban assault weapons, turn our communities into the killing fields. (inaudible) shot in Chicago this year, (?) 250 killed this year alone. Ban these assault weapons now. 18:15:12 She can be trusted to honor the most Progressive platform our party's ever had. She will never forget our pain. She will never forget us. Nationally, there are about 45 million people still illiterate. More blacks incarcerated than graduated from college. They're scarred, there must be a change. Hillary understands the historical dimensions of the (?) that hope and promise that black lives matter. 18:15:38 Show knows our scars and our suffering from trayvon martin to Michael Brown Alton Sterling and far too many others. The shootings of young black men must stop. And we deeply regret the killing of police officers with powerful assault weapons. They resonate deep in us, so those police should be alive today. Ban assault weapons now. 18:16:06 We must choose reconciliation over retaliation and revenge today. And stop -- we can trust Hillary not to insult our Hispanic neighbors. We share 2,000 miles of border with Mexico. They are our neighbors, our eternal neighbors. We trade more with Mexico than we do with China and Japan every day. Stop insulting hispanics, stop insulting muslims now. 18:16:37 We can trust her not to mass deport 15 million people and disrupt or families now. Expand trade and development. She'll support historically black colleges, where 42% of our black engineers come from and teachers and lawyers. She'll grant (?) of Mr. Obama -- more jobs. He came into office, we lost 800 thousand jobs. We have not lost a single job, a single month since Barack has been president. 18:17:08 She'll sustain that drive and keep the hope alive. We never lost a battle that we fought. Never won a battle unless we fought. That journey began in 1984 and '88. We built the winning coalition, the rainbow coalition, registering and empowering millions of voters. This is a new day. Someone has to win and lose in the primary. Now we're beyond the primary. Now it's superbowl time. It's (?) It's superbowl time. 18:17:43 It's another day. If blacks register and vote in great numbers, progressive whites win. It's the only way they win. If hispanics and Latinos vote in great win, women win. When women win, children win. When women and children win, mothers win. We must all come together and win and fight for hope and go forth in hope and not fear. This land is our land. And we all come together, red and yellow, brown, black and white. 18:18:23 It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. I know it gets dark sometimes, but the morning cometh. The lord is our light and our salvation. Whom shall we fear? Don't let opposition break your spirit. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. [ Applause ] 18:18:59 The scripture says, If my people will call by my name, seek my face, and turn the wicked ways in I will hear their prays, forgive their sins and heal their land. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. t's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time.It's Hillary time. It's healing time. Louder. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time.It's Hillary time. It's healing time. Louder. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. God bless you. STAR JONES ACTRESS 18:20:12 "I will fight for you," she said, "no matter how long it takes." I have known Hillary Rodham Clinton for over two decades now. And years ago, when she visited us on "The View," I told her, "When you decide that you're ready to be the first woman President of the United States, I'll be there to help." 18:20:43 So, here I am! But most importantly, here we all are. And we are all with her, because she has always been with us! As a former prosecutor, you know I like to deal in facts. Here's a fact: "There has never been any man or woman more qualified for this office than Hillary, ever." The 44th president of the United States Barack Obama said that. 18:21:28 Here's another fact: Nobody else in the race has the same unique connection to women, children, families, and our day-to-day challenges. I'm saying that. And that's very different from some very loud, obnoxious, race-baiting folk on the other side, who I also know. Shade. Boy, bye. 18:22:07 And we all know, there's nowhere do we need a president who cares about all Americans more than in the place we're about to visit: Flint, Michigan. VIDEO: HILARY'S AMERICA: FLINT 18:22:27 KAREN WEAVER FLINT MAYOR 18:26:36 Good evening. I am Karen Weaver, and I am the mayor of the great city of Flint, Michigan. Flint is a community of 100,000 strong, hard-working people, living in the birthplace of General Motors, and the place where the great sit-down strike led to the creation of the United Auto Workers. 18:27:06 Flint is also a city in crisis. Five years ago, our Republican state government used a Michigan law to take over control of the city. In 2014, the state switched our water source to a polluted river to save a handful of dollars - causing lead contamination to leach into our drinking water, poisoning, poisoning a whole community, and leading to health impacts that may haunt our children for generations. 18:27:41 The problems in Flint are not over. The water is still not safe to drink or cook with from the tap. Our infrastructure is broken, leaking, and rusting away. Our local economy struggles to rebound, and there are many more Flints across the country where environmental issues are hurting our kids and families. 18:28:10 Today, the help we need from our federal government to start rebuilding our drinking water infrastructure still sits blocked in the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress -- [ boos ] I am a voice for Flint. And we need your help. Do you know who has also heard the call from Flint? Hillary Clinton! She came to Flint when the water crisis hit. She joined with our community groups, and our civic leaders, and our churches. Hillary said, "I will do everything I can to help you get back up and to help you get your strength and resilience flowing through Flint again." 18:29:02 With direct help from Hillary Clinton's team, the Flint WaterWorks program is now putting the young adults of Flint into new jobs and rebuilding their own community. Hillary's wonderful daughter, Chelsea, even came to Flint to bring people together to start this work and to create new opportunities for our families. 18:29:29 A month later, Hillary Clinton came back to Flint again and called out to say that lead poisoning, broken infrastructure, and struggling cities are a national crisis, not just a Flint crisis. She made a commitment that, when she is President, she will work for a lead-free America. And that's why I'm with Her! So join with Flint to get behind Hillary Clinton, to raise our voices for Hillary Clinton, and to make her the next President of the United States. God bless Flint and God bless America. CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS REPRESENTATIVE GK BUTTERFIELD (NC) CHAIR 18:32:08 Fellow democrats, I'm congressman GK Butterfield from North Carolina! In my community, tyou judge a man's heart by his wordsa n deeds. Donald J Trump, your words ahve been hostile. They have been bigoted and insulting. You've used every opporuntity to talk about your wealth ,to denegrate people who don't hold your views, even within your own party. YOu are not qualified to serve as president of the United States. 18:32:4 Instead of putting forth details to address income inequality and opporunity for everyday Americans, you use your celebrity status to paitn a picture of gloom and doom. You use your status to alienate African Americans and other groups. And you would use the office of president to take our great nation in the wrong direction. You wanna know why your polling numbers are so dismal among African Americans? I will tell you. We know. We know you have gotten rich through your business, but we also know your wealth has come at the expense of other people. We know. We know. We know you have no plan to address issues directly affecting African American communities, such as gun violence and voting rights, historically black colleges and universities, raising the minimum wage, and addressing persisting poverty. 18:33:46 Democrats want a better future for all of our people, for all of our families. Read our platform and compare it to the republican platform. Give us this chance. Give us this chance by electing Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine to lead our great country. [ cheers ] REP. ANDRE CARSON OF INDIANA 18:34:22 My name is Andre Carson, I stand here today not just as a rep of the great state of IN, but as a young African American Muslim and former police officer. [applause] YOu know, over the last year millions of good hearted Muslims and African Americans like me, have watched the deep seeded hatred of the past, once again become mainstream. Together, we have been singled out in the national spotlight, as threats to be dealt with and not a part of the American family. If Donald trump, my buddy Mike Pence have their way, this slide into hatred and bigotry will only get worse. 18:35:15 Now, I'm from Indiana. And I have seen Mike Pence's terrible judgement up close. Pence, has fought against same sex couples having equal rights. Pence, rejected fed funding for Pre K education. And for years, Pence has fought to defund planned parenthood both in IN and across this country. We can't let the terrible judgement of Mike Pence and Donald trump impact our civil rights. That's why we need Hillary Clinton. She believes that if every uniform makes you fear profiling and suspicion, if you watch your kids leave in the morning and wonder if they'll come home at night, you deserve compassion and understanding. 18:36:25 Hillary Clinton is undaunted by the challenges that have plagued our communities for far too long. She stands with us and we need you to stand with her. REP. KAREN BASS OF CA 18:36:54 Democrats, we have 103 days to tell the nation that there is a better path for our country than the one Donald trump offers. 103 days to ensure our nation will not slide backwards to the bigotry of our past. 103 days to stop our country from giving in to the incoherent rage which Trump has taken advantage of, to declare war on common sense. Donald Trump, when you take pride of your outright ignorance of world affairs, when you promise the deportation of latino families, when you dismiss officer involved shootings of African Americans, when you degrade women, Donald Trump you unite us. We are democrats and we embrace the full diversity of the American rainbow. Look around you democrats, the diversity in this room reflects all of America, not part of America. Not like last week's Republican convention. My fellow democrats I challenge you to take all of Donald Trump's hateful energy and turn it into the fuel we need to take back the house! To take back the Senate! 18:38:18 And to make Madam Secretary, madam President. Thank you. REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES OF NY 18:38:28 I'm Hakeem Jeffries from the great state of New York. We are here today, standing on the shoulders of giants. Like Shirley Chisholm, Adam Clayton Powell Jr, Barbara Jordan, Charlie Rangel, and so many others who have made it possible for a kid like me to serve in the United States congress. In november, the American people face a clear choice between the most qualified person ever to seek the presidency and the least qualified ever to seek the presidency. 18:39:10 It's a choice between a commander in chief and a bankrupter in chief. It's a choice between a secretary of state and the secretary of hate. Donald Trump is a bounced check, but Hillary CLinton is money in the bank. She believes that America is a better place today because of the presidency of Barack Obama. She believes we should provide for the poor, work for working families, make sense for the middle class, and stand up for senior citizens. She believes we should innovate in the inner cities, strengthen suburban communities, and revitalize rural America. 18:39:54 She believes we should increase economic opportunity, end the era of mass incarceration, and eradicate police brutality once and for all. And, she believes that whether you're black or white, Latino or Asian, Jewish or Muslim, Catholic or Protestant, gay or straight, young or old, that in this great country, every single American deserves equal protection under the law. And that's why together, we're gonna elect Hillary Rodham Clinton as the next president of the United States of America. God bless you. REP. YVETTE CLARKE OF NEW YORK 18:40:44 My fellow democrats. Envision an America where you can graduate from college without crushing debt. Where American manufacturing jobs are on the rise again, women are paid equally, and seniors with the dignity and comfort thanks to a strong social security system. Where we stand united with the conviction that we can make our great country even greater by lifting each other up, not tearing each other apart. We cannot get there with the serial divider, Donald Trump. A bottomless vessel of egotism who exploits every fault line to advance his favorite cause, himself. 18:41:41 We can get there with Hillary Rodham Clinton: a leader with experience and statesmanship. Who lived the life of public service to advance the noblest cause, our great nation. I am congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke from Brooklyn, New York. My mother, the honorable Yuna Clark, is the first caribbean born American woman to be elected to the New YOrk City council. And my congressional district was once represented by the first African Caribbean Congressman, the honorable Shirley Chisholm. 18:42:30 So, I know a great leader when I see her. Hillary Rodham Clinton is our great leader and our next president of the United States of America. REP. GREGORY MEEKS OF NY 18:43:01 I'm honored to unite around our nominee, and my good friend Hillary Rodham Clinton. As a lifelong New Yorker, I've seen two presidential candidates up close and personal and let me tell you, Hillary offers everything that Donald Trump can't. She would fight for American workers, he refuses to pay them. She plans to make college debt free for all, he creates a sham university to exploit others. 18:43:33 She offers unity and thinking, he offers division and plans that take us backwards. Donald says I'm always right but the truth is, he's wrong. He's wrong for our families, he's wrong for our communities, he's wrong for our country, Hillary Clinton cares about the aspirations of all Americans she's going to tackle income inequality, provide opportunity for the poor and strengthen the middle class and she's going to invest in communities that have been neglected for far too long. 18:44:12 So my fellow Americans, it's time for us to band together, it's time for us to work together, it's time for us to aspire for a more and a greater challenge so that we could be better ourselves. It's time for us to build a strong future for our kids and our country and we my fellow Americans can do that by sending Hillary Clinton to the White House this November. PRESIDENT OF EMILY'S LIST STEPHANIE SCHRIOCK 18:45:56 One hundred years ago this November, a social worker from my home state of Montana, Jeannette Rankin, became the first woman ever elected to Congress. The first, but not the last. Once that barrier fell, there was no turning back. And, for over 31 years, EMILY's List has helped elect hundreds more women to the House, and the Senate, and every other office on the ballot. Except one. 18:46:33 Hillary Clinton may be our first woman president. But she will not be our last. Once that barrier falls, it will never, ever, ever be put back up. The women we've elected haven't just brought new voices to the debate. They've brought new momentum to the progressive movement. You see, women don't just fight for women. They fight for families. They fight for fairness. Inclusion. Justice. 18:47:09 No wonder Republican leaders oppose equal pay for women, and refuse to stand up for working mothers trying to balance career and family. That's why they'd let your boss fire you for using birth control, and force us to undergo invasive trans-vaginal ultrasounds. They don't respect women. They don't trust women. They want to control women. 18:47:41 They're afraid of the change we bring, the progress we make, when we get a chance to lead. And they're terrified of Hillary Clinton. Because no matter what they throw at her, they've never ever been able to stop her. From the Children's Defense Fund to the Senate, from Little Rock to Beijing, she's fought for fairness, for inclusion, for justice, and she's won. 18:48:14 Now, they're making their last stand. Not just against her, but against all of us who have worked so hard and so long to make progress in America. They're panicking. They're desperate. And that means they're dangerous. They've nominated a man who said women should be punished for having an abortion. Said, "Putting a wife to work is a dangerous thing." Called us "fat pigs" and "animals." He picked a running mate who led the fight to destroy Planned Parenthood, tried to redefine rape, suggested that mothers who work "stunt the emotional growth" of their kids by putting them in daycare. 18:49:07 If they win, they'll erase every ounce of progress we've dared to make. But we have fought too hard and come too far to let that happen. Let's stand together to elect more Democratic women up and down the ballot. More women in local office. More women in the House. More women in the Senate and enough to take back the majority! Let's decide right here and now to break through that last barrier. And, yes, at long last, put a woman in the White House: Hillary Clinton, our first woman president, but not our last! HARRY REID VIDEO 18:50:02 SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER HARRY REID (NEVADA) 18:53:55 Thank you everybody. Thank you. [ cheers ] Thanks everybody. Thank you very much. >> [ chant ] Harry! Harry! Harry! Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. 18:54:51 You know, I spend a lot of time in the Republican Senate, so it's nice to be in a room that respects reason and facts! I appreciate the tribute, I really do, I appreciate the tribute. But anything I've accomplished in the Senate, I owe to the great teammates I've had: my Democratic Senate Caucus; Nancy Pelosi in the House; President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden. And I give a never-ending tribute to our next President, Hillary Clinton! 18:55:36 As a team, we've fought for the belief that affordable health care is a right, not a privilege. As a team, we've fought for the idea that you shouldn't get the bill for Wall Street's bad bets. As a team, we've fought for the promise that your hard-earned Social Security is a sacred trust. 18:56:04 Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to put insurance companies back in charge of your health. Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to let big banks run wild again. And Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to gamble with your retirement benefits in the stock market. Republicans want to tear down the pillars of middle-class security. We won't let that happen! 18:56:37 And I've never seen anything more craven than Mitch McConnell and what he has done to our democracy. His Republican Party decided that the answer to hard-working American dreams is to slander our African-American President, stoke fear of Muslims, sow hatred of Latinos, insult Asians, and, of course, wage war against women. In other words, the only thing Republicans, like Mitch McConnell, have accomplished is setting the stage for a hateful con man, Donald Trump. 18:57:20 When Trump decided to run for President, he probably said to himself: "I'm an egomaniac. I don't believe in science. I think women are inferior. Where would I feel at home?" We know where that is. Parents: You're right to worry about your children hearing what comes out of Donald Trump's mouth. Republicans: You should have been careful, also, because Donald learned it from watching you. 18:57:57 You know, they say they believe in "Country First." What a joke. Republicans who won't stand up to Trump believe in one thing and one thing only: "Party First." And this year, 2016, they've gone even further, nominating the poster child of "Me First." Trump knew that hateful rhetoric and dangerous policies are the way to win in today's GOP. But that's not how you win in America. And that's not how America wins in the world. 18:48:24 Democrats know we win with an economy that works for everybody. With a strong, smart national security that v alues our allies and doesn't invite a cyber attack on our country. And we know winning is the work of a team. With Hillary in the White House and a majority in the Senate, Democrats will keep fighting for immigration reform that keeps America true; clean energy that keeps America strong; and a Supreme Court that keeps America just, and background checks for gun buyers and an assault-weapons ban that keep America safe. 18:59:27 Since my boxing days, I've fought my share of fights. In my 50 years of fighting for Nevadans, I've also realized a leader is actually a corner man, a corner man: someone who stands on your side, who has your back in a fight. Middle-class families fighting to give your kids a better life - Democrats stand in your corner. Americans fighting for the equality and respect our nation promises you - we're in your corner. New Americans risking everything to get here, and then fighting to make it here - we're in your corner.

NET REQUEST FEED FROM THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION AT THE WELLS FARGO CENTER IN PHILADELPHIA / 17:00:35 Oh yes, women of America, women of the world, oh, we're gonna be treated with dignity and respect. We will not be judged by our appearance or our thighs or our accents. We will not be denied freedom of choice. We will demonstrate our talents, and we will prosper. Hillary's experience as the first lady, as a United States senator, as the best Secretary State we ever had really unique qualifies her to be the next president of the United States of America. Thank you. PRESIDENT OF NARAL ILYSE HOGUE 17:01:34 I am a 4th generation Texan. Texas women are tough. We approach challenges with clear eyes and full hearts. To succeed in life, all we need are the tools, the trust, and the chance to chart our own path. I was fortunate enough to have these things when I found out I was pregnant years ago. I wanted a family, but it was the wrong time. I made the decision that was best for me - to have an abortion - and get compassionate care at a clinic in my own community. Now, years later, my husband and I are parents to two incredible children. 17:02:27 My story is not unique. About one in three American women have abortions by the age of 45, and the majority are mothers just trying to take care of the families they already have. You see, it's not as simple as bad girls get abortions and good girls have families. We are the same women at different times in our lives - each making decisions that are the best for us. 17:02:59 If we want families to succeed, we start by empowering women. Give us accurate information and access to health care. Keep politicians out of our business when we're not ready to parent, and support us when we are. That's what gives our families the best chance to get ahead and stay ahead. And that is what Hillary Clinton has spent decades fighting for. 17:03:33 Donald Trump he is different. He said women who have abortions like me should be punished. He calls women "pigs" and says breastfeeding is "disgusting."Now some people think he doesn't really mean any of that. But, look who he picked for VP. 17:03:53 Mike Pence led the charge to defund Planned Parenthood, pushed to let hospitals turn a woman away if she needs an abortion to save her life, and signed a bill with some of the most outrageous abortion restrictions in the country. He has even said he can't wait to send Roe v. Wade "into the ash heap of history." Together, Donald Trump and Mike Pence have united to form the "make misogyny great again" ticket. 17:04:28 And the people who so loudly oppose abortion rights? Let me let you in to their dirty little secret: They're not only against abortions. Many of these people are also fighting to restrict access to contraception and block commonsense policies to support working moms. 17:04:48 It's not abortion that bothers them. It's empowering women to live our own lives. And -- that's right. And when we have power over our own destiny, we not only strengthen our families, we honor our most cherished traditions of liberty and equality. These aren't just "women's issues" - these are the very foundation of our freedom. We need a president who has the experience, the wisdom, and the grit to stand up against the bullies. We need a president who knows that "women's rights are human rights." We need a president who will keep expanding the frontiers of freedom for all Americans. We need Hillary Clinton. ANDREW GILLUM MAYOR OF TALLAHASSEE 17:06:04 Hello, my fellow Democrats and hello my fellow Floridians. In case you all needed a reminder, Florida is in the house. 17:06:25 As I prepared for tonight, I thought back on the path that led me to this moment. Born the fifth of seven kids in Miami Day, Florida to my daddy, Charles, a construction worker, and my mother, Francis, a school bus driver. My parents worked their entire lives to provide for me and for my siblings greater opportunities than they had ever been afforded. 17:06:56 Creating the possibility for me to be the first in my family to go to college and graduate from the Florida A&M University. [ applause ] They dared us to fly higher than they could ever see - and they always provided us the opportunity and a path to pay it forward. I can still hear my grandmother's voice telling me "boy," she said it just like that, " go to school, mind your teachers, get your lesson, and one bring that education home." She'd say, "Bring it home for your baby sister or your little brother who may not know what education is. She'd say bring it home for that little boy down the street that you play with. God knows where he'll end up, bring it home. 17:07:49 It was a reminder that if we were going to get anywhere, we would get there together. My friends, this is the story of our party. And it's what drives our nominee.Hillary Clinton has shown us her heart, her strength, and her passion for this country's future. A future quite frankly which means more to me now than ever before. Because in addition to being Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, the capital city of our nation's third largest state, I'm also a father. Along with my wife R. Jai, we are raising two-year-old twins, Jackson and Caroline. 17: 08:37 So when I head to the voting booth, I want you all to know that they are coming with me. Because I want them to know that I'm not just casting my vote for Hillary Clinton and my fellow Democrats, I am casting my vote for them. Ensuring the kind of future they deserve will require leadership that can unify and inspire us. That can build on this country's best instincts for inclusion and optimism. The world can feel scary enough - without so-called leaders leading with fear for political gain. That's right. 17:09: 21 Every day, everyday in this country black parents send their sons out with a deep sense of anxiety, hoping they will return home to them safely. And every day, police officers kiss their loved ones heading to work -to protect and to serve and they hold that same sense of hope and fear in their hearts. In these times of anger and fear, we can't afford retreat to our respective corners. We can't let this animosity grow and get stronger. That's right. And we've seen examples of communities and law enforcement coming together during a crisis to grieve together and help each other heal. That is how it is exactly how it is supposed to work - and it's on all of us to make that a reality in our communities. 17:10:23 Because in the end y'all,in the end, we all want the same things for our families. Our fates are inextricably tied together. And with the right leadership, we can renew our trust in one another again. I believe with every fiber of my being that Hillary Clinton is the leader we need. 17:10:54 So on Inauguration Day - I look forward to holding my babies tightly -I look forward to watching history unfold before their eyes and before mine and I look forward to shouting with you toward that big stage in Washington DC and saying "Congratulations, Madam President!" Thank you, and God bless! [ VIDEO ON ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLAND AMERICANS ] CONGRESSIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN CAUCUS Rep. Judy Chu: 17:14:36 I am Congresswoman Judy Chu from California, and I am proud to be the first Chinese-American woman ever elected to Congress! Standing with me are my fellow Asian-American and Pacific Islander - or AAPI - Members of Congress. Many of them, too, are trailblazers in their own right. And we are all proud to support Hillary Clinton for President of the United States! 17:15:23 It wasn't too long ago that if you saw an Asian Pacific American walking in the U.S. Capitol, you had to stop and do a double-take. But how things have changed. We now have a record number of AAPI Members of Congress - and most importantly, we are organizing and making our voices heard. We have gone from being marginalized to becoming the margin of victory in key swing states and districts all across our nation. 17:15:58 America needs a president who will fight for us - someone who rejects the hateful rhetoric that is too often used to divide us and believes that America's diversity is our greatest strength. That's why we've got to elect Hillary Clinton as our next President of the United States! When it comes to the issues most important to us, Hillary Clinton gets it. 17:16:30 On immigration reform, she gets it. So many families have been kept apart for decades by an incredibly long family visa backlog. Hillary will fight to clear that backlog so that millions of American families can finally be reunited with their loved ones. We're with Hillary because she is committed to comprehensive immigration reform! 17:17:01 On education, she gets it. So many of our parents and grandparents sacrificed to come to the United States because they wanted their children to get a better education and live the American Dream. We're with Hillary because she'll make debt-free college available for all Americans. On voting rights, she gets it. Today, almost 70 percent of AAPI adults are foreign born. Access to translated and absentee ballots is critical. We're with Hillary because she will work with Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act and ensure fair access to the ballot box. 17:17:50 On making sure we have a diverse federal government, she gets it. We're with Hillary because she will appoint an administration that looks like America. And on safeguarding our civil liberties, she gets it. I am proud to have Congresswoman Doris Matsui and Congressman Mike Honda as members of our caucus. During World War II, both Doris and Mike were imprisoned in internment camps for no other reason than their ethnicity. Donald Trump doesn't seem to see a problem with this part of our history. With Hillary Clinton, we know the civil and constitutional rights of all Americans will be protected! 17:18:52 Tonight, we are also grieving for our dear friend and colleague, Congress member Mark Takai from Hawai'i, who passed away last week at the age of 49 after a hard-fought battle with pancreatic cancer. Mark truly had the aloha spirit, and was deeply committed to advancing the priorities of the people of Hawai'i and our veterans. I will never forget the tears in his eyes when he learned about the Cancer Moonshot initiative. It gave him and millions of Americans hope that we will finally find a cure for cancer. In his memory, we've got to keep hoping - and fighting. 17:19:40 Hillary Clinton is the best choice for all Americans to move our country forward. Our caucus members reflect the diversity of America. And that is why we are proud to stand with her. Sen. Mazie Hirono: 17:20:05 Aloha. I am Senator Mazie Hirono from Hawai'i, an immigrant, the first Asian-American woman elected to the United States Senate. I support Hillary Clinton because she is a lifelong champion for women, children, and families. And with the help of all of us, she will fight for all families - including immigrant families - in the White House. Aloha, mahalo. Rep. Madeleine Bordallo: 17:20:50 Hafa Adai. I am Congresswoman Bordallo from Guam, and I support Hillary Clinton because she understands the unique needs of the territories, and is committed to the Asia-Pacific rebalance. She is a strong leader we need her to move forward as a nation. Thank you. Rep. Mark Takano: 17:21:30 I am Congressman Mark Takano from California, and I'm the first openly gay person of color to be elected to the United States Congress. As a proud "gaysian," I support Hillary Clinton because she is a strong champion for LGBT rights. She will to fight to end employment discrimination against LGBT Americans. Rep. Ami Bera: 17:22:07 I am Congressman Ami Bera from California. As the only South Asian member of Congress, and as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I support Hillary Clinton because she is the only candidate that understands the complexity of the world and is prepared from day one to lead America. Rep. Bobby Scott: 17:22:38 I'm Congressman Bobby Scott from Virginia, the first person with Filipino ancestry to be elected voting member of Congress, and I support Hillary Clinton because she believes that all children deserve equality affordable education so that they can reach their full potential. Rep. Ted Lieu: 17:23:06 I am Congressman Ted Lieu from California and a colonel in the U.S. Air Force reserve. I support Hillary Clinton for president because she will l fight for our military personnel, veterans, and families. She will make sure that those who risked their lives for our country get the health care and the resources that they need. Rep. Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan: 17:23:40 Good evening, my name is Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan and I am from the Northern Mariana Islands. I support Hillary Clinton because she believes that all Americans should have - including those in the Pacific Island territories - should have access to quality, affordable health care. Thank you very much. Rep. Grace Meng: 17:24:31 I am Congresswoman Grace Meng from New York, the first Asian-American elected to Congress from the East Coast, and I support Hillary Clinton because she is the best candidate to bring Americans together and move our country forward! This election is so important, and Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders can make the difference. Our voting power has doubled over the last decade - we are now the swing vote in swing states like Virginia, Nevada, and also right here in Pennsylvania! And I call upon my fellow AAPIs to organize, to campaign, and to vote, so that we will be the margin of victory in 2016 and beyond! As our community continues to grow - and as we begin to see more AAPI candidates like Raja Krishnamoorthi from Illinois and Stephanie Murphy from Florida begin to run for higher office - it is critical that we elect a person who will make history for America and build a brighter future for generations to come. And that person is Hillary Clinton! BROOKS BELL 17:26:39 Hello, Democrats! I'm Brooks Bell, a technology entrepreneur in Raleigh, North Carolina. When I was 23 years old, I started my own company. It wasn't easy. Six months later, I had a stroke. I had to relearn to read, write, and talk. I was lucky. I recovered, and so did my fledgling company. 17:27:12 But that wasn't my only struggle. In fact, it was one of my many ups and downs - familiar to any small business with big dreams. I've gained and lost big clients. I've had to let wonderful employees go. It's given me the scars that I know many entrepreneurs share. 17:27:37 I believe in Hillary, because I know she also carries battle scars. Her relentless dedication to serve America over the past 30 years has been marked by hard choices - which makes this historic achievement all the more impressive. Her tenacity her toughness - her seasoned judgment - is exactly what we need in a president. We need someone ready for the hardest job on earth, day one. And that someone is Hillary Rodham Clinton! 17:28: 27 Today, my company employs 40 people. We partner with some of the largest organizations in America to help make the internet easier to use. We're growing quickly. My company is strong, as is my health, thanks in part to ongoing investment in education, healthcare, and innovation. Like they say, "Thanks, Obama!" 17:29:04 However, I am worried - terrified - about what might happen if we elect Trump. I'm not just scared for my business, but for other young entrepreneurs like me. We've already seen the preview in my state of North Carolina. Earlier this year, our legislature passed what's known as the "bathroom bill," which caused the New York Times to describe North Carolina as a "pioneer in bigotry." 17:29:50 Besides being deeply embarrassing and morally wrong, it had an immediate and dramatic effect on our state economy. I watched a large company cancel their expansion, taking 400 good jobs with them. Two influential technology investors immediately banned investments in our state. The NBA just pulled the All-Star Game out of town. The total economic cost is already $190 million and counting. 17:30:31 What does this have to do with Trump? For starters, Trump selected Mike Pence as his running mate, the same Mike Pence who signed a discriminatory bill into Indiana law, with similar disastrous consequences. It's no surprise that The Economist has listed a Trump presidency as one of the top-ten risks to the world economy. 17:31:05 Friends, I'm here tonight because the story of my startup is the story of America. Because how we write our next chapter is up to us. Please join me in standing up for an inclusive country, with innovation and entrepreneurship fueling our economic prosperity. Let's put Hillary Clinton where we need her most, as President of the United States of America. NEW YORK CITY MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO 17:32:02 >> Thank you. Thank you democrats. Now as a New Yorker, I am quite familiar with both presidential nominees. But despite sharing a home state, these two people are worlds apart. I was honored to manage her first campaign for the U.S. Senate. And here's the Hillary that I know. When she graduated from law school, she could have begun a lucrative career at the prestigious law firm of her choice. Instead, her heart led her to take a noble job at modest pay at the defense fund. Advocating for families and children who needed a champion. That is who she is. 17:33:06 What did Donald Trump do? He was born rich, and then he made a career out of ripping people off, racking up billions in debt, and bankrupting his companies. Instead of public service or philanthropy, he became one of the least generous billionaires our country has ever seen. When Hillary Clinton was first lady of the United States, she made it her personal mission to take on the insurance giants, to get health care for every American. Now despite millions of dollars spent attacking her, she never gave up. She helped deliver the children's health insurance program against all of the odds. 17:34:07 Who did Donald take on? The small business owners he contracted with on his real estate projects. Too many times, Donald simply stiffed them. If we know that trump is the great pretender. How can he pretend to be for workers when he did not pay his own workers what he owed them. When Hillary Clinton was in the senate, she helped get $11 billion after 9/11 protecting our first responders that offered so much. 17:34:57 Who did Donald protect? Certainly not the students at trump University. A place where his employees call a scam. Where vulnerable Americans were pushed to spend more and more money on worthless classes. The only person that Donald took care of was himself. As Secretary of state, Hillary fought for the dignity of women and girls. Passionately, passionately fighting the scourge of human trafficking and the horror of child marriage in Saudi Arabia. 17:35:42 What did Donald do? He's called women dogs. And fat pigs. And blamed military sexual assault on the presence of women in our armed forces. [ boos ] He's degraded women to make himself feel big. While showing us the truly little man that he is. 17:36:20 When, when Hillary Clinton raises her right hand on inauguration day,she will be armed with the most progressive agenda in modern times. One that rewards work instead of wealth. One that flips the script on economic policies of and by and for the 1%. From paid sick leave and paid family leave to universal pre-k and debt free college, from ending tax loopholes for Wall Street and billionaire investors to addressing the needs of American cities on housing, infrastructure, immigration. 17:37:12 Hillary Clinton will tackle inequality and be a force for real Progressive change in this nation. Now, how does Donald see the economic realities facing the American people? Actually, he roots for economic turmoil for his own personal gain. You want a real life example? When asked in 2006 about a possible real estate crash, he said, quote, I sort of hope that happens, because then people like me will go in and buy. That is the very definition of the predator class. 17:38:03 And now he wants to go further and repeal the new rules we put in place to make Wall Street more accountable. Throughout her career, as we heard so clearly last night, Hillary Clinton has taken on the tough battles for one reason. Because standing up for those without much money and without much power has been her life's calling. Hillary Clinton, she's smart she is steady, she is right, and she is ready. Donald Trump he's reckless, he's risky, he's wrong, and he's scary. If you care about fighting income inequality, about lifting up families and children, about building up America's great cities, then let's come together, fight together, and let's elect Hillary Clinton the next president of these united States. Thank you. [ Applause ] IN MEMORIAM MARCIA FUDGE 17:39:46 >> Democrats, over the last four years, we have lost a number of wonderful leaders in accidents, each of us have friends or family who we will remember fondly as we watch this memorial highlighting some of our Democrats who have helped us all in so many ways. 17:40:09 [ VIDEO PLAYS ] REMARKS CHAIR, U.S. REPRESENTATIVE BEN RAY LUJÁN (NEW MEXICO) DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN 17:46:40 I come from a family of pioneers. My grandparents took on the elements, lived through the great depression, survived poverty and family tragedy, and made a place for themselves in New Mexico before it was a state. There they tilled their land, raised their crops, protected what they had and tried to help others. I grew up on that small farm. I spent my childhood churning dirt, stacking wood, feeding animals. 17:47:18 We didn't have much, but we had each other. We had familia. My dad was a union iron worker local 495. My mom had a job with the local school district. They were married for 53 years before dad passed. Dads parents before him, celedon and Nestora were married even longer. 74 years. Grandpa Seledon the sheep herder who first put down roots in New Mexico was born in the era of the horse and buggy but he lived to see the space shuttle soar into the heavens. 17:47:59 My mom's dad, Grandpa Luis, he was a union carpenter who went off to serve in WW II. While his wife (name) raised the family, I was expecting their seventh child. He earned a bronze star for his heroism. When I was young grandpa seledon and grandma nestora helped care for us. When I was older Grandpa Luis and grandma (name) were hurt in a car crash. So we helped care for them, because that's what families do. Those are the values I learned growing up. That's why I'm here today. I know I might not look like you typical member of congress, and it's true I haven't really gotten the bowtie look to catch on. 17:48:49 But the story of my family is the story of millions and millions of other families. It's the story of the great American family. Carpenters and ironworkers, sheep herders and soldiers. generations of Americans have worked hard and looked out for each other ,serving and sacrificing for the next generation. We all gather together to celebrate the good times. We all rally around each other in times of hardship and tragedy. We all try to leave things a little better than we found them. 17:49:25 And these values hold true no matter who you are or where you come from. As democrats, we believe that everybody in America should have the same opportunity my grandparents and parents had. To have a place of your own. To build some real economic security that you don't have to worry will disappear overnight. To pass something onto your kids and grandkids. Those are the values that built our party. And for a century, we have the led the fight for social security and medicare, for pell grants and the GI bill. For universal healthcare. For inclusion and equality and opportunity for all. 17:50:11 We are proud of our accomplishments. But now, it's our turn to continue that tradition. We too must leave things better than we found them. And Hillary Clinton is the president who will lead us. [ cheers ] But she needs a congress that will work with her. For nearly 6 years, republicans have led the majority in the people's house. But clinging to that majority is the only thing they've accomplished. For nearly 6 years, house republicans have put party over country. 17:50:49 For nearly 6 years, they've been afraid to stand up to the birthres and bigots and conspiracy theorists, like the one they just nominated for president. Millions of Americans who don't consider themselves democrats have now joined us in rejecting Donald Trump's bullying, racism, and his attempts to divide our American family. Growing up, my grandparents shared with me the age old wisdom: [ speaking spanish ] 17:51:26 Tell me who you walk with and I'll tell you who you are. For me the choice is easy. I am for real leadership. Someone with character and values. I'm proud to walk with Hillary Clinton. But if your member of congress is supporting Donald Trump, instead ask yourself this, what is that say about their leadership, their character, their values. If they won't even stand up to Donald Trump, what makes you think they will stand up to you and your family. 17:52:06 [video on republican party loyalty] 17:52:38 It's time for leaders who will put families first. Leaders who will keep our nation and our neighborhood safe. Leaders who will help every american family build a more secure financial future. Leaders who will fight to level the playing field and put the people's voice back in th epeoples house. I would like you to meet some of those leaders. [VIDEO ON DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES] 17:55:09 >> Securing our nation, securing our democracy, and securing our future, democrats are focussed on what matters most. And the fresh faces we'll elect this November will join a team of democratic leaders in congress who, like Hillary Clinton, have spent their lives working to improve the lives of others. Together, we'll work to create jobs and raise wages, secure equal pay for women and paid leave for every family, make it easier to pay down student debt and possible for every American to attend college debt free. If there is one thing you can count on, it's that House democrats will always be in the fight. 17:55:59 [ VIDEO PLAYS ] 17:58:40 >> Tonight, democrats are united. We are passionate. We are fearless. And we are ready to get to work alongside the next president of the United States of America, Hillary Clinton. And if you are ready to get to work alongside us, then stand with us tonight. Go to dcc.org/stronger and stand with us all the way to November. Because when we stand together and work together ,we win together. Now let's get to work. [ VIDEO PLAYS: "OUR AMERICA" ] "OUR AMERICA" ROBERT RODRIGUEZ FILMMAKER AND FOUNDER OF EL REY NETWORK 18:02:00 I'm robert Rodriguez,I'm a filmmaker and founder of El rey network. I made this film we jsut saw because there has never been a more important time for building understanding among people by telling our stories. I grew up in San Antonio texas in a family of ten kids. And it was there that I realized that storytelling amplifies our voice. To our fellow latinos, that voice is our vote. It can be more powerful than ever before. We can decide this election but only if we wield that power it's not enough to agree. We have to get out there and vote. We all stand here together each with our own story, that's our America. It's time to take a stand.It's time to tell our story, it's time to elect Hillary Clinton the next president of our America. TRIBAL CHAIRMAN 18:03:02 I am Jeff Grubbe. (?) Hello DNC. I am a Native American. I am a chairman of my tribe, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in Palm Springs, California. Like tribes across the United States, we have faced hardships and discrimination. Our ancestors fought to preserve our tribes and our culture just as I do with other tribal leaders today. Hillary Clinton is a leader that all of Indian country needs. She is a leader for America. Ah cha ma. PARK CANNON JUDGE 18:04:40 I'm Park Cannon, I am a woman, I'm African American, I'm queer, and I'm the newest member of the Georgia House of Representatives. [ cheers ] I ran for office, because I represent the rainbow of voices that too often went unheard in our state's capital. We need to trust black women. Our America is unapologetically ready to stand together. DR. DEBBIE ALMONTASER AMERICAN MUSLIM SCHOOLTEACHER AND FOUNDING PRINCIPAL OF THE KHALIL GIBRAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY 18:04:22 I'm Dr. Debbie Almontaser. Salam Alaikum Greetings of peace. I am a teacher and a proud american muslim. I spent the days after september 11th building bridges amongst students in NYC> I started a school designed to foster multicultural education, teach arabic and embrace diversity. Our America is not about fear and ignorance.it is abot acceptance. To my fellow american muslims, this november get out there and vote. DULCE CANDY DIGITAL CELEBRITY HOST 18:05:29 My name is Dulce Candy. I am an immigrant and I'm also a veteran of the US army. I'm a blogger on YouTube, and I see everyday people using social media to take action and create really great things. That's our America. With one click, you can create change. But we can't stop there. This November, we need to get offline and get to the polls and keep telling your story. It will make the biggest difference. Thank you. PERFORMANCE OF "AMERICA" BY RAUL ESPARZA, LA INDIA, HUEY DUNBAR 18:06:20 REVEREND JESSE L. JACKSON SR. CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER 18:13:09 Thank you. Thank you very much. Tonight I stand proudly in support of the next president of the United State's, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Let me also congratulate Bernie Sanders for energizing this campaign with his ideas of hope, the Bern must never grow cold. Paul (?) once said when where (hate?) abounds, love must abound even more. Where fear bounds, hope must abound even more. In the stormy season of violent campaign rhetoric, recall to be (steady in the face of the whirlwind?). There's a tug of war for America's soul. We have a clear choice, take down walls of separation, build bridges of hope and unity. 18:14:11 Love must trump ignorance and fear and hatred and violence. We love (inaudible) none must be left behind. We learned to survive a problem let's now learn to live together as brothers and sisters. And when Hillary (inaudible) in the (?) of Arkansas. Delivering legal protection for poor people in the (belt?) We brand her trusted, and tested and tried. Hillary can be trusted to appoint (in our?) supreme court a skilled administrator in including a man of faith like Senator Tim Kaine. Can. Can be trusted to ban assault weapons, turn our communities into the killing fields. (inaudible) shot in Chicago this year, (?) 250 killed this year alone. Ban these assault weapons now. 18:15:12 She can be trusted to honor the most Progressive platform our party's ever had. She will never forget our pain. She will never forget us. Nationally, there are about 45 million people still illiterate. More blacks incarcerated than graduated from college. They're scarred, there must be a change. Hillary understands the historical dimensions of the (?) that hope and promise that black lives matter. 18:15:38 Show knows our scars and our suffering from trayvon martin to Michael Brown Alton Sterling and far too many others. The shootings of young black men must stop. And we deeply regret the killing of police officers with powerful assault weapons. They resonate deep in us, so those police should be alive today. Ban assault weapons now. 18:16:06 We must choose reconciliation over retaliation and revenge today. And stop -- we can trust Hillary not to insult our Hispanic neighbors. We share 2,000 miles of border with Mexico. They are our neighbors, our eternal neighbors. We trade more with Mexico than we do with China and Japan every day. Stop insulting hispanics, stop insulting muslims now. 18:16:37 We can trust her not to mass deport 15 million people and disrupt or families now. Expand trade and development. She'll support historically black colleges, where 42% of our black engineers come from and teachers and lawyers. She'll grant (?) of Mr. Obama -- more jobs. He came into office, we lost 800 thousand jobs. We have not lost a single job, a single month since Barack has been president. 18:17:08 She'll sustain that drive and keep the hope alive. We never lost a battle that we fought. Never won a battle unless we fought. That journey began in 1984 and '88. We built the winning coalition, the rainbow coalition, registering and empowering millions of voters. This is a new day. Someone has to win and lose in the primary. Now we're beyond the primary. Now it's superbowl time. It's (?) It's superbowl time. 18:17:43 It's another day. If blacks register and vote in great numbers, progressive whites win. It's the only way they win. If hispanics and Latinos vote in great win, women win. When women win, children win. When women and children win, mothers win. We must all come together and win and fight for hope and go forth in hope and not fear. This land is our land. And we all come together, red and yellow, brown, black and white. 18:18:23 It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. I know it gets dark sometimes, but the morning cometh. The lord is our light and our salvation. Whom shall we fear? Don't let opposition break your spirit. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. [ Applause ] 18:18:59 The scripture says, If my people will call by my name, seek my face, and turn the wicked ways in I will hear their prays, forgive their sins and heal their land. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. t's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time.It's Hillary time. It's healing time. Louder. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time.It's Hillary time. It's healing time. Louder. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. It's healing time. It's hope time. It's Hillary time. God bless you. STAR JONES ACTRESS 18:20:12 "I will fight for you," she said, "no matter how long it takes." I have known Hillary Rodham Clinton for over two decades now. And years ago, when she visited us on "The View," I told her, "When you decide that you're ready to be the first woman President of the United States, I'll be there to help." 18:20:43 So, here I am! But most importantly, here we all are. And we are all with her, because she has always been with us! As a former prosecutor, you know I like to deal in facts. Here's a fact: "There has never been any man or woman more qualified for this office than Hillary, ever." The 44th president of the United States Barack Obama said that. 18:21:28 Here's another fact: Nobody else in the race has the same unique connection to women, children, families, and our day-to-day challenges. I'm saying that. And that's very different from some very loud, obnoxious, race-baiting folk on the other side, who I also know. Shade. Boy, bye. 18:22:07 And we all know, there's nowhere do we need a president who cares about all Americans more than in the place we're about to visit: Flint, Michigan. VIDEO: HILARY'S AMERICA: FLINT 18:22:27 KAREN WEAVER FLINT MAYOR 18:26:36 Good evening. I am Karen Weaver, and I am the mayor of the great city of Flint, Michigan. Flint is a community of 100,000 strong, hard-working people, living in the birthplace of General Motors, and the place where the great sit-down strike led to the creation of the United Auto Workers. 18:27:06 Flint is also a city in crisis. Five years ago, our Republican state government used a Michigan law to take over control of the city. In 2014, the state switched our water source to a polluted river to save a handful of dollars - causing lead contamination to leach into our drinking water, poisoning, poisoning a whole community, and leading to health impacts that may haunt our children for generations. 18:27:41 The problems in Flint are not over. The water is still not safe to drink or cook with from the tap. Our infrastructure is broken, leaking, and rusting away. Our local economy struggles to rebound, and there are many more Flints across the country where environmental issues are hurting our kids and families. 18:28:10 Today, the help we need from our federal government to start rebuilding our drinking water infrastructure still sits blocked in the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress -- [ boos ] I am a voice for Flint. And we need your help. Do you know who has also heard the call from Flint? Hillary Clinton! She came to Flint when the water crisis hit. She joined with our community groups, and our civic leaders, and our churches. Hillary said, "I will do everything I can to help you get back up and to help you get your strength and resilience flowing through Flint again." 18:29:02 With direct help from Hillary Clinton's team, the Flint WaterWorks program is now putting the young adults of Flint into new jobs and rebuilding their own community. Hillary's wonderful daughter, Chelsea, even came to Flint to bring people together to start this work and to create new opportunities for our families. 18:29:29 A month later, Hillary Clinton came back to Flint again and called out to say that lead poisoning, broken infrastructure, and struggling cities are a national crisis, not just a Flint crisis. She made a commitment that, when she is President, she will work for a lead-free America. And that's why I'm with Her! So join with Flint to get behind Hillary Clinton, to raise our voices for Hillary Clinton, and to make her the next President of the United States. God bless Flint and God bless America. CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS REPRESENTATIVE GK BUTTERFIELD (NC) CHAIR 18:32:08 Fellow democrats, I'm congressman GK Butterfield from North Carolina! In my community, tyou judge a man's heart by his wordsa n deeds. Donald J Trump, your words ahve been hostile. They have been bigoted and insulting. You've used every opporuntity to talk about your wealth ,to denegrate people who don't hold your views, even within your own party. YOu are not qualified to serve as president of the United States. 18:32:4 Instead of putting forth details to address income inequality and opporunity for everyday Americans, you use your celebrity status to paitn a picture of gloom and doom. You use your status to alienate African Americans and other groups. And you would use the office of president to take our great nation in the wrong direction. You wanna know why your polling numbers are so dismal among African Americans? I will tell you. We know. We know you have gotten rich through your business, but we also know your wealth has come at the expense of other people. We know. We know. We know you have no plan to address issues directly affecting African American communities, such as gun violence and voting rights, historically black colleges and universities, raising the minimum wage, and addressing persisting poverty. 18:33:46 Democrats want a better future for all of our people, for all of our families. Read our platform and compare it to the republican platform. Give us this chance. Give us this chance by electing Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine to lead our great country. [ cheers ] REP. ANDRE CARSON OF INDIANA 18:34:22 My name is Andre Carson, I stand here today not just as a rep of the great state of IN, but as a young African American Muslim and former police officer. [applause] YOu know, over the last year millions of good hearted Muslims and African Americans like me, have watched the deep seeded hatred of the past, once again become mainstream. Together, we have been singled out in the national spotlight, as threats to be dealt with and not a part of the American family. If Donald trump, my buddy Mike Pence have their way, this slide into hatred and bigotry will only get worse. 18:35:15 Now, I'm from Indiana. And I have seen Mike Pence's terrible judgement up close. Pence, has fought against same sex couples having equal rights. Pence, rejected fed funding for Pre K education. And for years, Pence has fought to defund planned parenthood both in IN and across this country. We can't let the terrible judgement of Mike Pence and Donald trump impact our civil rights. That's why we need Hillary Clinton. She believes that if every uniform makes you fear profiling and suspicion, if you watch your kids leave in the morning and wonder if they'll come home at night, you deserve compassion and understanding. 18:36:25 Hillary Clinton is undaunted by the challenges that have plagued our communities for far too long. She stands with us and we need you to stand with her. REP. KAREN BASS OF CA 18:36:54 Democrats, we have 103 days to tell the nation that there is a better path for our country than the one Donald trump offers. 103 days to ensure our nation will not slide backwards to the bigotry of our past. 103 days to stop our country from giving in to the incoherent rage which Trump has taken advantage of, to declare war on common sense. Donald Trump, when you take pride of your outright ignorance of world affairs, when you promise the deportation of latino families, when you dismiss officer involved shootings of African Americans, when you degrade women, Donald Trump you unite us. We are democrats and we embrace the full diversity of the American rainbow. Look around you democrats, the diversity in this room reflects all of America, not part of America. Not like last week's Republican convention. My fellow democrats I challenge you to take all of Donald Trump's hateful energy and turn it into the fuel we need to take back the house! To take back the Senate! 18:38:18 And to make Madam Secretary, madam President. Thank you. REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES OF NY 18:38:28 I'm Hakeem Jeffries from the great state of New York. We are here today, standing on the shoulders of giants. Like Shirley Chisholm, Adam Clayton Powell Jr, Barbara Jordan, Charlie Rangel, and so many others who have made it possible for a kid like me to serve in the United States congress. In november, the American people face a clear choice between the most qualified person ever to seek the presidency and the least qualified ever to seek the presidency. 18:39:10 It's a choice between a commander in chief and a bankrupter in chief. It's a choice between a secretary of state and the secretary of hate. Donald Trump is a bounced check, but Hillary CLinton is money in the bank. She believes that America is a better place today because of the presidency of Barack Obama. She believes we should provide for the poor, work for working families, make sense for the middle class, and stand up for senior citizens. She believes we should innovate in the inner cities, strengthen suburban communities, and revitalize rural America. 18:39:54 She believes we should increase economic opportunity, end the era of mass incarceration, and eradicate police brutality once and for all. And, she believes that whether you're black or white, Latino or Asian, Jewish or Muslim, Catholic or Protestant, gay or straight, young or old, that in this great country, every single American deserves equal protection under the law. And that's why together, we're gonna elect Hillary Rodham Clinton as the next president of the United States of America. God bless you. REP. YVETTE CLARKE OF NEW YORK 18:40:44 My fellow democrats. Envision an America where you can graduate from college without crushing debt. Where American manufacturing jobs are on the rise again, women are paid equally, and seniors with the dignity and comfort thanks to a strong social security system. Where we stand united with the conviction that we can make our great country even greater by lifting each other up, not tearing each other apart. We cannot get there with the serial divider, Donald Trump. A bottomless vessel of egotism who exploits every fault line to advance his favorite cause, himself. 18:41:41 We can get there with Hillary Rodham Clinton: a leader with experience and statesmanship. Who lived the life of public service to advance the noblest cause, our great nation. I am congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke from Brooklyn, New York. My mother, the honorable Yuna Clark, is the first caribbean born American woman to be elected to the New YOrk City council. And my congressional district was once represented by the first African Caribbean Congressman, the honorable Shirley Chisholm. 18:42:30 So, I know a great leader when I see her. Hillary Rodham Clinton is our great leader and our next president of the United States of America. REP. GREGORY MEEKS OF NY 18:43:01 I'm honored to unite around our nominee, and my good friend Hillary Rodham Clinton. As a lifelong New Yorker, I've seen two presidential candidates up close and personal and let me tell you, Hillary offers everything that Donald Trump can't. She would fight for American workers, he refuses to pay them. She plans to make college debt free for all, he creates a sham university to exploit others. 18:43:33 She offers unity and thinking, he offers division and plans that take us backwards. Donald says I'm always right but the truth is, he's wrong. He's wrong for our families, he's wrong for our communities, he's wrong for our country, Hillary Clinton cares about the aspirations of all Americans she's going to tackle income inequality, provide opportunity for the poor and strengthen the middle class and she's going to invest in communities that have been neglected for far too long. 18:44:12 So my fellow Americans, it's time for us to band together, it's time for us to work together, it's time for us to aspire for a more and a greater challenge so that we could be better ourselves. It's time for us to build a strong future for our kids and our country and we my fellow Americans can do that by sending Hillary Clinton to the White House this November. PRESIDENT OF EMILY'S LIST STEPHANIE SCHRIOCK 18:45:56 One hundred years ago this November, a social worker from my home state of Montana, Jeannette Rankin, became the first woman ever elected to Congress. The first, but not the last. Once that barrier fell, there was no turning back. And, for over 31 years, EMILY's List has helped elect hundreds more women to the House, and the Senate, and every other office on the ballot. Except one. 18:46:33 Hillary Clinton may be our first woman president. But she will not be our last. Once that barrier falls, it will never, ever, ever be put back up. The women we've elected haven't just brought new voices to the debate. They've brought new momentum to the progressive movement. You see, women don't just fight for women. They fight for families. They fight for fairness. Inclusion. Justice. 18:47:09 No wonder Republican leaders oppose equal pay for women, and refuse to stand up for working mothers trying to balance career and family. That's why they'd let your boss fire you for using birth control, and force us to undergo invasive trans-vaginal ultrasounds. They don't respect women. They don't trust women. They want to control women. 18:47:41 They're afraid of the change we bring, the progress we make, when we get a chance to lead. And they're terrified of Hillary Clinton. Because no matter what they throw at her, they've never ever been able to stop her. From the Children's Defense Fund to the Senate, from Little Rock to Beijing, she's fought for fairness, for inclusion, for justice, and she's won. 18:48:14 Now, they're making their last stand. Not just against her, but against all of us who have worked so hard and so long to make progress in America. They're panicking. They're desperate. And that means they're dangerous. They've nominated a man who said women should be punished for having an abortion. Said, "Putting a wife to work is a dangerous thing." Called us "fat pigs" and "animals." He picked a running mate who led the fight to destroy Planned Parenthood, tried to redefine rape, suggested that mothers who work "stunt the emotional growth" of their kids by putting them in daycare. 18:49:07 If they win, they'll erase every ounce of progress we've dared to make. But we have fought too hard and come too far to let that happen. Let's stand together to elect more Democratic women up and down the ballot. More women in local office. More women in the House. More women in the Senate and enough to take back the majority! Let's decide right here and now to break through that last barrier. And, yes, at long last, put a woman in the White House: Hillary Clinton, our first woman president, but not our last! HARRY REID VIDEO 18:50:02 SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER HARRY REID (NEVADA) 18:53:55 Thank you everybody. Thank you. [ cheers ] Thanks everybody. Thank you very much. >> [ chant ] Harry! Harry! Harry! Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. 18:54:51 You know, I spend a lot of time in the Republican Senate, so it's nice to be in a room that respects reason and facts! I appreciate the tribute, I really do, I appreciate the tribute. But anything I've accomplished in the Senate, I owe to the great teammates I've had: my Democratic Senate Caucus; Nancy Pelosi in the House; President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden. And I give a never-ending tribute to our next President, Hillary Clinton! 18:55:36 As a team, we've fought for the belief that affordable health care is a right, not a privilege. As a team, we've fought for the idea that you shouldn't get the bill for Wall Street's bad bets. As a team, we've fought for the promise that your hard-earned Social Security is a sacred trust. 18:56:04 Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to put insurance companies back in charge of your health. Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to let big banks run wild again. And Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to gamble with your retirement benefits in the stock market. Republicans want to tear down the pillars of middle-class security. We won't let that happen! 18:56:37 And I've never seen anything more craven than Mitch McConnell and what he has done to our democracy. His Republican Party decided that the answer to hard-working American dreams is to slander our African-American President, stoke fear of Muslims, sow hatred of Latinos, insult Asians, and, of course, wage war against women. In other words, the only thing Republicans, like Mitch McConnell, have accomplished is setting the stage for a hateful con man, Donald Trump. 18:57:20 When Trump decided to run for President, he probably said to himself: "I'm an egomaniac. I don't believe in science. I think women are inferior. Where would I feel at home?" We know where that is. Parents: You're right to worry about your children hearing what comes out of Donald Trump's mouth. Republicans: You should have been careful, also, because Donald learned it from watching you. 18:57:57 You know, they say they believe in "Country First." What a joke. Republicans who won't stand up to Trump believe in one thing and one thing only: "Party First." And this year, 2016, they've gone even further, nominating the poster child of "Me First." Trump knew that hateful rhetoric and dangerous policies are the way to win in today's GOP. But that's not how you win in America. And that's not how America wins in the world. 18:48:24 Democrats know we win with an economy that works for everybody. With a strong, smart national security that v alues our allies and doesn't invite a cyber attack on our country. And we know winning is the work of a team. With Hillary in the White House and a majority in the Senate, Democrats will keep fighting for immigration reform that keeps America true; clean energy that keeps America strong; and a Supreme Court that keeps America just, and background checks for gun buyers and an assault-weapons ban that keep America safe. 18:59:27 Since my boxing days, I've fought my share of fights. In my 50 years of fighting for Nevadans, I've also realized a leader is actually a corner man, a corner man: someone who stands on your side, who has your back in a fight. Middle-class families fighting to give your kids a better life - Democrats stand in your corner. Americans fighting for the equality and respect our nation promises you - we're in your corner. New Americans risking everything to get here, and then fighting to make it here - we're in your corner.

