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WASH 5 DONALD TRUMP LAS VEGAS NV C16 061416 1400 TRUMP LAS VEGAS NV FS3 80 14:31:54 Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, I love you people. I love Las Vegas! I love this state. And if you ever need a room, I have a very nice building right down the street. You know? Hey, and I have to thank Mr and Mrs. Phil Ruffin, the room is great. We've got people in every room he's got ever here. His restaurant's now are full. This is what took so long. And the worst thing we can do, folks, is we're all together, right? This is a movement. The worst thing we can do is start a rally -- because if there's one empty seat, the press will say, oh the room didn't fill up, Trump isn't doing -- 14:32:34 Outside, you have thousands of people trying to get in. [ cheers ] And, I hate to say it, because I liked them and they work very hard, TSA lets them in. And it's working out so good. I'm not happy about it. But I have to put up with it. But they have, you know, the machines. And they didn't bring enough machines. And I don't know if the great Wayne Newton has that problem when he performs, but I love Wayne. I'll talk about Wayne in a second. But we have to be very careful of that. Because let's say I came out 10 or 15 minutes ago. Even though there are thousands of people outside, all of the conference rooms have people, they have closed circuit television. The whole hotel is packed, filled. You've never had anything like this. And he owns it. So, f I had like three empty seats, they'll say oh this is terrible. 14:33:30 And they are still piling into this room. But I think it's time we begin. Do we agree? Do we agree? [ cheers and applause ] Okay. So we have amazing people here. Amazing friends are here. And it's been going really well. You know, I read about this, there's this insurgent group. You know, the same group that I beat is insurgent. There are a couple of guys there trying to go to -- They're trying to get delegates. I thought they already tried that. I mean, I could give you names but I won't because it's meaningless. First of all, it's illegal. Second of all, you can't do it. Third of all, we -- not me, we got 14 almost 14 million votes. 14 million votes in the primaries. 14:34:15 So that's more votes than ever received in the primaries in the history of the Republican party. Okay. [ cheers and applause ] We beat a lot of people. 16 people. There were a total of 17 including myself. One after another. Boom. Boom. Boom. It was a beautiful thing to behold. Okay. A beautiful thing. It was a beautiful thing. Yeah. That's great. Just keep filling them in. That's right. Isn't it better that we're starting now. We have to. They're not happy outside but what the heck are we going to do? So it was a beautiful thing to behold. But think of this, so we got almost 14 million votes. We won 36, 37 states, which is -- others won none. People that won none are saying maybe we can get something at the convention. Doesn't work that way, folks. You would have -- because we have, you know, one of the things that we'll say we have by far the most loyal followers. Right. By far. You know, other of the candidates, I mean, take a look at this today. They've never had anything like this where every room is full, every conference room, every restaurant is loaded with people. 14:35:36 I hope you put close circuit in, Phil, they're gonna be so angry. But I think you did. This guy doesn't hold back. Believe me. But so when we get 37 states, when we get 37 states -- [ cheers and applause ] Oh, we love our police. We love our police. Thank you, thank you, officers. Thank you. [ boos ] Thank you. That's very nice. Thank you. By the way, how great are our police? Okay. They don't get enough credit. They don't get enough credit. They don't They take abuse. They don't get the credit they deserve. Believe me. So we won 37 states. We won 14 million. 14:36:41 We beat Ronald Reagan, who we love, we beat Richard Nixon, we beat Dwight D. Eisenhower. We beat everybody. We beat bush. We beat the Bushes. We beat the bushes. And by a lot. I don't mean we like edged it. I don't mean, like, you know, I mean by a lot! And now you have a couple of guys that were badly defeated and they're trying to organize maybe, like, a little bit of a delegate revolt. Maybe. Now, number one, you know, Reince Priebus -- you know what that is? Right? RNC. No, he's a good guy. And the Republican National Committee, they put out a statement. They can't do it. It's not legal. You can't do it. You're not allowed to do it. How would you like to have a party where we start it off with 17 or 18 people, actually, including somebody I won't mention, because I'm not looking to embarrass anybody, but it's 18 if you want to include somebody. Okay. 14:37:40 But how would you like to have a party, Wayne, and he's married to a great lawyer. So she understands this better than Wayne but Wayne has a better voice. Right? But how would you like to have a party where myself and others travel the country and worked for a long time. That was shorter than I thought. Because remember, I was supposed to maybe be able to pull it out at the convention and we pulled it out two months before the convention. Do you remember -- do you remember when they said 1237. That's the delegates. 123-- He cannot reach that number. He cannot reach that number. And I kept saying, what's the big deal? And one of the people, who probably hasn't quite given up yet -- one of the people was trying to buy up all the second ballot people, right. And I kept saying let them have them. Because It's expensive to get them. 14:38:40 And, by the way, I spent less money than any other candidate and I ended up in first place and they ended up boom. So now I hear after beating them fair and square. I mean, I beat them fair and square. Actually, a couple of the commentators that are negative people, actually, cause most of them are. But a couple of the commentators that are negative people said whether you like him or you don't, he beat them fair and square. [ cheers ] And then they said he didn't beat them by a little bit. He beat them by a lot. We beat them by a lot. Alright? So how would you like to have a party where somebody goes out and beats them by a lot and wins not only the vote. Largest in the history of the party. Not only wins 37 states and nobody was even, you know, like remotely close. I mean, some of these guys had none. How would you like to have that? A guy it's an all-time record, gets almost 14 million votes over a period of like nine months. 