WASH 7 DONALD TRUMP WILKES BARRE PA RALLY POOL C16 101016 GIULIANI: "LOCKER ROOM TALK" 19:23:00 GIULIANI: Over 100 million dollars in money for the clinton foundation. Boy that is as phony as. I can't say the word because I have to be nice. I might say it back in the locker room. (cheers). That is a hockey locker room after all. Hockey right? But they talk very politically correct. Things like "we are going to play our opponents tonight and we are going to be very careful how we deal with them and how we talk about them." come on we live in the real world. We have a chance here to have a man lead us who can bring back jobs to PA. 19:43:31 TRUMP TRUMP: thank you very much everybody. I don't know how old this building is but I know one thing. WE broke the building's record for attendance. Okay? Which is pretty pretty good. And they have thousands of people outside and they're pulling in right now. So should we wait about an hour or not? No way right? Let's start they'll fill in as we speak. So I want to thank all of the great people of PA. I went to school in PA. They've taken our jobs out of Pa. We're gonna be bringing them back folks, believe me. We're bringing them back. Oh what these politicians have done to us. Not gonna happen much longer. I assume you saw the debate last night everybody? Was good. Better believe it (cheering) 19:44:38 So a special group. I don't know if you know who I'm talking about, but they have been, I don't know what it is. Bikers love trump. Bikers right> bikers. I don't know why that is. I'm riding in these cars and they're passing me going about 150 miles an hour I say man those guys have guts but they are crazy right, but you know they had bikers for trump and it said the deplorable run for trump who's in here from the deplorable run? There are a lot of them over a thousand so there are over 1k and the bikers are special and I tell you it's great to have them on my side. You know a lot of times I go to an event. I did in Hilton head and I did in a few places and actually many places and I'll see hundreds of bikers on these beautiful bikes. Often times Harleys' I have to say. Often times but not always. Not always but I'll see these bikers and they'll be there and I always feel so safe with the bikers. They're there. 19:45:42 And a lot of times they don't even want to come inside they just want to make sure i'm safe. CAn you believe that? They are great people. They are great people so to the bikers, I love you guys, you're great guys, right? Also I want to introduce if I could, 2 people who have been unbelievable. They're congressmen. Hard to believe, congressmen who likes congressmen but I like these two congressmen and we have congressmen barletta where is he, where is he. Come here. Congressmen Barrino where is? Come here and get up here Sen. Sessions and Rudy. Get up here please. 19:46:42 [ALL FOUR ON STAGE] Oh we're gonna make PA so rich again your jobs are coming back. We're going to be ending illegal immigration. We're gonna stop the jobs from pouring out of our country. We're going to renegotiate our disastrous trade deals. These are deals made by people that don't have a clue. We're going to lower your taxes big league. HRC wants to increase your taxes by a lot. We're going to reduce regulations which are killing your companies and they're leaving and they're going to mexico and lot's of other places for lots of reasons, but one of the reasons, it's a bad reason it's called regulations. They're regulating these companies out of existence and jobs out of existence. We are going to unleash america's energy including oil. Shell. Clean coal and natural gas. Now, this just came out. This just came out. 19:48:18 Wikileaks, I love wikileaks. And I said write a couple of them down. Let's see. During a speech crooked HIllary clinton, oh she's crooked folks. She's crooked as a 3 dollar bill. Okay here's one. Just came out- lock her up is right . CROWD: LOCK HER UP. TRUMP: So everybody saw the debate last night so let me tell you. When I said we are gonna get a special prosecutor to figure this deal out- I have never been so ashamed of this country as what's gone on with HRC. I've never seen anything like it. I've never ever seen anything like it. You have never seen anything like it. 33k emails. 33k she deletes them. She bleaches them that nobody does because it's such an expensive process she gets a subpoena from the US congress and after she gets the subpoena she does that but we'll talk about that in a minute, we have to go back to wikileaks. Ah wikileaks 19:50:05 So a speech made behind closed doors, brooked HRC said that "terrorism was not a threat to the nation". No let me tell you folks, big big big threat. "Terrorism was not a threat" let me tell you terrorism's a big threat we're riding into something that's very dangerous and she's allowing thousands and thousands of people to come into this country and I will tell you something it's the great trojan horse and we don't want no part of the era where we have the- where they're talking about us in 200 years from now okay? As the stupid people that got taken. Then over here, let's see clinton bragged about hear great relationship with the financial industry. That's where she gets all the money. In florida they say she's going to put ads on 50 to one and I think we're going to win. I think we're going to win. Hillary admitted oh this is a beauty. During one of these secret speeches, amazing how nothing's secret today when you talk about the internet- nothing. HRC admitted that ISIS could infiltrate with the refugees. Great. Then why is she letting so many people into our country. 19:51:44 She said wallstreet can police itself alright that's who cares. Bigt bank clinton said needed Wallstreet money says here she needs "wallstreet money in order to successfully run hear campaign." It's okay. So what else is new? You know "I said to hear yesterday I said listen I'm going to have over 1million dollars in my campaign meaning I don't have to take money from all these characters that want everything because that's what's happening. So she's out there and she got a lot of money. She made 200 250 million dollars while she's in office. Ok? Figure that one out. Figure that one out. 19:52:28 So I said so look I'm putting up 100 million. It's gonna end up being more than that but I'm putting up all this money and I'm also getting tremendous amount of money from people eike 61$ a piece a record set no republicans ever done that. No republican's ever done that. No republican. Which tells me that we have a great movement going on right? That's what a great movement is. I say to hillary why don't you put up 10 million, 25 million put up some of the money that you ripped off when you're a secretary of state. When you're in the senate. Think of it. From the time they left the white house till now 250 million dollars. I said put some of the money into your campaign.. Don't get it from these companies that all want favors. 19:53:14 So let's see what happens with it. So let's ee. "Speech behind closed doors. Hillary said in order to be successful politically" oh this is a bad one" you need to have both a public and private position on public policy" awwwww. In other words we have to tell you one thing and we have to tell the bankers other things. Another closed door speech. Got a lot of money. She wanted to have open borders. And open trade. Trade with anybody there goes the rest of your jobs. Your jobs are 40% gone anyway. There go the rest of your jobs. She wants in one of the other speeches "universal health care" coverage. Single payer system she wants it to be like Canada but the people in canada with money when they have an operation they come down to this country because they've got a lot of problems in canada so she wants to go. Forget it. 19:54:24 Here's an interesting one. Sidney Blumenthal (booing) do you remember what ambassador stevens in benghazi was calling and writing and emailing. They were desperate for help. They say like 600 times right? The only one she was speaking to is Sidney blumenthal who's a sleaze he's a sleaze. In fact Obama wanted hear restricted that she couldn't speak. That's probably one of the reasons she wanted to have hear private server. You know she wanted to go because she promised Obama that she wouldn't be talking to sleezy Sydney. So blumenthal writes a quote. This just came out a little while ago. I have to tell you this. One important point has been universally acknowledged by the 9 previous reports about benghazi. This is Sidney Blumenthal the only one she was talking to. She wasn't talking to ambassador stevens. Even the six hundred calls. Probably desperation. "The attack was almost certainly preventable" benghazi "clinton was in charge of the state department and it failed to protect the Us personnel at an american consulate in libya. He meant benghazi." If the GOP wants to raise that as a talking point against hear, it is legitimate." In other words he's now admitting that they could have done something about benghazi. This just came out a little while ago. What a group we have. What a group. CROWD: LOCK HER UP. 19:56:13 Trump: What a group we have. So we're gonna do a lot. We're working very hard we have 28 days november 8th is the big day. We're gonna get out. We're gonna win. I'm gonna make. 3,4,5 stops a day. I may be limping across that finish line, but we're gonna get across that finish line. And I figure, I figure that that final week maybe we do 6 stops a day and we'll call them get out of the vote stops if you don't mind we will make them a lot shorter won't we though. Just get out because we gotta get you out to vote. And honestly folks, you know I went to school in Philly and I love philadelphia. I love Philadelphia and I hope we're going to do great in philadelphia. I went to school there. I love the school. I loved everything but I just hear such reports about philadelphia. And we have to make sure we're protected. WE have to make sure the people of philadelphia are protected that the vote counts are 100 percent and everybody wants that, but I Hear these horror shows. I hear these horror shows and we have to make sure that this election is not stolen from us and is not taken away from us. 19:57:47 And everybody knows what i'm talking about. And this crooked media, you talk about crooked hillary they're worse than she is. CROWD: Inaudible chanting TRUMP: I'm telling you they are so dishonest. Without the media, without the media, hillary clinton couldn't be elected dog catcher. I mean that. It's true. It's true. Rudy knows I only tell the truth. I only tell the truth. You know they do focus groups after the debate and we won every poll we won did you see those polls? Every poll. 80/20 90/10. I get a list but we don't' want to pull, but every poll. But CNN did a focus group. 19:59:18 And by the way frank luetz did a focus group and the focus group, that one we liked frank luetz good guy 18-4 in favor of trump, right? CNN did a focus group unfortunately oh it's so sad they got caught trying to convince people and find the right people so they could give a phony vote. CNN is a disgrace. Disgrace. Oh they just turned off their camera. 20:00:05 So funny they just turned off their camera. I love it. I love it. [CHEERS]. I love it. nah these dishonest people. Dishonest, but you know when you look at 'em and in fact get me a list where's the great Dan scavino. Get me a list, it'll tell you about the list, bring it up here right away. Bring it up i'll tell you, but we had a good time last night and they just announced they had 69 million people watching which is just about the most ever to watch the second debate which is fantastic, which is fantastic. And even the bad medi admitted. Remember when I Said the line in the sand and she said "I wasn't secretary of state" unfortunately she was. She lied again. She lied. 20:01:20 Hillary lied. But it wasn't as big a lie as the emails don't you agree. No no no she lied. She's a liar. And she lied and she lied when she said that she didn't say the TPP was the gold standard, right. She lied. Because she endorsed it, she wanted it 100% then she heard me speaking about it and say they don't' control monetary manipulation and all the ways that these countries take advantage of us and she went against it temporarily but if she ever won she'll approve that so fast and nothing's as bad as nafta, but you know what that's gonna be close. Gonna be a disaster and so she lied she said I never said it was the gold standard, unfortunately it was the gold standard, so one of those. One of those things. So folks it's so important that we get out in november that we vote so we get rid of these liars we get rid of these incompetent people. We get rid of the hillary clinton's of the world. 20:02:38 And You know I'm with the congressmen and we're back stage and apollo came out like we're down 3 points in the state of PA and they're going- and these guys are pros, you may not like them because they're politicians but I like them anyway despite their being a politician, but you know they said, we can't believe it because everybody in Pa wants trump, you know and we get crowds like this everywhere but we get them in OH in FL we're doing unbelievably. We have one in FL coming up 25k minimum. Minimum two days. And we're getting them but they just said there's' no way we're 3 down. Even the polls are crooked. I'm telling you'll look we're in a rigged system folks. We're in a rigged system. The only way we can unrigg it is to get to the polls but we gotta make sure they're honest polls we gotta make sure but I think november 8th is gonna be brexit. 20:04:23 I think he helped it pass if you want to know the truth. So they said it's gonna pass and I said it's gonna pass, but it was given very little chance of passage. Very very little chance. And then what happened is it passed easily right? So the polls were all really long, but big league wrong. We're just a little tiny bit behind. Here and the polls were just like unbelievable so it passed and nobody said "trump said it was gonna happen" i hate that. You know I hate that but what is gonna happen, I think the state of PA, we're gonna win so big I just think- we're gonna win so big. And we're gonna spend a lot of time in the suburbs over the next couple of weeks the suburbs of Philadelphia because we gotta get that vote. We want to get that vote. 20:05:12 I know I got your vote right? So we're gonna get that vote and we'll get it fast. Where Are those polls? Get it up here. Dan Scavino everybody. The famous Dan schiavino. Let me see. Did anybody ever hear of Dan? He's become quite famous in social media you ready? [holding iphone] So it says here ahh Drudge is a great guy right> what a great man Trump 70 clinton 30. Variety you know that's the show business people, they're not gonna like this these people don't like trump the show biz Trump 640 see this guy doesn't stop look at this guy. Trump 64 clinton 36. Oh listen to this time Magazine now do you think TIme Magazine likes me even though i've been on their cover like 7 or 8 times. They're liking us. TIme magazine no fan of trump 89 to 11 20:06:36 Fox, fox, 85 to 13. Where are the other couple of points? Oh here's a good one, well they're slightly conservative, Breitbart 93 to 7. Fox Seattle 79 ot 16. Detroit 84 to 16 get the hell out of here edan. So, is there any more fun to be than a trump rally in all fairness right? So here's what I'm gonna do you know I Spend a lot of time with Sen. Sessions who's the king of the borders, he's the king, one of the great men one of the most highly respected me in the US senate and the go to him and I remember ted cruz, who endorsed me recently which was very nice, but I remember ted cruz has such respect for Sen. Sessions and one of the reasons is nobody knows more about the border than sen sessions and we were talking a little while ago and we have people coming in and we just got ICe two days ago ICE these are great people by the wyal. They're not allowed to do their job but they just endorsed me because they want to do their job. 20:08:29 The border patrol. The border patrol just endorsed me the border patrol just endorsed me. 16,500 border patrol agents. They endorsed trump, first time they've ever done it and then very importantly sheriff joe from arizona. We love joe. And I told NH which has a tremendous problem with heroin and other places but NH was the first state I won and then we went on a rn that people haven't seen very easily. But I told NH very very strongly, I told NH, If I win we're gonna solve the problem of this poison flowing into PA, to NY to New England to POH where they have a big problem. To FL. We're gonna stop the poison and to do that we're going to build a wall. Who is going to pay for the wall? CROWD: MEXICO TRUMP: WHO? CROWD: MEXICO 20:10:07 They don't know it yet but they're paying for the wall. They don't know it. Nah they're great I was with a few of our friends we went to Mexico 2 months ago we had a great meeting with the President and he's a good guy and we'll work it that everybody's gonna be happy but right now it's a very unfair highway going in. It's a highway going in and there's no highway going out our jobs our money our wealth is going there. A friend of mine who builds plants he's the biggest he builds plants that's what he does if he says build an apartment maybe he wouldn't do so well but he builds the best plants biggest of the best and I said how are you doing and I think you might have heard me say this I think it's incredible and frankly it's terrible in a certain way he said Donald I'm doing great the business is great. I said good how is it in the United States he said not very good but where is it good? He said Mexico he said it's the seventh wonder of the world he said it's the most incredible thing you've ever seen we are building some of the biggest most sophisticated plants in the world. 20:11:15 Now the people coming out of Michigan as you know ford just announced they're moving their entire building of small cars to mexico. Boos. that's the top of a 2.5 billion dollar plant they built 3 years ago that i've been complaining about for 3 years. And that's why I think we're gonna win the state of michigan. Because i've been complaining about this for years and these other guys like Hillary she started complaining about it 2 years ago she's not gonna do anything. So we're gonna create strong borders and we're not gonna let our businesses go and when Ford says we're leaving or when carrier air conditioning says they're leaving the great state of Indiana where we have a wonderful wonderful vice presidential nominee Mike Pence great guy a great guy and by the way a totally loyal person this guy he called me up do you mind if I put out a statement? No what would you like to put out? Absolutely put it out Mike. This guy is so loyal so good and such a terrific and his family Karen his wife and family are amazing. It was one of our really good choices do you agree with that? And he's done really good things in the state of Indiana lower taxes triple a rating unlike this guy Tim Kaine (Boos) 20:12:54 You know in his first week as Governor of Virginia he signed a 4 billion dollar tax increase. This is what you have and Hillary Clinton wants to raise but he signed a 4 billion dollar tax increase. But here's what's gonna happen folks. When these companies like carrier air conditioning think they're gonna leave Indiana or leave PA or leave OH or leave any of the states they can go between states I can't involved if you don't mind ok? I can't get involved that's up to you and your governor and all the people. But if they think they're gonna go out, move air conditions, move to Mexico build a new plant then sell those air conditioners now through a strong powerful border and they're gonna sell those air conditioners and they're gonna let 1400 people go in Indianapolis it's not gonna happen that way it's not gonna happen. They will pay a 35% tax on every air conditioner that comes across the border. (Cheers) 20:14:01 And when they know that they won't leave Indiana and they're not gonna leave Pennsylvania because these numbers don't work anymore. OK? We're gonna stop them so easily. ANd I've been watching politicians go through this for years. I've been watching them give low interest loans. I've been watching them give zero interest loans and most of them don't even need the money they take the money there were a couple of instances where geniuses with great lawyers gave them money and then they moved anyway because they didn't have any restrictive golf hits the whole thing is crazy. But what's gonna happen is once they find out they're not gonna leave ok? they're not gonna leave. We're gonna have strong borders were gonna have a wall the wall is gonna stop people from coming into our country illegally. Along with our border patrol and ICE the wall is going to stop poison drugs poison from ruining our youth and poisoning our youth and other people. And u know I have something I always like doing I read this when I'm in a good mood. I'm in such a good mood. You know. I wish cameras would show this crowd because if they would people would be amazed. They never show the crowd. SHow the crowd. They don't want to turn around. Look at the cameras they face straight they face straight. 20:15:44 My wife is always going how is the crowd? It sounded big but i never see it. They never show the crowd because u know what they don't want us to win and they don't show these crowds but u know what u look at these crowds Bernie Sanders never even came close and he was second btw. Hey fellas turn the cameras around way there in the upper decks show the crowds (cheers). But they just don't want to do it. They keep that camera pinned to my face they don't even want to show what's behind me. They keep that camera pinned to my face. They are so dishonest. (Crowd starts chanting something) 20:16:52 U know if crooked hillary clinton were up there and they had this kind of a crowd the cameras would be showing the crowd all day long. That's why we have to win this election we have to take it away from these dishonest characters. So here's the story folks. It's true. Every night I go home my wife says how big was was the crowd it sounded huge and I say there was 60k people she said yeah it sounded that. I said u didn't see it? And she goes no they didn't show the crowd. It's always my face my face I don't wanna show my face I want the crowd but they never show my face. THey never move the camera. You know I used to think maybe they couldn't with new equipment mechanically they didn't move. Unfortunately when we had a protester for the first time right u know what i'm gonna say those cameras they turned like a pretzel to see them wah wah (Cheers) they looked like pretzels I never knew that steel could be bent in that kind of a configure. Oh they're dishonest. 20:18:18 Because of the fact we have lots of problems but one of the problems we have is a tremendous illegal immigration problem. And now Hillary Clinton wants people to come in from Syria at a rate think of this (boos) they're coming to your community folks at ar ate of 550% more than Obama and he's letting them in by the thousands and we have no idea who the hell they are. So I have this - has anyone heard the snake ? Cuz people love it who has not heard it? Who has heard it? Should we do it or not? It's so good. So you think of this in terms of illegal immigration in terms of people coming into our country that we have no idea who they are and in terms of the fact that lots of bad things will happen. And before I start I have a big heart you have a big heart we all have a big heart. We want to see good things happen. So we're gonna build safe zones in Syria we're gonna have the gulf states pay for it because we owe right now 20 trillion dollars it's double Obama's term and the bad part it doubled and we didn't do anything we didn't fix our roads our bridges our tunnels our hospitals our airports are a mess are third world we have too much debt and we didn't fix anything. We have problems folks. But we will get it fixed if we get elected. Otherwise we're going down. 20:20:04 SO this is a case for illegal immigration and it was written by Al Wilson, any of you ever heard of Al Wilson? And it wasn't meant for this it was a song. But I saw it once and I thought this is very apropo. So this is thinking about illegal immigration and what's going to happen as sure as we are sorry if we have those seats standing there. 20:20:34 [SNAKE POEM ] 20:22:59 And then we have our very incompetent politicians in washington taking everybody in and honestly it's a very sad thing to behold and to watch. Very very very sad. Whoops is there a doctor in the house are you okay? Thank you very much. You okay? You know we have people waiting here for 7 or 8 hours. I love you darling I love you look at hear. She's tougher than all of us. Thank you. Thank you. Look at that guy over there. Wow! Wow! Bring him up! 20:25:36 [BABY IN SUIT BROUGHT ON STAGE TO TRUMP] DT: What's your name? BABY:Nay. DT: Now he is supposed to look like Donald Trump but he's actually much too good looking. You are really handsome. Are you having a good time tonight? BABY: Nigh (baby noise) DT: Where is your daddy and your mommy right? Do you want to go back to them or do you want to stay with Donald Trump? 20:25:24 BABY: Trump [CHEERS ERUPT] DT: Beautiful. What a beautiful boy. What a beautiful boy. Thank you. 20:26:07 I will tell you what folks we better win on November 8th. You know one of these pundits said to me because this is a movement. There's never been anything like this they say. Many of them said, Bill I really ive got a lot of respect for Bill O'reilly tough guy, smart guy. He said it's the single greatest political phenomenon he's seen in his lifetime. That covers a lot of territory and others have said the same thing and they said really it doesn't matter if you win or if you lose really it doesn't matter. Let me tell you a little secret, if we don't win this is the greatest waste of time energy . and money that i will ever do in my life believe me. Believe me. We are not doing this to come in second folks. And if we come in second your second amendment is in trouble because she wants to decimate it. 20:27:13 And we are going to fix by the way, we are going to do something that people haven't done. We are going to fix our inner cities.We are going to help our latino americans and our african americans. We are going to help them. 45% of african american youth lives in poverty. 58% of african american youth don't have jobs. More than 3 thousand people have been shot in the city of chicago since the beginning of the year think of that since January 1st. 3 thousand. That means it's like a war zone. The democrats, like Crooked Hillary Clinton have run the inner cities for 50, 60 70 even a hundred years uninterrupted. They produced only more joblessness, failing schools and rising crime. Those African americans suffering in our country and I have to tell you this, they are suffering. 20:28:25 They are suffering. You got no jobs, inner cities, you got no jobs, you got no safety, you have no education, the schools are horrible. I say to them what the hell do you have to lose i'm going to fix the inner cities. I'm going to fix them. I'm going to fix them. Vote for Trump. We've spent 6 billion, think of this, we spent billions and billions of dollar son different things we don't get our money's worth. But we have spent in the middle east, 5 to 6 trillion dollars. WHAt do we have. It's worst now. Had we done nothing in the middle east it's much better than it is now. You wouldn't have the migration. Look at the mistakes that Hillary Clinton made. 20:29:17 Libya, Iraq, they created ISIS because the way they got out of Iraq whether you liked going into the war or not and despite what you read from these dishonest people I was against going into Iraq by the way but whether you were in or not it was somewhat with the surge stabilized and the announced to the world that they are going to take everybody out real fast get them out get them out get them out. And the vacuum was created. 20:29:44 And guess who came out of the vacuum. Who came out of the vacuum. ISIS . That was Hillary Clinton and our great genius president barack obama ayayayi. And Now all he wants to do is campaign. Remember he said, Donald Trump will never win the Republican primary. Alright so we've won that one, right. Isn't it too bad, isn't it too bad, that we don't have stronger leadership on both sides. On both sides. I mean you know they have people that can't that can't fix the budget but then they start talking about their nominee but they can't fix the budget. Isn't it really sad that we don't have stronger leadership on both sides. But that will change if we win November 8th and believe me it's going to change fast. 20:30:43 But why is it that the president of the US. We've got no growth. You saw G and P you say that. GDP you saw that right. It's so bad, like 1%. That means we are not growing. You know if China goes down to 7 or 8% it's like considered a national tragedy. Here we are hovering at nothing. Our jobs are gone, we have bad jobs, phony employment race. Bad jobs numbers last week did you see those bad jobs numbers? ANd that's the last jobs report before the election I was shocked. I was so surprised that they let that happen. Cuz it's all rigged, it's all rigged but let me just tell you. We are going to do something that is going to be so amazing. I'm going to fight harder than anybody has ever fought for the American people. Harder. 20:31:40 We are going to help the Latinos trapped in poverty. We are going to fight for school choice, we are going to fight to end common core which we will do very quickly and bring education locally. And Hillary Clinton can't do those things because she's totally run by the teachers union which are wonderful people by the way but they have total control so you can't have choice and you can't end common core if you are hillary clinton you can't do it because you are controlled by the teachers just like she is controlled by Wall Street so what we are going to do are things that haven't been done and these things are going to be wonderful. We have a military that is depleted, we have to build up our military we have to we have no choice. 20:32:36 We have to take care of our great veterans we are not taking care of our veterans. We are going to save your second amendment we are going to terminate obamacare and replace it. We are going to have the largest tax cut since Ronald Reagen. Remember this, hers are going up. We are going to do things that are going to make you so proud of this country again. You are going to be so proud. You are going to go to the polls and you are even going to go home tonight and you are going to say to your husband to your wife to your children to whoever listens, I had a great time but you are going to look back in 10 years in 15 or 20 years and you are going to say this was one of the most important nights. More importantly you are going to say on NOvember 8thg the single most important vote you have ever cast 20;33:46 It's going to be cast on November 8th. 20:34:17 [PICKS UP TRUMP DIGS COAL SIGN, HOLDS IT UP] 20:34:33 She wants to put our miners out of business. Not going to happen. Going to be just the-- we are going to have clean coal. We are going to have all forms of energy, we are going to have all forms of energy, we are going to have everything but we are going to take care of our miners we are going to take care of steel workers. We are going to not let the EPA destroy our companies for natural gas and shale and all of these things. Not going to let it happen. 20:35:07 So you're gonna go home and you're gonna say great evening great evening but you're gonna look back at that phone and you're gonna say that was a very important day that was the greatest vote i've ever cast because that's when our country started turning around. that's when our country started turning around. And you're gonna be proud of your country again and hopefully you're gonna be very proud of your president and you're gonna see things happen that have never happened before. We're gonna make great trade deals we're gonna have our strong military and hopefully we're not gonna have to use it but it's called peace through strength (cheers). 20:35:56 ANd we're gonna have our borders back again. And people are gonna come into our country. But they're gonna come in legally they are gonna come in we're gonna have a big beautiful door but they're gonna come in legally through a process and it's not gonna be a process now people are waiting in line for 10 years and then people come right across the border it's unfair we're gonna have a fair process and we want people to come in is that correct? We want people but they have to come in legally. And we're gonna see immediate change and that's what you need. Hillary Clinton is not about change. Hillary Clinton has been doing this stuff for 30 years. (Boos)> ANd I said to her last night I I said to her last night I said u know Hillary u talk about this thing and that thing and oh gee Donald has some great tax deal but all her friends have some great tax deal all her friends I said Hillary if you were a United States Senator why don't you do something about it? SHe's not gonna do something about anything it's all talk and u saw it and i said when she was a senator she said she was gonna do things nothing ever happened and it only got worse that's what is gonna happen with our country folks. 20:37:12 So here is the story. You go out early vote, do whatever you have to do but you go out on November 8th and you vote because so many things we are going to report. Remember this, people don't talk about it. Justice Scalia passed away, great man, great justice. We are going to appoint great people who believe in our constitution to the US supreme court. People that believe in our second amendment to the US supreme court. This election day you have on magnificent chance to deliver justice for every forgotten man woman and child in this country. 20:38:09 You have 29 days can you believe it. This started on june 16th of last year. Coming down the escalator. To make every dream you ever dreamed for your country to come true. On NOvember 8th the arrogance of Washington DC will come face to face with the righteous verdict of the American voter. It's about time. We are going to smash the Washington establishment and open it up to each and every american the way it's supposed to be. Wouldn't it be nice if some of our politicians fought the special interest instead of fighting and and you. 20:39:06 The sad truth is a lot of establishment politicians simply don't believe in protecting our borders or fixing out trade deals or putting america first and we are going to put america first. I am going to fight for every citizen of every background from every stretch of this nation and I am going to fight to bring us all together as Americans. We are a divided country now. Imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working together as one people under one god diluting one american flag. 20:40: 09 You are going to look back at this rally for the rest of your life. You are going to remember this day, this is a movement like you have never seen before and you will never see it again. If it doesn't happen on November 8th it's never going to happen for our country believe me it will never happen again. We are going to make history together. You are going to look back at this election and say this is by far and I say it again and again the most important vote by far that you have ever cast. You are going to vote to make our country safe again. We are going to vote to make our country wealthy again. 20:41:06 We are going to vote on November 8th to make our country great again thank you very much God Bless you I love you. Thank you, thank you. #END# WILKES-BARRE, PA- Highlights: -Adorable moment with toddler impersonator -Warns crowd of voter fraud in urban areas -Digs at Ryan -Comments on Pence statement -Agrees w/ crowd to "Lock Her Up" It was the kind of rally that gives Donald Trump life. A big, rousing rally who roared at his every word and happily chanted "F-k the media." And, in which, there was a baby Trump impersonator. It was an incredible and hilarious moment. A toddler, dressed like Trump, his hair (with a piece added) combed over in Trump's signature style, was passed through the crowd. He reaches the stage and Trump holds him up so the crowd could view.He asked him a few Qs, the toddler seemed to repeat everything he said. 20:25:36 [BABY IN SUIT BROUGHT ON STAGE TO TRUMP] DT: What's your name? BABY:Nay. DT: Now he is supposed to look like Donald Trump but he's actually much too good looking. You are really handsome. Are you having a good time tonight? BABY: Nigh (baby noise) DT: Where is your daddy and your mommy right? Do you want to go back to them or do you want to stay with Donald Trump? 20:25:24 BABY: Trump [CHEERS ERUPT] DT: Beautiful. What a beautiful boy. What a beautiful boy. Thank you. The crowd went WILD. Aside from that, Trump mostly repeated attacks from the first rally, though he did take a shade-filled shot at Paul Ryan. The sentiment was almost exactly what he tweeted earlier, now you have on-cam. 20:30: " Isn't it too bad, that we don't have stronger leadership on both sides. On both sides. I mean you know they have people that can't that can't fix the budget but then they start talking about their nominee but they can't fix the budget. Isn't it really sad that we don't have stronger leadership on both sides. But that will change if we win November 8th and believe me it's going to change fast." Also, for the second time today, he signaled to an almost-all white crowd, that there could be voter fraud in inner cities. Many are decrying this as a major dogwhistle. "Love Philadelphia. I love Philadelphia and I hope we're going to do great in Philadelphia. // I just hear such reports about Philadelphia. And we have to make sure we're protected. WE have to make sure the people of Philadelphia are protected that the vote counts are 100 percent and everybody wants that, but I Hear these horror shows. I hear these horror shows and we have to make sure that this election is not stolen from us and is not taken away from us. 19:57:47 And everybody knows what i'm talking about. And this crooked media, you talk about crooked hillary they're worse than she is." And he praised Mike Pence for being absolutely loyal, first time he's discussed Pence's statement. "Where we have a wonderful wonderful vice presidential nominee Mike Pence great guy a great guy and by the way a totally loyal person this guy he called me up do you mind if I put out a statement? No what would you like to put out? Absolutely put it out Mike. This guy is so loyal so good and such a terrific and his family Karen his wife and family are amazing. It was one of our really good choices do you agree with that?" No mention of Juanita Broaddrick and the other women, but very notably, when the crowd started chanting "Lock Her Up", Trump joined in. 19:48:18 "Wikileaks, I love wikileaks. And I said write a couple of them down. Let's see. During a speech crooked HIllary clinton, oh she's crooked folks. She's crooked as a 3 dollar bill. Okay here's one. Just came out- lock hear up is right ." He hit Clinton again for the revelations of Wikileaks. He also gave a preview of the final campaign days, predicting that Nov.8 would be Brexit. 19:56:13 "What a group we have. So we're gonna do a lot. We're working very hard we have 28 days november 8th is the big day. We're gonna get out. We're gonna win. I'm gonna make. 3,4,5 stops a day. I may be limping across that finish line, but we're gonna get across that finish line." Quote of the Night: "Hillary admitted oh this is a beauty. During one of these secret speeches, amazing how nothing's secret today when you talk about the internet- nothing."

WASH 7 DONALD TRUMP WILKES BARRE PA RALLY POOL C16 101016 5509 DONALD TRUMP WILKES BARRE PA RALLY POOL C16 101006 GIULIANI: "LOCKER ROOM TALK" 19:23:00 GIULIANI: Over 100 million dollars in money for the clinton foundation. Boy that is as phony as. I can't say the word because I have to be nice. I might say it back in the locker room. (cheers). That is a hockey locker room after all. Hockey right? But they talk very politically correct. Things like "we are going to play our opponents tonight and we are going to be very careful how we deal with them and how we talk about them." come on we live in the real world. We have a chance here to have a man lead us who can bring back jobs to PA. 19:43:31 TRUMP TRUMP: thank you very much everybody. I don't know how old this building is but I know one thing. WE broke the building's record for attendance. Okay? Which is pretty pretty good. And they have thousands of people outside and they're pulling in right now. So should we wait about an hour or not? No way right? Let's start they'll fill in as we speak. So I want to thank all of the great people of PA. I went to school in PA. They've taken our jobs out of Pa. We're gonna be bringing them back folks, believe me. We're bringing them back. Oh what these politicians have done to us. Not gonna happen much longer. I assume you saw the debate last night everybody? Was good. Better believe it (cheering) 19:44:38 So a special group. I don't know if you know who I'm talking about, but they have been, I don't know what it is. Bikers love trump. Bikers right> bikers. I don't know why that is. I'm riding in these cars and they're passing me going about 150 miles an hour I say man those guys have guts but they are crazy right, but you know they had bikers for trump and it said the deplorable run for trump who's in here from the deplorable run? There are a lot of them over a thousand so there are over 1k and the bikers are special and I tell you it's great to have them on my side. You know a lot of times I go to an event. I did in Hilton head and I did in a few places and actually many places and I'll see hundreds of bikers on these beautiful bikes. Often times Harleys' I have to say. Often times but not always. Not always but I'll see these bikers and they'll be there and I always feel so safe with the bikers. They're there. 19:45:42 And a lot of times they don't even want to come inside they just want to make sure i'm safe. CAn you believe that? They are great people. They are great people so to the bikers, I love you guys, you're great guys, right? Also I want to introduce if I could, 2 people who have been unbelievable. They're congressmen. Hard to believe, congressmen who likes congressmen but I like these two congressmen and we have congressmen barletta where is he, where is he. Come here. Congressmen Barrino where is? Come here and get up here Sen. Sessions and Rudy. Get up here please. 19:46:42 [ALL FOUR ON STAGE] Oh we're gonna make PA so rich again your jobs are coming back. We're going to be ending illegal immigration. We're gonna stop the jobs from pouring out of our country. We're going to renegotiate our disastrous trade deals. These are deals made by people that don't have a clue. We're going to lower your taxes big league. HRC wants to increase your taxes by a lot. We're going to reduce regulations which are killing your companies and they're leaving and they're going to mexico and lot's of other places for lots of reasons, but one of the reasons, it's a bad reason it's called regulations. They're regulating these companies out of existence and jobs out of existence. We are going to unleash america's energy including oil. Shell. Clean coal and natural gas. Now, this just came out. This just came out. 19:48:18 Wikileaks, I love wikileaks. And I said write a couple of them down. Let's see. During a speech crooked HIllary clinton, oh she's crooked folks. She's crooked as a 3 dollar bill. Okay here's one. Just came out- lock her up is right . CROWD: LOCK HER UP. TRUMP: So everybody saw the debate last night so let me tell you. When I said we are gonna get a special prosecutor to figure this deal out- I have never been so ashamed of this country as what's gone on with HRC. I've never seen anything like it. I've never ever seen anything like it. You have never seen anything like it. 33k emails. 33k she deletes them. She bleaches them that nobody does because it's such an expensive process she gets a subpoena from the US congress and after she gets the subpoena she does that but we'll talk about that in a minute, we have to go back to wikileaks. Ah wikileaks 19:50:05 So a speech made behind closed doors, brooked HRC said that "terrorism was not a threat to the nation". No let me tell you folks, big big big threat. "Terrorism was not a threat" let me tell you terrorism's a big threat we're riding into something that's very dangerous and she's allowing thousands and thousands of people to come into this country and I will tell you something it's the great trojan horse and we don't want no part of the era where we have the- where they're talking about us in 200 years from now okay? As the stupid people that got taken. Then over here, let's see clinton bragged about hear great relationship with the financial industry. That's where she gets all the money. In florida they say she's going to put ads on 50 to one and I think we're going to win. I think we're going to win. Hillary admitted oh this is a beauty. During one of these secret speeches, amazing how nothing's secret today when you talk about the internet- nothing. HRC admitted that ISIS could infiltrate with the refugees. Great. Then why is she letting so many people into our country. 19:51:44 She said wallstreet can police itself alright that's who cares. Bigt bank clinton said needed Wallstreet money says here she needs "wallstreet money in order to successfully run hear campaign." It's okay. So what else is new? You know "I said to hear yesterday I said listen I'm going to have over 1million dollars in my campaign meaning I don't have to take money from all these characters that want everything because that's what's happening. So she's out there and she got a lot of money. She made 200 250 million dollars while she's in office. Ok? Figure that one out. Figure that one out. 19:52:28 So I said so look I'm putting up 100 million. It's gonna end up being more than that but I'm putting up all this money and I'm also getting tremendous amount of money from people eike 61$ a piece a record set no republicans ever done that. No republican's ever done that. No republican. Which tells me that we have a great movement going on right? That's what a great movement is. I say to hillary why don't you put up 10 million, 25 million put up some of the money that you ripped off when you're a secretary of state. When you're in the senate. Think of it. From the time they left the white house till now 250 million dollars. I said put some of the money into your campaign.. Don't get it from these companies that all want favors. 19:53:14 So let's see what happens with it. So let's ee. "Speech behind closed doors. Hillary said in order to be successful politically" oh this is a bad one" you need to have both a public and private position on public policy" awwwww. In other words we have to tell you one thing and we have to tell the bankers other things. Another closed door speech. Got a lot of money. She wanted to have open borders. And open trade. Trade with anybody there goes the rest of your jobs. Your jobs are 40% gone anyway. There go the rest of your jobs. She wants in one of the other speeches "universal health care" coverage. Single payer system she wants it to be like Canada but the people in canada with money when they have an operation they come down to this country because they've got a lot of problems in canada so she wants to go. Forget it. 19:54:24 Here's an interesting one. Sidney Blumenthal (booing) do you remember what ambassador stevens in benghazi was calling and writing and emailing. They were desperate for help. They say like 600 times right? The only one she was speaking to is Sidney blumenthal who's a sleaze he's a sleaze. In fact Obama wanted hear restricted that she couldn't speak. That's probably one of the reasons she wanted to have hear private server. You know she wanted to go because she promised Obama that she wouldn't be talking to sleezy Sydney. So blumenthal writes a quote. This just came out a little while ago. I have to tell you this. One important point has been universally acknowledged by the 9 previous reports about benghazi. This is Sidney Blumenthal the only one she was talking to. She wasn't talking to ambassador stevens. Even the six hundred calls. Probably desperation. "The attack was almost certainly preventable" benghazi "clinton was in charge of the state department and it failed to protect the Us personnel at an american consulate in libya. He meant benghazi." If the GOP wants to raise that as a talking point against hear, it is legitimate." In other words he's now admitting that they could have done something about benghazi. This just came out a little while ago. What a group we have. What a group. CROWD: LOCK HER UP. 19:56:13 Trump: What a group we have. So we're gonna do a lot. We're working very hard we have 28 days november 8th is the big day. We're gonna get out. We're gonna win. I'm gonna make. 3,4,5 stops a day. I may be limping across that finish line, but we're gonna get across that finish line. And I figure, I figure that that final week maybe we do 6 stops a day and we'll call them get out of the vote stops if you don't mind we will make them a lot shorter won't we though. Just get out because we gotta get you out to vote. And honestly folks, you know I went to school in Philly and I love philadelphia. I love Philadelphia and I hope we're going to do great in philadelphia. I went to school there. I love the school. I loved everything but I just hear such reports about philadelphia. And we have to make sure we're protected. WE have to make sure the people of philadelphia are protected that the vote counts are 100 percent and everybody wants that, but I Hear these horror shows. I hear these horror shows and we have to make sure that this election is not stolen from us and is not taken away from us. 19:57:47 And everybody knows what i'm talking about. And this crooked media, you talk about crooked hillary they're worse than she is. CROWD: Inaudible chanting TRUMP: I'm telling you they are so dishonest. Without the media, without the media, hillary clinton couldn't be elected dog catcher. I mean that. It's true. It's true. Rudy knows I only tell the truth. I only tell the truth. You know they do focus groups after the debate and we won every poll we won did you see those polls? Every poll. 80/20 90/10. I get a list but we don't' want to pull, but every poll. But CNN did a focus group. 19:59:18 And by the way frank luetz did a focus group and the focus group, that one we liked frank luetz good guy 18-4 in favor of trump, right? CNN did a focus group unfortunately oh it's so sad they got caught trying to convince people and find the right people so they could give a phony vote. CNN is a disgrace. Disgrace. Oh they just turned off their camera. 20:00:05 So funny they just turned off their camera. I love it. I love it. [CHEERS]. I love it. nah these dishonest people. Dishonest, but you know when you look at 'em and in fact get me a list where's the great Dan scavino. Get me a list, it'll tell you about the list, bring it up here right away. Bring it up i'll tell you, but we had a good time last night and they just announced they had 69 million people watching which is just about the most ever to watch the second debate which is fantastic, which is fantastic. And even the bad medi admitted. Remember when I Said the line in the sand and she said "I wasn't secretary of state" unfortunately she was. She lied again. She lied. 20:01:20 Hillary lied. But it wasn't as big a lie as the emails don't you agree. No no no she lied. She's a liar. And she lied and she lied when she said that she didn't say the TPP was the gold standard, right. She lied. Because she endorsed it, she wanted it 100% then she heard me speaking about it and say they don't' control monetary manipulation and all the ways that these countries take advantage of us and she went against it temporarily but if she ever won she'll approve that so fast and nothing's as bad as nafta, but you know what that's gonna be close. Gonna be a disaster and so she lied she said I never said it was the gold standard, unfortunately it was the gold standard, so one of those. One of those things. So folks it's so important that we get out in november that we vote so we get rid of these liars we get rid of these incompetent people. We get rid of the hillary clinton's of the world. 20:02:38 And You know I'm with the congressmen and we're back stage and apollo came out like we're down 3 points in the state of PA and they're going- and these guys are pros, you may not like them because they're politicians but I like them anyway despite their being a politician, but you know they said, we can't believe it because everybody in Pa wants trump, you know and we get crowds like this everywhere but we get them in OH in FL we're doing unbelievably. We have one in FL coming up 25k minimum. Minimum two days. And we're getting them but they just said there's' no way we're 3 down. Even the polls are crooked. I'm telling you'll look we're in a rigged system folks. We're in a rigged system. The only way we can unrigg it is to get to the polls but we gotta make sure they're honest polls we gotta make sure but I think november 8th is gonna be brexit. 20:04:23 I think he helped it pass if you want to know the truth. So they said it's gonna pass and I said it's gonna pass, but it was given very little chance of passage. Very very little chance. And then what happened is it passed easily right? So the polls were all really long, but big league wrong. We're just a little tiny bit behind. Here and the polls were just like unbelievable so it passed and nobody said "trump said it was gonna happen" i hate that. You know I hate that but what is gonna happen, I think the state of PA, we're gonna win so big I just think- we're gonna win so big. And we're gonna spend a lot of time in the suburbs over the next couple of weeks the suburbs of Philadelphia because we gotta get that vote. We want to get that vote. 20:05:12 I know I got your vote right? So we're gonna get that vote and we'll get it fast. Where Are those polls? Get it up here. Dan Scavino everybody. The famous Dan schiavino. Let me see. Did anybody ever hear of Dan? He's become quite famous in social media you ready? [holding iphone] So it says here ahh Drudge is a great guy right> what a great man Trump 70 clinton 30. Variety you know that's the show business people, they're not gonna like this these people don't like trump the show biz Trump 640 see this guy doesn't stop look at this guy. Trump 64 clinton 36. Oh listen to this time Magazine now do you think TIme Magazine likes me even though i've been on their cover like 7 or 8 times. They're liking us. TIme magazine no fan of trump 89 to 11 20:06:36 Fox, fox, 85 to 13. Where are the other couple of points? Oh here's a good one, well they're slightly conservative, Breitbart 93 to 7. Fox Seattle 79 ot 16. Detroit 84 to 16 get the hell out of here edan. So, is there any more fun to be than a trump rally in all fairness right? So here's what I'm gonna do you know I Spend a lot of time with Sen. Sessions who's the king of the borders, he's the king, one of the great men one of the most highly respected me in the US senate and the go to him and I remember ted cruz, who endorsed me recently which was very nice, but I remember ted cruz has such respect for Sen. Sessions and one of the reasons is nobody knows more about the border than sen sessions and we were talking a little while ago and we have people coming in and we just got ICe two days ago ICE these are great people by the wyal. They're not allowed to do their job but they just endorsed me because they want to do their job. 20:08:29 The border patrol. The border patrol just endorsed me the border patrol just endorsed me. 16,500 border patrol agents. They endorsed trump, first time they've ever done it and then very importantly sheriff joe from arizona. We love joe. And I told NH which has a tremendous problem with heroin and other places but NH was the first state I won and then we went on a rn that people haven't seen very easily. But I told NH very very strongly, I told NH, If I win we're gonna solve the problem of this poison flowing into PA, to NY to New England to POH where they have a big problem. To FL. We're gonna stop the poison and to do that we're going to build a wall. Who is going to pay for the wall? CROWD: MEXICO TRUMP: WHO? CROWD: MEXICO 20:10:07 They don't know it yet but they're paying for the wall. They don't know it. Nah they're great I was with a few of our friends we went to Mexico 2 months ago we had a great meeting with the President and he's a good guy and we'll work it that everybody's gonna be happy but right now it's a very unfair highway going in. It's a highway going in and there's no highway going out our jobs our money our wealth is going there. A friend of mine who builds plants he's the biggest he builds plants that's what he does if he says build an apartment maybe he wouldn't do so well but he builds the best plants biggest of the best and I said how are you doing and I think you might have heard me say this I think it's incredible and frankly it's terrible in a certain way he said Donald I'm doing great the business is great. I said good how is it in the United States he said not very good but where is it good? He said Mexico he said it's the seventh wonder of the world he said it's the most incredible thing you've ever seen we are building some of the biggest most sophisticated plants in the world. 20:11:15 Now the people coming out of Michigan as you know ford just announced they're moving their entire building of small cars to mexico. Boos. that's the top of a 2.5 billion dollar plant they built 3 years ago that i've been complaining about for 3 years. And that's why I think we're gonna win the state of michigan. Because i've been complaining about this for years and these other guys like Hillary she started complaining about it 2 years ago she's not gonna do anything. So we're gonna create strong borders and we're not gonna let our businesses go and when Ford says we're leaving or when carrier air conditioning says they're leaving the great state of Indiana where we have a wonderful wonderful vice presidential nominee Mike Pence great guy a great guy and by the way a totally loyal person this guy he called me up do you mind if I put out a statement? No what would you like to put out? Absolutely put it out Mike. This guy is so loyal so good and such a terrific and his family Karen his wife and family are amazing. It was one of our really good choices do you agree with that? And he's done really good things in the state of Indiana lower taxes triple a rating unlike this guy Tim Kaine (Boos) 20:12:54 You know in his first week as Governor of Virginia he signed a 4 billion dollar tax increase. This is what you have and Hillary Clinton wants to raise but he signed a 4 billion dollar tax increase. But here's what's gonna happen folks. When these companies like carrier air conditioning think they're gonna leave Indiana or leave PA or leave OH or leave any of the states they can go between states I can't involved if you don't mind ok? I can't get involved that's up to you and your governor and all the people. But if they think they're gonna go out, move air conditions, move to Mexico build a new plant then sell those air conditioners now through a strong powerful border and they're gonna sell those air conditioners and they're gonna let 1400 people go in Indianapolis it's not gonna happen that way it's not gonna happen. They will pay a 35% tax on every air conditioner that comes across the border. (Cheers) 20:14:01 And when they know that they won't leave Indiana and they're not gonna leave Pennsylvania because these numbers don't work anymore. OK? We're gonna stop them so easily. ANd I've been watching politicians go through this for years. I've been watching them give low interest loans. I've been watching them give zero interest loans and most of them don't even need the money they take the money there were a couple of instances where geniuses with great lawyers gave them money and then they moved anyway because they didn't have any restrictive golf hits the whole thing is crazy. But what's gonna happen is once they find out they're not gonna leave ok? they're not gonna leave. We're gonna have strong borders were gonna have a wall the wall is gonna stop people from coming into our country illegally. Along with our border patrol and ICE the wall is going to stop poison drugs poison from ruining our youth and poisoning our youth and other people. And u know I have something I always like doing I read this when I'm in a good mood. I'm in such a good mood. You know. I wish cameras would show this crowd because if they would people would be amazed. They never show the crowd. SHow the crowd. They don't want to turn around. Look at the cameras they face straight they face straight. 20:15:44 My wife is always going how is the crowd? It sounded big but i never see it. They never show the crowd because u know what they don't want us to win and they don't show these crowds but u know what u look at these crowds Bernie Sanders never even came close and he was second btw. Hey fellas turn the cameras around way there in the upper decks show the crowds (cheers). But they just don't want to do it. They keep that camera pinned to my face they don't even want to show what's behind me. They keep that camera pinned to my face. They are so dishonest. (Crowd starts chanting something) 20:16:52 U know if crooked hillary clinton were up there and they had this kind of a crowd the cameras would be showing the crowd all day long. That's why we have to win this election we have to take it away from these dishonest characters. So here's the story folks. It's true. Every night I go home my wife says how big was was the crowd it sounded huge and I say there was 60k people she said yeah it sounded that. I said u didn't see it? And she goes no they didn't show the crowd. It's always my face my face I don't wanna show my face I want the crowd but they never show my face. THey never move the camera. You know I used to think maybe they couldn't with new equipment mechanically they didn't move. Unfortunately when we had a protester for the first time right u know what i'm gonna say those cameras they turned like a pretzel to see them wah wah (Cheers) they looked like pretzels I never knew that steel could be bent in that kind of a configure. Oh they're dishonest. 20:18:18 Because of the fact we have lots of problems but one of the problems we have is a tremendous illegal immigration problem. And now Hillary Clinton wants people to come in from Syria at a rate think of this (boos) they're coming to your community folks at ar ate of 550% more than Obama and he's letting them in by the thousands and we have no idea who the hell they are. So I have this - has anyone heard the snake ? Cuz people love it who has not heard it? Who has heard it? Should we do it or not? It's so good. So you think of this in terms of illegal immigration in terms of people coming into our country that we have no idea who they are and in terms of the fact that lots of bad things will happen. And before I start I have a big heart you have a big heart we all have a big heart. We want to see good things happen. So we're gonna build safe zones in Syria we're gonna have the gulf states pay for it because we owe right now 20 trillion dollars it's double Obama's term and the bad part it doubled and we didn't do anything we didn't fix our roads our bridges our tunnels our hospitals our airports are a mess are third world we have too much debt and we didn't fix anything. We have problems folks. But we will get it fixed if we get elected. Otherwise we're going down. 20:20:04 SO this is a case for illegal immigration and it was written by Al Wilson, any of you ever heard of Al Wilson? And it wasn't meant for this it was a song. But I saw it once and I thought this is very apropo. So this is thinking about illegal immigration and what's going to happen as sure as we are sorry if we have those seats standing there. 20:20:34 [SNAKE POEM ] 20:22:59 And then we have our very incompetent politicians in washington taking everybody in and honestly it's a very sad thing to behold and to watch. Very very very sad. Whoops is there a doctor in the house are you okay? Thank you very much. You okay? You know we have people waiting here for 7 or 8 hours. I love you darling I love you look at hear. She's tougher than all of us. Thank you. Thank you. Look at that guy over there. Wow! Wow! Bring him up! 20:25:36 [BABY IN SUIT BROUGHT ON STAGE TO TRUMP] DT: What's your name? BABY:Nay. DT: Now he is supposed to look like Donald Trump but he's actually much too good looking. You are really handsome. Are you having a good time tonight? BABY: Nigh (baby noise) DT: Where is your daddy and your mommy right? Do you want to go back to them or do you want to stay with Donald Trump? 20:25:24 BABY: Trump [CHEERS ERUPT] DT: Beautiful. What a beautiful boy. What a beautiful boy. Thank you. 20:26:07 I will tell you what folks we better win on November 8th. You know one of these pundits said to me because this is a movement. There's never been anything like this they say. Many of them said, Bill I really ive got a lot of respect for Bill O'reilly tough guy, smart guy. He said it's the single greatest political phenomenon he's seen in his lifetime. That covers a lot of territory and others have said the same thing and they said really it doesn't matter if you win or if you lose really it doesn't matter. Let me tell you a little secret, if we don't win this is the greatest waste of time energy . and money that i will ever do in my life believe me. Believe me. We are not doing this to come in second folks. And if we come in second your second amendment is in trouble because she wants to decimate it. 20:27:13 And we are going to fix by the way, we are going to do something that people haven't done. We are going to fix our inner cities.We are going to help our latino americans and our african americans. We are going to help them. 45% of african american youth lives in poverty. 58% of african american youth don't have jobs. More than 3 thousand people have been shot in the city of chicago since the beginning of the year think of that since January 1st. 3 thousand. That means it's like a war zone. The democrats, like Crooked Hillary Clinton have run the inner cities for 50, 60 70 even a hundred years uninterrupted. They produced only more joblessness, failing schools and rising crime. Those African americans suffering in our country and I have to tell you this, they are suffering. 20:28:25 They are suffering. You got no jobs, inner cities, you got no jobs, you got no safety, you have no education, the schools are horrible. I say to them what the hell do you have to lose i'm going to fix the inner cities. I'm going to fix them. I'm going to fix them. Vote for Trump. We've spent 6 billion, think of this, we spent billions and billions of dollar son different things we don't get our money's worth. But we have spent in the middle east, 5 to 6 trillion dollars. WHAt do we have. It's worst now. Had we done nothing in the middle east it's much better than it is now. You wouldn't have the migration. Look at the mistakes that Hillary Clinton made. 20:29:17 Libya, Iraq, they created ISIS because the way they got out of Iraq whether you liked going into the war or not and despite what you read from these dishonest people I was against going into Iraq by the way but whether you were in or not it was somewhat with the surge stabilized and the announced to the world that they are going to take everybody out real fast get them out get them out get them out. And the vacuum was created. 20:29:44 And guess who came out of the vacuum. Who came out of the vacuum. ISIS . That was Hillary Clinton and our great genius president barack obama ayayayi. And Now all he wants to do is campaign. Remember he said, Donald Trump will never win the Republican primary. Alright so we've won that one, right. Isn't it too bad, isn't it too bad, that we don't have stronger leadership on both sides. On both sides. I mean you know they have people that can't that can't fix the budget but then they start talking about their nominee but they can't fix the budget. Isn't it really sad that we don't have stronger leadership on both sides. But that will change if we win November 8th and believe me it's going to change fast. 20:30:43 But why is it that the president of the US. We've got no growth. You saw G and P you say that. GDP you saw that right. It's so bad, like 1%. That means we are not growing. You know if China goes down to 7 or 8% it's like considered a national tragedy. Here we are hovering at nothing. Our jobs are gone, we have bad jobs, phony employment race. Bad jobs numbers last week did you see those bad jobs numbers? ANd that's the last jobs report before the election I was shocked. I was so surprised that they let that happen. Cuz it's all rigged, it's all rigged but let me just tell you. We are going to do something that is going to be so amazing. I'm going to fight harder than anybody has ever fought for the American people. Harder. 20:31:40 We are going to help the Latinos trapped in poverty. We are going to fight for school choice, we are going to fight to end common core which we will do very quickly and bring education locally. And Hillary Clinton can't do those things because she's totally run by the teachers union which are wonderful people by the way but they have total control so you can't have choice and you can't end common core if you are hillary clinton you can't do it because you are controlled by the teachers just like she is controlled by Wall Street so what we are going to do are things that haven't been done and these things are going to be wonderful. We have a military that is depleted, we have to build up our military we have to we have no choice. 20:32:36 We have to take care of our great veterans we are not taking care of our veterans. We are going to save your second amendment we are going to terminate obamacare and replace it. We are going to have the largest tax cut since Ronald Reagen. Remember this, hers are going up. We are going to do things that are going to make you so proud of this country again. You are going to be so proud. You are going to go to the polls and you are even going to go home tonight and you are going to say to your husband to your wife to your children to whoever listens, I had a great time but you are going to look back in 10 years in 15 or 20 years and you are going to say this was one of the most important nights. More importantly you are going to say on NOvember 8thg the single most important vote you have ever cast 20;33:46 It's going to be cast on November 8th. 20:34:17 [PICKS UP TRUMP DIGS COAL SIGN, HOLDS IT UP] 20:34:33 She wants to put our miners out of business. Not going to happen. Going to be just the-- we are going to have clean coal. We are going to have all forms of energy, we are going to have all forms of energy, we are going to have everything but we are going to take care of our miners we are going to take care of steel workers. We are going to not let the EPA destroy our companies for natural gas and shale and all of these things. Not going to let it happen. 20:35:07 So you're gonna go home and you're gonna say great evening great evening but you're gonna look back at that phone and you're gonna say that was a very important day that was the greatest vote i've ever cast because that's when our country started turning around. that's when our country started turning around. And you're gonna be proud of your country again and hopefully you're gonna be very proud of your president and you're gonna see things happen that have never happened before. We're gonna make great trade deals we're gonna have our strong military and hopefully we're not gonna have to use it but it's called peace through strength (cheers). 20:35:56 ANd we're gonna have our borders back again. And people are gonna come into our country. But they're gonna come in legally they are gonna come in we're gonna have a big beautiful door but they're gonna come in legally through a process and it's not gonna be a process now people are waiting in line for 10 years and then people come right across the border it's unfair we're gonna have a fair process and we want people to come in is that correct? We want people but they have to come in legally. And we're gonna see immediate change and that's what you need. Hillary Clinton is not about change. Hillary Clinton has been doing this stuff for 30 years. (Boos)> ANd I said to her last night I I said to her last night I said u know Hillary u talk about this thing and that thing and oh gee Donald has some great tax deal but all her friends have some great tax deal all her friends I said Hillary if you were a United States Senator why don't you do something about it? SHe's not gonna do something about anything it's all talk and u saw it and i said when she was a senator she said she was gonna do things nothing ever happened and it only got worse that's what is gonna happen with our country folks. 20:37:12 So here is the story. You go out early vote, do whatever you have to do but you go out on November 8th and you vote because so many things we are going to report. Remember this, people don't talk about it. Justice Scalia passed away, great man, great justice. We are going to appoint great people who believe in our constitution to the US supreme court. People that believe in our second amendment to the US supreme court. This election day you have on magnificent chance to deliver justice for every forgotten man woman and child in this country. 20:38:09 You have 29 days can you believe it. This started on june 16th of last year. Coming down the escalator. To make every dream you ever dreamed for your country to come true. On NOvember 8th the arrogance of Washington DC will come face to face with the righteous verdict of the American voter. It's about time. We are going to smash the Washington establishment and open it up to each and every american the way it's supposed to be. Wouldn't it be nice if some of our politicians fought the special interest instead of fighting and and you. 20:39:06 The sad truth is a lot of establishment politicians simply don't believe in protecting our borders or fixing out trade deals or putting america first and we are going to put america first. I am going to fight for every citizen of every background from every stretch of this nation and I am going to fight to bring us all together as Americans. We are a divided country now. Imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working together as one people under one god diluting one american flag. 20:40: 09 You are going to look back at this rally for the rest of your life. You are going to remember this day, this is a movement like you have never seen before and you will never see it again. If it doesn't happen on November 8th it's never going to happen for our country believe me it will never happen again. We are going to make history together. You are going to look back at this election and say this is by far and I say it again and again the most important vote by far that you have ever cast. You are going to vote to make our country safe again. We are going to vote to make our country wealthy again. 20:41:06 We are going to vote on November 8th to make our country great again thank you very much God Bless you I love you. Thank you, thank you. #END# WILKES-BARRE, PA- Highlights: -Adorable moment with toddler impersonator -Warns crowd of voter fraud in urban areas -Digs at Ryan -Comments on Pence statement -Agrees w/ crowd to "Lock Her Up" It was the kind of rally that gives Donald Trump life. A big, rousing rally who roared at his every word and happily chanted "F-k the media." And, in which, there was a baby Trump impersonator. It was an incredible and hilarious moment. A toddler, dressed like Trump, his hair (with a piece added) combed over in Trump's signature style, was passed through the crowd. He reaches the stage and Trump holds him up so the crowd could view.He asked him a few Qs, the toddler seemed to repeat everything he said. 20:25:36 [BABY IN SUIT BROUGHT ON STAGE TO TRUMP] DT: What's your name? BABY:Nay. DT: Now he is supposed to look like Donald Trump but he's actually much too good looking. You are really handsome. Are you having a good time tonight? BABY: Nigh (baby noise) DT: Where is your daddy and your mommy right? Do you want to go back to them or do you want to stay with Donald Trump? 20:25:24 BABY: Trump [CHEERS ERUPT] DT: Beautiful. What a beautiful boy. What a beautiful boy. Thank you. The crowd went WILD. Aside from that, Trump mostly repeated attacks from the first rally, though he did take a shade-filled shot at Paul Ryan. The sentiment was almost exactly what he tweeted earlier, now you have on-cam. 20:30: " Isn't it too bad, that we don't have stronger leadership on both sides. On both sides. I mean you know they have people that can't that can't fix the budget but then they start talking about their nominee but they can't fix the budget. Isn't it really sad that we don't have stronger leadership on both sides. But that will change if we win November 8th and believe me it's going to change fast." Also, for the second time today, he signaled to an almost-all white crowd, that there could be voter fraud in inner cities. Many are decrying this as a major dogwhistle. "Love Philadelphia. I love Philadelphia and I hope we're going to do great in Philadelphia. // I just hear such reports about Philadelphia. And we have to make sure we're protected. WE have to make sure the people of Philadelphia are protected that the vote counts are 100 percent and everybody wants that, but I Hear these horror shows. I hear these horror shows and we have to make sure that this election is not stolen from us and is not taken away from us. 19:57:47 And everybody knows what i'm talking about. And this crooked media, you talk about crooked hillary they're worse than she is." And he praised Mike Pence for being absolutely loyal, first time he's discussed Pence's statement. "Where we have a wonderful wonderful vice presidential nominee Mike Pence great guy a great guy and by the way a totally loyal person this guy he called me up do you mind if I put out a statement? No what would you like to put out? Absolutely put it out Mike. This guy is so loyal so good and such a terrific and his family Karen his wife and family are amazing. It was one of our really good choices do you agree with that?" No mention of Juanita Broaddrick and the other women, but very notably, when the crowd started chanting "Lock Her Up", Trump joined in. 19:48:18 "Wikileaks, I love wikileaks. And I said write a couple of them down. Let's see. During a speech crooked HIllary clinton, oh she's crooked folks. She's crooked as a 3 dollar bill. Okay here's one. Just came out- lock hear up is right ." He hit Clinton again for the revelations of Wikileaks. He also gave a preview of the final campaign days, predicting that Nov.8 would be Brexit. 19:56:13 "What a group we have. So we're gonna do a lot. We're working very hard we have 28 days november 8th is the big day. We're gonna get out. We're gonna win. I'm gonna make. 3,4,5 stops a day. I may be limping across that finish line, but we're gonna get across that finish line." Quote of the Night: "Hillary admitted oh this is a beauty. During one of these secret speeches, amazing how nothing's secret today when you talk about the internet- nothing."

CBS POOL FTG MUHAMMAD ALI MEMORIAL SERVICEH/T JAKE INGRASSIA, PAOLA CONTARDO AND SUNNY CHOO WASH 6 ALI MEMORIAL SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY CBS POOL 15;10:47 Bill Clinton walks in 15;11;45 -- service starts 15;11;49 >> All praises due to the lord god of the world. Now please be seated, ladies and gentlemen. In accordance with Muslim tradition, and consistent with the wishes of Muhammad Ali, may god have mercy on him. We begin this program with a brief recitation from the Koran, the scripture of the muslims. A young Imam of the midtown mosque in Memphis, Tennessee, where he's spearheading a neighborhood renewal effort in one of the most blighted neighborhood in Memphis and that effort is centered around the mosque, one of the few African-American graduates of the university. He will share with us a few verses from the Koran. 15;12;50 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Hamza Abdul Malik. [ Applause ] [ Speaking foreign language ] 15;13;12 [ Speaking foreign language ] [ Speaking foreign language ] 15;17;10 (shot of Ali's wife) >> Now with the translation of those verses we would like to bring to the stage the second generation daughter of Syrian immigrants. She's an excellent student. In her spare time, in recent years, she raises money to provide medical supplies, surgical instruments and other forms of medical assistance for Syrian refugees fleeing from the horror of the current conflict in that land and we pray that almighty god brings it to a succession soon. 15;18;00 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Ia Kutma. [ Applause ] 15;18;14 >> In the name of god, the most gracious, the most merciful, truly those who say our lord is god and our upright the angels will descend upon them saying, have neither fear nor sadness, but rather, rejoice in this paradise that you have been promised. We are your allies in this lower life in the hereafter. Where you will have your heart's desire and you will have whatever you ask for. Hospitably from the one most forgiving, most merciful. Who is more beautiful in speech than the one who invites to god and does righteous works saying, truly, I am submitted to god? For good and evil are not equal. 15;19;13 Repel ugliness with beauty and behold the one between you and whom there was enmity is transformed into a warm friend. But no one arrives at the station without great patience and immense fortune. Through prostration, chapter 41 verses 30 to 35. Thank you. [Applause] 15;19;45 (shot of Ali's daughter) >> I forgot to mention that she is a louisvillean, a proud resident of this city. [Applause] 15:20 15;20;05 >> Oh, god, miss this day of ours, you are our protector. What an excellent protector, an excellent helper. Honorable president Bill William J. Clinton, distinguished guests, viewing audience, on behalf of the Ali family, and the city of Louisville, Kentucky, the home of the people's champ. [Applause] 15;20;50 >> Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali. [Chanting] Ali, Ali. 15;21;00 >> We're dealing with time here, folks. Louisville, Kentucky, admirably led by mayor Greg fisher, I would like to welcome you. Give it up for the mayor. [Applause] >> I would like to welcome you to this memorial service for the people's champ, Muhammad Ali. And this time, we would like to introduce our first speaker. Dr. Reverend Kevin W. Cosby. [Applause] 15;21;50 >> Were it not for time, since Cosby rhymes with Ali, we would we would say, Cosby, Cosby, but time doesn't permit. Reverend Cosby is senior pastor of St. Steven church in Louisville, Kentucky. Due greatly to his dynamic bible teachings his congregation has grown over the long years of his ministry. Reverend Cosby combines passion, wit, and intellect as the foundation of the inspirational ministry that is transformed the lives of thousands of individuals. Reverend Cosby. [Applause] 15;22;39 >> Dr. Reverend Kevin W. Cosby: Thank you. I looked into the dictionary for the word, fidelity. And it had two words. Lonnie Ali. [Applause] 15;22;57 >> In 1967, nine months prior to his assassination and martyrdom, Dr. Martin Luther king, Jr. Was interviewed by merv griffin on "The merv griffin show". Merv griffin asked Dr. King a relevant question. He said, Dr. King, what has been the greatest affect and impact that the civil rights struggle has had on the Negro? Dr. King paused and said, besides the dismantling of barriers that prohibited the Negro from free access, the greatest and most profound effect that the civil rights struggle had was that it infused in the Negro something that the anything Negro needed all along. 15:24:07 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;24;00 And that was a sense of somebodiness. You will never be able to appreciate what Dr. King meant when he said, the negro needed a sense of somebodiness until you understand the 350 years of nobodiness that was infused into the psyche of people of color. Every sacred document in our history, every hallowed institution, conspired to convince the African in America that when god made the African, that god was guilty of creative malfeasance. 15;24;55 All of the documents from the constitution said to the Negro, that you're nobody. The constitution said that we were three-fifths of a person. Decisions by the supreme court, like the dred Scott decision, said to the Negro, to the African, you had no rights that whites were bound to respect. And even Francis Scott key, in his writing of "The star spangled banner" we sang, verse one, but in verse three he celebrates slavery by saying, no refuge can save the harrowing enslaved from the sorrow of night or the death of the grave. Every institution from religion to entertainment, from Amos and Andy to Jane and tarzan, infused in the psyche of the Negro, that he was inferior. 15;26;06 But something happened to the depression generation and the World War II generation of African-Americans. Jackie Robinson picked up his bat and hit a ball and the Brooklyn dodgers win the pennant. Joe Louis dismantles the pride of Aryan supremacy by knocking out max melling in 124 seconds. Jesse Lewis runs at ambulatory speed and wins four gold medals. Rosa parks sits on a bus in 1955 and a young seminary student from Boston university stands up and takes the complex ideas of _____ and dips it chocolate so big mama can understand it. 15;27;02 And then from Louisville. [Cheering] -- Emerged the civil-tongued poet who took the ethos of somebodiness to unheard of heights. Before James brown said, I'm black and I'm proud. Muhammad Ali said I'm black and I'm pretty. [Laughter] 15:27:38 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;27;44 >> Black and pretty was an oxymoron. Blacks did not say pretty. The first black millionaire in this country was not Oprah but madam C.J. Walker who made products in order to help black people escape their Africanity. But Muhammad Ali said I'm proud. I'm pretty. I'm glad of who I am. And when he said that, that infused in Africans a sense of somebodiness. 15;28;25 To extrapolate Muhammad Ali from the times in which he lives is called historic presentism. It is to talk about George Washington and not talk about the American revolution to talk about Abraham Lincoln and not talk about the civil war. It's to talk about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and not talk about the depression and World War II. Our brother, Muhammad Ali, was a product of a difficult time. And he dared to love black people. 15;29;05 At a time when black people had a problem loving themselves. [Applause] He dared. He dared to affirm the beauty of blackness. He dared to affirm the power and the capacity of African-Americans. He dared to love America's most unloved race. And he loved us all, and we loved him because he -- we knew he loved us. He loved us all. Whether you lived in the suburbs or whether you lived in the slums. Whether you lived on the avenue or whether you lived in an alley. Whether you came from the penthouse or whether you lived in the projects. Whether you came from Morehouse or whether you had no house, whether you were high yellow or boot black, Muhammad Ali loved you. Our city is known for two things. It's known for Muhammad Ali, it is known for the Kentucky derby. 15;30;19 We hope you will come back and visit our city. The first Saturday in may, we hope you will place a bet on one of the horses, but if you do, please know the rules. What will happen is the horses start in the starting gate and then the signal will be given think will run in the mud for two minutes. And the winner will then be led to the winner's circle where a right of roses will be placed around the horse's neck. We want you to make a bet but please know the rules. You cannot bet for the horse once it's in the winner's circle. You have to bet for the horse while it's still in the mud. [Applause] 15;31;09 And there are lot of people, a lot of people who will bet and have bet on Muhammad Ali when he was in the winner's circle. But the masses bet on him while he was still in the mud. [Applause] Kareem abdul-jabbar stood with him when he was in the mud, Jim brown stood with him when he was in the mud. Bill Russell stood with him when he was in the mud. Howard cosell stood with him when he was in the mud. 15:31:24 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;31;51 Please don't mishear me. I am not saying that Muhammad Ali is the property of black people. He is the property of all people. [Applause] But while he is the property of all people, let us never forget that he is the product of black people in their struggle to be free. [Applause] I went looking for Jesus on a poor west-end street, looking that I would find him as he walked around with men and women with stumbling feet. People who had their heads bowed low because they were broke and had nowhere to go. But then I went looking for Jesus, way in the sky. Thinking he would wear a robe that would dazzle my eye. When suddenly, Jesus came walking by with stumbling feet because he had been hanging with the poor on a west-end street. [Applause] 15:33:06 (shot of Ali's wife and family) 15;33;10 The Muhammad Ali of my childhood had a shuffle but as he grew older he walked with shuffling feet. And I will submit to you he walked with shuffling feet not because of Parkinson's disease but he walked with shuffling feet because he hanged out with the folk in west Louisville who had shuffling feet. Peace and god bless you. [Applause] 15;33;47 (shot of Ali's wife applauding and family standing up) 15;34;00 >> Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Don't give a teenager a telephone and don't give a preacher a microphone. [ laughter ] 15:34:15 (shot of Ali's wife) >> We'd like to bring Senator Orrin Hatch to the stage, now in this seventh term as Utah's senator, one of Utah's senators, he is the most senior Republican in the senate, author of some of the most far-reaching legislation in recent decades. Senator hatch is a seasoned and distinguished public servant. We're deeply honored by his presence today. [Applause] 15;35;00 >>Senator Orrin Hatch: Reverend, that was really good. It's hard for this poor old senator to have to follow that is all I can say. Well, the head of the first fight was Sonny Liston, and Muhammad Ali stood before a crowded pack of reporters and told the world unapologetically who he was. I'm the greatest. That's what he said. But this simple proclamation all took the history and -- Ali took the history and wrote his own title in the textbooks. He was not Muhammad Ali, the prize fighter. Or even the world champion. He was Muhammad all the greatest. His daughters dismissed this as bragging but Ali wasn't talking trash. He was speaking truth. And he was in the world of boxing, he truly was the greatest. [Applause] 15;36;13 (tight shot of ali's wife) 15;36;18 >> With the cut-throat quickness of a street fighter, and the simple grace of a ballerina, Ali moved with the killings like agility and punched with herculean strength. But to assume that Ali's greatness stems solely from his athletic prowess is to see half the man. Ali was great not only as an extraordinary fighter. He was a committed civil rights leader, an international diplomat, a forceful advocate of religious freedom, and effective emissary of Islam. He was something. He was caring as a father, a husband, a brother, and a friend. Indeed, it is as a personal friend that it witness Ali's greatness for myself.I first met Muhammad Ali 28 years ago. Almost to the day, to this day. 15:37:09 (shot of one of Ali's daughters) 15;37;21 I was in my senate office and an assistant said you have a visitor, and I was really surprised that it was none other than the champion himself. The friendship we developed was puzzling to many people, especially to those who saw only our differences. I might say that where others saw a difference, Ali and I saw kinship. We were both dedicated to our families. And deeply devoted to our faiths. He took Islam, and I to the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints. We were both products of humble backgrounds and hard scrabble youth. Ali grew up poor here in Louisville and I grew up poor in Pittsburgh. True, we were different in some ways but our differences fortified our friendship. 15;38;26 They did not define it. I saw greatness in Ali's ability to look beyond the horizon and our differences. To find common ground. This shared sensibility was the foundation of a rich and meaningful relationship that I will forever treasure. One of my fondest memories of our friendship when Ali joined news the Salt Lake -- going to listen to the Salt Lake Mormon tabernacle choir. I have to say, it was the same Mormon tabernacle choir -- Ali loved music, and he enjoyed the choir's performance, but he seemed most excited to share his own religious beliefs with those who came to hear the Christian hymns. Ali attracted big crowds that day, and as he always did, and he gave everyone autographed pamphlets explaining his Muslim beliefs. 15;39;31 Hundreds of mormons lined up to grab the pamphlets, and of course I took one for myself. I respected his deeply held convictions just as he respected mine. In our relationship it was anchored by our different faiths. Ali was open to goodness. In all of its diverse realities and varieties. On another occasion, I took Ali to primary children's hospital in Salt Lake City. We visited with downtrodden children who perhaps had never smiled a day in their lifetime. Until Ali showed up. Ali held those kids and looked into their eyes. They would grin from ear to ear. These are kids that never smiled. They were so pained. The nurses were astounded. Never before had they seen someone who had connected so immediately and profoundly with these sick children. 15;40;35 Ali had a special way with kids as we all know. He may have been a tough and tenacious man in the ring, but he was a compassionate and tender around those that he loved. 15:40:48 (shot of Ali's wife) Through all of his ferocity as a fighter, Ali was also a peacemaker, a particular radio host in Utah berated me constantly on the air waves. Week after week. One day the host asked if I were arrange for Ali to meet Utah's former middleweight champion, James Fulmer, for a joint interview. Ali agreed. Knowing that the appearance could help me build some good will, but he also was very interested in meeting James(?) as well. It was an unforgettable experience. Here were two champions, face-to-face, reminiscing about some of the best fights the world has ever seen, and I have to say, in the process, Ali claimed that radio host -- well, he charmed the radio host so much on my behalf, gently transforming an unrepentant antagonist into a respectful starring partner. 15;41;52 So dedicated was Ali to our friendship, that he joined me on the campaign trail during several election cycles. He came to Utah year after year to raise funds for a charity benefiting needy women, women in jeopardy, and families in our state. Ali didn't look at life through the binary lens of Republican and Democrat. So common today. He saw worthy causes and shared humanity. And always willingness to put principles ahead of partisanship, he showed us all the path to greatness. And I'll never forget that greatness. Nor will I ever forget him. [Applause] 15;42;47 There there were many faces to Ali's greatness. His abilities as a boxer, his charisma as a public figure, his benevolence as a father and as a friend. All of these made Ali great. But there was something else that made him the greatest. Ali was the greatest because, as a debilitated and unbroken champion for later years he put is to a greatness beyond ourselves, greatness beyond even Ali. He pointed us to the greatness of god. [Applause] 15;43;35 God raised up Ali to be the greatest fighter in the world of all-time. Yet he allowed Ali to wrestle with Parkinson's disease, an inescapable reminder we're all mortal, and that we are all dependent on god's grace. Ali believed this himself. He once told me, god gave me this condition to remind me always that I am human, and that only he is the greatest. [Applause] 15;44;12 Ali was an unsurpassed symbol of our universal dependence on the divine. He was the greatest because he reminded us all who truly is the greatest. God, our creator. I'm eternally grateful for my special bond with this special man, and for my friendship with his beloved wife, who I love dearly. She is one of the great women in this world. [Applause] 15;44;44 (shot of wife) She was dedicated to the very end and I pray that Ali rested peacefully and Ali will rest peacefully the presence of the greatest of all, even our gods. I can bear testimony that I believe in god. I believe that we're here on Earth for a reason. I believe that this Earth life is a time for us to do what is right for god and for our fellow men and women. I don't know that I've ever met anybody who did it any better than my friend, Muhammad Ali. [Applause] >> God bless you. God bless the family. 15;45;37 (shot of wife applauding) 15;45;45 >> Next we would like to welcome Monsignor Father Henry Kriegel to the stage. Father Kriegel has been instrumental -- has been the pastor of St. Patricks parish in Erie, PA. He was ordained in 1970 and named a domestic prebate with the title Monsignor by Pope John Paul II in 1991. His wisdom, scholraship and spiritual guidance is a source of solace and guidance for catholics and members of other faith communities far far beyond his Pennsylvania home. Father Kriegel. 15;46;35 >> Monsignor Father Henry Kriegel: Let us pray. Loving eternal god, as we gather today in prayer, we do so with an abiding sense of gratitude. Our gratitude knows no bounds as we thakn you for the gift of this good and gentle man. Muhammed Ali opened our eyes to the evil of racism, to the absurdity of war. He showed us with incredible patience that a debilitating illness need never diminish joy and love in our lives. He chided our consciences, he awakened in us a deeper sense of the need to respect one another, to set aside racial differences. The legendary fighter of all time in reality taught us to heal, rather than to fight. To embrace, rather than to turn away. To include, rather than to exclude. While proclaiming himself to be the greatest, he showed us that his greatness lied in his love and concern for others. Most particularly the marginalized, the suffering, the helpless, the hopeless. You gift of him has enriched us, has made us better people, has created a more gentle world. We dare not return him to you today without expressing our gratitude for the gift of him. Amen. 15;47;50 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;48;22 >> Next we will hear a few brief remarks from Dr. Timothy Gianotti. Dr. Gianotti is a professor of islamic studies at the university of waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He is equally at home, busying himself with the affairs of the Muslim community as he is sitting in the library and burrowing through books. A true public intellectual. He is the initial and principal islamic adviser to the Ali family. He has been instrumental in assuring that the last days of Muhammad's life, his burial, his bathing, his shrouding, and his burial today, his funeral and burial today, all were in accordance with the strictures of Muslim law. So now I'd like to bring to you the person I affectionately call, brother, doctor, Imam, Timothy Gianotti. [Applause] 15;49;58 >> Dr. Timothy Gianotti: In the name of god who is the loving nurturer of the creation, and the ever compassionate and ever merciful, I'd like to share a prayer today. This is a prayer adapted from a there divisional prayer of the prophet Muhammad. My god's peace and blessings be upon him. But before I do so I would just like to say to the family, to Lonnie, to everyone here, that serving Muhammad Ali has been one of the greatest privileges of my life. 15;50;50 (shot of Ali's wife) Oh, god, you who are the light of the heavens and the Earth, grant our brother Muhammad a light in his heart. A light in his earthly body, now restored to the Earth. A light in his grave. A light before him as he journeys on to you. A light in all that he has left behind in this world. A light to his right, and the lights to his left. Oh, god, increase him inlight. Grant him light. A light in his deeds in this world and a light in the hereafter. A light in the hearts of those whom he loved. And a light in the eyes of those who loved him. 15;52;05 A light in those whom he knocked down. And a light in those whom he lifted up. A light in his words which echo in our hearts. A light in the lives of all those whom he touched. A light in his children and a light in their mothers. 15:52:40 (shot of one of Ali's daughters) A light in his grandchildren. And a light in his devoted wife, Lonnie. Oh, lord, increase your servants in light. And give him light. And embrace him in light. And fill us all with light .[ Foreign foreign ] 15;53;10 >> You who are the light odd Earth, you who are the most merciful of all those who show mercy. [Applause] 15;53;38 >> Next we'll hear a few words from rabbi Michael Lerner. Rabbi Lerner is the editor of a magazine, as the magazine's name suggests, rabbi Lerner has dedicated his life to working, to heal and repair the world. Rabbi Lerner is never afraid of ruffling a few feathers so we asked him to be nice today. Rabbi Lerner. [Applause] 15;54;23 >>Rabbi Michael Lerner: We'll see about the feathers. [Foreign chanting] >> Master of compassion, god of compassion, send your blessings to Muhammad Ali and send your blessings to all who mourn for him, and send your blessings for all the millions and millions of people who mourn for him all over this planet. I come here speaking as representative of American Jews, and to say that American Jews played an important role of solidarity with the African-American struggles in this country, and that we today stand in solidarity with islamic communities in this country and all around the world. [Applause] 15;55;23 We will not tolerate politicians or anyone else putting down a Muslim and blaming muslims for a few people. [Cheers and applause] 15;55;40 (shot of Ali's wife and family standing up and clapping) (shot of Bill Clinton clapping) 15;55;50 We know what it's like to be demeaned. We know what it's like to have some -- a few people who act against the highest visions of our tradition, to then be identified as the value of the entire tradition. And one of the reasons that we in (?) magazine, a magazine of liberal and Progressive jews but also an interfaith magazine, have called upon the United States to stand up to the part of the Israeli government that is suppressing Palestinians, is that we as Jews understand that our commitment is to recognize that god has created everyone in god's image, and that everyone is equally precious. 15;56;33 And that means that Palestinian people as well as all other people on the planet. [Applause] I know the people of Louisville have a special relationship to Muhammad Ali, and I had a personal relationship in the '60s when both of us were indicted by the federal government and before our various stands against the war in Vietnam. I want to say that although he was cheered on as the heavyweight champion of the world, you know the truth is that in all the honor to him, that heavyweight champions of the world come and go, and sports heroes come and go. There was something about Muhammad Ali that was different. 15;57;24 At the key moment when he had that recognition, he used it -- to stand up to an immoral war and say, no, I won't go! [ Applause ] And it's for that reason that tens and millions of Americans who don't particularly care about boxing care about Muhammad Ali because he was a person who was willing to risk a great honor that he got and a great fame that he got to stand up for the beliefs that he had, to think truth to power when the rest of the people around him said, no, no, you're going to lose your championship and it was taken away from him for five years. But he stood up and was willing to take that kind of a risk because of that kind of moral integrity. [ Applause ] 15;58;22 So I want so say, how do we honor Muhammad Ali? The way to honor Muhammad Ali is to be Muhammad Ali today. That means us, everyone here and everyone listening, it's up to us to continue that ability to speak truth to power. We must speak out, refuse to follow the path of conformity to the rules of the game in life. We must refuse to follow the path of conformity. Tell the 1% who own 80% of the wealth of this country that it's time to share that wealth. Tell the politicians who use violence worldwide and then preach nonviolence to the oppressed, that it's time to end their drone warfare and every other form of warfare, to close our bases around the world, bring the troops home, tell those who committed mass incarceration that it's time to create a guaranteed income for everyone in our society. [ Applause ] 15;59;34 Tell judges to let out of prison the many African-Americans swept up by racist police and imprisoned by racist judges. [ Applause ] Many are in prison today for offenses like possessing marijuana that white people get away with all the time! [ Applause ] Tell our elected officials to imprison those who authorize torture and those who ran the big investment companies that caused the economic collapse of 2008. Tell the leaders of Turkey to stop killing the kurds. Tell Israeli prime minister Netanyahu that the way to get security is for Israel is to stop the occupation of the west bank and help create a Palestinian state. [ Applause ] 16;00;37 Tell the next president of the United States that -- tell the next president of the united States that she --- (shot of bill clinton smiling) Tell the next president of the united States that she should seek a constitutional amendment to make all national and state elects funds by congress and the state legislator and all other money be banned, all other money from companies companies and individuals and make it all public funding. 16;01;30 >> Tell her that the way to achieve homeland security is not for us to try new ways of domination, the strategy of domination in the world of the other to get security has been tried for the last ten thousand years and doesn't work. The way to get security is for the United States to become known as the most generous and caring country in the world, not the most powerful. [Applause] 16;02;00 We can start with a global and domestic plan to once and for all ended global and domestic poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education, inadequate health care. So, I want to, as chair of the interfaith network of spiritual Progressives -- by the way, spiritual progressives.org come and join us -- I want to affirm our commitment to the well-being of all muslims on the planet as well as the people of all faiths and secular humanists as well. We wish to pay honor to muslims of the world as the continue today the fast of Ramadan, and join with them in mourning the loss and celebrating the life of Muhammad Ali, a great -- peace be upon him, peace be upon the prophet now ham -- Muhammad and peace on humanity and peace on all of us, amen. [Cheers and applause] 16;03;20 [Chanting] Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali. Ali. >> Time, time, time is not on our side. After that speech, I have to edit my initial remarks, honorable first man William J. Clinton. Chief Sidney hill in 2002, Sidney Hill was selected as Tadodaho, or principal spiritual leader of its people a true friend of the earth and beloved to all who know him, he is a leader whose spirituality is coupled with a passionate pursuit of justice. We are honored that he has come here today to share a few words and a few thoughts with us. Chief Hill. [ Applause ] 16;04;44 >>Chief Sidney hill: [ Speaking only in foreign language ] 16;06;16 >>This is chairman Stevens with us, United Nation from our alliance (?) Nation. Translation: he said, my relatives, it is my responsibility to pick up the words for (?) the people of the longhouse. They wish you well. They want you to be at peace of mind. Now this great darkness that has happened to us, you must understand that you who have gathered us here, that his road is straight. Peacefully, he will arrive at his land. [foreign language] Our creator. It is the same as you call him, Allah. 16;07;30 These were the words. He took the family, your relatives and friends of Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali was the leader among men. And a champion of the people. He fought for the people of color, yet he was man of peace and principle. A man of compassion, who used his great gifts for the common good. The spirit has a clear path to the creator. 16;08;27 To the spiritual leader, six nation iroquois confederation. And myself, faithkeeper, turtle clan, under the council of chiefs, have journeyed here today to add our voice to this congregation of world leaders, in honor of his work, and for the right and dignity of people of color and the common man. [Applause] 16;09;15 He was always in support of the indigenous people of this hemisphere in our quest for our inherent land rights, self-determination, identity, and collective right that include the natural world. We know what he was up against. Because we have had 524 years of survival training ourselves. [Applause] 16;09;50 (shot of Ali's wife clapping) In 1978, a congressman from the state of Washington put a bill into congress to terminate our treaties with the United States. An Indian nations walked from California to Washington, DC, in protest. Muhammad Ali marched into Washington, DC with us. [Applause] 16;10;31 (shot of one of Ali's daughters) 16;10;38 He was a free, independent spirit. He stood his ground with great courage and conviction. And he paid a price. And this country did, too. And we all did. Values and principles will determine one's destiny. And the principles of a nation will do the same. Poor people do not have many options. You fighters know what I'm talking about. He said that ring was Ali's path to his destiny. He said he would be heavyweight champion of the world, and he was. Three times. This is the fourth time, right here, right now. [Applause] 16;11;55 On his journey in life, he lived and learned the hard way. He brought a light into this world. My world. Our world. And that light will shine a long, long time. [ Applause ] Peace, brother. Peace. And on behalf of my friend Ernie and the indigenous people everywhere, peace. Thank you. [Applause] 16;12;58 >> We introduce chief hill, and his words were translated by Chief Oren Lyons who was born into a traditional indigenous family, and grew up on the native reservations of upstate New York. In 1970 he became the chief and faithkeeper of the turtle clan of the onondaga nation. His scholarship, stewardship and leadership is a source of benefit and great blessing for all who know him. Now he want to introduce Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport, Rabbi Rapport is senior rabbi here of the temple here in Louisville where he has been a leader in interfaith work. He has the passion for teaching youth, and in fact it is his work with youth that let him to cross paths with Muhammad Ali. His religious leadership focuses on compassion, care, and working together was all to build a better world. Rabbi Rapport. [Applause] 16;14;24 >>Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport: This is a reading from our memorial prayer on yom kippur. Our day of atonement. Our most sacred day of the year. It was written men decades ago by rabbi Fein, civil rights leader who could never have known when he composed these words he was writing a eulogy for Muhammad Ali. 16;14;49 Birth is a beginning. And death a destination. And life is a journey, from childhood to maturity, and youth to age. From innocence to awareness, and ignorance to knowing. From foolishness to discretion. And then perhaps to wisdom. From weakness to strength, and strength to weakness. And often back again. From health to sickness, and back we pray to health again. From offense to forgiveness. From loneliness to love. From joy to gratitude. And pain to compassion, from grief to understanding. From fear to faith. From defeat to defeat to defeat, until looking backward or ahead we see that victory lies not at some high place along the way, but in having made the journey, stage by stage, a sacred pilgrimage. 16;15;50 Birth is a beginning. And death, a destination. And life is a journey. The sacred pilgrimage to life everlasting. We say words of prayer and they remain words, until we encounter a person who embodies these words and makes them real. I've said these words many times before. At funerals and memorial services. But never have I felt them come to life and speak of a single shining soul as I do today. Muhammad Ali was the heart of this city. The living, breathing, embodiment of the greatest that we can be. 16;16;33 (shot of Ali's wife) He was our heart, and that heart beats here still. [Applause] 16;16;47 Let me tell you a story you already know. It's one of those stories about Ali being gracious to a stranger that so many of us have told, so many times, and in so many we we sometimes forget the lessons these stories were intended to teach us. It's a story Honna tells about her father towards the end of their book, the soul of the butterfly. Honna's driving her father to a book store on one Sunday to pick up some bibles and korans for a project that he's working on. They pass an elderly man standing by the road with a bible in one hand and his thumb in the air with the other. They offer him a ride. And he thanks them, saying that he is on his way home from church. He only needs to go a few miles down the street where he can pick up a cab. Hanna asked where he lives help doesn't want to trouble them. He has no idea who is sitting in the front seat of the car. 16;17;48 Until Muhammad Ali turns around and says, it's no trouble at all. We're just on our way to a bookstore to by some bibles and korans. Once the man gets over meeting the greatest of all-time, he insists that he has three bibles in his house, and he would be pleased to give them to Ali in appreciation for the ride. Ali thanks him but says, he wants to pay for the bibles. The man says, no, the bibles were meant as a gift. Ali asked him what he does for a living. And it turns out the man had a stroke and has been forced into retirement. Ali then tries to hand him a big pile of money for the bibles. But the man refuses and this is where things get interesting. 16;18;37 Ali says, take the money, man, I'm trying to get into heaven.(laughter) 16;18;44 (shot of Ali's wife) And the man replied. So am I. Ali is not taking no for an answer. He says, if you don't take the money I might not get in. And the man replies, if I do take your money I might not get in. They arrive at his home, and the map invites him tomeet his wife of 30 years. He gives Ali the bibles. Ali slips the money under a napkin on the kitchen table. They're about to leave and Hannah gives the man her phone number and tells him to call him -- to call her if her needs a ride home from church again. Sitting in the car, Ali turns to his daughter and asks. Would you really go out of your way and pick him up and drive him home? And she says, yes. And with tears in his eyes, he says, that's me in you. [Applause] 16;19;52 (shot of Ali's wife holding back tears) 16;20;04 He says, you're on the road to heaven. Therein lies ally's greatness his ability to see something greater and his ability to inspire others to see such greatness' within themselves. There will never be another greatest like Muhammad Ali. But we together can now embody a measure of his kindness, and his compassion. We can say each of us in our hearts there's a little bit of Ali in me. [Applause] This week, we have mourned the loss and celebrated the life of a Louisville legend and a citizen of the world. And of all the words and all the ways, the most powerful moments have always been made in the voices of young people, repeated in prayer services, and chanted in the streets. I am Ali. I am Ali. I am not the fighter that Ali was. And I may not have the courage which he never lacked. And I am definitely not as pretty. (laughter) But in my heart, and in my hope, and in my prayers I am Muhammad Ali. [Applause] 16;21;36 >> When he say that in our hearts, when we live that in our lives, then we together can build a legacy worthy of the greatest of all-time. So say that now with me. In your heart, and in this room, I am Ali. I am Ali. [Applause] >> You know, one of the amazing things that we've witnessed during our time here in Louisville has been just so many stories of common, ordinary people. There's folks on the street, working in the hotels, the restaurants, virtually everyone has a story concerning how Muhammad Ali touched their lives. He came to my fourth grade class. He helped me out in this or that way. He came to visit me when I was sick. Just on and on and on. And collectively, those experiences, they become sinner ginnic, they become greater than the individual parts. And when we rose through the streets of the city today, I've witnessed something I've never, ever witnessed in my life. [ Applause ] 16;23;10 And I don't think I will ever witness again. I witnessed the power. In our muslim tradition we call it (foreign language) it might be loosely translated as sainthood, I witnessed the power of sainthood. [ applause] Venerable Utsumi is a member of the (foreign language) a Japanese Buddhist order dedicated to working for world peace through the practice of walking peace pilgrimages anti-nuclear weapon pilgrimages and the construction of peace pagodas all over the globe, he will be joined onstage by Sister Denise another member of the order and together they will share a traditional chant with us. 16;24;40 [Buddhist chants] 16:28:25 [Buddhist chants] 16;29;20 Now we will listen to a reading by , Ambassador Shabazz. Ambassador Shabazz is the oldest of six daughters born to el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (?) and Doctor Betty Shabazz. [applause] She probably shares that she is inspired by her parents, their parents, and those before them through the descending generations. The former prime minister of Belize recognized her as a key Ambassador in international cultural affairs and project development and in 2002 appointed her as ambassador at large, powerful and elegant we invite Ambassador Shabazz to read and share and inspire us. [ Applause ] 16:30;44 >>Ambassador Shabazz: Assalamu alaikum. May peace be upon us. All of us. As this is a homegoing celebration I find myself balanced between that of celebration and depletion, loss, that somehow or another, my breathing capacity has been weakened this past week so I ask all of you gathered and afar to please muster up and transmit a bit of your air to me in the memory of Muhammad Ali, thank you all. [ Speaking in foreign language ] WASH 6 ALI MEMORIAL SEVICE LOUISVILLE KY CBS POOL P2 16;31;44 And more as the globe centers at this very moment amidst the holy month of Ramadan where every two hours there's a time zone praying, and including Muhammad Ali and his family in your thoughts. Amidst that are the prayers of all faiths, all those touched, even those that don't claim a religion are feeling something right now in honor of the family and the memory of their father, husband. In the spirit of my parents, Malcolm X Shabazz and Dr. Shabazz, in the presence of my five younger sisters, our children and our grandchildren I would like to first honor his beloved wife, my sister, Lonnie Ali. [ Applause ] 16;32;53 (shot of Ali's wife) 16;32;59 For all the strengths that you know and that resonate beyond. Sometimes you do need a little help no matter how magnificent you are and indeed those that were with him, that loved him, his family members sustain that. His nine children, and I will name them, Maryam, rasheda, Muhammad Jr., Hana, Laila, asaad, Miya, khaliah as well as thier mothers, and the third generation of grandchildren who accompany them. [ Applause ] 16;33;47 (shot of Ali's wife) To his only brother, to his extraordinary example of a best friend, Howard Bingham and to his sister-in-law Marilyn. For all the grief that I am depleted by and others are feeling by his transition, there is none comparable to yours and I know that. On this day and those to come, as you live your waking days with a life without him here presently, very different. 16;34;37 (shot of Ali's wife) Photos, memories, all the things that we have on him that keep him going. He touched you differently and that has to be honored and recognized, never forsaken. [ Applause ] Just know that when you are the descendent of and in the presence of someone whose life was filled with principle, that the seed is in you so that you have to cultivate that responsibly as well. [ Applause ] This moment is very meaningful for me to have been amongst those chosen and blessed by Muhammad himself and affirmed by his wife Lonnie to take part by sharing a prose and a statement during this homegoing ceremony. While he and I had a treasured relationship, the genesis of his love was through the love for my father. Muhammad Ali was the last of a fraternity of amazing men bequeathed to me directly by my dad. 16;35;57 Somewhere between me turning 18, 19 or 20, they all seemed to find me somehow guided by an oath of a promise to my dad long after him leaving this Earth to search for me, and they did. Each one remaining in my life until joining the rest of the heavens beloved summit of fearless humanitarians. This included Muhammad Ali whom my dad loved as a little brother, 16 years his junior and his entrusted friend. There was a double-take when I came upon him, a once childhood per child and now looking right into his face, and you know how he is. He gives you that little dare like, is that you? [ imitates ] From the very moment we found one another, it was as if no time has passed as all despite all of the presumptions of division, despite all of the efforts at separation, despite all of the organized distancing. We dove right into all of the unrequited yet stated and duly acknowledged spaces we could explore and uncover privately. 16;37;18 We cried out loud. His belt, his grief for having not spoken to my dad before he left and then just as loudly we'd laugh about the best of stories, and some that can't be repeated. He was really funny. What was significant as brothers for my father and Ali was their ability to discuss openly anything, all facets of life, namely, the true meaning, as men with great responsibilities be bestowed to them of how to make an equitable difference in the lives of others. A unifying topic was faith and ecumenical faith, respect for faith, all faiths, even if belonging to one specific religion or none, the root of such being the gift of faith itself so in his own words he wrote, "We all have the same God. We just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans, all have different names but they all contain water. So do religions have different names and yet they all contain truth. Truth expressed in different ways and forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian or a Jew. When you believe in god, you should believe all people are part of one family. [ Applause ] 16;39;11 For if you love god, you can't love only some of his children. [ Applause ] His words and certainly ideals shared by both men, love is a mighty thing, devotion is a mighty thing and truth always reigns. Having Muhammad Ali in my life somehow sustained my dad's breath for me a little while longer. 51 years longer until now. (WEEPING) [Applause] I am forever grateful at our union on this Earth together allowed for me a continuum of shared understanding, preserved confidentialities and the comfort of living in his home town of Louisville Kentucky for the past six years. [ Applause ] 16;40;26 That was not a plan. And mostly for the gift of knowing and loving his wife and children forever forward as my own family, know that. As the last of the paternity reaches the heavens, my heart is rendered ever longingly for that tribe. The tribe of purpose, the tribe of significance, tribe of confidence, tribe of character, tribe of duty, tribe of faith, tribe of service. We must make sure that the principle of men and women, like Muhammad Ali and others, whom dedicated their very being to assure that you get to recognize your own glory, is sustained and passed on like that olympic torch. My dad would offer in state when concluding or parting from another, may we meet again in the light of understanding and I say to you with the light of that compass by any means necessary. 16;42;09 >> Ladies and gentlemen, representing the president of the United States and Mrs. Obama, miss Valerie Jarrett. [ Applause ] 16;42;24 >>Valerie Jarrett: Good afternoon. On behalf of president Obama and Mrs. Obama, I wish to express to you their deepest regret that they couldn't be with us here today as we celebrate the extraordinary life of Muhammad Ali. I first met Muhammad Ali over 45 years ago through his friendship with my uncle Jean and he, my uncle, would be so touched that his son gene is a pallbearer here today. Thank you, Lonnie. Because of my family connection, the president and first lady asked me if I would read this tribute to you, penned by president Obama. 16;43;15 It was 1980, an epic career was in its twilight. Everybody knew it. Probably including the champ himself. Ali went into one of his final fights an underdog. All of the smart money was on the new champ, Larry Holmes. And in the end, the oddsmakers were right. A few hours later, at 4 A.M., after the loss, after the fans had gone home and the sports writers were writing their final take, a sports writer asked a restroom attendant if he had bet on the fight. The man, black and getting on in years, said he had put his money on Ali. 16;44;05 The writer asked why. Why, the man said? Why? Because he's Muhammad Ali. That's why. He said, mister, I'm 72 years old and I owe the man for giving me my dignity. [ Applause ] To Lonnie and the Ali family, president Clinton and an arena full of distinguished guests, you are amazing. The man we celebrate today is not just a boxer or a poet or an agitator or a man of peace, not just a Muslim or a black man or a Louisville kid. He wasn't even just the greatest of all time. He was Muhammad Ali.The whole far greater than the sum of its parts. He was bigger, brighter and more original and influential than just about anyone of his era. [ Applause ] 16;45;30 You couldn't have made him up and, yes, he was pretty, too. He had fans in every city, every village, every ghetto on the planet. He was fettered by foreign heads of state, the beatles, British invasion took a detour to come to him. It seemed sometimes that the champ was simply too big for America. But I actually think that the world flocked to him in wonder precisely because, as he once put it, Muhammad Ali was America! Brash, defiant, pioneering, joyful, never tired, always game to test the odds. He was our most basic freedoms, religion, speech, spirit. 16;46;31 He embodied our ability to invent ourselves. His life spoke to our original sin of slavery and discrimination and the journey he traveled helped to shock our consciousness and lead us on a roundabout path towards salvation. And like America, he was always very much a work in progress. We do him a disservice to gauze up his story to sand down his rough edges to talk only of floating like butterflies and stinging like bees. Ali was a radical even in a radical of times. A loud and proud and unabashedly black voice in a Jim crow world. [ Applause ] 16;47;24 His jabs knocked some sense into us, yes, they did. Pushing us to expand our imagination and bring others into our understanding. Now, there were times when he swung a bit wildly. That's right. Wound up and accidently may have wronged the wrong opponent as he was the first to admit. But through all his triumphs and failures, Ali seemed to have achieved the sort of enlightenment and inner peace that we are all striving towards. In the '60s when other young men his age were leaving the country to avoid war or jail, he was asked why he didn't join them. He got angry. He said he'd never leave. His people, in his words, are here, the millions struggling for freedom and justice and equality and I could do a lot of help in jail or not right here in America. [ Applause ] 16;48;34 He'd have everything stripped from him, his titles, his standing, his money, his passion. Very nearly his freedom. But Ali still chose America. I imagine he knew that only here in this country could he win it all back. So he chose to help perfect a union where a descendent of slaves can become the king of the world. And in the process, in the process, lend some dignity to all of us. Maids, porters, students and elderly bathroom attendant and help inspire a young, mixed kid with a funny name to have the audacity to believe he could be anything, even the president of the United States! [ Applause ] 16;49;35 (shot of Ali's wife) Muhammad Ali was America. Muhammad Ali will always be America. What a man. What a spirit. What a joyous mightyful champion. God bless the greatness of Ali. God bless his family. And god bless this nation we love. Thank you very much. 16;50;28 ANNOUNCER VOICE: Ladies and gentlemen, Lonnie Ali. [ Applause ] >> Ali! Ali! Ali! 16;51;05 LONNIE ALI >> Assalamu alaikum. Peace be upon you. You know, I said something to Matt Lauer yesterday that I firmly believe Muhammad had something to do with all of this and I think we are right. Thank you all for being here to share in this final farewell to Muhammad. On behalf of the Ali family, let me first recognize our principal celebrant Imam _____ and Dr. Timothy Gianotti. We thank you for your dedication to helping us fulfill Muhammad's desire that the ceremonies of this past week reflect the traditions of his islamic faith. And as a family, we thank the millions of people who, through the miracle of social media, inspired by their love of Muhammad have reached out to us with their prayers. The messages have come to us in every language from every corner of the globe. From wherever you are watching, know that we have been humbled by your heartfelt expressions of love. It is only fitting that we gather in a city to which Muhammad always returned after his great triumphs. A city that has grown as Muhammad has grown. [ Applause ] 16;52;37 Muhammad never stopped loving Louisville. And we know that Louisville loves Muhammad. [Applause] We cannot forget a Louisville police officer, Joe Espy(?) Martin, who embraced a young 12-year-old boy in distress when his bicycle was stolen. Joe Martin handed young Cassius Clay -- sorry for tripping up that last word -- Clay, to a future in boxing he could scarcely have imagined. America must never forget that when a cop and an inner city kid talk to each other, then miracles can happen. [ Applause ] 16;53;49 Some years ago during his long struggle with Parkinson's in a meeting that included his closest advisors, Muhammad indicated when the end came for him, he wanted us to use his life and his death as a teaching moment for young people for his country and for the world. In effect, he wanted us to remind people who are suffering that he had seen the face of injustice, that he grew up in a segregation and that during his early life, he was not free to be who he wanted to be. But he never became embittered enough to quit or engage in violence. It was a time when a young black boy his age could be hung from a tree in Mississippi in 1955 whose admitted killers went free. 16;54;50 It was time when Muhammad's friends, people he admired, like Brother Malcolm and Dr. King were gunned down, and Nelson Mandela imprisoned for what they believed in. [ Applause ] For his part, Muhammad faced federal prosecution. He was stripped of his title and his license to box and he was sentenced to prison. But he would not be intimidated so as to abandon his principles and his values. 4:55-Lonnie emotional, almost cries 16;55;29 Muhammad wants young people of every background to see his life as proof that adversity can make you stronger. It cannot rob you of the power to dream and to reach your dreams. We built the Muhammad Ali center and that's the center of the Ali message. [ Applause ] Muhammad wants us to see the face of his religion, true Islam, as the face of love. It was his religion that caused him to turn away from war and violence, for his religion he was prepared to sacrifice all that he had and all that he was to protect his soul and follow the teachings of prophet Muhammad peace be upon you. 16;56;25 So even in death, Muhammad has something to say. He's saying that his faith required that he take the more difficult road. It is far more difficult to sacrifice oneself in the name of peace than to take up arms in pursuit of violence. [ Applause ] You know, all of his life, Muhammad was fascinated by travel. He was child-like in his encounter with new surroundings and new people. He took his world championship fights to the ends of the Earth, from the south pacific to Europe to the Congo. And, of course, with Muhammad, he believed it was his duty to let everyone see him in person because, after all, he was the greatest of all time. [ Applause ] The boy from grand avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, grew in wisdom and discovered something new, that the world really wasn't black and white at all. It was filled with many shades of rich colors, languages and religions. As he moved with ease around the world, the rich and powerful were drawn to him but he was drawn to the poor and the forgotten. [ Applause ] 16;57;53 Muhammad fell in love with the masses and they fell in love with him. In the diversity of men and their faiths, Muhammad saw the presence of god. He was captivated by the work of the dalai lama, by mother Teresa and church workers who gave their lives to protect the poor. When his mother died, he arranged for multiple faiths to be represented at her funeral and he wanted the same for himself. We are especially grateful for the presence of the diverse faith leaders here today. And I would like to ask them to stand once more and be recognized. [ Applause ] 16;58;35 Thank you. Thank you very much. You know, as I reflect on the life of my husband, it's easy to see his most obvious talents. His majesty in the ring as he danced under those lights, enshrined him as a champion for the ages. Less obvious was his extraordinary sense of timing. His knack for being in the right place at the right time seemed to be ordained by a higher power. Even those surrounded by Jim Crow, he was born into a family with two parents that nurtured and encouraged him. He was placed on the path of his dreams by a white cop and he had teachers who understood his dreams and wanted him to succeed. The olympic gold medal came and the world started to take notice. A group of successful businessmen in Louisville called the Louisville Sponsoring Group saw his potential, and helped him build a runway to launch his career. His timing was impeccable as he burst into the national stage just as television was hungry for a star to change the faith of sports. 17;00;02 You know, if Muhammad didn't like the rules, he rewrote them. His religion, his name, his beliefs were his to fashion, no matter what the cost. The timing of his actions coincided with a broader shift in cultural attitudes across America, particularly on college campuses. When he challenged the U.S. Government on the draft, his chance of success was slim to none. That the timing of his decision converged with a rising tide of discontent on the war. Public opinion shifted in his direction followed by a unanimous supreme court ruling in a stunning reversal of fortunes. He was free to return to the ring. When he traveled to central Africa to reclaim his title from George Foreman, none of the sports writers thought he could win. In fact, most of them feared for his life. But in what the Africans call the miracle at 4:00 A.M., he became a champion once more. [ Applause ] And as the years passed and those slowed by Parkinson's, Muhammad was compelled by his faith to use his name and his notoriety to support the victims of poverty and strife. He served as a UN messenger of peace and traveled to places like war-torn Afghanistan, he campaigned as an advocate for reducing the debt of third world debt. 17;01;42 He stunned the world when he secured the release of 15 hostages from Iraq. [ applause ] As his voice grew softer, his message took on greater meeting. He came full circle with the people of his country. When he lit a torch that seemed to create new light in the 1996 Olympics. [ Applause ] Muhammad always knew instinctively the road he needed to travel. His friends know what I mean when I say he lived in the moment. He neither dwelled in the past nor harbored anxiety about the future. Muhammad loved to laugh and he loved to play practical jokes on just about everybody. He was sure-footed in his self-awareness, secure in his faith and he did not fear death. Yet, his timing is once again poignant. His passing and his meaning for our time should not be overlooked. As we face uncertainty in a world and divisions at home, as to who we are as a people, Muhammad's life provides useful guidance. 17;02;58 Muhammad was not one to give up on the power of understanding, the boundless possibilities of love and the strength of our diversity. He counted among his friends people of all political persuasions, saw truth in all faith and the nobility of all races as witnessed here today. Muhammad may have challenged his government but he never ran from it or from America. [ Applause ] He loved this country and he understood the hard choices that are born of freedom. I think he saw a nation's soul measured by the soul of its people. For his part, he saw the good soul in everyone and if you were one of the lucky ones to have met him, you know what I meant. He awoke every morning thinking about his own salvation and he would often say, I just want to get to heaven and I've got to do a lot of good deeds to get there. And I think Muhammad's hope is that his life provides some guidance on how we might achieve for all people what we aspire for ourselves and our families. Thank you. [ Applause ] 17;04;38 ANNOUNCER>> Ladies and gentlemen, Maryam Ali. 17;04;50 MARYAM ALI >> Peace be with you, everyone here, and on behalf of the Ali family, I just want to say thank you to Louisville, Kentucky, all the love you've shown us in our lives has been unbelievable. Also, I want to thank the entire globe. My father was loved all over. The processional today was overwhelming but it was so beautiful. I just want to say we love you just like you love us. Thank you very much. [ Applause ] 17;05;23 As you know, my father loved poetry. He was always rhyming and promoting his fights and he had poems of the heart, spiritual poems and poems to promote and I just wrote a piece for him, in honor of him on behalf of my sisters and brothers and everyone who loved my father. It's called "Thank you our dear father." My heart was sore when your sick spirit soared. Your physical body is no more but my mind tells different tales of all that you taught me, your family and the masses. 17;06;02 Most importantly, the belief in god who created humanity to thrive in quality. You fought for a purpose to uphold the principle that we as a people have divine human rights. Staring right into the eyes of oppression, you proclaim your beautiful complexion. Your god-given skills, your independent will and the freedom of your faith. As your daughter, I am grateful for all of our conversations about men, women and relationships. Guiding me to first have a loving relationship with self, refusing anyone to chip away at my esteem and expect the respect of a queen. [ Applause ] Thank you, our dear father, for asking us to think about our purpose and showing us the beauty of service to others. We marvel that your sincere love for people as you treated all who approached you with dignity. Whether they were rich or poor, your kindness was unconditional. Never perceiving anyone as beneath you. 17;07;25 So many have shared personal stories about what you have meant to them as you have exemplified values and qualities that have enhanced their lives. If I had every dollar for every story, I could pay for the sky. Your family is so proud of the legacy you left behind. But I hope that the history of you can help turn the tide of self-hate and violence, because we are overwhelmed with moments of silence for tragic deaths. Here on the soil, American soil, in the Middle East or anywhere else in this world, we crave for peace. That peace that you rest in now. We will forever cherish the 74 years you graced this Earth. You will be greatly missed. But now we send you off in celebration, a blown kiss and prayers. As you enter your final round. God's last boxing bell will sound in heaven. I love you, we all love you. Thank you very much. 17;09;02 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Rasheda Ali Walsh. 17;09;20 RASHEDA ALI >> I'm, we are so honored that you have packed this room with your love. Thank you all. Thank you so much for being here today. To celebrate our father. You are the greatest father to us. And it was God's will to take you home. Your family will try our best to make you proud, and carry on your legacy of giving and love. You have inspired us in the world to be the best version of ourselves. May you live in paradise, free from suffering. You shook up the world in life. Now you're shaking up the world in death. 17;10;23 (shot of Ali's wife holding back tears) Daddy is looking at us now, right and saying, I told you I was the greatest! No one compares to you, daddy. You once said I know where I'm going. And I know the truth. And I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be who I am. Now you are free to be with your creator. We love you so much, daddy. Until we meet again, fly, butterfly, fly. [ Applause ] 17;11;45 ALI DINICOLA Hello. My name is Ali DiNicola. I was born on Muhammad Ali's birthday, I was named after him. He used to call me the little greatest. We can all learn from Muhammad's example of kindness and understanding. When Muhammad was asked how he would like to be remembered, he said I like to, I like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, one teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness, he took one court of laughter, one pinch of concern and then he mixed willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith and he stirred it up well. He spread it over a span of a lifetime. And he served it to each and every deserving person he met. Thank you. 17;12;56 ANNOUNCER>>> Ladies and gentlemen, Natasha boncouer. Natasha boncouer: Before I begin, I would just like to say that I'm truly humbled and honored to be here. And I would like to thank the Muhammad Ali center and the Ali family for giving me the opportunity to speak. And to echo the voice that Muhammad has given me. So let me tell you a story about a man. A man who refused to believe that reality was limitation to achieve the impossible. A man who once reached up through the pages of a textbook and touched the heart of an 8-year-old girl. Whose reflection of herself mirrored those who cannot see past the color of her skin. But instead of drawing on that pain from the distorted reality, she found strength. Just as this man did when he stood tall in the face of pelting rain and shouted -- I am the disturbance in the sea of your complacency. And I will never stop shaking your waves. 17;14;30 And his voice echoed through hers. Through mine. And she picked up the rocks that were thrown at her and she threw them back with a voice so powerful that it turned all the pain that she had faced in her life into strength. And tenacity. And now that 8-year-old girl stands before you, to tell you that Ali's cry still shakes these waves today. 17;15;11 (shot of Ali's wife) That we are to find strength in our identities. Whether we are black or white or Asian or hispanic. Lgbt, disabled or able-bodied. Muslim, jewish, hindu or Christian. His cry represents those who have not been heard, and invalidates the idea that we are to be confirmed to one normative standard. That is what it means to defeat the impossible. Because impossible is not a fact, impossible is an opinion. Impossible is nothing! [ Applause ] 17;16;15 When I look into this crowd I smile. I smile to recognize that he is not really gone. He lives in you and he lives in me. And he lives in every person that he has touched in every corner of this world. (shot of Ali's wife) Reality was never a limitation for Ali. For us, just as every punch his opponents threw, impossible is never enough to knock us down. Because we are Ali. We are greater than the rocks or the punches that we throw at each other. We have the ability to empower and inspire and to connect and to unify and that will live on forever. So let me tell you a story about a man. His name is Muhammed Ali. He is the greatest of all time. He is from Louisville, Kentucky and he lives in each and every one of us. (shot of Ali's wife) And his story is far from over. Thank you. [ Cheers and applause ] [ Applause ] (shot of Ali's wife applauding) 17;18;26 ANNOUNCER>> Ladies and gentlemen, John Ramsey. 17;18;35 John Ramsey First of all, on behalf of my fellow Louisvillians to the Ali family, we offer our condolences our heartfelt prayers and for Lonnie Ali a very special prayer. We know that Muhammad was blessed with many gifts but none more precious than Lonnie Ali and we thank you so much. (shot of Ali's wife) You know, I've got to tell you, Louisville, when I was in the procession today and saw the tens and thousands of people and all of the warmth and the love and the respect that was shown for Muhammad, I've got to tell you, my heart swelled with pride. I know he was watching from above and I know he absolutely loved it. He-- I don't think he'd be surprised. I think Muhammad would say, Louisville, Kentucky, the greatest city of all times. I'm feeling good. Man. I tell you what, how can we lose with the stuff we use? [ laughter] I'm feeling so good, I think I'm going to make a comeback and change my name back to Walnut street. That's how good I feel. [ laughter ] 17;19;46 You know, for me, I always felt connected to Muhammad even before I had met him. You know, maybe it was the fact that I was a Louisville boy. Maybe it's the fact that I loved the Louisville Cardinals, like Muhammad. You know, but as our relationship evolved, I found that a lot of people felt this personal connection with Muhammad. And that's part of the Ali magic. You know, initially, for a lot of men my age and certainly myself, it was the athlete that I was attracted to. I mean, that kind of size, that kind of speed, agility, that grace not only made him the heavyweight champion of the world three times but it made him "Sports illustrated" sportsman of the century, the A.P. Athlete of the century and certainly made him the athlete -- a once in a lifetime athlete. But I would argue that the combination of compassion, kindness, love and the ability to lift us up made him a once in a lifetime person. [ Applause ] 17;20;55 You know, Muhammad was blessed with many gifts, as I said, and he was a wise and faithful steward of those gifts. There's many stories about Muhammad but there is a couple that really to me encapsulate what he was all about. I remember back in 2000, I made a trip to the summer olympics with Muhammad and one day he decided we were going to go see a boxing match and I remember we're ringside, the American wins, 15,000 people are chanting, usa, usa! And I thought, this is my olympic moment. You know, I was filled with patriotic pride. The boxer came down from the ring, he took the obligatory picture with Muhammad, the fist to chin shot, hundreds of photographers from around the world were taking pictures, you know, thousands of people cheering for Muhammad and this victorious fighter. 17;21;47 And then Muhammad leaned down to me whispered in my ear, he said, I want to see the loser. I say, excuse me? I want to see the loser. So, I motioned over to an Olympic official and I said, you know Muhammad wants to see the loser. Can we go to the losing locker room? And we get to the losing locker room and there's not tens of thousands of people, there's not any photographers. There's just a kid in the corner on a stool, he's got a towel around his neck, he's got a bloody mouth under his eye. This has got to be the lowest point of his athletic career at the very least. He felt like he let down his country. He is defeated. And the vibe in that room was literally the lowest of low. But then when Muhammad walks in, this kid recognizes him instantly and in broken English he says Muhammad Ali and Muhammad started dancing he said show me what you've got man, show me, and Mohammad starts throwing out jabs and this kid starts ducking and smiling. Muhammad grabs him in a bear hug. He said, I saw what you did out there, man, you look good. You are moving good, you can be a champion, man. Don't give up. And I remember, it warmed my heart how he took this kid from here to here in an instant. 17;22;58 And -- [ applause ] And I remember, I got in the car and I said to Muhammad, I said, Mohammad try to be a nice guy but I've got to tell you, I was caught up in the moment. I didn't give that losing fighter a second thought. I said mohammad you're the greatest. Muhammad said, tell me something I don't already know. [ laughter ] He -- and -- but what I don't want people to forget, no doubt, to me he's the finest example of a human that I've ever seen. The finest example of a great human being that I've ever seen of the kindness that a human possesses. That was Muhammad Ali, but don't forget about this, man. Muhammad was the coolest cat in the room. I mean, he was good looking, he had charm, he had charisma, he had swagger before he knew that swagger was. I mean, I remember, I went to -- when -- was about 25 years ago, he came to town to visit his mother and he wanted to go to outback steakhouse. I has a friend there, was big Mohammad fan, so we came in and at the time here in Louisville, there was a fireman's convention and all of these guys had their engine numbers on their shirt and sure enough I had seen this thing a million times. Man, these guys line up for an autograph. I said, to Muhammad, I said Muhammad, if you'd like, I'll play the bad guy. You know I tell them to let you eat, and you can sign autographs later. 17;24;25 Muhammad would have none of it. He said, no, I'll sign between bites. He's taking bites of his food and he's signing. This one guy walks up, and you could tell he was a big fan. I mean he knew Muhammad. He was scared to death, he-- all of his adrenaline, he said Champ, he said I saw the stand you made, in the civil rights movement, I saw your stand against the Vietnam war. He said, I've got to tell you, champ, you're my hero. He said, I've got a picture of you at my firehouse. You are my hero. Muhammad instantly he wanted to change the channel. So he said to the guy, he said, you know, you're the real hero jumping in fire, saving lives, saving babies, putting your life on the line, he said, man, you are the real hero. And the fireman responds real quickly. I mean he knew all of the nicknames, he said, man, but you, you fought the bear, sonny Liston. He said, You fought the rabbit, patterson, you fought big George Foreman, you fought smokin Joe Frazier. 17;25;15 And Muhammad interrupted real quick and he goes, yeah, but Joe wasn't really smoking. [ laughter ] And I said, Muhammad that's a good line. He goes, you're right. Write that down. But it wasn't all about signing autographs and kissing babies. If there was a village that needed food in a third-world country, Muhammad was on the plane, will travel with check. If there was a conflict and he could be part of a resolution, again, Muhammad will travel. As Lonnie had mentioned, if there were hostages to be released, Muhammad was a man of action. One of my favorite quotes and I think it's right here in your program, Muhammad said service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth and I just want to say, champ, your rent is paid in full. Your rent is paid in full. [ Applause ] Your rent is paid in full! 17;26;15 (shot of Ali's wife standing up clapping) And you know, in fact, I think he's paid it forward. Because he has taught us to love rather than to hate. To look for commonalities rather than differences. So therefore I think he's really paid it forward for all of us. So, as we all know now, you know, the fight is over but I'm here to tell you, the decision is in and it is unanimous, because of Muhammad Ali, we all win. The world wins. Thank you so much, Muhammad. It is time for a man of peace to rest in peace. And thank you so very much. 17;27;30 BILLY CRYSTAL >> Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We're at the halfway point. I was clean shaven when this started. Dear Lonnie, family, friends, Mr. President, members of the clergy, all of these amazing people here in Louisville, today this outpouring of love and respect proves that 35 years after he stopped fighting, he is still the champion of the world. [ Applause ] Last week, when we heard the news, time stopped. There was no war, there were no terrorists, no global catastrophes. The world stopped, took a deep breath and sighed. Since then, my mind has been racing through my relationship with this amazing man, which is now 42 years that I've known him. Every moment I can think of is cherished. While others can tell you of his accomplishments, he wanted me to speak and tell you of some personal moments we had together. 17;28;52 I met him in 1974. I was just getting started as a stand-up comedian and struggling. But I had one good routine. It was a three-minute conversation between Howard and Muhammad where I would imitate both of them. Muhammad had just defeated George foreman and sports magazine made him the man of the year. A great man, editor for "Sport," was going to host this televised dinner honoring Muhammad. So dick called my agent looking for a comedian who did some sports material. As fate would have it, that comedian was not available and she wisely said -- it's destiny, man. And she wisely said, but listen, I've got this young kid and he does this great imitation and I don't know why, but dick said, okay, I'll try him. I couldn't believe it. My first time on television and it would be with Ali. I ran to the plaza hotel, the event was packed. He said, how should I introduce you? No one knows who you are. And I said, just say I'm one of Ali's closest and dearest friends. And my thought was, I'll get right to the microphone, go into my how word cosell and I'll be fine and I move into the jam ballroom and that's when I saw him for the first time in person. It's very hard to describe how much he meant to me. You had to live in his time. It's great to look at clips and it's amazing that we have them but to live in his time, watching his fights, his experience of the genius of his talent was absolutely extraordinary. Every one of his fights was the aura of a super bowl. He predicted the round that he would knock somebody out and then he would do it. He was funny. He was beautiful. 17;30;57 He was the most perfect athlete you ever saw and those were his own words. But he was so much more than a fighter as time went on, with Bobby Kennedy gone, martin Luther king gone, Malcolm X gone, who was there to relate to when Vietnam exploded in our face? There were millions of young men my age, eligible for the draft for a war that we didn't believe in. And all of us huddled on the conveyor belt that was rapidly feeding the was machine. But it was Ali who stood up for us by standing up for himself. And after he was stripped of the title-- after he was stripped of the title and the right to fight anywhere in the world, he gave speeches at colleges and on television that totally reached me. He seemed as comfortable talking to kings and queens as the lost and unrequited. 17;31;49 He never lost his sense of humor even as he lost everything else, he was always himself, willing to give up everything for what he believed in. And his passionate rhetoric about the life and plight of black people in our country resonated strongly in my house. I grew up in a house that was dedicated to civil rights. My father was a producer of jazz concerts in New York City and was one of the first to integrate bands in the 40s and 50s. Jazz musicians referred to my dad as the branch rickey of Jazz concerts. My uncle and my family, jewish people, produced strange fruit, billie holiday's classic song describing the lynching of African-Americans in this country. And so I felt him, and now there he was just a few feet from me. I couldn't stop looking at him and he seemed to like glow and he was like in slow motion, his amazing face smiling and laughing. 17;32;41 I was seated a few seats from him on the day I said, and in the room all of these athletes in their individual sports, great ones, Gino Marchetti, of the Baltimore Cults, Franco Harries of the Steelers, Archie Griffith who won the Heisman from Ohio state, literally legends, Neil Simon, george plimton, all in a day fawning over Ali who then looked at me [laughter] with an expression that seemed to say what is Joe gray doing here? Mr. Schapp introduced me as one of Ali's closest and dearest friends. Two people clapped. My wife and the agent. I rose, Ali is still staring at me, I passed right behind him, got to the podium, went right into Cocell, hello, everyone, Howard Cocell coming to you live from Zaire. Some people would pronounce it Zaire. They are wrong. It got big laughs and then I went into the Ali. 17;33;49 Everybody's talking about George Foreman, talking about George foreman, george Forman is ugly, he's just so slow. George was slow. I kind of-- and then I got-- and I'm still faster at 33 years of age. I'm so fast I can turn the lights be in my bed before the room gets dark. [ Applause ] (shot of Ali's wife) I'm announcing tonight that I've got new religious beliefs. From now on I want to be known as Ezzie escowitz (?) I am now an orthodox Jew Izzie Escowitz (?) and I am the greatest of all time. [ Applause ] The audience exploded. See, no one had ever done him before and here he was a white kid from Long Island imitating the greatest of all time and he was loving it. When I was done, he gave me this big bear hug and he whispered in my ear, you're my little brother. 17;34;46 Which is what he always called me until the last time that I saw him. We were always there for each other. If he needed me for something, I was there.He came for anything I asked him to do. Most memorable, he was an honorary chairman for a dinner and a very important event where I was being honored by the hebrew university in Jerusalem. He did all of this promotion for it. He came to the dinner. He sat with my family the entire evening. He took photographs with everybody. The most famous Muslim man in the world honoring his jewish friend. And -- [ applause ] 17;35;26 Because he was there, because he was there, we raised a great deal of money and I was able to use it to endow the university in Jerusalem with something that I told to him about and it was something that he loved the theory of. And it thrives to this day. It's called peace through the performing arts. It's a theater group where Israeli, Arab and Palestinian actors, writers and directors all work together in peace creating original works of art. [ Applause ] And that doesn't happen without him. I had so many -- so many funny and unusual moments with him. I sat next to him at Howard Cosell's funeral, a very somber day to be sure. Closed casket was on the stage, Muhammad and I were sitting somewhere over there next to each other. And he quietly whispered to me, little brother, do you think he's wearing his hairpiece? [ Laughter ] 17;36;30 So I said, I don't think so. Well, then how will god recognize him? [ Laughter ] So I said, champ, once he opens his mouth, God will know. So we started laughing. It was a muffled laugh at first but then we couldn't contain ourselves. There we were, at a funeral, me with Muhammad Ali laughing like two little kids who heard something dirty in church, you know, we were just laughing and laughing. And then he looked at me and he said, Howard was a good man. One time he asked me if I would like to run with him one morning. Do road work with him. I said, that would be amazing. I said, where do you run? He said, I run at this country club and I run on the golf course early in the morning, it's very private, nobody bothers me. We'll have a great time. I said, champ, I can't run there. The club has a reputation for being restricted. What does restricted mean? They don't allow Jews there. They don't have any jewish members. He was incensed. 17;37;38 I'm a black Muslim and they let me run there. Little brother, I'm never going to run there again. And he didn't. [ Applause ] My favorite memory was 1979. He had just retired and there was a retirement party at the forum in los Angeles for Muhammad and 20,000 of his closest friends in los Angeles. I performed a piece that I had created, the imitation had grown into a life story. It's called 15 rounds. And I'd play them from the age of 18 until he's 36 ready for the rematch with Leon Spinks. I posted it on the internet last week, footage that nobody had ever seen before, of me portraying Ali doing his life for him all those years ago in 1979. There were 20,000 people there. But I was doing it only for him. That's one of my favorite performances that I have ever done in my life. I sort of got lost in him. I didn't even know where I was at the end of the performance. And suddenly I'm backstage with another heavyweight champion, Richard Pryor and Pryor 's holding on to me crying and then I see Ali coming and he's got a full head of steam, he is looking only at me, nudged Mr. Pryor aside and he whispered in my ear with a big bear hug, little brother, you made my life better than it was. 17;39;10 But didn't he make all of our lives a little bit better than they were? [ Applause ] That -- that, my friends, is my history with the man that I've labored to come up with a way to describe the legend. He was a tremendous bolt of lightning created by mother nature out of thin air, a fantastic combination of power and beauty. We've seen still photographs of lightning bolts at the moment of impact, ferocious in his strength and magnificent in his elegance. And at the moment of impact it lights up everything around it. So you can see everything clearly. Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm, his power toppled the mightiest of foes and its intense light shone on America and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self-realization, courage, laughter, love, joy, religious freedom for all. 17;40;18 Ali forced us to take a look at ourselves. This young man who thrilled us, angered us, confused and challenged us ultimately became a silent messenger of peace who taught us that life is best when you build bridges between people, not walls. [Applause] (shot of Ali's wife) 17;40;50 My friends, only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a mozart or see a Picasso, read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them and yet at his heart he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all. He is gone but he will never die. He was my big brother. Thank you. [ Applause ] 17;41;47 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Bryant Gumbel. 17;41;58 BRYANT GUMBEL >> The great Maya Angelou who was herself no stranger to fame wrote that ultimately people forget what you said and people will forget what you did but that no one will ever forget how you made them feel. That's applied to Muhammad Ali, the march of time may one day diminish his boast and his poetry, maybe even his butterflies and bees. It may even one day dull the memories of the thrilla in Manila and the rumble in the jungle. But I doubt any of us will ever forget how Muhammad Ali made us feel. I'm not talking about how proud he made you feel with his exploits or how special he made you feel when you were privileged enough to be in his company.I'm talking about how he ripped our hearts and our souls and our conscience and made our fights his fights for decades. People like me, who were once young, semi-gifted and black will never forget what he freed within us. Some of us like him took pride in being black, bold and brash. And because we were so unapologetic, we were in the eyes of many, way too uppity. We were way too arrogant. Yet we reveled in being like him. By stretching society's boundaries as he did, he gave us levels of strength and courage we didn't even know we had. But Ali's impact was not limited to those of a certain race or of a certain religion or of a certain mindset. The greatness of this man for the ages was that he was, in fact, a man for all ages. Has any man ever a greater arc to his life? What does it say of a man, any man that he can go from being viewed as one of his country's most polarizing figures to arguably his most beloved. [ Applause ] And to do so without changing his nature or, for a second, compromising his principles. Yeah, you know, there were great pauses and national movements and huge divisions that afforded Ali unusual opportunities to symbolize our struggles. But Harry Truman had it right when he said men make history and not the other way around. Or as Lauren hill so nicely put it, consequence is no coincidence. Befitting his stature as the goat, Muhammad Ali never shied away from a fight. He fought not just the biggest and baddest men of his day inside the ropes but outside the ring he also went toe to toe with critics, outside of societal norms, the U.S. Government. He even fought ultimately to his detriment the limitations of father time. Strictly speaking, fighting is what he did. But he broadened that definition by sharing his struggles with us and by viewing our struggles as his. And so it was that at various times he accepted and led battles on behalf of his race in support of his generation, in defense of his religious beliefs and ultimately in spite of his disease. I happen to have been overseas working in Norway this past week. My buddy Matt called. Told me the champ had been taken to the hospital. This time it was really serious. Right away I called Lonnie who was, as always, a pillar of strength. And as we discussed the medical details, the doctors' views and the ugly realities of mortality, Lonnie said, Bryant, the world still needs him and indeed it does. The world needs a champion who always worked to bridge the economic and social divides that threaten the nation that he dearly loved. The world needs a champion that always symbolized the best of Islam to offset the hatred born of fear. And the world needs a champion who believed in fairness and inclusion for all. Hating people because of their color is wrong, Ali said, and it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. [ Applause ] Yeah, we do need Muhammad Ali now. We needed strength and the hope, the compassion, the conviction that he always demonstrated. But this time, our beloved champion is down. And for once he will not get up. Not this time. Not ever again. Let me close with a quick personal story. 50 years ago, Muhammad Ali defeated George devalo in Toronto, Canada. The very next day, he showed up in my neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. As Ali got out of the car in the driveway at the home, I happened to be next door shooting hoops in a friend's backyard. I, of course, quickly ran to the fence and for the first time in I was 17. I was awe struck. And man, I thought he was the greatest. Now a half century and a lifetime of experiences later, I am still awe struck and I am convinced more than ever that Muhammad Ali is the greatest. [ Applause ] To be standing here by virtue of his and Lonnie's request, is an honor. To be here today as he goes to his grave is a moment I will take to mine. God bless you, champ. [ Applause ] >> Ladies and gentlemen, the 42nd president of the united States, the honorable William Jefferson Clinton. [ Applause ] WASH 6 ALI MEMORIAL SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY CBS POOL 558P WASH 6 ALI MEMORIAL SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY CBS POOL P2 17;51;17 BILL CLINTON >> Thank you. I can just hear Muhammad saying now well, I thought I should be eulogized by at least one president and by making you last in a long, long, long line, I guarantee you a standing ovation. I am trying to think of what has been left unsaid. First, Lonnie, I thank you and the members of the family for telling me that he actually as Bryant said picked us all to speak and giving me a chance to come here, and I thank you for what you did to make the second now well, I thought I should be eulogized by at least one president and by making you last in a long, long, long line, I guarantee you a standing ovation. 17;51;51 I am trying to think of what has been left unsaid. First, Lonnie, I thank you and the members of the family for telling me that he actually as Bryant said picked us all to speak and giving me a chance to come here, and I thank you for what you did to make the second half of his life greater than the first. Thank you for the Muhammad Ali center and what it has come to represent to so many people. Here's what I'd like to say. I spent a lot of time now as I get older and older and older trying to figure out what makes people tick, how do they turn out the way they are, how do some people refuse to become victims and rise from every defeat. We've all seen the beautiful pictures of the home of Muhammad Ali and people visiting and driving by. I think you decided something I hope every young person here will decide. I think he decided very young to write his own life story. 17;53;39 I think he decided before he could possibly have worked it all out and before fate and time could work their will on him, he decided that he would not be ever disempowered. He decided not his race or his place or expectations of others, positive, negative or otherwise would stop him from writing his own story. He decided first to use these stunning gifts. His strength and speed in the ring, his wit and way with words, and managing the public, and finding out at a fairly young age who he was, what he believed, and how to live with the consequences of acting on what he believed. 17;54;50 A lot of people make it to steps one and two and still just can't quite manage living with the consequences of what he believed. For the longest time in spite of all the wonderful things that have been said here, I remember thinking when I was a kid this guy is so smart and he never got credit for being as smart as he was. And then I don't think he ever got the credit for being, until later, as wise as he was. In the end besides being a lot of fun to be around and basically universal soldier for our common humanity, I will always think of Muhammad as a truly free man of faith. 17;55;50 And being a man of faith he realized he would never be in full control of his life. Something like Parkinson's could come along. But being free, he realized that life still was open to choices. It is choices that Muhammad Ali made that brought us all here today in honor and love. And the only other thing I would like to say, the first part of his life was dominated by the triumph of his truly unique gifts. We should never forget them, we should never stop looking at the movies. Thank Will Smith for making his movie. We should all be thrilled. It was a thing of beauty. But the second part of his life was more important because he refused to be imprisoned by a disease that kept him hamstrung longer than Mandela was kept in prison in South Africa. 17;57;20 That is in the second half of his life, he perfected gifts that we all have, every single solitary one of us have gifts of mind and heart. It is just that he found a way to release them in ways large and small. I asked Lonnie the time when they were still living in Michigan and I gave a speech in southwest Michigan to an economic club there, and sort of a ritual when a president leaves office, and you know, you had to get reacclimated, nobody plays a song when you walk in a room any more, you don't really know what you're supposed to do, and this club, the economic club, they're used to acting like you deserve to be listened to, they have to be reacclimated. So they came to me to this dinner and he sat with me at this dinner. 17;58;26 And he knew, somehow he knew that I was a little off my feet that night. I was trying to imagine how to make this new life and so he told me a really bad joke. And he told it so well and he laughed so hard that I totally got on board and had a great time. He had that feel about, you know, there's no textbook for that, knowing where somebody else is in their head, picking up the body language. Then Lonnie and Muhammad got me to come here when we had the dedication of the Muhammad Ali center, and I was trying to be incredibly gray haired elder states man, dignified, I have to elevate this guy, I am saying all this stuff in high tone, language, and Muhammad sneaks up behind me, puts his fingers up. (shot of wife laughing) 17;58;35 Finally after all the years we had been friends, my endearing image of him is like three shots. The boxer, the man I watched take the last steps to light the olympic flame when I was president, and I'll never forget it, I was sitting there in Atlanta, we knew each other, by then I felt I had some sense of what he was living with, and I was still weeping like a baby, seeing his hands shake, his legs shake, and knowing by god he was going to make those last few steps no matter what it took, the flame would be lit, the fight would be won. I knew it would happen. [ Applause ] 5532 ALI MEMORIAL SERVICE FIBER PATH POOL P2 18;00;49 And then this. The children whose lives he touched, the young people he inspired. That's the most important thing of all. So ask you to remember that. We all have an Ali story. It's the gift we all have that should be most honored today because he released them to the world. Never wasting a day the rest of us could see feeling sorry he had Parkinson's, knowing more than three decades of his life would be circumscribed in ways that would be chilling to the naked eye. 18;01;43 But with the free spirit it made his life bigger, not smaller. Because other people, all of us unlettered, unschooled said would you look at that. Look at that. May not be able to run across the ring any more, may not be able to dodge everybody, exhaust everybody any more, and he's bigger than ever because he is a free man of faith sharing the gifts we all have. We should honor him by letting our gifts go among the world as he did. God bless you, my friend, go in peace.

CBS POOL FTG MUHAMMAD ALI MEMORIAL SERVICEH/T JAKE INGRASSIA, PAOLA CONTARDO AND SUNNY CHOO WASH 6 ALI MEMORIAL SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY CBS POOL 15;10:47 Bill Clinton walks in 15;11;45 -- service starts 15;11;49 >> All praises due to the lord god of the world. Now please be seated, ladies and gentlemen. In accordance with Muslim tradition, and consistent with the wishes of Muhammad Ali, may god have mercy on him. We begin this program with a brief recitation from the Koran, the scripture of the muslims. A young Imam of the midtown mosque in Memphis, Tennessee, where he's spearheading a neighborhood renewal effort in one of the most blighted neighborhood in Memphis and that effort is centered around the mosque, one of the few African-American graduates of the university. He will share with us a few verses from the Koran. 15;12;50 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Hamza Abdul Malik. [ Applause ] [ Speaking foreign language ] 15;13;12 [ Speaking foreign language ] [ Speaking foreign language ] 15;17;10 (shot of Ali's wife) >> Now with the translation of those verses we would like to bring to the stage the second generation daughter of Syrian immigrants. She's an excellent student. In her spare time, in recent years, she raises money to provide medical supplies, surgical instruments and other forms of medical assistance for Syrian refugees fleeing from the horror of the current conflict in that land and we pray that almighty god brings it to a succession soon. 15;18;00 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Ia Kutma. [ Applause ] 15;18;14 >> In the name of god, the most gracious, the most merciful, truly those who say our lord is god and our upright the angels will descend upon them saying, have neither fear nor sadness, but rather, rejoice in this paradise that you have been promised. We are your allies in this lower life in the hereafter. Where you will have your heart's desire and you will have whatever you ask for. Hospitably from the one most forgiving, most merciful. Who is more beautiful in speech than the one who invites to god and does righteous works saying, truly, I am submitted to god? For good and evil are not equal. 15;19;13 Repel ugliness with beauty and behold the one between you and whom there was enmity is transformed into a warm friend. But no one arrives at the station without great patience and immense fortune. Through prostration, chapter 41 verses 30 to 35. Thank you. [Applause] 15;19;45 (shot of Ali's daughter) >> I forgot to mention that she is a louisvillean, a proud resident of this city. [Applause] 15:20 15;20;05 >> Oh, god, miss this day of ours, you are our protector. What an excellent protector, an excellent helper. Honorable president Bill William J. Clinton, distinguished guests, viewing audience, on behalf of the Ali family, and the city of Louisville, Kentucky, the home of the people's champ. [Applause] 15;20;50 >> Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali. [Chanting] Ali, Ali. 15;21;00 >> We're dealing with time here, folks. Louisville, Kentucky, admirably led by mayor Greg fisher, I would like to welcome you. Give it up for the mayor. [Applause] >> I would like to welcome you to this memorial service for the people's champ, Muhammad Ali. And this time, we would like to introduce our first speaker. Dr. Reverend Kevin W. Cosby. [Applause] 15;21;50 >> Were it not for time, since Cosby rhymes with Ali, we would we would say, Cosby, Cosby, but time doesn't permit. Reverend Cosby is senior pastor of St. Steven church in Louisville, Kentucky. Due greatly to his dynamic bible teachings his congregation has grown over the long years of his ministry. Reverend Cosby combines passion, wit, and intellect as the foundation of the inspirational ministry that is transformed the lives of thousands of individuals. Reverend Cosby. [Applause] 15;22;39 >> Dr. Reverend Kevin W. Cosby: Thank you. I looked into the dictionary for the word, fidelity. And it had two words. Lonnie Ali. [Applause] 15;22;57 >> In 1967, nine months prior to his assassination and martyrdom, Dr. Martin Luther king, Jr. Was interviewed by merv griffin on "The merv griffin show". Merv griffin asked Dr. King a relevant question. He said, Dr. King, what has been the greatest affect and impact that the civil rights struggle has had on the Negro? Dr. King paused and said, besides the dismantling of barriers that prohibited the Negro from free access, the greatest and most profound effect that the civil rights struggle had was that it infused in the Negro something that the anything Negro needed all along. 15:24:07 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;24;00 And that was a sense of somebodiness. You will never be able to appreciate what Dr. King meant when he said, the negro needed a sense of somebodiness until you understand the 350 years of nobodiness that was infused into the psyche of people of color. Every sacred document in our history, every hallowed institution, conspired to convince the African in America that when god made the African, that god was guilty of creative malfeasance. 15;24;55 All of the documents from the constitution said to the Negro, that you're nobody. The constitution said that we were three-fifths of a person. Decisions by the supreme court, like the dred Scott decision, said to the Negro, to the African, you had no rights that whites were bound to respect. And even Francis Scott key, in his writing of "The star spangled banner" we sang, verse one, but in verse three he celebrates slavery by saying, no refuge can save the harrowing enslaved from the sorrow of night or the death of the grave. Every institution from religion to entertainment, from Amos and Andy to Jane and tarzan, infused in the psyche of the Negro, that he was inferior. 15;26;06 But something happened to the depression generation and the World War II generation of African-Americans. Jackie Robinson picked up his bat and hit a ball and the Brooklyn dodgers win the pennant. Joe Louis dismantles the pride of Aryan supremacy by knocking out max melling in 124 seconds. Jesse Lewis runs at ambulatory speed and wins four gold medals. Rosa parks sits on a bus in 1955 and a young seminary student from Boston university stands up and takes the complex ideas of _____ and dips it chocolate so big mama can understand it. 15;27;02 And then from Louisville. [Cheering] -- Emerged the civil-tongued poet who took the ethos of somebodiness to unheard of heights. Before James brown said, I'm black and I'm proud. Muhammad Ali said I'm black and I'm pretty. [Laughter] 15:27:38 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;27;44 >> Black and pretty was an oxymoron. Blacks did not say pretty. The first black millionaire in this country was not Oprah but madam C.J. Walker who made products in order to help black people escape their Africanity. But Muhammad Ali said I'm proud. I'm pretty. I'm glad of who I am. And when he said that, that infused in Africans a sense of somebodiness. 15;28;25 To extrapolate Muhammad Ali from the times in which he lives is called historic presentism. It is to talk about George Washington and not talk about the American revolution to talk about Abraham Lincoln and not talk about the civil war. It's to talk about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and not talk about the depression and World War II. Our brother, Muhammad Ali, was a product of a difficult time. And he dared to love black people. 15;29;05 At a time when black people had a problem loving themselves. [Applause] He dared. He dared to affirm the beauty of blackness. He dared to affirm the power and the capacity of African-Americans. He dared to love America's most unloved race. And he loved us all, and we loved him because he -- we knew he loved us. He loved us all. Whether you lived in the suburbs or whether you lived in the slums. Whether you lived on the avenue or whether you lived in an alley. Whether you came from the penthouse or whether you lived in the projects. Whether you came from Morehouse or whether you had no house, whether you were high yellow or boot black, Muhammad Ali loved you. Our city is known for two things. It's known for Muhammad Ali, it is known for the Kentucky derby. 15;30;19 We hope you will come back and visit our city. The first Saturday in may, we hope you will place a bet on one of the horses, but if you do, please know the rules. What will happen is the horses start in the starting gate and then the signal will be given think will run in the mud for two minutes. And the winner will then be led to the winner's circle where a right of roses will be placed around the horse's neck. We want you to make a bet but please know the rules. You cannot bet for the horse once it's in the winner's circle. You have to bet for the horse while it's still in the mud. [Applause] 15;31;09 And there are lot of people, a lot of people who will bet and have bet on Muhammad Ali when he was in the winner's circle. But the masses bet on him while he was still in the mud. [Applause] Kareem abdul-jabbar stood with him when he was in the mud, Jim brown stood with him when he was in the mud. Bill Russell stood with him when he was in the mud. Howard cosell stood with him when he was in the mud. 15:31:24 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;31;51 Please don't mishear me. I am not saying that Muhammad Ali is the property of black people. He is the property of all people. [Applause] But while he is the property of all people, let us never forget that he is the product of black people in their struggle to be free. [Applause] I went looking for Jesus on a poor west-end street, looking that I would find him as he walked around with men and women with stumbling feet. People who had their heads bowed low because they were broke and had nowhere to go. But then I went looking for Jesus, way in the sky. Thinking he would wear a robe that would dazzle my eye. When suddenly, Jesus came walking by with stumbling feet because he had been hanging with the poor on a west-end street. [Applause] 15:33:06 (shot of Ali's wife and family) 15;33;10 The Muhammad Ali of my childhood had a shuffle but as he grew older he walked with shuffling feet. And I will submit to you he walked with shuffling feet not because of Parkinson's disease but he walked with shuffling feet because he hanged out with the folk in west Louisville who had shuffling feet. Peace and god bless you. [Applause] 15;33;47 (shot of Ali's wife applauding and family standing up) 15;34;00 >> Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Don't give a teenager a telephone and don't give a preacher a microphone. [ laughter ] 15:34:15 (shot of Ali's wife) >> We'd like to bring Senator Orrin Hatch to the stage, now in this seventh term as Utah's senator, one of Utah's senators, he is the most senior Republican in the senate, author of some of the most far-reaching legislation in recent decades. Senator hatch is a seasoned and distinguished public servant. We're deeply honored by his presence today. [Applause] 15;35;00 >>Senator Orrin Hatch: Reverend, that was really good. It's hard for this poor old senator to have to follow that is all I can say. Well, the head of the first fight was Sonny Liston, and Muhammad Ali stood before a crowded pack of reporters and told the world unapologetically who he was. I'm the greatest. That's what he said. But this simple proclamation all took the history and -- Ali took the history and wrote his own title in the textbooks. He was not Muhammad Ali, the prize fighter. Or even the world champion. He was Muhammad all the greatest. His daughters dismissed this as bragging but Ali wasn't talking trash. He was speaking truth. And he was in the world of boxing, he truly was the greatest. [Applause] 15;36;13 (tight shot of ali's wife) 15;36;18 >> With the cut-throat quickness of a street fighter, and the simple grace of a ballerina, Ali moved with the killings like agility and punched with herculean strength. But to assume that Ali's greatness stems solely from his athletic prowess is to see half the man. Ali was great not only as an extraordinary fighter. He was a committed civil rights leader, an international diplomat, a forceful advocate of religious freedom, and effective emissary of Islam. He was something. He was caring as a father, a husband, a brother, and a friend. Indeed, it is as a personal friend that it witness Ali's greatness for myself.I first met Muhammad Ali 28 years ago. Almost to the day, to this day. 15:37:09 (shot of one of Ali's daughters) 15;37;21 I was in my senate office and an assistant said you have a visitor, and I was really surprised that it was none other than the champion himself. The friendship we developed was puzzling to many people, especially to those who saw only our differences. I might say that where others saw a difference, Ali and I saw kinship. We were both dedicated to our families. And deeply devoted to our faiths. He took Islam, and I to the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints. We were both products of humble backgrounds and hard scrabble youth. Ali grew up poor here in Louisville and I grew up poor in Pittsburgh. True, we were different in some ways but our differences fortified our friendship. 15;38;26 They did not define it. I saw greatness in Ali's ability to look beyond the horizon and our differences. To find common ground. This shared sensibility was the foundation of a rich and meaningful relationship that I will forever treasure. One of my fondest memories of our friendship when Ali joined news the Salt Lake -- going to listen to the Salt Lake Mormon tabernacle choir. I have to say, it was the same Mormon tabernacle choir -- Ali loved music, and he enjoyed the choir's performance, but he seemed most excited to share his own religious beliefs with those who came to hear the Christian hymns. Ali attracted big crowds that day, and as he always did, and he gave everyone autographed pamphlets explaining his Muslim beliefs. 15;39;31 Hundreds of mormons lined up to grab the pamphlets, and of course I took one for myself. I respected his deeply held convictions just as he respected mine. In our relationship it was anchored by our different faiths. Ali was open to goodness. In all of its diverse realities and varieties. On another occasion, I took Ali to primary children's hospital in Salt Lake City. We visited with downtrodden children who perhaps had never smiled a day in their lifetime. Until Ali showed up. Ali held those kids and looked into their eyes. They would grin from ear to ear. These are kids that never smiled. They were so pained. The nurses were astounded. Never before had they seen someone who had connected so immediately and profoundly with these sick children. 15;40;35 Ali had a special way with kids as we all know. He may have been a tough and tenacious man in the ring, but he was a compassionate and tender around those that he loved. 15:40:48 (shot of Ali's wife) Through all of his ferocity as a fighter, Ali was also a peacemaker, a particular radio host in Utah berated me constantly on the air waves. Week after week. One day the host asked if I were arrange for Ali to meet Utah's former middleweight champion, James Fulmer, for a joint interview. Ali agreed. Knowing that the appearance could help me build some good will, but he also was very interested in meeting James(?) as well. It was an unforgettable experience. Here were two champions, face-to-face, reminiscing about some of the best fights the world has ever seen, and I have to say, in the process, Ali claimed that radio host -- well, he charmed the radio host so much on my behalf, gently transforming an unrepentant antagonist into a respectful starring partner. 15;41;52 So dedicated was Ali to our friendship, that he joined me on the campaign trail during several election cycles. He came to Utah year after year to raise funds for a charity benefiting needy women, women in jeopardy, and families in our state. Ali didn't look at life through the binary lens of Republican and Democrat. So common today. He saw worthy causes and shared humanity. And always willingness to put principles ahead of partisanship, he showed us all the path to greatness. And I'll never forget that greatness. Nor will I ever forget him. [Applause] 15;42;47 There there were many faces to Ali's greatness. His abilities as a boxer, his charisma as a public figure, his benevolence as a father and as a friend. All of these made Ali great. But there was something else that made him the greatest. Ali was the greatest because, as a debilitated and unbroken champion for later years he put is to a greatness beyond ourselves, greatness beyond even Ali. He pointed us to the greatness of god. [Applause] 15;43;35 God raised up Ali to be the greatest fighter in the world of all-time. Yet he allowed Ali to wrestle with Parkinson's disease, an inescapable reminder we're all mortal, and that we are all dependent on god's grace. Ali believed this himself. He once told me, god gave me this condition to remind me always that I am human, and that only he is the greatest. [Applause] 15;44;12 Ali was an unsurpassed symbol of our universal dependence on the divine. He was the greatest because he reminded us all who truly is the greatest. God, our creator. I'm eternally grateful for my special bond with this special man, and for my friendship with his beloved wife, who I love dearly. She is one of the great women in this world. [Applause] 15;44;44 (shot of wife) She was dedicated to the very end and I pray that Ali rested peacefully and Ali will rest peacefully the presence of the greatest of all, even our gods. I can bear testimony that I believe in god. I believe that we're here on Earth for a reason. I believe that this Earth life is a time for us to do what is right for god and for our fellow men and women. I don't know that I've ever met anybody who did it any better than my friend, Muhammad Ali. [Applause] >> God bless you. God bless the family. 15;45;37 (shot of wife applauding) 15;45;45 >> Next we would like to welcome Monsignor Father Henry Kriegel to the stage. Father Kriegel has been instrumental -- has been the pastor of St. Patricks parish in Erie, PA. He was ordained in 1970 and named a domestic prebate with the title Monsignor by Pope John Paul II in 1991. His wisdom, scholraship and spiritual guidance is a source of solace and guidance for catholics and members of other faith communities far far beyond his Pennsylvania home. Father Kriegel. 15;46;35 >> Monsignor Father Henry Kriegel: Let us pray. Loving eternal god, as we gather today in prayer, we do so with an abiding sense of gratitude. Our gratitude knows no bounds as we thakn you for the gift of this good and gentle man. Muhammed Ali opened our eyes to the evil of racism, to the absurdity of war. He showed us with incredible patience that a debilitating illness need never diminish joy and love in our lives. He chided our consciences, he awakened in us a deeper sense of the need to respect one another, to set aside racial differences. The legendary fighter of all time in reality taught us to heal, rather than to fight. To embrace, rather than to turn away. To include, rather than to exclude. While proclaiming himself to be the greatest, he showed us that his greatness lied in his love and concern for others. Most particularly the marginalized, the suffering, the helpless, the hopeless. You gift of him has enriched us, has made us better people, has created a more gentle world. We dare not return him to you today without expressing our gratitude for the gift of him. Amen. 15;47;50 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;48;22 >> Next we will hear a few brief remarks from Dr. Timothy Gianotti. Dr. Gianotti is a professor of islamic studies at the university of waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He is equally at home, busying himself with the affairs of the Muslim community as he is sitting in the library and burrowing through books. A true public intellectual. He is the initial and principal islamic adviser to the Ali family. He has been instrumental in assuring that the last days of Muhammad's life, his burial, his bathing, his shrouding, and his burial today, his funeral and burial today, all were in accordance with the strictures of Muslim law. So now I'd like to bring to you the person I affectionately call, brother, doctor, Imam, Timothy Gianotti. [Applause] 15;49;58 >> Dr. Timothy Gianotti: In the name of god who is the loving nurturer of the creation, and the ever compassionate and ever merciful, I'd like to share a prayer today. This is a prayer adapted from a there divisional prayer of the prophet Muhammad. My god's peace and blessings be upon him. But before I do so I would just like to say to the family, to Lonnie, to everyone here, that serving Muhammad Ali has been one of the greatest privileges of my life. 15;50;50 (shot of Ali's wife) Oh, god, you who are the light of the heavens and the Earth, grant our brother Muhammad a light in his heart. A light in his earthly body, now restored to the Earth. A light in his grave. A light before him as he journeys on to you. A light in all that he has left behind in this world. A light to his right, and the lights to his left. Oh, god, increase him inlight. Grant him light. A light in his deeds in this world and a light in the hereafter. A light in the hearts of those whom he loved. And a light in the eyes of those who loved him. 15;52;05 A light in those whom he knocked down. And a light in those whom he lifted up. A light in his words which echo in our hearts. A light in the lives of all those whom he touched. A light in his children and a light in their mothers. 15:52:40 (shot of one of Ali's daughters) A light in his grandchildren. And a light in his devoted wife, Lonnie. Oh, lord, increase your servants in light. And give him light. And embrace him in light. And fill us all with light .[ Foreign foreign ] 15;53;10 >> You who are the light odd Earth, you who are the most merciful of all those who show mercy. [Applause] 15;53;38 >> Next we'll hear a few words from rabbi Michael Lerner. Rabbi Lerner is the editor of a magazine, as the magazine's name suggests, rabbi Lerner has dedicated his life to working, to heal and repair the world. Rabbi Lerner is never afraid of ruffling a few feathers so we asked him to be nice today. Rabbi Lerner. [Applause] 15;54;23 >>Rabbi Michael Lerner: We'll see about the feathers. [Foreign chanting] >> Master of compassion, god of compassion, send your blessings to Muhammad Ali and send your blessings to all who mourn for him, and send your blessings for all the millions and millions of people who mourn for him all over this planet. I come here speaking as representative of American Jews, and to say that American Jews played an important role of solidarity with the African-American struggles in this country, and that we today stand in solidarity with islamic communities in this country and all around the world. [Applause] 15;55;23 We will not tolerate politicians or anyone else putting down a Muslim and blaming muslims for a few people. [Cheers and applause] 15;55;40 (shot of Ali's wife and family standing up and clapping) (shot of Bill Clinton clapping) 15;55;50 We know what it's like to be demeaned. We know what it's like to have some -- a few people who act against the highest visions of our tradition, to then be identified as the value of the entire tradition. And one of the reasons that we in (?) magazine, a magazine of liberal and Progressive jews but also an interfaith magazine, have called upon the United States to stand up to the part of the Israeli government that is suppressing Palestinians, is that we as Jews understand that our commitment is to recognize that god has created everyone in god's image, and that everyone is equally precious. 15;56;33 And that means that Palestinian people as well as all other people on the planet. [Applause] I know the people of Louisville have a special relationship to Muhammad Ali, and I had a personal relationship in the '60s when both of us were indicted by the federal government and before our various stands against the war in Vietnam. I want to say that although he was cheered on as the heavyweight champion of the world, you know the truth is that in all the honor to him, that heavyweight champions of the world come and go, and sports heroes come and go. There was something about Muhammad Ali that was different. 15;57;24 At the key moment when he had that recognition, he used it -- to stand up to an immoral war and say, no, I won't go! [ Applause ] And it's for that reason that tens and millions of Americans who don't particularly care about boxing care about Muhammad Ali because he was a person who was willing to risk a great honor that he got and a great fame that he got to stand up for the beliefs that he had, to think truth to power when the rest of the people around him said, no, no, you're going to lose your championship and it was taken away from him for five years. But he stood up and was willing to take that kind of a risk because of that kind of moral integrity. [ Applause ] 15;58;22 So I want so say, how do we honor Muhammad Ali? The way to honor Muhammad Ali is to be Muhammad Ali today. That means us, everyone here and everyone listening, it's up to us to continue that ability to speak truth to power. We must speak out, refuse to follow the path of conformity to the rules of the game in life. We must refuse to follow the path of conformity. Tell the 1% who own 80% of the wealth of this country that it's time to share that wealth. Tell the politicians who use violence worldwide and then preach nonviolence to the oppressed, that it's time to end their drone warfare and every other form of warfare, to close our bases around the world, bring the troops home, tell those who committed mass incarceration that it's time to create a guaranteed income for everyone in our society. [ Applause ] 15;59;34 Tell judges to let out of prison the many African-Americans swept up by racist police and imprisoned by racist judges. [ Applause ] Many are in prison today for offenses like possessing marijuana that white people get away with all the time! [ Applause ] Tell our elected officials to imprison those who authorize torture and those who ran the big investment companies that caused the economic collapse of 2008. Tell the leaders of Turkey to stop killing the kurds. Tell Israeli prime minister Netanyahu that the way to get security is for Israel is to stop the occupation of the west bank and help create a Palestinian state. [ Applause ] 16;00;37 Tell the next president of the United States that -- tell the next president of the united States that she --- (shot of bill clinton smiling) Tell the next president of the united States that she should seek a constitutional amendment to make all national and state elects funds by congress and the state legislator and all other money be banned, all other money from companies companies and individuals and make it all public funding. 16;01;30 >> Tell her that the way to achieve homeland security is not for us to try new ways of domination, the strategy of domination in the world of the other to get security has been tried for the last ten thousand years and doesn't work. The way to get security is for the United States to become known as the most generous and caring country in the world, not the most powerful. [Applause] 16;02;00 We can start with a global and domestic plan to once and for all ended global and domestic poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education, inadequate health care. So, I want to, as chair of the interfaith network of spiritual Progressives -- by the way, spiritual progressives.org come and join us -- I want to affirm our commitment to the well-being of all muslims on the planet as well as the people of all faiths and secular humanists as well. We wish to pay honor to muslims of the world as the continue today the fast of Ramadan, and join with them in mourning the loss and celebrating the life of Muhammad Ali, a great -- peace be upon him, peace be upon the prophet now ham -- Muhammad and peace on humanity and peace on all of us, amen. [Cheers and applause] 16;03;20 [Chanting] Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali. Ali. >> Time, time, time is not on our side. After that speech, I have to edit my initial remarks, honorable first man William J. Clinton. Chief Sidney hill in 2002, Sidney Hill was selected as Tadodaho, or principal spiritual leader of its people a true friend of the earth and beloved to all who know him, he is a leader whose spirituality is coupled with a passionate pursuit of justice. We are honored that he has come here today to share a few words and a few thoughts with us. Chief Hill. [ Applause ] 16;04;44 >>Chief Sidney hill: [ Speaking only in foreign language ] 16;06;16 >>This is chairman Stevens with us, United Nation from our alliance (?) Nation. Translation: he said, my relatives, it is my responsibility to pick up the words for (?) the people of the longhouse. They wish you well. They want you to be at peace of mind. Now this great darkness that has happened to us, you must understand that you who have gathered us here, that his road is straight. Peacefully, he will arrive at his land. [foreign language] Our creator. It is the same as you call him, Allah. 16;07;30 These were the words. He took the family, your relatives and friends of Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali was the leader among men. And a champion of the people. He fought for the people of color, yet he was man of peace and principle. A man of compassion, who used his great gifts for the common good. The spirit has a clear path to the creator. 16;08;27 To the spiritual leader, six nation iroquois confederation. And myself, faithkeeper, turtle clan, under the council of chiefs, have journeyed here today to add our voice to this congregation of world leaders, in honor of his work, and for the right and dignity of people of color and the common man. [Applause] 16;09;15 He was always in support of the indigenous people of this hemisphere in our quest for our inherent land rights, self-determination, identity, and collective right that include the natural world. We know what he was up against. Because we have had 524 years of survival training ourselves. [Applause] 16;09;50 (shot of Ali's wife clapping) In 1978, a congressman from the state of Washington put a bill into congress to terminate our treaties with the United States. An Indian nations walked from California to Washington, DC, in protest. Muhammad Ali marched into Washington, DC with us. [Applause] 16;10;31 (shot of one of Ali's daughters) 16;10;38 He was a free, independent spirit. He stood his ground with great courage and conviction. And he paid a price. And this country did, too. And we all did. Values and principles will determine one's destiny. And the principles of a nation will do the same. Poor people do not have many options. You fighters know what I'm talking about. He said that ring was Ali's path to his destiny. He said he would be heavyweight champion of the world, and he was. Three times. This is the fourth time, right here, right now. [Applause] 16;11;55 On his journey in life, he lived and learned the hard way. He brought a light into this world. My world. Our world. And that light will shine a long, long time. [ Applause ] Peace, brother. Peace. And on behalf of my friend Ernie and the indigenous people everywhere, peace. Thank you. [Applause] 16;12;58 >> We introduce chief hill, and his words were translated by Chief Oren Lyons who was born into a traditional indigenous family, and grew up on the native reservations of upstate New York. In 1970 he became the chief and faithkeeper of the turtle clan of the onondaga nation. His scholarship, stewardship and leadership is a source of benefit and great blessing for all who know him. Now he want to introduce Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport, Rabbi Rapport is senior rabbi here of the temple here in Louisville where he has been a leader in interfaith work. He has the passion for teaching youth, and in fact it is his work with youth that let him to cross paths with Muhammad Ali. His religious leadership focuses on compassion, care, and working together was all to build a better world. Rabbi Rapport. [Applause] 16;14;24 >>Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport: This is a reading from our memorial prayer on yom kippur. Our day of atonement. Our most sacred day of the year. It was written men decades ago by rabbi Fein, civil rights leader who could never have known when he composed these words he was writing a eulogy for Muhammad Ali. 16;14;49 Birth is a beginning. And death a destination. And life is a journey, from childhood to maturity, and youth to age. From innocence to awareness, and ignorance to knowing. From foolishness to discretion. And then perhaps to wisdom. From weakness to strength, and strength to weakness. And often back again. From health to sickness, and back we pray to health again. From offense to forgiveness. From loneliness to love. From joy to gratitude. And pain to compassion, from grief to understanding. From fear to faith. From defeat to defeat to defeat, until looking backward or ahead we see that victory lies not at some high place along the way, but in having made the journey, stage by stage, a sacred pilgrimage. 16;15;50 Birth is a beginning. And death, a destination. And life is a journey. The sacred pilgrimage to life everlasting. We say words of prayer and they remain words, until we encounter a person who embodies these words and makes them real. I've said these words many times before. At funerals and memorial services. But never have I felt them come to life and speak of a single shining soul as I do today. Muhammad Ali was the heart of this city. The living, breathing, embodiment of the greatest that we can be. 16;16;33 (shot of Ali's wife) He was our heart, and that heart beats here still. [Applause] 16;16;47 Let me tell you a story you already know. It's one of those stories about Ali being gracious to a stranger that so many of us have told, so many times, and in so many we we sometimes forget the lessons these stories were intended to teach us. It's a story Honna tells about her father towards the end of their book, the soul of the butterfly. Honna's driving her father to a book store on one Sunday to pick up some bibles and korans for a project that he's working on. They pass an elderly man standing by the road with a bible in one hand and his thumb in the air with the other. They offer him a ride. And he thanks them, saying that he is on his way home from church. He only needs to go a few miles down the street where he can pick up a cab. Hanna asked where he lives help doesn't want to trouble them. He has no idea who is sitting in the front seat of the car. 16;17;48 Until Muhammad Ali turns around and says, it's no trouble at all. We're just on our way to a bookstore to by some bibles and korans. Once the man gets over meeting the greatest of all-time, he insists that he has three bibles in his house, and he would be pleased to give them to Ali in appreciation for the ride. Ali thanks him but says, he wants to pay for the bibles. The man says, no, the bibles were meant as a gift. Ali asked him what he does for a living. And it turns out the man had a stroke and has been forced into retirement. Ali then tries to hand him a big pile of money for the bibles. But the man refuses and this is where things get interesting. 16;18;37 Ali says, take the money, man, I'm trying to get into heaven.(laughter) 16;18;44 (shot of Ali's wife) And the man replied. So am I. Ali is not taking no for an answer. He says, if you don't take the money I might not get in. And the man replies, if I do take your money I might not get in. They arrive at his home, and the map invites him tomeet his wife of 30 years. He gives Ali the bibles. Ali slips the money under a napkin on the kitchen table. They're about to leave and Hannah gives the man her phone number and tells him to call him -- to call her if her needs a ride home from church again. Sitting in the car, Ali turns to his daughter and asks. Would you really go out of your way and pick him up and drive him home? And she says, yes. And with tears in his eyes, he says, that's me in you. [Applause] 16;19;52 (shot of Ali's wife holding back tears) 16;20;04 He says, you're on the road to heaven. Therein lies ally's greatness his ability to see something greater and his ability to inspire others to see such greatness' within themselves. There will never be another greatest like Muhammad Ali. But we together can now embody a measure of his kindness, and his compassion. We can say each of us in our hearts there's a little bit of Ali in me. [Applause] This week, we have mourned the loss and celebrated the life of a Louisville legend and a citizen of the world. And of all the words and all the ways, the most powerful moments have always been made in the voices of young people, repeated in prayer services, and chanted in the streets. I am Ali. I am Ali. I am not the fighter that Ali was. And I may not have the courage which he never lacked. And I am definitely not as pretty. (laughter) But in my heart, and in my hope, and in my prayers I am Muhammad Ali. [Applause] 16;21;36 >> When he say that in our hearts, when we live that in our lives, then we together can build a legacy worthy of the greatest of all-time. So say that now with me. In your heart, and in this room, I am Ali. I am Ali. [Applause] >> You know, one of the amazing things that we've witnessed during our time here in Louisville has been just so many stories of common, ordinary people. There's folks on the street, working in the hotels, the restaurants, virtually everyone has a story concerning how Muhammad Ali touched their lives. He came to my fourth grade class. He helped me out in this or that way. He came to visit me when I was sick. Just on and on and on. And collectively, those experiences, they become sinner ginnic, they become greater than the individual parts. And when we rose through the streets of the city today, I've witnessed something I've never, ever witnessed in my life. [ Applause ] 16;23;10 And I don't think I will ever witness again. I witnessed the power. In our muslim tradition we call it (foreign language) it might be loosely translated as sainthood, I witnessed the power of sainthood. [ applause] Venerable Utsumi is a member of the (foreign language) a Japanese Buddhist order dedicated to working for world peace through the practice of walking peace pilgrimages anti-nuclear weapon pilgrimages and the construction of peace pagodas all over the globe, he will be joined onstage by Sister Denise another member of the order and together they will share a traditional chant with us. 16;24;40 [Buddhist chants] 16:28:25 [Buddhist chants] 16;29;20 Now we will listen to a reading by , Ambassador Shabazz. Ambassador Shabazz is the oldest of six daughters born to el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (?) and Doctor Betty Shabazz. [applause] She probably shares that she is inspired by her parents, their parents, and those before them through the descending generations. The former prime minister of Belize recognized her as a key Ambassador in international cultural affairs and project development and in 2002 appointed her as ambassador at large, powerful and elegant we invite Ambassador Shabazz to read and share and inspire us. [ Applause ] 16:30;44 >>Ambassador Shabazz: Assalamu alaikum. May peace be upon us. All of us. As this is a homegoing celebration I find myself balanced between that of celebration and depletion, loss, that somehow or another, my breathing capacity has been weakened this past week so I ask all of you gathered and afar to please muster up and transmit a bit of your air to me in the memory of Muhammad Ali, thank you all. [ Speaking in foreign language ] WASH 6 ALI MEMORIAL SEVICE LOUISVILLE KY CBS POOL P2 16;31;44 And more as the globe centers at this very moment amidst the holy month of Ramadan where every two hours there's a time zone praying, and including Muhammad Ali and his family in your thoughts. Amidst that are the prayers of all faiths, all those touched, even those that don't claim a religion are feeling something right now in honor of the family and the memory of their father, husband. In the spirit of my parents, Malcolm X Shabazz and Dr. Shabazz, in the presence of my five younger sisters, our children and our grandchildren I would like to first honor his beloved wife, my sister, Lonnie Ali. [ Applause ] 16;32;53 (shot of Ali's wife) 16;32;59 For all the strengths that you know and that resonate beyond. Sometimes you do need a little help no matter how magnificent you are and indeed those that were with him, that loved him, his family members sustain that. His nine children, and I will name them, Maryam, rasheda, Muhammad Jr., Hana, Laila, asaad, Miya, khaliah as well as thier mothers, and the third generation of grandchildren who accompany them. [ Applause ] 16;33;47 (shot of Ali's wife) To his only brother, to his extraordinary example of a best friend, Howard Bingham and to his sister-in-law Marilyn. For all the grief that I am depleted by and others are feeling by his transition, there is none comparable to yours and I know that. On this day and those to come, as you live your waking days with a life without him here presently, very different. 16;34;37 (shot of Ali's wife) Photos, memories, all the things that we have on him that keep him going. He touched you differently and that has to be honored and recognized, never forsaken. [ Applause ] Just know that when you are the descendent of and in the presence of someone whose life was filled with principle, that the seed is in you so that you have to cultivate that responsibly as well. [ Applause ] This moment is very meaningful for me to have been amongst those chosen and blessed by Muhammad himself and affirmed by his wife Lonnie to take part by sharing a prose and a statement during this homegoing ceremony. While he and I had a treasured relationship, the genesis of his love was through the love for my father. Muhammad Ali was the last of a fraternity of amazing men bequeathed to me directly by my dad. 16;35;57 Somewhere between me turning 18, 19 or 20, they all seemed to find me somehow guided by an oath of a promise to my dad long after him leaving this Earth to search for me, and they did. Each one remaining in my life until joining the rest of the heavens beloved summit of fearless humanitarians. This included Muhammad Ali whom my dad loved as a little brother, 16 years his junior and his entrusted friend. There was a double-take when I came upon him, a once childhood per child and now looking right into his face, and you know how he is. He gives you that little dare like, is that you? [ imitates ] From the very moment we found one another, it was as if no time has passed as all despite all of the presumptions of division, despite all of the efforts at separation, despite all of the organized distancing. We dove right into all of the unrequited yet stated and duly acknowledged spaces we could explore and uncover privately. 16;37;18 We cried out loud. His belt, his grief for having not spoken to my dad before he left and then just as loudly we'd laugh about the best of stories, and some that can't be repeated. He was really funny. What was significant as brothers for my father and Ali was their ability to discuss openly anything, all facets of life, namely, the true meaning, as men with great responsibilities be bestowed to them of how to make an equitable difference in the lives of others. A unifying topic was faith and ecumenical faith, respect for faith, all faiths, even if belonging to one specific religion or none, the root of such being the gift of faith itself so in his own words he wrote, "We all have the same God. We just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans, all have different names but they all contain water. So do religions have different names and yet they all contain truth. Truth expressed in different ways and forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian or a Jew. When you believe in god, you should believe all people are part of one family. [ Applause ] 16;39;11 For if you love god, you can't love only some of his children. [ Applause ] His words and certainly ideals shared by both men, love is a mighty thing, devotion is a mighty thing and truth always reigns. Having Muhammad Ali in my life somehow sustained my dad's breath for me a little while longer. 51 years longer until now. (WEEPING) [Applause] I am forever grateful at our union on this Earth together allowed for me a continuum of shared understanding, preserved confidentialities and the comfort of living in his home town of Louisville Kentucky for the past six years. [ Applause ] 16;40;26 That was not a plan. And mostly for the gift of knowing and loving his wife and children forever forward as my own family, know that. As the last of the paternity reaches the heavens, my heart is rendered ever longingly for that tribe. The tribe of purpose, the tribe of significance, tribe of confidence, tribe of character, tribe of duty, tribe of faith, tribe of service. We must make sure that the principle of men and women, like Muhammad Ali and others, whom dedicated their very being to assure that you get to recognize your own glory, is sustained and passed on like that olympic torch. My dad would offer in state when concluding or parting from another, may we meet again in the light of understanding and I say to you with the light of that compass by any means necessary. 16;42;09 >> Ladies and gentlemen, representing the president of the United States and Mrs. Obama, miss Valerie Jarrett. [ Applause ] 16;42;24 >>Valerie Jarrett: Good afternoon. On behalf of president Obama and Mrs. Obama, I wish to express to you their deepest regret that they couldn't be with us here today as we celebrate the extraordinary life of Muhammad Ali. I first met Muhammad Ali over 45 years ago through his friendship with my uncle Jean and he, my uncle, would be so touched that his son gene is a pallbearer here today. Thank you, Lonnie. Because of my family connection, the president and first lady asked me if I would read this tribute to you, penned by president Obama. 16;43;15 It was 1980, an epic career was in its twilight. Everybody knew it. Probably including the champ himself. Ali went into one of his final fights an underdog. All of the smart money was on the new champ, Larry Holmes. And in the end, the oddsmakers were right. A few hours later, at 4 A.M., after the loss, after the fans had gone home and the sports writers were writing their final take, a sports writer asked a restroom attendant if he had bet on the fight. The man, black and getting on in years, said he had put his money on Ali. 16;44;05 The writer asked why. Why, the man said? Why? Because he's Muhammad Ali. That's why. He said, mister, I'm 72 years old and I owe the man for giving me my dignity. [ Applause ] To Lonnie and the Ali family, president Clinton and an arena full of distinguished guests, you are amazing. The man we celebrate today is not just a boxer or a poet or an agitator or a man of peace, not just a Muslim or a black man or a Louisville kid. He wasn't even just the greatest of all time. He was Muhammad Ali.The whole far greater than the sum of its parts. He was bigger, brighter and more original and influential than just about anyone of his era. [ Applause ] 16;45;30 You couldn't have made him up and, yes, he was pretty, too. He had fans in every city, every village, every ghetto on the planet. He was fettered by foreign heads of state, the beatles, British invasion took a detour to come to him. It seemed sometimes that the champ was simply too big for America. But I actually think that the world flocked to him in wonder precisely because, as he once put it, Muhammad Ali was America! Brash, defiant, pioneering, joyful, never tired, always game to test the odds. He was our most basic freedoms, religion, speech, spirit. 16;46;31 He embodied our ability to invent ourselves. His life spoke to our original sin of slavery and discrimination and the journey he traveled helped to shock our consciousness and lead us on a roundabout path towards salvation. And like America, he was always very much a work in progress. We do him a disservice to gauze up his story to sand down his rough edges to talk only of floating like butterflies and stinging like bees. Ali was a radical even in a radical of times. A loud and proud and unabashedly black voice in a Jim crow world. [ Applause ] 16;47;24 His jabs knocked some sense into us, yes, they did. Pushing us to expand our imagination and bring others into our understanding. Now, there were times when he swung a bit wildly. That's right. Wound up and accidently may have wronged the wrong opponent as he was the first to admit. But through all his triumphs and failures, Ali seemed to have achieved the sort of enlightenment and inner peace that we are all striving towards. In the '60s when other young men his age were leaving the country to avoid war or jail, he was asked why he didn't join them. He got angry. He said he'd never leave. His people, in his words, are here, the millions struggling for freedom and justice and equality and I could do a lot of help in jail or not right here in America. [ Applause ] 16;48;34 He'd have everything stripped from him, his titles, his standing, his money, his passion. Very nearly his freedom. But Ali still chose America. I imagine he knew that only here in this country could he win it all back. So he chose to help perfect a union where a descendent of slaves can become the king of the world. And in the process, in the process, lend some dignity to all of us. Maids, porters, students and elderly bathroom attendant and help inspire a young, mixed kid with a funny name to have the audacity to believe he could be anything, even the president of the United States! [ Applause ] 16;49;35 (shot of Ali's wife) Muhammad Ali was America. Muhammad Ali will always be America. What a man. What a spirit. What a joyous mightyful champion. God bless the greatness of Ali. God bless his family. And god bless this nation we love. Thank you very much. 16;50;28 ANNOUNCER VOICE: Ladies and gentlemen, Lonnie Ali. [ Applause ] >> Ali! Ali! Ali! 16;51;05 LONNIE ALI >> Assalamu alaikum. Peace be upon you. You know, I said something to Matt Lauer yesterday that I firmly believe Muhammad had something to do with all of this and I think we are right. Thank you all for being here to share in this final farewell to Muhammad. On behalf of the Ali family, let me first recognize our principal celebrant Imam _____ and Dr. Timothy Gianotti. We thank you for your dedication to helping us fulfill Muhammad's desire that the ceremonies of this past week reflect the traditions of his islamic faith. And as a family, we thank the millions of people who, through the miracle of social media, inspired by their love of Muhammad have reached out to us with their prayers. The messages have come to us in every language from every corner of the globe. From wherever you are watching, know that we have been humbled by your heartfelt expressions of love. It is only fitting that we gather in a city to which Muhammad always returned after his great triumphs. A city that has grown as Muhammad has grown. [ Applause ] 16;52;37 Muhammad never stopped loving Louisville. And we know that Louisville loves Muhammad. [Applause] We cannot forget a Louisville police officer, Joe Espy(?) Martin, who embraced a young 12-year-old boy in distress when his bicycle was stolen. Joe Martin handed young Cassius Clay -- sorry for tripping up that last word -- Clay, to a future in boxing he could scarcely have imagined. America must never forget that when a cop and an inner city kid talk to each other, then miracles can happen. [ Applause ] 16;53;49 Some years ago during his long struggle with Parkinson's in a meeting that included his closest advisors, Muhammad indicated when the end came for him, he wanted us to use his life and his death as a teaching moment for young people for his country and for the world. In effect, he wanted us to remind people who are suffering that he had seen the face of injustice, that he grew up in a segregation and that during his early life, he was not free to be who he wanted to be. But he never became embittered enough to quit or engage in violence. It was a time when a young black boy his age could be hung from a tree in Mississippi in 1955 whose admitted killers went free. 16;54;50 It was time when Muhammad's friends, people he admired, like Brother Malcolm and Dr. King were gunned down, and Nelson Mandela imprisoned for what they believed in. [ Applause ] For his part, Muhammad faced federal prosecution. He was stripped of his title and his license to box and he was sentenced to prison. But he would not be intimidated so as to abandon his principles and his values. 4:55-Lonnie emotional, almost cries 16;55;29 Muhammad wants young people of every background to see his life as proof that adversity can make you stronger. It cannot rob you of the power to dream and to reach your dreams. We built the Muhammad Ali center and that's the center of the Ali message. [ Applause ] Muhammad wants us to see the face of his religion, true Islam, as the face of love. It was his religion that caused him to turn away from war and violence, for his religion he was prepared to sacrifice all that he had and all that he was to protect his soul and follow the teachings of prophet Muhammad peace be upon you. 16;56;25 So even in death, Muhammad has something to say. He's saying that his faith required that he take the more difficult road. It is far more difficult to sacrifice oneself in the name of peace than to take up arms in pursuit of violence. [ Applause ] You know, all of his life, Muhammad was fascinated by travel. He was child-like in his encounter with new surroundings and new people. He took his world championship fights to the ends of the Earth, from the south pacific to Europe to the Congo. And, of course, with Muhammad, he believed it was his duty to let everyone see him in person because, after all, he was the greatest of all time. [ Applause ] The boy from grand avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, grew in wisdom and discovered something new, that the world really wasn't black and white at all. It was filled with many shades of rich colors, languages and religions. As he moved with ease around the world, the rich and powerful were drawn to him but he was drawn to the poor and the forgotten. [ Applause ] 16;57;53 Muhammad fell in love with the masses and they fell in love with him. In the diversity of men and their faiths, Muhammad saw the presence of god. He was captivated by the work of the dalai lama, by mother Teresa and church workers who gave their lives to protect the poor. When his mother died, he arranged for multiple faiths to be represented at her funeral and he wanted the same for himself. We are especially grateful for the presence of the diverse faith leaders here today. And I would like to ask them to stand once more and be recognized. [ Applause ] 16;58;35 Thank you. Thank you very much. You know, as I reflect on the life of my husband, it's easy to see his most obvious talents. His majesty in the ring as he danced under those lights, enshrined him as a champion for the ages. Less obvious was his extraordinary sense of timing. His knack for being in the right place at the right time seemed to be ordained by a higher power. Even those surrounded by Jim Crow, he was born into a family with two parents that nurtured and encouraged him. He was placed on the path of his dreams by a white cop and he had teachers who understood his dreams and wanted him to succeed. The olympic gold medal came and the world started to take notice. A group of successful businessmen in Louisville called the Louisville Sponsoring Group saw his potential, and helped him build a runway to launch his career. His timing was impeccable as he burst into the national stage just as television was hungry for a star to change the faith of sports. 17;00;02 You know, if Muhammad didn't like the rules, he rewrote them. His religion, his name, his beliefs were his to fashion, no matter what the cost. The timing of his actions coincided with a broader shift in cultural attitudes across America, particularly on college campuses. When he challenged the U.S. Government on the draft, his chance of success was slim to none. That the timing of his decision converged with a rising tide of discontent on the war. Public opinion shifted in his direction followed by a unanimous supreme court ruling in a stunning reversal of fortunes. He was free to return to the ring. When he traveled to central Africa to reclaim his title from George Foreman, none of the sports writers thought he could win. In fact, most of them feared for his life. But in what the Africans call the miracle at 4:00 A.M., he became a champion once more. [ Applause ] And as the years passed and those slowed by Parkinson's, Muhammad was compelled by his faith to use his name and his notoriety to support the victims of poverty and strife. He served as a UN messenger of peace and traveled to places like war-torn Afghanistan, he campaigned as an advocate for reducing the debt of third world debt. 17;01;42 He stunned the world when he secured the release of 15 hostages from Iraq. [ applause ] As his voice grew softer, his message took on greater meeting. He came full circle with the people of his country. When he lit a torch that seemed to create new light in the 1996 Olympics. [ Applause ] Muhammad always knew instinctively the road he needed to travel. His friends know what I mean when I say he lived in the moment. He neither dwelled in the past nor harbored anxiety about the future. Muhammad loved to laugh and he loved to play practical jokes on just about everybody. He was sure-footed in his self-awareness, secure in his faith and he did not fear death. Yet, his timing is once again poignant. His passing and his meaning for our time should not be overlooked. As we face uncertainty in a world and divisions at home, as to who we are as a people, Muhammad's life provides useful guidance. 17;02;58 Muhammad was not one to give up on the power of understanding, the boundless possibilities of love and the strength of our diversity. He counted among his friends people of all political persuasions, saw truth in all faith and the nobility of all races as witnessed here today. Muhammad may have challenged his government but he never ran from it or from America. [ Applause ] He loved this country and he understood the hard choices that are born of freedom. I think he saw a nation's soul measured by the soul of its people. For his part, he saw the good soul in everyone and if you were one of the lucky ones to have met him, you know what I meant. He awoke every morning thinking about his own salvation and he would often say, I just want to get to heaven and I've got to do a lot of good deeds to get there. And I think Muhammad's hope is that his life provides some guidance on how we might achieve for all people what we aspire for ourselves and our families. Thank you. [ Applause ] 17;04;38 ANNOUNCER>> Ladies and gentlemen, Maryam Ali. 17;04;50 MARYAM ALI >> Peace be with you, everyone here, and on behalf of the Ali family, I just want to say thank you to Louisville, Kentucky, all the love you've shown us in our lives has been unbelievable. Also, I want to thank the entire globe. My father was loved all over. The processional today was overwhelming but it was so beautiful. I just want to say we love you just like you love us. Thank you very much. [ Applause ] 17;05;23 As you know, my father loved poetry. He was always rhyming and promoting his fights and he had poems of the heart, spiritual poems and poems to promote and I just wrote a piece for him, in honor of him on behalf of my sisters and brothers and everyone who loved my father. It's called "Thank you our dear father." My heart was sore when your sick spirit soared. Your physical body is no more but my mind tells different tales of all that you taught me, your family and the masses. 17;06;02 Most importantly, the belief in god who created humanity to thrive in quality. You fought for a purpose to uphold the principle that we as a people have divine human rights. Staring right into the eyes of oppression, you proclaim your beautiful complexion. Your god-given skills, your independent will and the freedom of your faith. As your daughter, I am grateful for all of our conversations about men, women and relationships. Guiding me to first have a loving relationship with self, refusing anyone to chip away at my esteem and expect the respect of a queen. [ Applause ] Thank you, our dear father, for asking us to think about our purpose and showing us the beauty of service to others. We marvel that your sincere love for people as you treated all who approached you with dignity. Whether they were rich or poor, your kindness was unconditional. Never perceiving anyone as beneath you. 17;07;25 So many have shared personal stories about what you have meant to them as you have exemplified values and qualities that have enhanced their lives. If I had every dollar for every story, I could pay for the sky. Your family is so proud of the legacy you left behind. But I hope that the history of you can help turn the tide of self-hate and violence, because we are overwhelmed with moments of silence for tragic deaths. Here on the soil, American soil, in the Middle East or anywhere else in this world, we crave for peace. That peace that you rest in now. We will forever cherish the 74 years you graced this Earth. You will be greatly missed. But now we send you off in celebration, a blown kiss and prayers. As you enter your final round. God's last boxing bell will sound in heaven. I love you, we all love you. Thank you very much. 17;09;02 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Rasheda Ali Walsh. 17;09;20 RASHEDA ALI >> I'm, we are so honored that you have packed this room with your love. Thank you all. Thank you so much for being here today. To celebrate our father. You are the greatest father to us. And it was God's will to take you home. Your family will try our best to make you proud, and carry on your legacy of giving and love. You have inspired us in the world to be the best version of ourselves. May you live in paradise, free from suffering. You shook up the world in life. Now you're shaking up the world in death. 17;10;23 (shot of Ali's wife holding back tears) Daddy is looking at us now, right and saying, I told you I was the greatest! No one compares to you, daddy. You once said I know where I'm going. And I know the truth. And I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be who I am. Now you are free to be with your creator. We love you so much, daddy. Until we meet again, fly, butterfly, fly. [ Applause ] 17;11;45 ALI DINICOLA Hello. My name is Ali DiNicola. I was born on Muhammad Ali's birthday, I was named after him. He used to call me the little greatest. We can all learn from Muhammad's example of kindness and understanding. When Muhammad was asked how he would like to be remembered, he said I like to, I like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, one teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness, he took one court of laughter, one pinch of concern and then he mixed willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith and he stirred it up well. He spread it over a span of a lifetime. And he served it to each and every deserving person he met. Thank you. 17;12;56 ANNOUNCER>>> Ladies and gentlemen, Natasha boncouer. Natasha boncouer: Before I begin, I would just like to say that I'm truly humbled and honored to be here. And I would like to thank the Muhammad Ali center and the Ali family for giving me the opportunity to speak. And to echo the voice that Muhammad has given me. So let me tell you a story about a man. A man who refused to believe that reality was limitation to achieve the impossible. A man who once reached up through the pages of a textbook and touched the heart of an 8-year-old girl. Whose reflection of herself mirrored those who cannot see past the color of her skin. But instead of drawing on that pain from the distorted reality, she found strength. Just as this man did when he stood tall in the face of pelting rain and shouted -- I am the disturbance in the sea of your complacency. And I will never stop shaking your waves. 17;14;30 And his voice echoed through hers. Through mine. And she picked up the rocks that were thrown at her and she threw them back with a voice so powerful that it turned all the pain that she had faced in her life into strength. And tenacity. And now that 8-year-old girl stands before you, to tell you that Ali's cry still shakes these waves today. 17;15;11 (shot of Ali's wife) That we are to find strength in our identities. Whether we are black or white or Asian or hispanic. Lgbt, disabled or able-bodied. Muslim, jewish, hindu or Christian. His cry represents those who have not been heard, and invalidates the idea that we are to be confirmed to one normative standard. That is what it means to defeat the impossible. Because impossible is not a fact, impossible is an opinion. Impossible is nothing! [ Applause ] 17;16;15 When I look into this crowd I smile. I smile to recognize that he is not really gone. He lives in you and he lives in me. And he lives in every person that he has touched in every corner of this world. (shot of Ali's wife) Reality was never a limitation for Ali. For us, just as every punch his opponents threw, impossible is never enough to knock us down. Because we are Ali. We are greater than the rocks or the punches that we throw at each other. We have the ability to empower and inspire and to connect and to unify and that will live on forever. So let me tell you a story about a man. His name is Muhammed Ali. He is the greatest of all time. He is from Louisville, Kentucky and he lives in each and every one of us. (shot of Ali's wife) And his story is far from over. Thank you. [ Cheers and applause ] [ Applause ] (shot of Ali's wife applauding) 17;18;26 ANNOUNCER>> Ladies and gentlemen, John Ramsey. 17;18;35 John Ramsey First of all, on behalf of my fellow Louisvillians to the Ali family, we offer our condolences our heartfelt prayers and for Lonnie Ali a very special prayer. We know that Muhammad was blessed with many gifts but none more precious than Lonnie Ali and we thank you so much. (shot of Ali's wife) You know, I've got to tell you, Louisville, when I was in the procession today and saw the tens and thousands of people and all of the warmth and the love and the respect that was shown for Muhammad, I've got to tell you, my heart swelled with pride. I know he was watching from above and I know he absolutely loved it. He-- I don't think he'd be surprised. I think Muhammad would say, Louisville, Kentucky, the greatest city of all times. I'm feeling good. Man. I tell you what, how can we lose with the stuff we use? [ laughter] I'm feeling so good, I think I'm going to make a comeback and change my name back to Walnut street. That's how good I feel. [ laughter ] 17;19;46 You know, for me, I always felt connected to Muhammad even before I had met him. You know, maybe it was the fact that I was a Louisville boy. Maybe it's the fact that I loved the Louisville Cardinals, like Muhammad. You know, but as our relationship evolved, I found that a lot of people felt this personal connection with Muhammad. And that's part of the Ali magic. You know, initially, for a lot of men my age and certainly myself, it was the athlete that I was attracted to. I mean, that kind of size, that kind of speed, agility, that grace not only made him the heavyweight champion of the world three times but it made him "Sports illustrated" sportsman of the century, the A.P. Athlete of the century and certainly made him the athlete -- a once in a lifetime athlete. But I would argue that the combination of compassion, kindness, love and the ability to lift us up made him a once in a lifetime person. [ Applause ] 17;20;55 You know, Muhammad was blessed with many gifts, as I said, and he was a wise and faithful steward of those gifts. There's many stories about Muhammad but there is a couple that really to me encapsulate what he was all about. I remember back in 2000, I made a trip to the summer olympics with Muhammad and one day he decided we were going to go see a boxing match and I remember we're ringside, the American wins, 15,000 people are chanting, usa, usa! And I thought, this is my olympic moment. You know, I was filled with patriotic pride. The boxer came down from the ring, he took the obligatory picture with Muhammad, the fist to chin shot, hundreds of photographers from around the world were taking pictures, you know, thousands of people cheering for Muhammad and this victorious fighter. 17;21;47 And then Muhammad leaned down to me whispered in my ear, he said, I want to see the loser. I say, excuse me? I want to see the loser. So, I motioned over to an Olympic official and I said, you know Muhammad wants to see the loser. Can we go to the losing locker room? And we get to the losing locker room and there's not tens of thousands of people, there's not any photographers. There's just a kid in the corner on a stool, he's got a towel around his neck, he's got a bloody mouth under his eye. This has got to be the lowest point of his athletic career at the very least. He felt like he let down his country. He is defeated. And the vibe in that room was literally the lowest of low. But then when Muhammad walks in, this kid recognizes him instantly and in broken English he says Muhammad Ali and Muhammad started dancing he said show me what you've got man, show me, and Mohammad starts throwing out jabs and this kid starts ducking and smiling. Muhammad grabs him in a bear hug. He said, I saw what you did out there, man, you look good. You are moving good, you can be a champion, man. Don't give up. And I remember, it warmed my heart how he took this kid from here to here in an instant. 17;22;58 And -- [ applause ] And I remember, I got in the car and I said to Muhammad, I said, Mohammad try to be a nice guy but I've got to tell you, I was caught up in the moment. I didn't give that losing fighter a second thought. I said mohammad you're the greatest. Muhammad said, tell me something I don't already know. [ laughter ] He -- and -- but what I don't want people to forget, no doubt, to me he's the finest example of a human that I've ever seen. The finest example of a great human being that I've ever seen of the kindness that a human possesses. That was Muhammad Ali, but don't forget about this, man. Muhammad was the coolest cat in the room. I mean, he was good looking, he had charm, he had charisma, he had swagger before he knew that swagger was. I mean, I remember, I went to -- when -- was about 25 years ago, he came to town to visit his mother and he wanted to go to outback steakhouse. I has a friend there, was big Mohammad fan, so we came in and at the time here in Louisville, there was a fireman's convention and all of these guys had their engine numbers on their shirt and sure enough I had seen this thing a million times. Man, these guys line up for an autograph. I said, to Muhammad, I said Muhammad, if you'd like, I'll play the bad guy. You know I tell them to let you eat, and you can sign autographs later. 17;24;25 Muhammad would have none of it. He said, no, I'll sign between bites. He's taking bites of his food and he's signing. This one guy walks up, and you could tell he was a big fan. I mean he knew Muhammad. He was scared to death, he-- all of his adrenaline, he said Champ, he said I saw the stand you made, in the civil rights movement, I saw your stand against the Vietnam war. He said, I've got to tell you, champ, you're my hero. He said, I've got a picture of you at my firehouse. You are my hero. Muhammad instantly he wanted to change the channel. So he said to the guy, he said, you know, you're the real hero jumping in fire, saving lives, saving babies, putting your life on the line, he said, man, you are the real hero. And the fireman responds real quickly. I mean he knew all of the nicknames, he said, man, but you, you fought the bear, sonny Liston. He said, You fought the rabbit, patterson, you fought big George Foreman, you fought smokin Joe Frazier. 17;25;15 And Muhammad interrupted real quick and he goes, yeah, but Joe wasn't really smoking. [ laughter ] And I said, Muhammad that's a good line. He goes, you're right. Write that down. But it wasn't all about signing autographs and kissing babies. If there was a village that needed food in a third-world country, Muhammad was on the plane, will travel with check. If there was a conflict and he could be part of a resolution, again, Muhammad will travel. As Lonnie had mentioned, if there were hostages to be released, Muhammad was a man of action. One of my favorite quotes and I think it's right here in your program, Muhammad said service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth and I just want to say, champ, your rent is paid in full. Your rent is paid in full. [ Applause ] Your rent is paid in full! 17;26;15 (shot of Ali's wife standing up clapping) And you know, in fact, I think he's paid it forward. Because he has taught us to love rather than to hate. To look for commonalities rather than differences. So therefore I think he's really paid it forward for all of us. So, as we all know now, you know, the fight is over but I'm here to tell you, the decision is in and it is unanimous, because of Muhammad Ali, we all win. The world wins. Thank you so much, Muhammad. It is time for a man of peace to rest in peace. And thank you so very much. 17;27;30 BILLY CRYSTAL >> Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We're at the halfway point. I was clean shaven when this started. Dear Lonnie, family, friends, Mr. President, members of the clergy, all of these amazing people here in Louisville, today this outpouring of love and respect proves that 35 years after he stopped fighting, he is still the champion of the world. [ Applause ] Last week, when we heard the news, time stopped. There was no war, there were no terrorists, no global catastrophes. The world stopped, took a deep breath and sighed. Since then, my mind has been racing through my relationship with this amazing man, which is now 42 years that I've known him. Every moment I can think of is cherished. While others can tell you of his accomplishments, he wanted me to speak and tell you of some personal moments we had together. 17;28;52 I met him in 1974. I was just getting started as a stand-up comedian and struggling. But I had one good routine. It was a three-minute conversation between Howard and Muhammad where I would imitate both of them. Muhammad had just defeated George foreman and sports magazine made him the man of the year. A great man, editor for "Sport," was going to host this televised dinner honoring Muhammad. So dick called my agent looking for a comedian who did some sports material. As fate would have it, that comedian was not available and she wisely said -- it's destiny, man. And she wisely said, but listen, I've got this young kid and he does this great imitation and I don't know why, but dick said, okay, I'll try him. I couldn't believe it. My first time on television and it would be with Ali. I ran to the plaza hotel, the event was packed. He said, how should I introduce you? No one knows who you are. And I said, just say I'm one of Ali's closest and dearest friends. And my thought was, I'll get right to the microphone, go into my how word cosell and I'll be fine and I move into the jam ballroom and that's when I saw him for the first time in person. It's very hard to describe how much he meant to me. You had to live in his time. It's great to look at clips and it's amazing that we have them but to live in his time, watching his fights, his experience of the genius of his talent was absolutely extraordinary. Every one of his fights was the aura of a super bowl. He predicted the round that he would knock somebody out and then he would do it. He was funny. He was beautiful. 17;30;57 He was the most perfect athlete you ever saw and those were his own words. But he was so much more than a fighter as time went on, with Bobby Kennedy gone, martin Luther king gone, Malcolm X gone, who was there to relate to when Vietnam exploded in our face? There were millions of young men my age, eligible for the draft for a war that we didn't believe in. And all of us huddled on the conveyor belt that was rapidly feeding the was machine. But it was Ali who stood up for us by standing up for himself. And after he was stripped of the title-- after he was stripped of the title and the right to fight anywhere in the world, he gave speeches at colleges and on television that totally reached me. He seemed as comfortable talking to kings and queens as the lost and unrequited. 17;31;49 He never lost his sense of humor even as he lost everything else, he was always himself, willing to give up everything for what he believed in. And his passionate rhetoric about the life and plight of black people in our country resonated strongly in my house. I grew up in a house that was dedicated to civil rights. My father was a producer of jazz concerts in New York City and was one of the first to integrate bands in the 40s and 50s. Jazz musicians referred to my dad as the branch rickey of Jazz concerts. My uncle and my family, jewish people, produced strange fruit, billie holiday's classic song describing the lynching of African-Americans in this country. And so I felt him, and now there he was just a few feet from me. I couldn't stop looking at him and he seemed to like glow and he was like in slow motion, his amazing face smiling and laughing. 17;32;41 I was seated a few seats from him on the day I said, and in the room all of these athletes in their individual sports, great ones, Gino Marchetti, of the Baltimore Cults, Franco Harries of the Steelers, Archie Griffith who won the Heisman from Ohio state, literally legends, Neil Simon, george plimton, all in a day fawning over Ali who then looked at me [laughter] with an expression that seemed to say what is Joe gray doing here? Mr. Schapp introduced me as one of Ali's closest and dearest friends. Two people clapped. My wife and the agent. I rose, Ali is still staring at me, I passed right behind him, got to the podium, went right into Cocell, hello, everyone, Howard Cocell coming to you live from Zaire. Some people would pronounce it Zaire. They are wrong. It got big laughs and then I went into the Ali. 17;33;49 Everybody's talking about George Foreman, talking about George foreman, george Forman is ugly, he's just so slow. George was slow. I kind of-- and then I got-- and I'm still faster at 33 years of age. I'm so fast I can turn the lights be in my bed before the room gets dark. [ Applause ] (shot of Ali's wife) I'm announcing tonight that I've got new religious beliefs. From now on I want to be known as Ezzie escowitz (?) I am now an orthodox Jew Izzie Escowitz (?) and I am the greatest of all time. [ Applause ] The audience exploded. See, no one had ever done him before and here he was a white kid from Long Island imitating the greatest of all time and he was loving it. When I was done, he gave me this big bear hug and he whispered in my ear, you're my little brother. 17;34;46 Which is what he always called me until the last time that I saw him. We were always there for each other. If he needed me for something, I was there.He came for anything I asked him to do. Most memorable, he was an honorary chairman for a dinner and a very important event where I was being honored by the hebrew university in Jerusalem. He did all of this promotion for it. He came to the dinner. He sat with my family the entire evening. He took photographs with everybody. The most famous Muslim man in the world honoring his jewish friend. And -- [ applause ] 17;35;26 Because he was there, because he was there, we raised a great deal of money and I was able to use it to endow the university in Jerusalem with something that I told to him about and it was something that he loved the theory of. And it thrives to this day. It's called peace through the performing arts. It's a theater group where Israeli, Arab and Palestinian actors, writers and directors all work together in peace creating original works of art. [ Applause ] And that doesn't happen without him. I had so many -- so many funny and unusual moments with him. I sat next to him at Howard Cosell's funeral, a very somber day to be sure. Closed casket was on the stage, Muhammad and I were sitting somewhere over there next to each other. And he quietly whispered to me, little brother, do you think he's wearing his hairpiece? [ Laughter ] 17;36;30 So I said, I don't think so. Well, then how will god recognize him? [ Laughter ] So I said, champ, once he opens his mouth, God will know. So we started laughing. It was a muffled laugh at first but then we couldn't contain ourselves. There we were, at a funeral, me with Muhammad Ali laughing like two little kids who heard something dirty in church, you know, we were just laughing and laughing. And then he looked at me and he said, Howard was a good man. One time he asked me if I would like to run with him one morning. Do road work with him. I said, that would be amazing. I said, where do you run? He said, I run at this country club and I run on the golf course early in the morning, it's very private, nobody bothers me. We'll have a great time. I said, champ, I can't run there. The club has a reputation for being restricted. What does restricted mean? They don't allow Jews there. They don't have any jewish members. He was incensed. 17;37;38 I'm a black Muslim and they let me run there. Little brother, I'm never going to run there again. And he didn't. [ Applause ] My favorite memory was 1979. He had just retired and there was a retirement party at the forum in los Angeles for Muhammad and 20,000 of his closest friends in los Angeles. I performed a piece that I had created, the imitation had grown into a life story. It's called 15 rounds. And I'd play them from the age of 18 until he's 36 ready for the rematch with Leon Spinks. I posted it on the internet last week, footage that nobody had ever seen before, of me portraying Ali doing his life for him all those years ago in 1979. There were 20,000 people there. But I was doing it only for him. That's one of my favorite performances that I have ever done in my life. I sort of got lost in him. I didn't even know where I was at the end of the performance. And suddenly I'm backstage with another heavyweight champion, Richard Pryor and Pryor 's holding on to me crying and then I see Ali coming and he's got a full head of steam, he is looking only at me, nudged Mr. Pryor aside and he whispered in my ear with a big bear hug, little brother, you made my life better than it was. 17;39;10 But didn't he make all of our lives a little bit better than they were? [ Applause ] That -- that, my friends, is my history with the man that I've labored to come up with a way to describe the legend. He was a tremendous bolt of lightning created by mother nature out of thin air, a fantastic combination of power and beauty. We've seen still photographs of lightning bolts at the moment of impact, ferocious in his strength and magnificent in his elegance. And at the moment of impact it lights up everything around it. So you can see everything clearly. Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm, his power toppled the mightiest of foes and its intense light shone on America and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self-realization, courage, laughter, love, joy, religious freedom for all. 17;40;18 Ali forced us to take a look at ourselves. This young man who thrilled us, angered us, confused and challenged us ultimately became a silent messenger of peace who taught us that life is best when you build bridges between people, not walls. [Applause] (shot of Ali's wife) 17;40;50 My friends, only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a mozart or see a Picasso, read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them and yet at his heart he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all. He is gone but he will never die. He was my big brother. Thank you. [ Applause ] 17;41;47 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Bryant Gumbel. 17;41;58 BRYANT GUMBEL >> The great Maya Angelou who was herself no stranger to fame wrote that ultimately people forget what you said and people will forget what you did but that no one will ever forget how you made them feel. That's applied to Muhammad Ali, the march of time may one day diminish his boast and his poetry, maybe even his butterflies and bees. It may even one day dull the memories of the thrilla in Manila and the rumble in the jungle. But I doubt any of us will ever forget how Muhammad Ali made us feel. I'm not talking about how proud he made you feel with his exploits or how special he made you feel when you were privileged enough to be in his company.I'm talking about how he ripped our hearts and our souls and our conscience and made our fights his fights for decades. People like me, who were once young, semi-gifted and black will never forget what he freed within us. Some of us like him took pride in being black, bold and brash. And because we were so unapologetic, we were in the eyes of many, way too uppity. We were way too arrogant. Yet we reveled in being like him. By stretching society's boundaries as he did, he gave us levels of strength and courage we didn't even know we had. But Ali's impact was not limited to those of a certain race or of a certain religion or of a certain mindset. The greatness of this man for the ages was that he was, in fact, a man for all ages. Has any man ever a greater arc to his life? What does it say of a man, any man that he can go from being viewed as one of his country's most polarizing figures to arguably his most beloved. [ Applause ] And to do so without changing his nature or, for a second, compromising his principles. Yeah, you know, there were great pauses and national movements and huge divisions that afforded Ali unusual opportunities to symbolize our struggles. But Harry Truman had it right when he said men make history and not the other way around. Or as Lauren hill so nicely put it, consequence is no coincidence. Befitting his stature as the goat, Muhammad Ali never shied away from a fight. He fought not just the biggest and baddest men of his day inside the ropes but outside the ring he also went toe to toe with critics, outside of societal norms, the U.S. Government. He even fought ultimately to his detriment the limitations of father time. Strictly speaking, fighting is what he did. But he broadened that definition by sharing his struggles with us and by viewing our struggles as his. And so it was that at various times he accepted and led battles on behalf of his race in support of his generation, in defense of his religious beliefs and ultimately in spite of his disease. I happen to have been overseas working in Norway this past week. My buddy Matt called. Told me the champ had been taken to the hospital. This time it was really serious. Right away I called Lonnie who was, as always, a pillar of strength. And as we discussed the medical details, the doctors' views and the ugly realities of mortality, Lonnie said, Bryant, the world still needs him and indeed it does. The world needs a champion who always worked to bridge the economic and social divides that threaten the nation that he dearly loved. The world needs a champion that always symbolized the best of Islam to offset the hatred born of fear. And the world needs a champion who believed in fairness and inclusion for all. Hating people because of their color is wrong, Ali said, and it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. [ Applause ] Yeah, we do need Muhammad Ali now. We needed strength and the hope, the compassion, the conviction that he always demonstrated. But this time, our beloved champion is down. And for once he will not get up. Not this time. Not ever again. Let me close with a quick personal story. 50 years ago, Muhammad Ali defeated George devalo in Toronto, Canada. The very next day, he showed up in my neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. As Ali got out of the car in the driveway at the home, I happened to be next door shooting hoops in a friend's backyard. I, of course, quickly ran to the fence and for the first time in I was 17. I was awe struck. And man, I thought he was the greatest. Now a half century and a lifetime of experiences later, I am still awe struck and I am convinced more than ever that Muhammad Ali is the greatest. [ Applause ] To be standing here by virtue of his and Lonnie's request, is an honor. To be here today as he goes to his grave is a moment I will take to mine. God bless you, champ. [ Applause ] >> Ladies and gentlemen, the 42nd president of the united States, the honorable William Jefferson Clinton. [ Applause ] WASH 6 ALI MEMORIAL SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY CBS POOL 558P WASH 6 ALI MEMORIAL SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY CBS POOL P2 17;51;17 BILL CLINTON >> Thank you. I can just hear Muhammad saying now well, I thought I should be eulogized by at least one president and by making you last in a long, long, long line, I guarantee you a standing ovation. I am trying to think of what has been left unsaid. First, Lonnie, I thank you and the members of the family for telling me that he actually as Bryant said picked us all to speak and giving me a chance to come here, and I thank you for what you did to make the second now well, I thought I should be eulogized by at least one president and by making you last in a long, long, long line, I guarantee you a standing ovation. 17;51;51 I am trying to think of what has been left unsaid. First, Lonnie, I thank you and the members of the family for telling me that he actually as Bryant said picked us all to speak and giving me a chance to come here, and I thank you for what you did to make the second half of his life greater than the first. Thank you for the Muhammad Ali center and what it has come to represent to so many people. Here's what I'd like to say. I spent a lot of time now as I get older and older and older trying to figure out what makes people tick, how do they turn out the way they are, how do some people refuse to become victims and rise from every defeat. We've all seen the beautiful pictures of the home of Muhammad Ali and people visiting and driving by. I think you decided something I hope every young person here will decide. I think he decided very young to write his own life story. 17;53;39 I think he decided before he could possibly have worked it all out and before fate and time could work their will on him, he decided that he would not be ever disempowered. He decided not his race or his place or expectations of others, positive, negative or otherwise would stop him from writing his own story. He decided first to use these stunning gifts. His strength and speed in the ring, his wit and way with words, and managing the public, and finding out at a fairly young age who he was, what he believed, and how to live with the consequences of acting on what he believed. 17;54;50 A lot of people make it to steps one and two and still just can't quite manage living with the consequences of what he believed. For the longest time in spite of all the wonderful things that have been said here, I remember thinking when I was a kid this guy is so smart and he never got credit for being as smart as he was. And then I don't think he ever got the credit for being, until later, as wise as he was. In the end besides being a lot of fun to be around and basically universal soldier for our common humanity, I will always think of Muhammad as a truly free man of faith. 17;55;50 And being a man of faith he realized he would never be in full control of his life. Something like Parkinson's could come along. But being free, he realized that life still was open to choices. It is choices that Muhammad Ali made that brought us all here today in honor and love. And the only other thing I would like to say, the first part of his life was dominated by the triumph of his truly unique gifts. We should never forget them, we should never stop looking at the movies. Thank Will Smith for making his movie. We should all be thrilled. It was a thing of beauty. But the second part of his life was more important because he refused to be imprisoned by a disease that kept him hamstrung longer than Mandela was kept in prison in South Africa. 17;57;20 That is in the second half of his life, he perfected gifts that we all have, every single solitary one of us have gifts of mind and heart. It is just that he found a way to release them in ways large and small. I asked Lonnie the time when they were still living in Michigan and I gave a speech in southwest Michigan to an economic club there, and sort of a ritual when a president leaves office, and you know, you had to get reacclimated, nobody plays a song when you walk in a room any more, you don't really know what you're supposed to do, and this club, the economic club, they're used to acting like you deserve to be listened to, they have to be reacclimated. So they came to me to this dinner and he sat with me at this dinner. 17;58;26 And he knew, somehow he knew that I was a little off my feet that night. I was trying to imagine how to make this new life and so he told me a really bad joke. And he told it so well and he laughed so hard that I totally got on board and had a great time. He had that feel about, you know, there's no textbook for that, knowing where somebody else is in their head, picking up the body language. Then Lonnie and Muhammad got me to come here when we had the dedication of the Muhammad Ali center, and I was trying to be incredibly gray haired elder states man, dignified, I have to elevate this guy, I am saying all this stuff in high tone, language, and Muhammad sneaks up behind me, puts his fingers up. (shot of wife laughing) 17;58;35 Finally after all the years we had been friends, my endearing image of him is like three shots. The boxer, the man I watched take the last steps to light the olympic flame when I was president, and I'll never forget it, I was sitting there in Atlanta, we knew each other, by then I felt I had some sense of what he was living with, and I was still weeping like a baby, seeing his hands shake, his legs shake, and knowing by god he was going to make those last few steps no matter what it took, the flame would be lit, the fight would be won. I knew it would happen. [ Applause ] 5532 ALI MEMORIAL SERVICE FIBER PATH POOL P2 18;00;49 And then this. The children whose lives he touched, the young people he inspired. That's the most important thing of all. So ask you to remember that. We all have an Ali story. It's the gift we all have that should be most honored today because he released them to the world. Never wasting a day the rest of us could see feeling sorry he had Parkinson's, knowing more than three decades of his life would be circumscribed in ways that would be chilling to the naked eye. 18;01;43 But with the free spirit it made his life bigger, not smaller. Because other people, all of us unlettered, unschooled said would you look at that. Look at that. May not be able to run across the ring any more, may not be able to dodge everybody, exhaust everybody any more, and he's bigger than ever because he is a free man of faith sharing the gifts we all have. We should honor him by letting our gifts go among the world as he did. God bless you, my friend, go in peace.

CBS POOL FTG MUHAMMAD ALI MEMORIAL SERVICEH/T JAKE INGRASSIA, PAOLA CONTARDO AND SUNNY CHOO WASH 6 ALI MEMORIAL SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY CBS POOL 15;10:47 Bill Clinton walks in 15;11;45 -- service starts 15;11;49 >> All praises due to the lord god of the world. Now please be seated, ladies and gentlemen. In accordance with Muslim tradition, and consistent with the wishes of Muhammad Ali, may god have mercy on him. We begin this program with a brief recitation from the Koran, the scripture of the muslims. A young Imam of the midtown mosque in Memphis, Tennessee, where he's spearheading a neighborhood renewal effort in one of the most blighted neighborhood in Memphis and that effort is centered around the mosque, one of the few African-American graduates of the university. He will share with us a few verses from the Koran. 15;12;50 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Hamza Abdul Malik. [ Applause ] [ Speaking foreign language ] 15;13;12 [ Speaking foreign language ] [ Speaking foreign language ] 15;17;10 (shot of Ali's wife) >> Now with the translation of those verses we would like to bring to the stage the second generation daughter of Syrian immigrants. She's an excellent student. In her spare time, in recent years, she raises money to provide medical supplies, surgical instruments and other forms of medical assistance for Syrian refugees fleeing from the horror of the current conflict in that land and we pray that almighty god brings it to a succession soon. 15;18;00 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Ia Kutma. [ Applause ] 15;18;14 >> In the name of god, the most gracious, the most merciful, truly those who say our lord is god and our upright the angels will descend upon them saying, have neither fear nor sadness, but rather, rejoice in this paradise that you have been promised. We are your allies in this lower life in the hereafter. Where you will have your heart's desire and you will have whatever you ask for. Hospitably from the one most forgiving, most merciful. Who is more beautiful in speech than the one who invites to god and does righteous works saying, truly, I am submitted to god? For good and evil are not equal. 15;19;13 Repel ugliness with beauty and behold the one between you and whom there was enmity is transformed into a warm friend. But no one arrives at the station without great patience and immense fortune. Through prostration, chapter 41 verses 30 to 35. Thank you. [Applause] 15;19;45 (shot of Ali's daughter) >> I forgot to mention that she is a louisvillean, a proud resident of this city. [Applause] 15:20 15;20;05 >> Oh, god, miss this day of ours, you are our protector. What an excellent protector, an excellent helper. Honorable president Bill William J. Clinton, distinguished guests, viewing audience, on behalf of the Ali family, and the city of Louisville, Kentucky, the home of the people's champ. [Applause] 15;20;50 >> Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali. [Chanting] Ali, Ali. 15;21;00 >> We're dealing with time here, folks. Louisville, Kentucky, admirably led by mayor Greg fisher, I would like to welcome you. Give it up for the mayor. [Applause] >> I would like to welcome you to this memorial service for the people's champ, Muhammad Ali. And this time, we would like to introduce our first speaker. Dr. Reverend Kevin W. Cosby. [Applause] 15;21;50 >> Were it not for time, since Cosby rhymes with Ali, we would we would say, Cosby, Cosby, but time doesn't permit. Reverend Cosby is senior pastor of St. Steven church in Louisville, Kentucky. Due greatly to his dynamic bible teachings his congregation has grown over the long years of his ministry. Reverend Cosby combines passion, wit, and intellect as the foundation of the inspirational ministry that is transformed the lives of thousands of individuals. Reverend Cosby. [Applause] 15;22;39 >> Dr. Reverend Kevin W. Cosby: Thank you. I looked into the dictionary for the word, fidelity. And it had two words. Lonnie Ali. [Applause] 15;22;57 >> In 1967, nine months prior to his assassination and martyrdom, Dr. Martin Luther king, Jr. Was interviewed by merv griffin on "The merv griffin show". Merv griffin asked Dr. King a relevant question. He said, Dr. King, what has been the greatest affect and impact that the civil rights struggle has had on the Negro? Dr. King paused and said, besides the dismantling of barriers that prohibited the Negro from free access, the greatest and most profound effect that the civil rights struggle had was that it infused in the Negro something that the anything Negro needed all along. 15:24:07 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;24;00 And that was a sense of somebodiness. You will never be able to appreciate what Dr. King meant when he said, the negro needed a sense of somebodiness until you understand the 350 years of nobodiness that was infused into the psyche of people of color. Every sacred document in our history, every hallowed institution, conspired to convince the African in America that when god made the African, that god was guilty of creative malfeasance. 15;24;55 All of the documents from the constitution said to the Negro, that you're nobody. The constitution said that we were three-fifths of a person. Decisions by the supreme court, like the dred Scott decision, said to the Negro, to the African, you had no rights that whites were bound to respect. And even Francis Scott key, in his writing of "The star spangled banner" we sang, verse one, but in verse three he celebrates slavery by saying, no refuge can save the harrowing enslaved from the sorrow of night or the death of the grave. Every institution from religion to entertainment, from Amos and Andy to Jane and tarzan, infused in the psyche of the Negro, that he was inferior. 15;26;06 But something happened to the depression generation and the World War II generation of African-Americans. Jackie Robinson picked up his bat and hit a ball and the Brooklyn dodgers win the pennant. Joe Louis dismantles the pride of Aryan supremacy by knocking out max melling in 124 seconds. Jesse Lewis runs at ambulatory speed and wins four gold medals. Rosa parks sits on a bus in 1955 and a young seminary student from Boston university stands up and takes the complex ideas of _____ and dips it chocolate so big mama can understand it. 15;27;02 And then from Louisville. [Cheering] -- Emerged the civil-tongued poet who took the ethos of somebodiness to unheard of heights. Before James brown said, I'm black and I'm proud. Muhammad Ali said I'm black and I'm pretty. [Laughter] 15:27:38 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;27;44 >> Black and pretty was an oxymoron. Blacks did not say pretty. The first black millionaire in this country was not Oprah but madam C.J. Walker who made products in order to help black people escape their Africanity. But Muhammad Ali said I'm proud. I'm pretty. I'm glad of who I am. And when he said that, that infused in Africans a sense of somebodiness. 15;28;25 To extrapolate Muhammad Ali from the times in which he lives is called historic presentism. It is to talk about George Washington and not talk about the American revolution to talk about Abraham Lincoln and not talk about the civil war. It's to talk about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and not talk about the depression and World War II. Our brother, Muhammad Ali, was a product of a difficult time. And he dared to love black people. 15;29;05 At a time when black people had a problem loving themselves. [Applause] He dared. He dared to affirm the beauty of blackness. He dared to affirm the power and the capacity of African-Americans. He dared to love America's most unloved race. And he loved us all, and we loved him because he -- we knew he loved us. He loved us all. Whether you lived in the suburbs or whether you lived in the slums. Whether you lived on the avenue or whether you lived in an alley. Whether you came from the penthouse or whether you lived in the projects. Whether you came from Morehouse or whether you had no house, whether you were high yellow or boot black, Muhammad Ali loved you. Our city is known for two things. It's known for Muhammad Ali, it is known for the Kentucky derby. 15;30;19 We hope you will come back and visit our city. The first Saturday in may, we hope you will place a bet on one of the horses, but if you do, please know the rules. What will happen is the horses start in the starting gate and then the signal will be given think will run in the mud for two minutes. And the winner will then be led to the winner's circle where a right of roses will be placed around the horse's neck. We want you to make a bet but please know the rules. You cannot bet for the horse once it's in the winner's circle. You have to bet for the horse while it's still in the mud. [Applause] 15;31;09 And there are lot of people, a lot of people who will bet and have bet on Muhammad Ali when he was in the winner's circle. But the masses bet on him while he was still in the mud. [Applause] Kareem abdul-jabbar stood with him when he was in the mud, Jim brown stood with him when he was in the mud. Bill Russell stood with him when he was in the mud. Howard cosell stood with him when he was in the mud. 15:31:24 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;31;51 Please don't mishear me. I am not saying that Muhammad Ali is the property of black people. He is the property of all people. [Applause] But while he is the property of all people, let us never forget that he is the product of black people in their struggle to be free. [Applause] I went looking for Jesus on a poor west-end street, looking that I would find him as he walked around with men and women with stumbling feet. People who had their heads bowed low because they were broke and had nowhere to go. But then I went looking for Jesus, way in the sky. Thinking he would wear a robe that would dazzle my eye. When suddenly, Jesus came walking by with stumbling feet because he had been hanging with the poor on a west-end street. [Applause] 15:33:06 (shot of Ali's wife and family) 15;33;10 The Muhammad Ali of my childhood had a shuffle but as he grew older he walked with shuffling feet. And I will submit to you he walked with shuffling feet not because of Parkinson's disease but he walked with shuffling feet because he hanged out with the folk in west Louisville who had shuffling feet. Peace and god bless you. [Applause] 15;33;47 (shot of Ali's wife applauding and family standing up) 15;34;00 >> Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Don't give a teenager a telephone and don't give a preacher a microphone. [ laughter ] 15:34:15 (shot of Ali's wife) >> We'd like to bring Senator Orrin Hatch to the stage, now in this seventh term as Utah's senator, one of Utah's senators, he is the most senior Republican in the senate, author of some of the most far-reaching legislation in recent decades. Senator hatch is a seasoned and distinguished public servant. We're deeply honored by his presence today. [Applause] 15;35;00 >>Senator Orrin Hatch: Reverend, that was really good. It's hard for this poor old senator to have to follow that is all I can say. Well, the head of the first fight was Sonny Liston, and Muhammad Ali stood before a crowded pack of reporters and told the world unapologetically who he was. I'm the greatest. That's what he said. But this simple proclamation all took the history and -- Ali took the history and wrote his own title in the textbooks. He was not Muhammad Ali, the prize fighter. Or even the world champion. He was Muhammad all the greatest. His daughters dismissed this as bragging but Ali wasn't talking trash. He was speaking truth. And he was in the world of boxing, he truly was the greatest. [Applause] 15;36;13 (tight shot of ali's wife) 15;36;18 >> With the cut-throat quickness of a street fighter, and the simple grace of a ballerina, Ali moved with the killings like agility and punched with herculean strength. But to assume that Ali's greatness stems solely from his athletic prowess is to see half the man. Ali was great not only as an extraordinary fighter. He was a committed civil rights leader, an international diplomat, a forceful advocate of religious freedom, and effective emissary of Islam. He was something. He was caring as a father, a husband, a brother, and a friend. Indeed, it is as a personal friend that it witness Ali's greatness for myself.I first met Muhammad Ali 28 years ago. Almost to the day, to this day. 15:37:09 (shot of one of Ali's daughters) 15;37;21 I was in my senate office and an assistant said you have a visitor, and I was really surprised that it was none other than the champion himself. The friendship we developed was puzzling to many people, especially to those who saw only our differences. I might say that where others saw a difference, Ali and I saw kinship. We were both dedicated to our families. And deeply devoted to our faiths. He took Islam, and I to the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints. We were both products of humble backgrounds and hard scrabble youth. Ali grew up poor here in Louisville and I grew up poor in Pittsburgh. True, we were different in some ways but our differences fortified our friendship. 15;38;26 They did not define it. I saw greatness in Ali's ability to look beyond the horizon and our differences. To find common ground. This shared sensibility was the foundation of a rich and meaningful relationship that I will forever treasure. One of my fondest memories of our friendship when Ali joined news the Salt Lake -- going to listen to the Salt Lake Mormon tabernacle choir. I have to say, it was the same Mormon tabernacle choir -- Ali loved music, and he enjoyed the choir's performance, but he seemed most excited to share his own religious beliefs with those who came to hear the Christian hymns. Ali attracted big crowds that day, and as he always did, and he gave everyone autographed pamphlets explaining his Muslim beliefs. 15;39;31 Hundreds of mormons lined up to grab the pamphlets, and of course I took one for myself. I respected his deeply held convictions just as he respected mine. In our relationship it was anchored by our different faiths. Ali was open to goodness. In all of its diverse realities and varieties. On another occasion, I took Ali to primary children's hospital in Salt Lake City. We visited with downtrodden children who perhaps had never smiled a day in their lifetime. Until Ali showed up. Ali held those kids and looked into their eyes. They would grin from ear to ear. These are kids that never smiled. They were so pained. The nurses were astounded. Never before had they seen someone who had connected so immediately and profoundly with these sick children. 15;40;35 Ali had a special way with kids as we all know. He may have been a tough and tenacious man in the ring, but he was a compassionate and tender around those that he loved. 15:40:48 (shot of Ali's wife) Through all of his ferocity as a fighter, Ali was also a peacemaker, a particular radio host in Utah berated me constantly on the air waves. Week after week. One day the host asked if I were arrange for Ali to meet Utah's former middleweight champion, James Fulmer, for a joint interview. Ali agreed. Knowing that the appearance could help me build some good will, but he also was very interested in meeting James(?) as well. It was an unforgettable experience. Here were two champions, face-to-face, reminiscing about some of the best fights the world has ever seen, and I have to say, in the process, Ali claimed that radio host -- well, he charmed the radio host so much on my behalf, gently transforming an unrepentant antagonist into a respectful starring partner. 15;41;52 So dedicated was Ali to our friendship, that he joined me on the campaign trail during several election cycles. He came to Utah year after year to raise funds for a charity benefiting needy women, women in jeopardy, and families in our state. Ali didn't look at life through the binary lens of Republican and Democrat. So common today. He saw worthy causes and shared humanity. And always willingness to put principles ahead of partisanship, he showed us all the path to greatness. And I'll never forget that greatness. Nor will I ever forget him. [Applause] 15;42;47 There there were many faces to Ali's greatness. His abilities as a boxer, his charisma as a public figure, his benevolence as a father and as a friend. All of these made Ali great. But there was something else that made him the greatest. Ali was the greatest because, as a debilitated and unbroken champion for later years he put is to a greatness beyond ourselves, greatness beyond even Ali. He pointed us to the greatness of god. [Applause] 15;43;35 God raised up Ali to be the greatest fighter in the world of all-time. Yet he allowed Ali to wrestle with Parkinson's disease, an inescapable reminder we're all mortal, and that we are all dependent on god's grace. Ali believed this himself. He once told me, god gave me this condition to remind me always that I am human, and that only he is the greatest. [Applause] 15;44;12 Ali was an unsurpassed symbol of our universal dependence on the divine. He was the greatest because he reminded us all who truly is the greatest. God, our creator. I'm eternally grateful for my special bond with this special man, and for my friendship with his beloved wife, who I love dearly. She is one of the great women in this world. [Applause] 15;44;44 (shot of wife) She was dedicated to the very end and I pray that Ali rested peacefully and Ali will rest peacefully the presence of the greatest of all, even our gods. I can bear testimony that I believe in god. I believe that we're here on Earth for a reason. I believe that this Earth life is a time for us to do what is right for god and for our fellow men and women. I don't know that I've ever met anybody who did it any better than my friend, Muhammad Ali. [Applause] >> God bless you. God bless the family. 15;45;37 (shot of wife applauding) 15;45;45 >> Next we would like to welcome Monsignor Father Henry Kriegel to the stage. Father Kriegel has been instrumental -- has been the pastor of St. Patricks parish in Erie, PA. He was ordained in 1970 and named a domestic prebate with the title Monsignor by Pope John Paul II in 1991. His wisdom, scholraship and spiritual guidance is a source of solace and guidance for catholics and members of other faith communities far far beyond his Pennsylvania home. Father Kriegel. 15;46;35 >> Monsignor Father Henry Kriegel: Let us pray. Loving eternal god, as we gather today in prayer, we do so with an abiding sense of gratitude. Our gratitude knows no bounds as we thakn you for the gift of this good and gentle man. Muhammed Ali opened our eyes to the evil of racism, to the absurdity of war. He showed us with incredible patience that a debilitating illness need never diminish joy and love in our lives. He chided our consciences, he awakened in us a deeper sense of the need to respect one another, to set aside racial differences. The legendary fighter of all time in reality taught us to heal, rather than to fight. To embrace, rather than to turn away. To include, rather than to exclude. While proclaiming himself to be the greatest, he showed us that his greatness lied in his love and concern for others. Most particularly the marginalized, the suffering, the helpless, the hopeless. You gift of him has enriched us, has made us better people, has created a more gentle world. We dare not return him to you today without expressing our gratitude for the gift of him. Amen. 15;47;50 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;48;22 >> Next we will hear a few brief remarks from Dr. Timothy Gianotti. Dr. Gianotti is a professor of islamic studies at the university of waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He is equally at home, busying himself with the affairs of the Muslim community as he is sitting in the library and burrowing through books. A true public intellectual. He is the initial and principal islamic adviser to the Ali family. He has been instrumental in assuring that the last days of Muhammad's life, his burial, his bathing, his shrouding, and his burial today, his funeral and burial today, all were in accordance with the strictures of Muslim law. So now I'd like to bring to you the person I affectionately call, brother, doctor, Imam, Timothy Gianotti. [Applause] 15;49;58 >> Dr. Timothy Gianotti: In the name of god who is the loving nurturer of the creation, and the ever compassionate and ever merciful, I'd like to share a prayer today. This is a prayer adapted from a there divisional prayer of the prophet Muhammad. My god's peace and blessings be upon him. But before I do so I would just like to say to the family, to Lonnie, to everyone here, that serving Muhammad Ali has been one of the greatest privileges of my life. 15;50;50 (shot of Ali's wife) Oh, god, you who are the light of the heavens and the Earth, grant our brother Muhammad a light in his heart. A light in his earthly body, now restored to the Earth. A light in his grave. A light before him as he journeys on to you. A light in all that he has left behind in this world. A light to his right, and the lights to his left. Oh, god, increase him inlight. Grant him light. A light in his deeds in this world and a light in the hereafter. A light in the hearts of those whom he loved. And a light in the eyes of those who loved him. 15;52;05 A light in those whom he knocked down. And a light in those whom he lifted up. A light in his words which echo in our hearts. A light in the lives of all those whom he touched. A light in his children and a light in their mothers. 15:52:40 (shot of one of Ali's daughters) A light in his grandchildren. And a light in his devoted wife, Lonnie. Oh, lord, increase your servants in light. And give him light. And embrace him in light. And fill us all with light .[ Foreign foreign ] 15;53;10 >> You who are the light odd Earth, you who are the most merciful of all those who show mercy. [Applause] 15;53;38 >> Next we'll hear a few words from rabbi Michael Lerner. Rabbi Lerner is the editor of a magazine, as the magazine's name suggests, rabbi Lerner has dedicated his life to working, to heal and repair the world. Rabbi Lerner is never afraid of ruffling a few feathers so we asked him to be nice today. Rabbi Lerner. [Applause] 15;54;23 >>Rabbi Michael Lerner: We'll see about the feathers. [Foreign chanting] >> Master of compassion, god of compassion, send your blessings to Muhammad Ali and send your blessings to all who mourn for him, and send your blessings for all the millions and millions of people who mourn for him all over this planet. I come here speaking as representative of American Jews, and to say that American Jews played an important role of solidarity with the African-American struggles in this country, and that we today stand in solidarity with islamic communities in this country and all around the world. [Applause] 15;55;23 We will not tolerate politicians or anyone else putting down a Muslim and blaming muslims for a few people. [Cheers and applause] 15;55;40 (shot of Ali's wife and family standing up and clapping) (shot of Bill Clinton clapping) 15;55;50 We know what it's like to be demeaned. We know what it's like to have some -- a few people who act against the highest visions of our tradition, to then be identified as the value of the entire tradition. And one of the reasons that we in (?) magazine, a magazine of liberal and Progressive jews but also an interfaith magazine, have called upon the United States to stand up to the part of the Israeli government that is suppressing Palestinians, is that we as Jews understand that our commitment is to recognize that god has created everyone in god's image, and that everyone is equally precious. 15;56;33 And that means that Palestinian people as well as all other people on the planet. [Applause] I know the people of Louisville have a special relationship to Muhammad Ali, and I had a personal relationship in the '60s when both of us were indicted by the federal government and before our various stands against the war in Vietnam. I want to say that although he was cheered on as the heavyweight champion of the world, you know the truth is that in all the honor to him, that heavyweight champions of the world come and go, and sports heroes come and go. There was something about Muhammad Ali that was different. 15;57;24 At the key moment when he had that recognition, he used it -- to stand up to an immoral war and say, no, I won't go! [ Applause ] And it's for that reason that tens and millions of Americans who don't particularly care about boxing care about Muhammad Ali because he was a person who was willing to risk a great honor that he got and a great fame that he got to stand up for the beliefs that he had, to think truth to power when the rest of the people around him said, no, no, you're going to lose your championship and it was taken away from him for five years. But he stood up and was willing to take that kind of a risk because of that kind of moral integrity. [ Applause ] 15;58;22 So I want so say, how do we honor Muhammad Ali? The way to honor Muhammad Ali is to be Muhammad Ali today. That means us, everyone here and everyone listening, it's up to us to continue that ability to speak truth to power. We must speak out, refuse to follow the path of conformity to the rules of the game in life. We must refuse to follow the path of conformity. Tell the 1% who own 80% of the wealth of this country that it's time to share that wealth. Tell the politicians who use violence worldwide and then preach nonviolence to the oppressed, that it's time to end their drone warfare and every other form of warfare, to close our bases around the world, bring the troops home, tell those who committed mass incarceration that it's time to create a guaranteed income for everyone in our society. [ Applause ] 15;59;34 Tell judges to let out of prison the many African-Americans swept up by racist police and imprisoned by racist judges. [ Applause ] Many are in prison today for offenses like possessing marijuana that white people get away with all the time! [ Applause ] Tell our elected officials to imprison those who authorize torture and those who ran the big investment companies that caused the economic collapse of 2008. Tell the leaders of Turkey to stop killing the kurds. Tell Israeli prime minister Netanyahu that the way to get security is for Israel is to stop the occupation of the west bank and help create a Palestinian state. [ Applause ] 16;00;37 Tell the next president of the United States that -- tell the next president of the united States that she --- (shot of bill clinton smiling) Tell the next president of the united States that she should seek a constitutional amendment to make all national and state elects funds by congress and the state legislator and all other money be banned, all other money from companies companies and individuals and make it all public funding. 16;01;30 >> Tell her that the way to achieve homeland security is not for us to try new ways of domination, the strategy of domination in the world of the other to get security has been tried for the last ten thousand years and doesn't work. The way to get security is for the United States to become known as the most generous and caring country in the world, not the most powerful. [Applause] 16;02;00 We can start with a global and domestic plan to once and for all ended global and domestic poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education, inadequate health care. So, I want to, as chair of the interfaith network of spiritual Progressives -- by the way, spiritual progressives.org come and join us -- I want to affirm our commitment to the well-being of all muslims on the planet as well as the people of all faiths and secular humanists as well. We wish to pay honor to muslims of the world as the continue today the fast of Ramadan, and join with them in mourning the loss and celebrating the life of Muhammad Ali, a great -- peace be upon him, peace be upon the prophet now ham -- Muhammad and peace on humanity and peace on all of us, amen. [Cheers and applause] 16;03;20 [Chanting] Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali. Ali. >> Time, time, time is not on our side. After that speech, I have to edit my initial remarks, honorable first man William J. Clinton. Chief Sidney hill in 2002, Sidney Hill was selected as Tadodaho, or principal spiritual leader of its people a true friend of the earth and beloved to all who know him, he is a leader whose spirituality is coupled with a passionate pursuit of justice. We are honored that he has come here today to share a few words and a few thoughts with us. Chief Hill. [ Applause ] 16;04;44 >>Chief Sidney hill: [ Speaking only in foreign language ] 16;06;16 >>This is chairman Stevens with us, United Nation from our alliance (?) Nation. Translation: he said, my relatives, it is my responsibility to pick up the words for (?) the people of the longhouse. They wish you well. They want you to be at peace of mind. Now this great darkness that has happened to us, you must understand that you who have gathered us here, that his road is straight. Peacefully, he will arrive at his land. [foreign language] Our creator. It is the same as you call him, Allah. 16;07;30 These were the words. He took the family, your relatives and friends of Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali was the leader among men. And a champion of the people. He fought for the people of color, yet he was man of peace and principle. A man of compassion, who used his great gifts for the common good. The spirit has a clear path to the creator. 16;08;27 To the spiritual leader, six nation iroquois confederation. And myself, faithkeeper, turtle clan, under the council of chiefs, have journeyed here today to add our voice to this congregation of world leaders, in honor of his work, and for the right and dignity of people of color and the common man. [Applause] 16;09;15 He was always in support of the indigenous people of this hemisphere in our quest for our inherent land rights, self-determination, identity, and collective right that include the natural world. We know what he was up against. Because we have had 524 years of survival training ourselves. [Applause] 16;09;50 (shot of Ali's wife clapping) In 1978, a congressman from the state of Washington put a bill into congress to terminate our treaties with the United States. An Indian nations walked from California to Washington, DC, in protest. Muhammad Ali marched into Washington, DC with us. [Applause] 16;10;31 (shot of one of Ali's daughters) 16;10;38 He was a free, independent spirit. He stood his ground with great courage and conviction. And he paid a price. And this country did, too. And we all did. Values and principles will determine one's destiny. And the principles of a nation will do the same. Poor people do not have many options. You fighters know what I'm talking about. He said that ring was Ali's path to his destiny. He said he would be heavyweight champion of the world, and he was. Three times. This is the fourth time, right here, right now. [Applause] 16;11;55 On his journey in life, he lived and learned the hard way. He brought a light into this world. My world. Our world. And that light will shine a long, long time. [ Applause ] Peace, brother. Peace. And on behalf of my friend Ernie and the indigenous people everywhere, peace. Thank you. [Applause] 16;12;58 >> We introduce chief hill, and his words were translated by Chief Oren Lyons who was born into a traditional indigenous family, and grew up on the native reservations of upstate New York. In 1970 he became the chief and faithkeeper of the turtle clan of the onondaga nation. His scholarship, stewardship and leadership is a source of benefit and great blessing for all who know him. Now he want to introduce Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport, Rabbi Rapport is senior rabbi here of the temple here in Louisville where he has been a leader in interfaith work. He has the passion for teaching youth, and in fact it is his work with youth that let him to cross paths with Muhammad Ali. His religious leadership focuses on compassion, care, and working together was all to build a better world. Rabbi Rapport. [Applause] 16;14;24 >>Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport: This is a reading from our memorial prayer on yom kippur. Our day of atonement. Our most sacred day of the year. It was written men decades ago by rabbi Fein, civil rights leader who could never have known when he composed these words he was writing a eulogy for Muhammad Ali. 16;14;49 Birth is a beginning. And death a destination. And life is a journey, from childhood to maturity, and youth to age. From innocence to awareness, and ignorance to knowing. From foolishness to discretion. And then perhaps to wisdom. From weakness to strength, and strength to weakness. And often back again. From health to sickness, and back we pray to health again. From offense to forgiveness. From loneliness to love. From joy to gratitude. And pain to compassion, from grief to understanding. From fear to faith. From defeat to defeat to defeat, until looking backward or ahead we see that victory lies not at some high place along the way, but in having made the journey, stage by stage, a sacred pilgrimage. 16;15;50 Birth is a beginning. And death, a destination. And life is a journey. The sacred pilgrimage to life everlasting. We say words of prayer and they remain words, until we encounter a person who embodies these words and makes them real. I've said these words many times before. At funerals and memorial services. But never have I felt them come to life and speak of a single shining soul as I do today. Muhammad Ali was the heart of this city. The living, breathing, embodiment of the greatest that we can be. 16;16;33 (shot of Ali's wife) He was our heart, and that heart beats here still. [Applause] 16;16;47 Let me tell you a story you already know. It's one of those stories about Ali being gracious to a stranger that so many of us have told, so many times, and in so many we we sometimes forget the lessons these stories were intended to teach us. It's a story Honna tells about her father towards the end of their book, the soul of the butterfly. Honna's driving her father to a book store on one Sunday to pick up some bibles and korans for a project that he's working on. They pass an elderly man standing by the road with a bible in one hand and his thumb in the air with the other. They offer him a ride. And he thanks them, saying that he is on his way home from church. He only needs to go a few miles down the street where he can pick up a cab. Hanna asked where he lives help doesn't want to trouble them. He has no idea who is sitting in the front seat of the car. 16;17;48 Until Muhammad Ali turns around and says, it's no trouble at all. We're just on our way to a bookstore to by some bibles and korans. Once the man gets over meeting the greatest of all-time, he insists that he has three bibles in his house, and he would be pleased to give them to Ali in appreciation for the ride. Ali thanks him but says, he wants to pay for the bibles. The man says, no, the bibles were meant as a gift. Ali asked him what he does for a living. And it turns out the man had a stroke and has been forced into retirement. Ali then tries to hand him a big pile of money for the bibles. But the man refuses and this is where things get interesting. 16;18;37 Ali says, take the money, man, I'm trying to get into heaven.(laughter) 16;18;44 (shot of Ali's wife) And the man replied. So am I. Ali is not taking no for an answer. He says, if you don't take the money I might not get in. And the man replies, if I do take your money I might not get in. They arrive at his home, and the map invites him tomeet his wife of 30 years. He gives Ali the bibles. Ali slips the money under a napkin on the kitchen table. They're about to leave and Hannah gives the man her phone number and tells him to call him -- to call her if her needs a ride home from church again. Sitting in the car, Ali turns to his daughter and asks. Would you really go out of your way and pick him up and drive him home? And she says, yes. And with tears in his eyes, he says, that's me in you. [Applause] 16;19;52 (shot of Ali's wife holding back tears) 16;20;04 He says, you're on the road to heaven. Therein lies ally's greatness his ability to see something greater and his ability to inspire others to see such greatness' within themselves. There will never be another greatest like Muhammad Ali. But we together can now embody a measure of his kindness, and his compassion. We can say each of us in our hearts there's a little bit of Ali in me. [Applause] This week, we have mourned the loss and celebrated the life of a Louisville legend and a citizen of the world. And of all the words and all the ways, the most powerful moments have always been made in the voices of young people, repeated in prayer services, and chanted in the streets. I am Ali. I am Ali. I am not the fighter that Ali was. And I may not have the courage which he never lacked. And I am definitely not as pretty. (laughter) But in my heart, and in my hope, and in my prayers I am Muhammad Ali. [Applause] 16;21;36 >> When he say that in our hearts, when we live that in our lives, then we together can build a legacy worthy of the greatest of all-time. So say that now with me. In your heart, and in this room, I am Ali. I am Ali. [Applause] >> You know, one of the amazing things that we've witnessed during our time here in Louisville has been just so many stories of common, ordinary people. There's folks on the street, working in the hotels, the restaurants, virtually everyone has a story concerning how Muhammad Ali touched their lives. He came to my fourth grade class. He helped me out in this or that way. He came to visit me when I was sick. Just on and on and on. And collectively, those experiences, they become sinner ginnic, they become greater than the individual parts. And when we rose through the streets of the city today, I've witnessed something I've never, ever witnessed in my life. [ Applause ] 16;23;10 And I don't think I will ever witness again. I witnessed the power. In our muslim tradition we call it (foreign language) it might be loosely translated as sainthood, I witnessed the power of sainthood. [ applause] Venerable Utsumi is a member of the (foreign language) a Japanese Buddhist order dedicated to working for world peace through the practice of walking peace pilgrimages anti-nuclear weapon pilgrimages and the construction of peace pagodas all over the globe, he will be joined onstage by Sister Denise another member of the order and together they will share a traditional chant with us. 16;24;40 [Buddhist chants] 16:28:25 [Buddhist chants] 16;29;20 Now we will listen to a reading by , Ambassador Shabazz. Ambassador Shabazz is the oldest of six daughters born to el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (?) and Doctor Betty Shabazz. [applause] She probably shares that she is inspired by her parents, their parents, and those before them through the descending generations. The former prime minister of Belize recognized her as a key Ambassador in international cultural affairs and project development and in 2002 appointed her as ambassador at large, powerful and elegant we invite Ambassador Shabazz to read and share and inspire us. [ Applause ] 16:30;44 >>Ambassador Shabazz: Assalamu alaikum. May peace be upon us. All of us. As this is a homegoing celebration I find myself balanced between that of celebration and depletion, loss, that somehow or another, my breathing capacity has been weakened this past week so I ask all of you gathered and afar to please muster up and transmit a bit of your air to me in the memory of Muhammad Ali, thank you all. [ Speaking in foreign language ] WASH 6 ALI MEMORIAL SEVICE LOUISVILLE KY CBS POOL P2 16;31;44 And more as the globe centers at this very moment amidst the holy month of Ramadan where every two hours there's a time zone praying, and including Muhammad Ali and his family in your thoughts. Amidst that are the prayers of all faiths, all those touched, even those that don't claim a religion are feeling something right now in honor of the family and the memory of their father, husband. In the spirit of my parents, Malcolm X Shabazz and Dr. Shabazz, in the presence of my five younger sisters, our children and our grandchildren I would like to first honor his beloved wife, my sister, Lonnie Ali. [ Applause ] 16;32;53 (shot of Ali's wife) 16;32;59 For all the strengths that you know and that resonate beyond. Sometimes you do need a little help no matter how magnificent you are and indeed those that were with him, that loved him, his family members sustain that. His nine children, and I will name them, Maryam, rasheda, Muhammad Jr., Hana, Laila, asaad, Miya, khaliah as well as thier mothers, and the third generation of grandchildren who accompany them. [ Applause ] 16;33;47 (shot of Ali's wife) To his only brother, to his extraordinary example of a best friend, Howard Bingham and to his sister-in-law Marilyn. For all the grief that I am depleted by and others are feeling by his transition, there is none comparable to yours and I know that. On this day and those to come, as you live your waking days with a life without him here presently, very different. 16;34;37 (shot of Ali's wife) Photos, memories, all the things that we have on him that keep him going. He touched you differently and that has to be honored and recognized, never forsaken. [ Applause ] Just know that when you are the descendent of and in the presence of someone whose life was filled with principle, that the seed is in you so that you have to cultivate that responsibly as well. [ Applause ] This moment is very meaningful for me to have been amongst those chosen and blessed by Muhammad himself and affirmed by his wife Lonnie to take part by sharing a prose and a statement during this homegoing ceremony. While he and I had a treasured relationship, the genesis of his love was through the love for my father. Muhammad Ali was the last of a fraternity of amazing men bequeathed to me directly by my dad. 16;35;57 Somewhere between me turning 18, 19 or 20, they all seemed to find me somehow guided by an oath of a promise to my dad long after him leaving this Earth to search for me, and they did. Each one remaining in my life until joining the rest of the heavens beloved summit of fearless humanitarians. This included Muhammad Ali whom my dad loved as a little brother, 16 years his junior and his entrusted friend. There was a double-take when I came upon him, a once childhood per child and now looking right into his face, and you know how he is. He gives you that little dare like, is that you? [ imitates ] From the very moment we found one another, it was as if no time has passed as all despite all of the presumptions of division, despite all of the efforts at separation, despite all of the organized distancing. We dove right into all of the unrequited yet stated and duly acknowledged spaces we could explore and uncover privately. 16;37;18 We cried out loud. His belt, his grief for having not spoken to my dad before he left and then just as loudly we'd laugh about the best of stories, and some that can't be repeated. He was really funny. What was significant as brothers for my father and Ali was their ability to discuss openly anything, all facets of life, namely, the true meaning, as men with great responsibilities be bestowed to them of how to make an equitable difference in the lives of others. A unifying topic was faith and ecumenical faith, respect for faith, all faiths, even if belonging to one specific religion or none, the root of such being the gift of faith itself so in his own words he wrote, "We all have the same God. We just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans, all have different names but they all contain water. So do religions have different names and yet they all contain truth. Truth expressed in different ways and forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian or a Jew. When you believe in god, you should believe all people are part of one family. [ Applause ] 16;39;11 For if you love god, you can't love only some of his children. [ Applause ] His words and certainly ideals shared by both men, love is a mighty thing, devotion is a mighty thing and truth always reigns. Having Muhammad Ali in my life somehow sustained my dad's breath for me a little while longer. 51 years longer until now. (WEEPING) [Applause] I am forever grateful at our union on this Earth together allowed for me a continuum of shared understanding, preserved confidentialities and the comfort of living in his home town of Louisville Kentucky for the past six years. [ Applause ] 16;40;26 That was not a plan. And mostly for the gift of knowing and loving his wife and children forever forward as my own family, know that. As the last of the paternity reaches the heavens, my heart is rendered ever longingly for that tribe. The tribe of purpose, the tribe of significance, tribe of confidence, tribe of character, tribe of duty, tribe of faith, tribe of service. We must make sure that the principle of men and women, like Muhammad Ali and others, whom dedicated their very being to assure that you get to recognize your own glory, is sustained and passed on like that olympic torch. My dad would offer in state when concluding or parting from another, may we meet again in the light of understanding and I say to you with the light of that compass by any means necessary. 16;42;09 >> Ladies and gentlemen, representing the president of the United States and Mrs. Obama, miss Valerie Jarrett. [ Applause ] 16;42;24 >>Valerie Jarrett: Good afternoon. On behalf of president Obama and Mrs. Obama, I wish to express to you their deepest regret that they couldn't be with us here today as we celebrate the extraordinary life of Muhammad Ali. I first met Muhammad Ali over 45 years ago through his friendship with my uncle Jean and he, my uncle, would be so touched that his son gene is a pallbearer here today. Thank you, Lonnie. Because of my family connection, the president and first lady asked me if I would read this tribute to you, penned by president Obama. 16;43;15 It was 1980, an epic career was in its twilight. Everybody knew it. Probably including the champ himself. Ali went into one of his final fights an underdog. All of the smart money was on the new champ, Larry Holmes. And in the end, the oddsmakers were right. A few hours later, at 4 A.M., after the loss, after the fans had gone home and the sports writers were writing their final take, a sports writer asked a restroom attendant if he had bet on the fight. The man, black and getting on in years, said he had put his money on Ali. 16;44;05 The writer asked why. Why, the man said? Why? Because he's Muhammad Ali. That's why. He said, mister, I'm 72 years old and I owe the man for giving me my dignity. [ Applause ] To Lonnie and the Ali family, president Clinton and an arena full of distinguished guests, you are amazing. The man we celebrate today is not just a boxer or a poet or an agitator or a man of peace, not just a Muslim or a black man or a Louisville kid. He wasn't even just the greatest of all time. He was Muhammad Ali.The whole far greater than the sum of its parts. He was bigger, brighter and more original and influential than just about anyone of his era. [ Applause ] 16;45;30 You couldn't have made him up and, yes, he was pretty, too. He had fans in every city, every village, every ghetto on the planet. He was fettered by foreign heads of state, the beatles, British invasion took a detour to come to him. It seemed sometimes that the champ was simply too big for America. But I actually think that the world flocked to him in wonder precisely because, as he once put it, Muhammad Ali was America! Brash, defiant, pioneering, joyful, never tired, always game to test the odds. He was our most basic freedoms, religion, speech, spirit. 16;46;31 He embodied our ability to invent ourselves. His life spoke to our original sin of slavery and discrimination and the journey he traveled helped to shock our consciousness and lead us on a roundabout path towards salvation. And like America, he was always very much a work in progress. We do him a disservice to gauze up his story to sand down his rough edges to talk only of floating like butterflies and stinging like bees. Ali was a radical even in a radical of times. A loud and proud and unabashedly black voice in a Jim crow world. [ Applause ] 16;47;24 His jabs knocked some sense into us, yes, they did. Pushing us to expand our imagination and bring others into our understanding. Now, there were times when he swung a bit wildly. That's right. Wound up and accidently may have wronged the wrong opponent as he was the first to admit. But through all his triumphs and failures, Ali seemed to have achieved the sort of enlightenment and inner peace that we are all striving towards. In the '60s when other young men his age were leaving the country to avoid war or jail, he was asked why he didn't join them. He got angry. He said he'd never leave. His people, in his words, are here, the millions struggling for freedom and justice and equality and I could do a lot of help in jail or not right here in America. [ Applause ] 16;48;34 He'd have everything stripped from him, his titles, his standing, his money, his passion. Very nearly his freedom. But Ali still chose America. I imagine he knew that only here in this country could he win it all back. So he chose to help perfect a union where a descendent of slaves can become the king of the world. And in the process, in the process, lend some dignity to all of us. Maids, porters, students and elderly bathroom attendant and help inspire a young, mixed kid with a funny name to have the audacity to believe he could be anything, even the president of the United States! [ Applause ] 16;49;35 (shot of Ali's wife) Muhammad Ali was America. Muhammad Ali will always be America. What a man. What a spirit. What a joyous mightyful champion. God bless the greatness of Ali. God bless his family. And god bless this nation we love. Thank you very much. 16;50;28 ANNOUNCER VOICE: Ladies and gentlemen, Lonnie Ali. [ Applause ] >> Ali! Ali! Ali! 16;51;05 LONNIE ALI >> Assalamu alaikum. Peace be upon you. You know, I said something to Matt Lauer yesterday that I firmly believe Muhammad had something to do with all of this and I think we are right. Thank you all for being here to share in this final farewell to Muhammad. On behalf of the Ali family, let me first recognize our principal celebrant Imam _____ and Dr. Timothy Gianotti. We thank you for your dedication to helping us fulfill Muhammad's desire that the ceremonies of this past week reflect the traditions of his islamic faith. And as a family, we thank the millions of people who, through the miracle of social media, inspired by their love of Muhammad have reached out to us with their prayers. The messages have come to us in every language from every corner of the globe. From wherever you are watching, know that we have been humbled by your heartfelt expressions of love. It is only fitting that we gather in a city to which Muhammad always returned after his great triumphs. A city that has grown as Muhammad has grown. [ Applause ] 16;52;37 Muhammad never stopped loving Louisville. And we know that Louisville loves Muhammad. [Applause] We cannot forget a Louisville police officer, Joe Espy(?) Martin, who embraced a young 12-year-old boy in distress when his bicycle was stolen. Joe Martin handed young Cassius Clay -- sorry for tripping up that last word -- Clay, to a future in boxing he could scarcely have imagined. America must never forget that when a cop and an inner city kid talk to each other, then miracles can happen. [ Applause ] 16;53;49 Some years ago during his long struggle with Parkinson's in a meeting that included his closest advisors, Muhammad indicated when the end came for him, he wanted us to use his life and his death as a teaching moment for young people for his country and for the world. In effect, he wanted us to remind people who are suffering that he had seen the face of injustice, that he grew up in a segregation and that during his early life, he was not free to be who he wanted to be. But he never became embittered enough to quit or engage in violence. It was a time when a young black boy his age could be hung from a tree in Mississippi in 1955 whose admitted killers went free. 16;54;50 It was time when Muhammad's friends, people he admired, like Brother Malcolm and Dr. King were gunned down, and Nelson Mandela imprisoned for what they believed in. [ Applause ] For his part, Muhammad faced federal prosecution. He was stripped of his title and his license to box and he was sentenced to prison. But he would not be intimidated so as to abandon his principles and his values. 4:55-Lonnie emotional, almost cries 16;55;29 Muhammad wants young people of every background to see his life as proof that adversity can make you stronger. It cannot rob you of the power to dream and to reach your dreams. We built the Muhammad Ali center and that's the center of the Ali message. [ Applause ] Muhammad wants us to see the face of his religion, true Islam, as the face of love. It was his religion that caused him to turn away from war and violence, for his religion he was prepared to sacrifice all that he had and all that he was to protect his soul and follow the teachings of prophet Muhammad peace be upon you. 16;56;25 So even in death, Muhammad has something to say. He's saying that his faith required that he take the more difficult road. It is far more difficult to sacrifice oneself in the name of peace than to take up arms in pursuit of violence. [ Applause ] You know, all of his life, Muhammad was fascinated by travel. He was child-like in his encounter with new surroundings and new people. He took his world championship fights to the ends of the Earth, from the south pacific to Europe to the Congo. And, of course, with Muhammad, he believed it was his duty to let everyone see him in person because, after all, he was the greatest of all time. [ Applause ] The boy from grand avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, grew in wisdom and discovered something new, that the world really wasn't black and white at all. It was filled with many shades of rich colors, languages and religions. As he moved with ease around the world, the rich and powerful were drawn to him but he was drawn to the poor and the forgotten. [ Applause ] 16;57;53 Muhammad fell in love with the masses and they fell in love with him. In the diversity of men and their faiths, Muhammad saw the presence of god. He was captivated by the work of the dalai lama, by mother Teresa and church workers who gave their lives to protect the poor. When his mother died, he arranged for multiple faiths to be represented at her funeral and he wanted the same for himself. We are especially grateful for the presence of the diverse faith leaders here today. And I would like to ask them to stand once more and be recognized. [ Applause ] 16;58;35 Thank you. Thank you very much. You know, as I reflect on the life of my husband, it's easy to see his most obvious talents. His majesty in the ring as he danced under those lights, enshrined him as a champion for the ages. Less obvious was his extraordinary sense of timing. His knack for being in the right place at the right time seemed to be ordained by a higher power. Even those surrounded by Jim Crow, he was born into a family with two parents that nurtured and encouraged him. He was placed on the path of his dreams by a white cop and he had teachers who understood his dreams and wanted him to succeed. The olympic gold medal came and the world started to take notice. A group of successful businessmen in Louisville called the Louisville Sponsoring Group saw his potential, and helped him build a runway to launch his career. His timing was impeccable as he burst into the national stage just as television was hungry for a star to change the faith of sports. 17;00;02 You know, if Muhammad didn't like the rules, he rewrote them. His religion, his name, his beliefs were his to fashion, no matter what the cost. The timing of his actions coincided with a broader shift in cultural attitudes across America, particularly on college campuses. When he challenged the U.S. Government on the draft, his chance of success was slim to none. That the timing of his decision converged with a rising tide of discontent on the war. Public opinion shifted in his direction followed by a unanimous supreme court ruling in a stunning reversal of fortunes. He was free to return to the ring. When he traveled to central Africa to reclaim his title from George Foreman, none of the sports writers thought he could win. In fact, most of them feared for his life. But in what the Africans call the miracle at 4:00 A.M., he became a champion once more. [ Applause ] And as the years passed and those slowed by Parkinson's, Muhammad was compelled by his faith to use his name and his notoriety to support the victims of poverty and strife. He served as a UN messenger of peace and traveled to places like war-torn Afghanistan, he campaigned as an advocate for reducing the debt of third world debt. 17;01;42 He stunned the world when he secured the release of 15 hostages from Iraq. [ applause ] As his voice grew softer, his message took on greater meeting. He came full circle with the people of his country. When he lit a torch that seemed to create new light in the 1996 Olympics. [ Applause ] Muhammad always knew instinctively the road he needed to travel. His friends know what I mean when I say he lived in the moment. He neither dwelled in the past nor harbored anxiety about the future. Muhammad loved to laugh and he loved to play practical jokes on just about everybody. He was sure-footed in his self-awareness, secure in his faith and he did not fear death. Yet, his timing is once again poignant. His passing and his meaning for our time should not be overlooked. As we face uncertainty in a world and divisions at home, as to who we are as a people, Muhammad's life provides useful guidance. 17;02;58 Muhammad was not one to give up on the power of understanding, the boundless possibilities of love and the strength of our diversity. He counted among his friends people of all political persuasions, saw truth in all faith and the nobility of all races as witnessed here today. Muhammad may have challenged his government but he never ran from it or from America. [ Applause ] He loved this country and he understood the hard choices that are born of freedom. I think he saw a nation's soul measured by the soul of its people. For his part, he saw the good soul in everyone and if you were one of the lucky ones to have met him, you know what I meant. He awoke every morning thinking about his own salvation and he would often say, I just want to get to heaven and I've got to do a lot of good deeds to get there. And I think Muhammad's hope is that his life provides some guidance on how we might achieve for all people what we aspire for ourselves and our families. Thank you. [ Applause ] 17;04;38 ANNOUNCER>> Ladies and gentlemen, Maryam Ali. 17;04;50 MARYAM ALI >> Peace be with you, everyone here, and on behalf of the Ali family, I just want to say thank you to Louisville, Kentucky, all the love you've shown us in our lives has been unbelievable. Also, I want to thank the entire globe. My father was loved all over. The processional today was overwhelming but it was so beautiful. I just want to say we love you just like you love us. Thank you very much. [ Applause ] 17;05;23 As you know, my father loved poetry. He was always rhyming and promoting his fights and he had poems of the heart, spiritual poems and poems to promote and I just wrote a piece for him, in honor of him on behalf of my sisters and brothers and everyone who loved my father. It's called "Thank you our dear father." My heart was sore when your sick spirit soared. Your physical body is no more but my mind tells different tales of all that you taught me, your family and the masses. 17;06;02 Most importantly, the belief in god who created humanity to thrive in quality. You fought for a purpose to uphold the principle that we as a people have divine human rights. Staring right into the eyes of oppression, you proclaim your beautiful complexion. Your god-given skills, your independent will and the freedom of your faith. As your daughter, I am grateful for all of our conversations about men, women and relationships. Guiding me to first have a loving relationship with self, refusing anyone to chip away at my esteem and expect the respect of a queen. [ Applause ] Thank you, our dear father, for asking us to think about our purpose and showing us the beauty of service to others. We marvel that your sincere love for people as you treated all who approached you with dignity. Whether they were rich or poor, your kindness was unconditional. Never perceiving anyone as beneath you. 17;07;25 So many have shared personal stories about what you have meant to them as you have exemplified values and qualities that have enhanced their lives. If I had every dollar for every story, I could pay for the sky. Your family is so proud of the legacy you left behind. But I hope that the history of you can help turn the tide of self-hate and violence, because we are overwhelmed with moments of silence for tragic deaths. Here on the soil, American soil, in the Middle East or anywhere else in this world, we crave for peace. That peace that you rest in now. We will forever cherish the 74 years you graced this Earth. You will be greatly missed. But now we send you off in celebration, a blown kiss and prayers. As you enter your final round. God's last boxing bell will sound in heaven. I love you, we all love you. Thank you very much. 17;09;02 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Rasheda Ali Walsh. 17;09;20 RASHEDA ALI >> I'm, we are so honored that you have packed this room with your love. Thank you all. Thank you so much for being here today. To celebrate our father. You are the greatest father to us. And it was God's will to take you home. Your family will try our best to make you proud, and carry on your legacy of giving and love. You have inspired us in the world to be the best version of ourselves. May you live in paradise, free from suffering. You shook up the world in life. Now you're shaking up the world in death. 17;10;23 (shot of Ali's wife holding back tears) Daddy is looking at us now, right and saying, I told you I was the greatest! No one compares to you, daddy. You once said I know where I'm going. And I know the truth. And I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be who I am. Now you are free to be with your creator. We love you so much, daddy. Until we meet again, fly, butterfly, fly. [ Applause ] 17;11;45 ALI DINICOLA Hello. My name is Ali DiNicola. I was born on Muhammad Ali's birthday, I was named after him. He used to call me the little greatest. We can all learn from Muhammad's example of kindness and understanding. When Muhammad was asked how he would like to be remembered, he said I like to, I like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, one teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness, he took one court of laughter, one pinch of concern and then he mixed willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith and he stirred it up well. He spread it over a span of a lifetime. And he served it to each and every deserving person he met. Thank you. 17;12;56 ANNOUNCER>>> Ladies and gentlemen, Natasha boncouer. Natasha boncouer: Before I begin, I would just like to say that I'm truly humbled and honored to be here. And I would like to thank the Muhammad Ali center and the Ali family for giving me the opportunity to speak. And to echo the voice that Muhammad has given me. So let me tell you a story about a man. A man who refused to believe that reality was limitation to achieve the impossible. A man who once reached up through the pages of a textbook and touched the heart of an 8-year-old girl. Whose reflection of herself mirrored those who cannot see past the color of her skin. But instead of drawing on that pain from the distorted reality, she found strength. Just as this man did when he stood tall in the face of pelting rain and shouted -- I am the disturbance in the sea of your complacency. And I will never stop shaking your waves. 17;14;30 And his voice echoed through hers. Through mine. And she picked up the rocks that were thrown at her and she threw them back with a voice so powerful that it turned all the pain that she had faced in her life into strength. And tenacity. And now that 8-year-old girl stands before you, to tell you that Ali's cry still shakes these waves today. 17;15;11 (shot of Ali's wife) That we are to find strength in our identities. Whether we are black or white or Asian or hispanic. Lgbt, disabled or able-bodied. Muslim, jewish, hindu or Christian. His cry represents those who have not been heard, and invalidates the idea that we are to be confirmed to one normative standard. That is what it means to defeat the impossible. Because impossible is not a fact, impossible is an opinion. Impossible is nothing! [ Applause ] 17;16;15 When I look into this crowd I smile. I smile to recognize that he is not really gone. He lives in you and he lives in me. And he lives in every person that he has touched in every corner of this world. (shot of Ali's wife) Reality was never a limitation for Ali. For us, just as every punch his opponents threw, impossible is never enough to knock us down. Because we are Ali. We are greater than the rocks or the punches that we throw at each other. We have the ability to empower and inspire and to connect and to unify and that will live on forever. So let me tell you a story about a man. His name is Muhammed Ali. He is the greatest of all time. He is from Louisville, Kentucky and he lives in each and every one of us. (shot of Ali's wife) And his story is far from over. Thank you. [ Cheers and applause ] [ Applause ] (shot of Ali's wife applauding) 17;18;26 ANNOUNCER>> Ladies and gentlemen, John Ramsey. 17;18;35 John Ramsey First of all, on behalf of my fellow Louisvillians to the Ali family, we offer our condolences our heartfelt prayers and for Lonnie Ali a very special prayer. We know that Muhammad was blessed with many gifts but none more precious than Lonnie Ali and we thank you so much. (shot of Ali's wife) You know, I've got to tell you, Louisville, when I was in the procession today and saw the tens and thousands of people and all of the warmth and the love and the respect that was shown for Muhammad, I've got to tell you, my heart swelled with pride. I know he was watching from above and I know he absolutely loved it. He-- I don't think he'd be surprised. I think Muhammad would say, Louisville, Kentucky, the greatest city of all times. I'm feeling good. Man. I tell you what, how can we lose with the stuff we use? [ laughter] I'm feeling so good, I think I'm going to make a comeback and change my name back to Walnut street. That's how good I feel. [ laughter ] 17;19;46 You know, for me, I always felt connected to Muhammad even before I had met him. You know, maybe it was the fact that I was a Louisville boy. Maybe it's the fact that I loved the Louisville Cardinals, like Muhammad. You know, but as our relationship evolved, I found that a lot of people felt this personal connection with Muhammad. And that's part of the Ali magic. You know, initially, for a lot of men my age and certainly myself, it was the athlete that I was attracted to. I mean, that kind of size, that kind of speed, agility, that grace not only made him the heavyweight champion of the world three times but it made him "Sports illustrated" sportsman of the century, the A.P. Athlete of the century and certainly made him the athlete -- a once in a lifetime athlete. But I would argue that the combination of compassion, kindness, love and the ability to lift us up made him a once in a lifetime person. [ Applause ] 17;20;55 You know, Muhammad was blessed with many gifts, as I said, and he was a wise and faithful steward of those gifts. There's many stories about Muhammad but there is a couple that really to me encapsulate what he was all about. I remember back in 2000, I made a trip to the summer olympics with Muhammad and one day he decided we were going to go see a boxing match and I remember we're ringside, the American wins, 15,000 people are chanting, usa, usa! And I thought, this is my olympic moment. You know, I was filled with patriotic pride. The boxer came down from the ring, he took the obligatory picture with Muhammad, the fist to chin shot, hundreds of photographers from around the world were taking pictures, you know, thousands of people cheering for Muhammad and this victorious fighter. 17;21;47 And then Muhammad leaned down to me whispered in my ear, he said, I want to see the loser. I say, excuse me? I want to see the loser. So, I motioned over to an Olympic official and I said, you know Muhammad wants to see the loser. Can we go to the losing locker room? And we get to the losing locker room and there's not tens of thousands of people, there's not any photographers. There's just a kid in the corner on a stool, he's got a towel around his neck, he's got a bloody mouth under his eye. This has got to be the lowest point of his athletic career at the very least. He felt like he let down his country. He is defeated. And the vibe in that room was literally the lowest of low. But then when Muhammad walks in, this kid recognizes him instantly and in broken English he says Muhammad Ali and Muhammad started dancing he said show me what you've got man, show me, and Mohammad starts throwing out jabs and this kid starts ducking and smiling. Muhammad grabs him in a bear hug. He said, I saw what you did out there, man, you look good. You are moving good, you can be a champion, man. Don't give up. And I remember, it warmed my heart how he took this kid from here to here in an instant. 17;22;58 And -- [ applause ] And I remember, I got in the car and I said to Muhammad, I said, Mohammad try to be a nice guy but I've got to tell you, I was caught up in the moment. I didn't give that losing fighter a second thought. I said mohammad you're the greatest. Muhammad said, tell me something I don't already know. [ laughter ] He -- and -- but what I don't want people to forget, no doubt, to me he's the finest example of a human that I've ever seen. The finest example of a great human being that I've ever seen of the kindness that a human possesses. That was Muhammad Ali, but don't forget about this, man. Muhammad was the coolest cat in the room. I mean, he was good looking, he had charm, he had charisma, he had swagger before he knew that swagger was. I mean, I remember, I went to -- when -- was about 25 years ago, he came to town to visit his mother and he wanted to go to outback steakhouse. I has a friend there, was big Mohammad fan, so we came in and at the time here in Louisville, there was a fireman's convention and all of these guys had their engine numbers on their shirt and sure enough I had seen this thing a million times. Man, these guys line up for an autograph. I said, to Muhammad, I said Muhammad, if you'd like, I'll play the bad guy. You know I tell them to let you eat, and you can sign autographs later. 17;24;25 Muhammad would have none of it. He said, no, I'll sign between bites. He's taking bites of his food and he's signing. This one guy walks up, and you could tell he was a big fan. I mean he knew Muhammad. He was scared to death, he-- all of his adrenaline, he said Champ, he said I saw the stand you made, in the civil rights movement, I saw your stand against the Vietnam war. He said, I've got to tell you, champ, you're my hero. He said, I've got a picture of you at my firehouse. You are my hero. Muhammad instantly he wanted to change the channel. So he said to the guy, he said, you know, you're the real hero jumping in fire, saving lives, saving babies, putting your life on the line, he said, man, you are the real hero. And the fireman responds real quickly. I mean he knew all of the nicknames, he said, man, but you, you fought the bear, sonny Liston. He said, You fought the rabbit, patterson, you fought big George Foreman, you fought smokin Joe Frazier. 17;25;15 And Muhammad interrupted real quick and he goes, yeah, but Joe wasn't really smoking. [ laughter ] And I said, Muhammad that's a good line. He goes, you're right. Write that down. But it wasn't all about signing autographs and kissing babies. If there was a village that needed food in a third-world country, Muhammad was on the plane, will travel with check. If there was a conflict and he could be part of a resolution, again, Muhammad will travel. As Lonnie had mentioned, if there were hostages to be released, Muhammad was a man of action. One of my favorite quotes and I think it's right here in your program, Muhammad said service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth and I just want to say, champ, your rent is paid in full. Your rent is paid in full. [ Applause ] Your rent is paid in full! 17;26;15 (shot of Ali's wife standing up clapping) And you know, in fact, I think he's paid it forward. Because he has taught us to love rather than to hate. To look for commonalities rather than differences. So therefore I think he's really paid it forward for all of us. So, as we all know now, you know, the fight is over but I'm here to tell you, the decision is in and it is unanimous, because of Muhammad Ali, we all win. The world wins. Thank you so much, Muhammad. It is time for a man of peace to rest in peace. And thank you so very much. 17;27;30 BILLY CRYSTAL >> Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We're at the halfway point. I was clean shaven when this started. Dear Lonnie, family, friends, Mr. President, members of the clergy, all of these amazing people here in Louisville, today this outpouring of love and respect proves that 35 years after he stopped fighting, he is still the champion of the world. [ Applause ] Last week, when we heard the news, time stopped. There was no war, there were no terrorists, no global catastrophes. The world stopped, took a deep breath and sighed. Since then, my mind has been racing through my relationship with this amazing man, which is now 42 years that I've known him. Every moment I can think of is cherished. While others can tell you of his accomplishments, he wanted me to speak and tell you of some personal moments we had together. 17;28;52 I met him in 1974. I was just getting started as a stand-up comedian and struggling. But I had one good routine. It was a three-minute conversation between Howard and Muhammad where I would imitate both of them. Muhammad had just defeated George foreman and sports magazine made him the man of the year. A great man, editor for "Sport," was going to host this televised dinner honoring Muhammad. So dick called my agent looking for a comedian who did some sports material. As fate would have it, that comedian was not available and she wisely said -- it's destiny, man. And she wisely said, but listen, I've got this young kid and he does this great imitation and I don't know why, but dick said, okay, I'll try him. I couldn't believe it. My first time on television and it would be with Ali. I ran to the plaza hotel, the event was packed. He said, how should I introduce you? No one knows who you are. And I said, just say I'm one of Ali's closest and dearest friends. And my thought was, I'll get right to the microphone, go into my how word cosell and I'll be fine and I move into the jam ballroom and that's when I saw him for the first time in person. It's very hard to describe how much he meant to me. You had to live in his time. It's great to look at clips and it's amazing that we have them but to live in his time, watching his fights, his experience of the genius of his talent was absolutely extraordinary. Every one of his fights was the aura of a super bowl. He predicted the round that he would knock somebody out and then he would do it. He was funny. He was beautiful. 17;30;57 He was the most perfect athlete you ever saw and those were his own words. But he was so much more than a fighter as time went on, with Bobby Kennedy gone, martin Luther king gone, Malcolm X gone, who was there to relate to when Vietnam exploded in our face? There were millions of young men my age, eligible for the draft for a war that we didn't believe in. And all of us huddled on the conveyor belt that was rapidly feeding the was machine. But it was Ali who stood up for us by standing up for himself. And after he was stripped of the title-- after he was stripped of the title and the right to fight anywhere in the world, he gave speeches at colleges and on television that totally reached me. He seemed as comfortable talking to kings and queens as the lost and unrequited. 17;31;49 He never lost his sense of humor even as he lost everything else, he was always himself, willing to give up everything for what he believed in. And his passionate rhetoric about the life and plight of black people in our country resonated strongly in my house. I grew up in a house that was dedicated to civil rights. My father was a producer of jazz concerts in New York City and was one of the first to integrate bands in the 40s and 50s. Jazz musicians referred to my dad as the branch rickey of Jazz concerts. My uncle and my family, jewish people, produced strange fruit, billie holiday's classic song describing the lynching of African-Americans in this country. And so I felt him, and now there he was just a few feet from me. I couldn't stop looking at him and he seemed to like glow and he was like in slow motion, his amazing face smiling and laughing. 17;32;41 I was seated a few seats from him on the day I said, and in the room all of these athletes in their individual sports, great ones, Gino Marchetti, of the Baltimore Cults, Franco Harries of the Steelers, Archie Griffith who won the Heisman from Ohio state, literally legends, Neil Simon, george plimton, all in a day fawning over Ali who then looked at me [laughter] with an expression that seemed to say what is Joe gray doing here? Mr. Schapp introduced me as one of Ali's closest and dearest friends. Two people clapped. My wife and the agent. I rose, Ali is still staring at me, I passed right behind him, got to the podium, went right into Cocell, hello, everyone, Howard Cocell coming to you live from Zaire. Some people would pronounce it Zaire. They are wrong. It got big laughs and then I went into the Ali. 17;33;49 Everybody's talking about George Foreman, talking about George foreman, george Forman is ugly, he's just so slow. George was slow. I kind of-- and then I got-- and I'm still faster at 33 years of age. I'm so fast I can turn the lights be in my bed before the room gets dark. [ Applause ] (shot of Ali's wife) I'm announcing tonight that I've got new religious beliefs. From now on I want to be known as Ezzie escowitz (?) I am now an orthodox Jew Izzie Escowitz (?) and I am the greatest of all time. [ Applause ] The audience exploded. See, no one had ever done him before and here he was a white kid from Long Island imitating the greatest of all time and he was loving it. When I was done, he gave me this big bear hug and he whispered in my ear, you're my little brother. 17;34;46 Which is what he always called me until the last time that I saw him. We were always there for each other. If he needed me for something, I was there.He came for anything I asked him to do. Most memorable, he was an honorary chairman for a dinner and a very important event where I was being honored by the hebrew university in Jerusalem. He did all of this promotion for it. He came to the dinner. He sat with my family the entire evening. He took photographs with everybody. The most famous Muslim man in the world honoring his jewish friend. And -- [ applause ] 17;35;26 Because he was there, because he was there, we raised a great deal of money and I was able to use it to endow the university in Jerusalem with something that I told to him about and it was something that he loved the theory of. And it thrives to this day. It's called peace through the performing arts. It's a theater group where Israeli, Arab and Palestinian actors, writers and directors all work together in peace creating original works of art. [ Applause ] And that doesn't happen without him. I had so many -- so many funny and unusual moments with him. I sat next to him at Howard Cosell's funeral, a very somber day to be sure. Closed casket was on the stage, Muhammad and I were sitting somewhere over there next to each other. And he quietly whispered to me, little brother, do you think he's wearing his hairpiece? [ Laughter ] 17;36;30 So I said, I don't think so. Well, then how will god recognize him? [ Laughter ] So I said, champ, once he opens his mouth, God will know. So we started laughing. It was a muffled laugh at first but then we couldn't contain ourselves. There we were, at a funeral, me with Muhammad Ali laughing like two little kids who heard something dirty in church, you know, we were just laughing and laughing. And then he looked at me and he said, Howard was a good man. One time he asked me if I would like to run with him one morning. Do road work with him. I said, that would be amazing. I said, where do you run? He said, I run at this country club and I run on the golf course early in the morning, it's very private, nobody bothers me. We'll have a great time. I said, champ, I can't run there. The club has a reputation for being restricted. What does restricted mean? They don't allow Jews there. They don't have any jewish members. He was incensed. 17;37;38 I'm a black Muslim and they let me run there. Little brother, I'm never going to run there again. And he didn't. [ Applause ] My favorite memory was 1979. He had just retired and there was a retirement party at the forum in los Angeles for Muhammad and 20,000 of his closest friends in los Angeles. I performed a piece that I had created, the imitation had grown into a life story. It's called 15 rounds. And I'd play them from the age of 18 until he's 36 ready for the rematch with Leon Spinks. I posted it on the internet last week, footage that nobody had ever seen before, of me portraying Ali doing his life for him all those years ago in 1979. There were 20,000 people there. But I was doing it only for him. That's one of my favorite performances that I have ever done in my life. I sort of got lost in him. I didn't even know where I was at the end of the performance. And suddenly I'm backstage with another heavyweight champion, Richard Pryor and Pryor 's holding on to me crying and then I see Ali coming and he's got a full head of steam, he is looking only at me, nudged Mr. Pryor aside and he whispered in my ear with a big bear hug, little brother, you made my life better than it was. 17;39;10 But didn't he make all of our lives a little bit better than they were? [ Applause ] That -- that, my friends, is my history with the man that I've labored to come up with a way to describe the legend. He was a tremendous bolt of lightning created by mother nature out of thin air, a fantastic combination of power and beauty. We've seen still photographs of lightning bolts at the moment of impact, ferocious in his strength and magnificent in his elegance. And at the moment of impact it lights up everything around it. So you can see everything clearly. Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm, his power toppled the mightiest of foes and its intense light shone on America and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self-realization, courage, laughter, love, joy, religious freedom for all. 17;40;18 Ali forced us to take a look at ourselves. This young man who thrilled us, angered us, confused and challenged us ultimately became a silent messenger of peace who taught us that life is best when you build bridges between people, not walls. [Applause] (shot of Ali's wife) 17;40;50 My friends, only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a mozart or see a Picasso, read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them and yet at his heart he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all. He is gone but he will never die. He was my big brother. Thank you. [ Applause ] 17;41;47 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Bryant Gumbel. 17;41;58 BRYANT GUMBEL >> The great Maya Angelou who was herself no stranger to fame wrote that ultimately people forget what you said and people will forget what you did but that no one will ever forget how you made them feel. That's applied to Muhammad Ali, the march of time may one day diminish his boast and his poetry, maybe even his butterflies and bees. It may even one day dull the memories of the thrilla in Manila and the rumble in the jungle. But I doubt any of us will ever forget how Muhammad Ali made us feel. I'm not talking about how proud he made you feel with his exploits or how special he made you feel when you were privileged enough to be in his company.I'm talking about how he ripped our hearts and our souls and our conscience and made our fights his fights for decades. People like me, who were once young, semi-gifted and black will never forget what he freed within us. Some of us like him took pride in being black, bold and brash. And because we were so unapologetic, we were in the eyes of many, way too uppity. We were way too arrogant. Yet we reveled in being like him. By stretching society's boundaries as he did, he gave us levels of strength and courage we didn't even know we had. But Ali's impact was not limited to those of a certain race or of a certain religion or of a certain mindset. The greatness of this man for the ages was that he was, in fact, a man for all ages. Has any man ever a greater arc to his life? What does it say of a man, any man that he can go from being viewed as one of his country's most polarizing figures to arguably his most beloved. [ Applause ] And to do so without changing his nature or, for a second, compromising his principles. Yeah, you know, there were great pauses and national movements and huge divisions that afforded Ali unusual opportunities to symbolize our struggles. But Harry Truman had it right when he said men make history and not the other way around. Or as Lauren hill so nicely put it, consequence is no coincidence. Befitting his stature as the goat, Muhammad Ali never shied away from a fight. He fought not just the biggest and baddest men of his day inside the ropes but outside the ring he also went toe to toe with critics, outside of societal norms, the U.S. Government. He even fought ultimately to his detriment the limitations of father time. Strictly speaking, fighting is what he did. But he broadened that definition by sharing his struggles with us and by viewing our struggles as his. And so it was that at various times he accepted and led battles on behalf of his race in support of his generation, in defense of his religious beliefs and ultimately in spite of his disease. I happen to have been overseas working in Norway this past week. My buddy Matt called. Told me the champ had been taken to the hospital. This time it was really serious. Right away I called Lonnie who was, as always, a pillar of strength. And as we discussed the medical details, the doctors' views and the ugly realities of mortality, Lonnie said, Bryant, the world still needs him and indeed it does. The world needs a champion who always worked to bridge the economic and social divides that threaten the nation that he dearly loved. The world needs a champion that always symbolized the best of Islam to offset the hatred born of fear. And the world needs a champion who believed in fairness and inclusion for all. Hating people because of their color is wrong, Ali said, and it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. [ Applause ] Yeah, we do need Muhammad Ali now. We needed strength and the hope, the compassion, the conviction that he always demonstrated. But this time, our beloved champion is down. And for once he will not get up. Not this time. Not ever again. Let me close with a quick personal story. 50 years ago, Muhammad Ali defeated George devalo in Toronto, Canada. The very next day, he showed up in my neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. As Ali got out of the car in the driveway at the home, I happened to be next door shooting hoops in a friend's backyard. I, of course, quickly ran to the fence and for the first time in I was 17. I was awe struck. And man, I thought he was the greatest. Now a half century and a lifetime of experiences later, I am still awe struck and I am convinced more than ever that Muhammad Ali is the greatest. [ Applause ] To be standing here by virtue of his and Lonnie's request, is an honor. To be here today as he goes to his grave is a moment I will take to mine. God bless you, champ. [ Applause ] >> Ladies and gentlemen, the 42nd president of the united States, the honorable William Jefferson Clinton. [ Applause ] WASH 6 ALI MEMORIAL SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY CBS POOL 558P WASH 6 ALI MEMORIAL SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY CBS POOL P2 17;51;17 BILL CLINTON >> Thank you. I can just hear Muhammad saying now well, I thought I should be eulogized by at least one president and by making you last in a long, long, long line, I guarantee you a standing ovation. I am trying to think of what has been left unsaid. First, Lonnie, I thank you and the members of the family for telling me that he actually as Bryant said picked us all to speak and giving me a chance to come here, and I thank you for what you did to make the second now well, I thought I should be eulogized by at least one president and by making you last in a long, long, long line, I guarantee you a standing ovation. 17;51;51 I am trying to think of what has been left unsaid. First, Lonnie, I thank you and the members of the family for telling me that he actually as Bryant said picked us all to speak and giving me a chance to come here, and I thank you for what you did to make the second half of his life greater than the first. Thank you for the Muhammad Ali center and what it has come to represent to so many people. Here's what I'd like to say. I spent a lot of time now as I get older and older and older trying to figure out what makes people tick, how do they turn out the way they are, how do some people refuse to become victims and rise from every defeat. We've all seen the beautiful pictures of the home of Muhammad Ali and people visiting and driving by. I think you decided something I hope every young person here will decide. I think he decided very young to write his own life story. 17;53;39 I think he decided before he could possibly have worked it all out and before fate and time could work their will on him, he decided that he would not be ever disempowered. He decided not his race or his place or expectations of others, positive, negative or otherwise would stop him from writing his own story. He decided first to use these stunning gifts. His strength and speed in the ring, his wit and way with words, and managing the public, and finding out at a fairly young age who he was, what he believed, and how to live with the consequences of acting on what he believed. 17;54;50 A lot of people make it to steps one and two and still just can't quite manage living with the consequences of what he believed. For the longest time in spite of all the wonderful things that have been said here, I remember thinking when I was a kid this guy is so smart and he never got credit for being as smart as he was. And then I don't think he ever got the credit for being, until later, as wise as he was. In the end besides being a lot of fun to be around and basically universal soldier for our common humanity, I will always think of Muhammad as a truly free man of faith. 17;55;50 And being a man of faith he realized he would never be in full control of his life. Something like Parkinson's could come along. But being free, he realized that life still was open to choices. It is choices that Muhammad Ali made that brought us all here today in honor and love. And the only other thing I would like to say, the first part of his life was dominated by the triumph of his truly unique gifts. We should never forget them, we should never stop looking at the movies. Thank Will Smith for making his movie. We should all be thrilled. It was a thing of beauty. But the second part of his life was more important because he refused to be imprisoned by a disease that kept him hamstrung longer than Mandela was kept in prison in South Africa. 17;57;20 That is in the second half of his life, he perfected gifts that we all have, every single solitary one of us have gifts of mind and heart. It is just that he found a way to release them in ways large and small. I asked Lonnie the time when they were still living in Michigan and I gave a speech in southwest Michigan to an economic club there, and sort of a ritual when a president leaves office, and you know, you had to get reacclimated, nobody plays a song when you walk in a room any more, you don't really know what you're supposed to do, and this club, the economic club, they're used to acting like you deserve to be listened to, they have to be reacclimated. So they came to me to this dinner and he sat with me at this dinner. 17;58;26 And he knew, somehow he knew that I was a little off my feet that night. I was trying to imagine how to make this new life and so he told me a really bad joke. And he told it so well and he laughed so hard that I totally got on board and had a great time. He had that feel about, you know, there's no textbook for that, knowing where somebody else is in their head, picking up the body language. Then Lonnie and Muhammad got me to come here when we had the dedication of the Muhammad Ali center, and I was trying to be incredibly gray haired elder states man, dignified, I have to elevate this guy, I am saying all this stuff in high tone, language, and Muhammad sneaks up behind me, puts his fingers up. (shot of wife laughing) 17;58;35 Finally after all the years we had been friends, my endearing image of him is like three shots. The boxer, the man I watched take the last steps to light the olympic flame when I was president, and I'll never forget it, I was sitting there in Atlanta, we knew each other, by then I felt I had some sense of what he was living with, and I was still weeping like a baby, seeing his hands shake, his legs shake, and knowing by god he was going to make those last few steps no matter what it took, the flame would be lit, the fight would be won. I knew it would happen. [ Applause ] 5532 ALI MEMORIAL SERVICE FIBER PATH POOL P2 18;00;49 And then this. The children whose lives he touched, the young people he inspired. That's the most important thing of all. So ask you to remember that. We all have an Ali story. It's the gift we all have that should be most honored today because he released them to the world. Never wasting a day the rest of us could see feeling sorry he had Parkinson's, knowing more than three decades of his life would be circumscribed in ways that would be chilling to the naked eye. 18;01;43 But with the free spirit it made his life bigger, not smaller. Because other people, all of us unlettered, unschooled said would you look at that. Look at that. May not be able to run across the ring any more, may not be able to dodge everybody, exhaust everybody any more, and he's bigger than ever because he is a free man of faith sharing the gifts we all have. We should honor him by letting our gifts go among the world as he did. God bless you, my friend, go in peace.

CBS POOL FTG MUHAMMAD ALI MEMORIAL SERVICEH/T JAKE INGRASSIA, PAOLA CONTARDO AND SUNNY CHOO WASH 6 ALI MEMORIAL SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY CBS POOL 15;10:47 Bill Clinton walks in 15;11;45 -- service starts 15;11;49 >> All praises due to the lord god of the world. Now please be seated, ladies and gentlemen. In accordance with Muslim tradition, and consistent with the wishes of Muhammad Ali, may god have mercy on him. We begin this program with a brief recitation from the Koran, the scripture of the muslims. A young Imam of the midtown mosque in Memphis, Tennessee, where he's spearheading a neighborhood renewal effort in one of the most blighted neighborhood in Memphis and that effort is centered around the mosque, one of the few African-American graduates of the university. He will share with us a few verses from the Koran. 15;12;50 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Hamza Abdul Malik. [ Applause ] [ Speaking foreign language ] 15;13;12 [ Speaking foreign language ] [ Speaking foreign language ] 15;17;10 (shot of Ali's wife) >> Now with the translation of those verses we would like to bring to the stage the second generation daughter of Syrian immigrants. She's an excellent student. In her spare time, in recent years, she raises money to provide medical supplies, surgical instruments and other forms of medical assistance for Syrian refugees fleeing from the horror of the current conflict in that land and we pray that almighty god brings it to a succession soon. 15;18;00 >> Ladies and gentlemen, Ia Kutma. [ Applause ] 15;18;14 >> In the name of god, the most gracious, the most merciful, truly those who say our lord is god and our upright the angels will descend upon them saying, have neither fear nor sadness, but rather, rejoice in this paradise that you have been promised. We are your allies in this lower life in the hereafter. Where you will have your heart's desire and you will have whatever you ask for. Hospitably from the one most forgiving, most merciful. Who is more beautiful in speech than the one who invites to god and does righteous works saying, truly, I am submitted to god? For good and evil are not equal. 15;19;13 Repel ugliness with beauty and behold the one between you and whom there was enmity is transformed into a warm friend. But no one arrives at the station without great patience and immense fortune. Through prostration, chapter 41 verses 30 to 35. Thank you. [Applause] 15;19;45 (shot of Ali's daughter) >> I forgot to mention that she is a louisvillean, a proud resident of this city. [Applause] 15:20 15;20;05 >> Oh, god, miss this day of ours, you are our protector. What an excellent protector, an excellent helper. Honorable president Bill William J. Clinton, distinguished guests, viewing audience, on behalf of the Ali family, and the city of Louisville, Kentucky, the home of the people's champ. [Applause] 15;20;50 >> Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali. [Chanting] Ali, Ali. 15;21;00 >> We're dealing with time here, folks. Louisville, Kentucky, admirably led by mayor Greg fisher, I would like to welcome you. Give it up for the mayor. [Applause] >> I would like to welcome you to this memorial service for the people's champ, Muhammad Ali. And this time, we would like to introduce our first speaker. Dr. Reverend Kevin W. Cosby. [Applause] 15;21;50 >> Were it not for time, since Cosby rhymes with Ali, we would we would say, Cosby, Cosby, but time doesn't permit. Reverend Cosby is senior pastor of St. Steven church in Louisville, Kentucky. Due greatly to his dynamic bible teachings his congregation has grown over the long years of his ministry. Reverend Cosby combines passion, wit, and intellect as the foundation of the inspirational ministry that is transformed the lives of thousands of individuals. Reverend Cosby. [Applause] 15;22;39 >> Dr. Reverend Kevin W. Cosby: Thank you. I looked into the dictionary for the word, fidelity. And it had two words. Lonnie Ali. [Applause] 15;22;57 >> In 1967, nine months prior to his assassination and martyrdom, Dr. Martin Luther king, Jr. Was interviewed by merv griffin on "The merv griffin show". Merv griffin asked Dr. King a relevant question. He said, Dr. King, what has been the greatest affect and impact that the civil rights struggle has had on the Negro? Dr. King paused and said, besides the dismantling of barriers that prohibited the Negro from free access, the greatest and most profound effect that the civil rights struggle had was that it infused in the Negro something that the anything Negro needed all along. 15:24:07 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;24;00 And that was a sense of somebodiness. You will never be able to appreciate what Dr. King meant when he said, the negro needed a sense of somebodiness until you understand the 350 years of nobodiness that was infused into the psyche of people of color. Every sacred document in our history, every hallowed institution, conspired to convince the African in America that when god made the African, that god was guilty of creative malfeasance. 15;24;55 All of the documents from the constitution said to the Negro, that you're nobody. The constitution said that we were three-fifths of a person. Decisions by the supreme court, like the dred Scott decision, said to the Negro, to the African, you had no rights that whites were bound to respect. And even Francis Scott key, in his writing of "The star spangled banner" we sang, verse one, but in verse three he celebrates slavery by saying, no refuge can save the harrowing enslaved from the sorrow of night or the death of the grave. Every institution from religion to entertainment, from Amos and Andy to Jane and tarzan, infused in the psyche of the Negro, that he was inferior. 15;26;06 But something happened to the depression generation and the World War II generation of African-Americans. Jackie Robinson picked up his bat and hit a ball and the Brooklyn dodgers win the pennant. Joe Louis dismantles the pride of Aryan supremacy by knocking out max melling in 124 seconds. Jesse Lewis runs at ambulatory speed and wins four gold medals. Rosa parks sits on a bus in 1955 and a young seminary student from Boston university stands up and takes the complex ideas of _____ and dips it chocolate so big mama can understand it. 15;27;02 And then from Louisville. [Cheering] -- Emerged the civil-tongued poet who took the ethos of somebodiness to unheard of heights. Before James brown said, I'm black and I'm proud. Muhammad Ali said I'm black and I'm pretty. [Laughter] 15:27:38 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;27;44 >> Black and pretty was an oxymoron. Blacks did not say pretty. The first black millionaire in this country was not Oprah but madam C.J. Walker who made products in order to help black people escape their Africanity. But Muhammad Ali said I'm proud. I'm pretty. I'm glad of who I am. And when he said that, that infused in Africans a sense of somebodiness. 15;28;25 To extrapolate Muhammad Ali from the times in which he lives is called historic presentism. It is to talk about George Washington and not talk about the American revolution to talk about Abraham Lincoln and not talk about the civil war. It's to talk about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and not talk about the depression and World War II. Our brother, Muhammad Ali, was a product of a difficult time. And he dared to love black people. 15;29;05 At a time when black people had a problem loving themselves. [Applause] He dared. He dared to affirm the beauty of blackness. He dared to affirm the power and the capacity of African-Americans. He dared to love America's most unloved race. And he loved us all, and we loved him because he -- we knew he loved us. He loved us all. Whether you lived in the suburbs or whether you lived in the slums. Whether you lived on the avenue or whether you lived in an alley. Whether you came from the penthouse or whether you lived in the projects. Whether you came from Morehouse or whether you had no house, whether you were high yellow or boot black, Muhammad Ali loved you. Our city is known for two things. It's known for Muhammad Ali, it is known for the Kentucky derby. 15;30;19 We hope you will come back and visit our city. The first Saturday in may, we hope you will place a bet on one of the horses, but if you do, please know the rules. What will happen is the horses start in the starting gate and then the signal will be given think will run in the mud for two minutes. And the winner will then be led to the winner's circle where a right of roses will be placed around the horse's neck. We want you to make a bet but please know the rules. You cannot bet for the horse once it's in the winner's circle. You have to bet for the horse while it's still in the mud. [Applause] 15;31;09 And there are lot of people, a lot of people who will bet and have bet on Muhammad Ali when he was in the winner's circle. But the masses bet on him while he was still in the mud. [Applause] Kareem abdul-jabbar stood with him when he was in the mud, Jim brown stood with him when he was in the mud. Bill Russell stood with him when he was in the mud. Howard cosell stood with him when he was in the mud. 15:31:24 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;31;51 Please don't mishear me. I am not saying that Muhammad Ali is the property of black people. He is the property of all people. [Applause] But while he is the property of all people, let us never forget that he is the product of black people in their struggle to be free. [Applause] I went looking for Jesus on a poor west-end street, looking that I would find him as he walked around with men and women with stumbling feet. People who had their heads bowed low because they were broke and had nowhere to go. But then I went looking for Jesus, way in the sky. Thinking he would wear a robe that would dazzle my eye. When suddenly, Jesus came walking by with stumbling feet because he had been hanging with the poor on a west-end street. [Applause] 15:33:06 (shot of Ali's wife and family) 15;33;10 The Muhammad Ali of my childhood had a shuffle but as he grew older he walked with shuffling feet. And I will submit to you he walked with shuffling feet not because of Parkinson's disease but he walked with shuffling feet because he hanged out with the folk in west Louisville who had shuffling feet. Peace and god bless you. [Applause] 15;33;47 (shot of Ali's wife applauding and family standing up) 15;34;00 >> Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Don't give a teenager a telephone and don't give a preacher a microphone. [ laughter ] 15:34:15 (shot of Ali's wife) >> We'd like to bring Senator Orrin Hatch to the stage, now in this seventh term as Utah's senator, one of Utah's senators, he is the most senior Republican in the senate, author of some of the most far-reaching legislation in recent decades. Senator hatch is a seasoned and distinguished public servant. We're deeply honored by his presence today. [Applause] 15;35;00 >>Senator Orrin Hatch: Reverend, that was really good. It's hard for this poor old senator to have to follow that is all I can say. Well, the head of the first fight was Sonny Liston, and Muhammad Ali stood before a crowded pack of reporters and told the world unapologetically who he was. I'm the greatest. That's what he said. But this simple proclamation all took the history and -- Ali took the history and wrote his own title in the textbooks. He was not Muhammad Ali, the prize fighter. Or even the world champion. He was Muhammad all the greatest. His daughters dismissed this as bragging but Ali wasn't talking trash. He was speaking truth. And he was in the world of boxing, he truly was the greatest. [Applause] 15;36;13 (tight shot of ali's wife) 15;36;18 >> With the cut-throat quickness of a street fighter, and the simple grace of a ballerina, Ali moved with the killings like agility and punched with herculean strength. But to assume that Ali's greatness stems solely from his athletic prowess is to see half the man. Ali was great not only as an extraordinary fighter. He was a committed civil rights leader, an international diplomat, a forceful advocate of religious freedom, and effective emissary of Islam. He was something. He was caring as a father, a husband, a brother, and a friend. Indeed, it is as a personal friend that it witness Ali's greatness for myself.I first met Muhammad Ali 28 years ago. Almost to the day, to this day. 15:37:09 (shot of one of Ali's daughters) 15;37;21 I was in my senate office and an assistant said you have a visitor, and I was really surprised that it was none other than the champion himself. The friendship we developed was puzzling to many people, especially to those who saw only our differences. I might say that where others saw a difference, Ali and I saw kinship. We were both dedicated to our families. And deeply devoted to our faiths. He took Islam, and I to the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints. We were both products of humble backgrounds and hard scrabble youth. Ali grew up poor here in Louisville and I grew up poor in Pittsburgh. True, we were different in some ways but our differences fortified our friendship. 15;38;26 They did not define it. I saw greatness in Ali's ability to look beyond the horizon and our differences. To find common ground. This shared sensibility was the foundation of a rich and meaningful relationship that I will forever treasure. One of my fondest memories of our friendship when Ali joined news the Salt Lake -- going to listen to the Salt Lake Mormon tabernacle choir. I have to say, it was the same Mormon tabernacle choir -- Ali loved music, and he enjoyed the choir's performance, but he seemed most excited to share his own religious beliefs with those who came to hear the Christian hymns. Ali attracted big crowds that day, and as he always did, and he gave everyone autographed pamphlets explaining his Muslim beliefs. 15;39;31 Hundreds of mormons lined up to grab the pamphlets, and of course I took one for myself. I respected his deeply held convictions just as he respected mine. In our relationship it was anchored by our different faiths. Ali was open to goodness. In all of its diverse realities and varieties. On another occasion, I took Ali to primary children's hospital in Salt Lake City. We visited with downtrodden children who perhaps had never smiled a day in their lifetime. Until Ali showed up. Ali held those kids and looked into their eyes. They would grin from ear to ear. These are kids that never smiled. They were so pained. The nurses were astounded. Never before had they seen someone who had connected so immediately and profoundly with these sick children. 15;40;35 Ali had a special way with kids as we all know. He may have been a tough and tenacious man in the ring, but he was a compassionate and tender around those that he loved. 15:40:48 (shot of Ali's wife) Through all of his ferocity as a fighter, Ali was also a peacemaker, a particular radio host in Utah berated me constantly on the air waves. Week after week. One day the host asked if I were arrange for Ali to meet Utah's former middleweight champion, James Fulmer, for a joint interview. Ali agreed. Knowing that the appearance could help me build some good will, but he also was very interested in meeting James(?) as well. It was an unforgettable experience. Here were two champions, face-to-face, reminiscing about some of the best fights the world has ever seen, and I have to say, in the process, Ali claimed that radio host -- well, he charmed the radio host so much on my behalf, gently transforming an unrepentant antagonist into a respectful starring partner. 15;41;52 So dedicated was Ali to our friendship, that he joined me on the campaign trail during several election cycles. He came to Utah year after year to raise funds for a charity benefiting needy women, women in jeopardy, and families in our state. Ali didn't look at life through the binary lens of Republican and Democrat. So common today. He saw worthy causes and shared humanity. And always willingness to put principles ahead of partisanship, he showed us all the path to greatness. And I'll never forget that greatness. Nor will I ever forget him. [Applause] 15;42;47 There there were many faces to Ali's greatness. His abilities as a boxer, his charisma as a public figure, his benevolence as a father and as a friend. All of these made Ali great. But there was something else that made him the greatest. Ali was the greatest because, as a debilitated and unbroken champion for later years he put is to a greatness beyond ourselves, greatness beyond even Ali. He pointed us to the greatness of god. [Applause] 15;43;35 God raised up Ali to be the greatest fighter in the world of all-time. Yet he allowed Ali to wrestle with Parkinson's disease, an inescapable reminder we're all mortal, and that we are all dependent on god's grace. Ali believed this himself. He once told me, god gave me this condition to remind me always that I am human, and that only he is the greatest. [Applause] 15;44;12 Ali was an unsurpassed symbol of our universal dependence on the divine. He was the greatest because he reminded us all who truly is the greatest. God, our creator. I'm eternally grateful for my special bond with this special man, and for my friendship with his beloved wife, who I love dearly. She is one of the great women in this world. [Applause] 15;44;44 (shot of wife) She was dedicated to the very end and I pray that Ali rested peacefully and Ali will rest peacefully the presence of the greatest of all, even our gods. I can bear testimony that I believe in god. I believe that we're here on Earth for a reason. I believe that this Earth life is a time for us to do what is right for god and for our fellow men and women. I don't know that I've ever met anybody who did it any better than my friend, Muhammad Ali. [Applause] >> God bless you. God bless the family. 15;45;37 (shot of wife applauding) 15;45;45 >> Next we would like to welcome Monsignor Father Henry Kriegel to the stage. Father Kriegel has been instrumental -- has been the pastor of St. Patricks parish in Erie, PA. He was ordained in 1970 and named a domestic prebate with the title Monsignor by Pope John Paul II in 1991. His wisdom, scholraship and spiritual guidance is a source of solace and guidance for catholics and members of other faith communities far far beyond his Pennsylvania home. Father Kriegel. 15;46;35 >> Monsignor Father Henry Kriegel: Let us pray. Loving eternal god, as we gather today in prayer, we do so with an abiding sense of gratitude. Our gratitude knows no bounds as we thakn you for the gift of this good and gentle man. Muhammed Ali opened our eyes to the evil of racism, to the absurdity of war. He showed us with incredible patience that a debilitating illness need never diminish joy and love in our lives. He chided our consciences, he awakened in us a deeper sense of the need to respect one another, to set aside racial differences. The legendary fighter of all time in reality taught us to heal, rather than to fight. To embrace, rather than to turn away. To include, rather than to exclude. While proclaiming himself to be the greatest, he showed us that his greatness lied in his love and concern for others. Most particularly the marginalized, the suffering, the helpless, the hopeless. You gift of him has enriched us, has made us better people, has created a more gentle world. We dare not return him to you today without expressing our gratitude for the gift of him. Amen. 15;47;50 (shot of Ali's wife) 15;48;22 >> Next we will hear a few brief remarks from Dr. Timothy Gianotti. Dr. Gianotti is a professor of islamic studies at the university of waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He is equally at home, busying himself with the affairs of the Muslim community as he is sitting in the library and burrowing through books. A true public intellectual. He is the initial and principal islamic adviser to the Ali family. He has been instrumental in assuring that the last days of Muhammad's life, his burial, his bathing, his shrouding, and his burial today, his funeral and burial today, all were in accordance with the strictures of Muslim law. So now I'd like to bring to you the person I affectionately call, brother, doctor, Imam, Timothy Gianotti. [Applause] 15;49;58 >> Dr. Timothy Gianotti: In the name of god who is the loving nurturer of the creation, and the ever compassionate and ever merciful, I'd like to share a prayer today. This is a prayer adapted from a there divisional prayer of the prophet Muhammad. My god's peace and blessings be upon him. But before I do so I would just like to say to the family, to Lonnie, to everyone here, that serving Muhammad Ali has been one of the greatest privileges of my life. 15;50;50 (shot of Ali's wife) Oh, god, you who are the light of the heavens and the Earth, grant our brother Muhammad a light in his heart. A light in his earthly body, now restored to the Earth. A light in his grave. A light before him as he journeys on to you. A light in all that he has left behind in this world. A light to his right, and the lights to his left. Oh, god, increase him inlight. Grant him light. A light in his deeds in this world and a light in the hereafter. A light in the hearts of those whom he loved. And a light in the eyes of those who loved him. 15;52;05 A light in those whom he knocked down. And a light in those whom he lifted up. A light in his words which echo in our hearts. A light in the lives of all those whom he touched. A light in his children and a light in their mothers. 15:52:40 (shot of one of Ali's daughters) A light in his grandchildren. And a light in his devoted wife, Lonnie. Oh, lord, increase your servants in light. And give him light. And embrace him in light. And fill us all with light .[ Foreign foreign ] 15;53;10 >> You who are the light odd Earth, you who are the most merciful of all those who show mercy. [Applause] 15;53;38 >> Next we'll hear a few words from rabbi Michael Lerner. Rabbi Lerner is the editor of a magazine, as the magazine's name suggests, rabbi Lerner has dedicated his life to working, to heal and repair the world. Rabbi Lerner is never afraid of ruffling a few feathers so we asked him to be nice today. Rabbi Lerner. [Applause] 15;54;23 >>Rabbi Michael Lerner: We'll see about the feathers. [Foreign chanting] >> Master of compassion, god of compassion, send your blessings to Muhammad Ali and send your blessings to all who mourn for him, and send your blessings for all the millions and millions of people who mourn for him all over this planet. I come here speaking as representative of American Jews, and to say that American Jews played an important role of solidarity with the African-American struggles in this country, and that we today stand in solidarity with islamic communities in this country and all around the world. [Applause] 15;55;23 We will not tolerate politicians or anyone else putting down a Muslim and blaming muslims for a few people. [Cheers and applause] 15;55;40 (shot of Ali's wife and family standing up and clapping) (shot of Bill Clinton clapping) 15;55;50 We know what it's like to be demeaned. We know what it's like to have some -- a few people who act against the highest visions of our tradition, to then be identified as the value of the entire tradition. And one of the reasons that we in (?) magazine, a magazine of liberal and Progressive jews but also an interfaith magazine, have called upon the United States to stand up to the part of the Israeli government that is suppressing Palestinians, is that we as Jews understand that our commitment is to recognize that god has created everyone in god's image, and that everyone is equally precious. 15;56;33 And that means that Palestinian people as well as all other people on the planet. [Applause] I know the people of Louisville have a special relationship to Muhammad Ali, and I had a personal relationship in the '60s when both of us were indicted by the federal government and before our various stands against the war in Vietnam. I want to say that although he was cheered on as the heavyweight champion of the world, you know the truth is that in all the honor to him, that heavyweight champions of the world come and go, and sports heroes come and go. There was something about Muhammad Ali that was different. 15;57;24 At the key moment when he had that recognition, he used it -- to stand up to an immoral war and say, no, I won't go! [ Applause ] And it's for that reason that tens and millions of Americans who don't particularly care about boxing care about Muhammad Ali because he was a person who was willing to risk a great honor that he got and a great fame that he got to stand up for the beliefs that he had, to think truth to power when the rest of the people around him said, no, no, you're going to lose your championship and it was taken away from him for five years. But he stood up and was willing to take that kind of a risk because of that kind of moral integrity. [ Applause ] 15;58;22 So I want so say, how do we honor Muhammad Ali? The way to honor Muhammad Ali is to be Muhammad Ali today. That means us, everyone here and everyone listening, it's up to us to continue that ability to speak truth to power. We must speak out, refuse to follow the path of conformity to the rules of the game in life. We must refuse to follow the path of conformity. Tell the 1% who own 80% of the wealth of this country that it's time to share that wealth. Tell the politicians who use violence worldwide and then preach nonviolence to the oppressed, that it's time to end their drone warfare and every other form of warfare, to close our bases around the world, bring the troops home, tell those who committed mass incarceration that it's time to create a guaranteed income for everyone in our society. [ Applause ] 15;59;34 Tell judges to let out of prison the many African-Americans swept up by racist police and imprisoned by racist judges. [ Applause ] Many are in prison today for offenses like possessing marijuana that white people get away with all the time! [ Applause ] Tell our elected officials to imprison those who authorize torture and those who ran the big investment companies that caused the economic collapse of 2008. Tell the leaders of Turkey to stop killing the kurds. Tell Israeli prime minister Netanyahu that the way to get security is for Israel is to stop the occupation of the west bank and help create a Palestinian state. [ Applause ] 16;00;37 Tell the next president of the United States that -- tell the next president of the united States that she --- (shot of bill clinton smiling) Tell the next president of the united States that she should seek a constitutional amendment to make all national and state elects funds by congress and the state legislator and all other money be banned, all other money from companies companies and individuals and make it all public funding. 16;01;30 >> Tell her that the way to achieve homeland security is not for us to try new ways of domination, the strategy of domination in the world of the other to get security has been tried for the last ten thousand years and doesn't work. The way to get security is for the United States to become known as the most generous and caring country in the world, not the most powerful. [Applause] 16;02;00 We can start with a global and domestic plan to once and for all ended global and domestic poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education, inadequate health care. So, I want to, as chair of the interfaith network of spiritual Progressives -- by the way, spiritual progressives.org come and join us -- I want to affirm our commitment to the well-being of all muslims on the planet as well as the peopl