14:39:48 He gets 37 states, he gets tremendous support, he has sold out arenas, no matter where he goes. Yesterday in Houston, people said they have never seen crowds like that. One of the reporters, a good reporter, actually, from NBC, Halie, she just said, but are your crowds as big as they used to be? I said they're bigger. They're bigger. They're actually bigger. No, they're bigger. You had to see Houston, Texas last night. We were in a big arena, held about 5,000 people. That's not a big one for us, but that was biggest one we could get on short notice. And on short notice we had a line that went five abreast forever. And it's the biggest subject in all of Texas. They had helicopters over. They couldn't believe what they were seeing. They've never seen anything like it. And our crowds are bigger. Our enthusiasm is more. A poll came out OAN, a very good poll. Very -- he's actually, they've, it's a very good group of people, a poll OAN came out where I'm statistically even with crooked Hillary. And she is crooked, folks. Believe me. She is crooked. 14:41:01 Hillary Clinton doesn't have, I'll tell you what. Hillary Clinton, and you can say it anyway you want. But she doesn't have the integrity. She doesn't have the integrity to be president. And perhaps equally important, she's got very, very bad judgment. You just look at what she's done. You just look. Okay. So how would you like to be in a party where Trump wins. Where Trump keeps winning. Where Trump has the biggest crowds. Where Trump gets by the way the highest ratings in the history of television. They had a story in Variety -- I don't like to brag, but we have to brag every once in awhile, right? 14:41:47 They had a story in variety where a big headline, big massive headline. And the story was that Trump makes massive profits for cable networks. And networks. But massive. And then it went on to say that records in viewership, they're setting records in advertising. They're making a fortune., What are we getting out of -- we get nothing but maybe. But maybe we're gonna get the presidency. And we're gonna straighten out our country. Okay? We're gonna straighten out our country. [ cheers and applause ] And we'll have Wayne at that inaugural ball, Wayne will be with me, Wayne. Ba, ba, ba. So, so there's a little movement. And I just heard today where it's coming from. It's coming from people that have been badly defeated. 14:42:38 But wouldn't that be funny? Okay. A guy got much less votes, he got no states. Ladies and gentlemen, our nominee is -- I don't think so. I mean, forget about the legality, cause it's not legal. Forget about the fact that the republican national committee put out a statement last night saying it's all made up by the press folks, believe me. By these people right here. It's all made up by the press. [ boos ] Okay? It's all made up. It's a hoax. I'm telling you. These are the most dishonest people. Not all of them. Not all of them. But these are -- this is a story. I watch CNN yesterday. Knowing it can't happen, breaking news, there will be this and that at the convention. Who are they gonna pick? 14:43:28 I beat everybody. But I don't mean beat, I beat the hell out of them. [ cheers and applause ] Right? Beat the hell out of them. And we're gonna beat Hillary. And it would be helpful if the republicans could help us a little bit, you know. Okay? Just a little bit. I mean, I have people that are so -- that I've done so much for that frankly we've done a great job for -- all of us. You know, the republican party has increased, the voter turnout. Forget about me. I set the all time record. Guess what? The republican party, in the prairies, is up 70%, right? 14:44:17 I think it's even more. 70, 70% from 4 years ago. 70% more people have voted in the primaries. [ audience interruption ] Is it because of me? Oh say it. A woman -- I'm doing well with women. Go ahead. [ cheers and applause ] Thank you. Believe me, I respect women more than Hillary respects women. I can tell you that. Thank you. They're screaming, it's because of you, Mr. Trump, it's because of you. And you know what? I never brag, they happen to be 100% right. 14:44:58 Alright. We -- you take a look at these states. Couple of the states were up 102% from last year. Okay? From four years ago. 102%, it's unheard of. In the whole world, people talk about it. I mean, some people would have said the republican party is stayed. It's not bad, it's stayed. It's not, you know, a little boring maybe. And maybe the ideas weren't right. Because I don't believe -- let it be boring if the ideas are right. But the ideas weren't right. There wasn't strength on the border, our budgets are way out of whack. Look at this last budget that we approved. The Omnibus budget. You know, Obama is a terrible negotiator. 14:45:40 Iran, Iran beats him. Every country beats him. He draws the line in the sand, they beat him. Everybody beats him. But he's a great negotiator when he has to negotiate against the republicans. And we gotta stop. We gotta stop. We gotta stop. They have to focus on budgets, not focus on me. And they view me as an outsider. I have to tell you a little secret, I shouldn't say it, half of you will leave the room. Should I say it? I used to be the ultimate establishment person. I was a massive giver. I gave a lot of money, to everybody. I even gave to democrats. 14:46:17 I mean, I'm in business, right? I gave to democrats. I gave to republicans. But I gave a lot of money. The RGA, republican governor's association, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I was like establishment. And then one day I said, you know, I'm gonna run. And I announced, and they said, what happened? That's no good. Because I'm not one of them. Because I'm gonna do the right thing. I don't need this folks. I don't need this. I don't need this. [ cheers and applause ] 14:46:48 Phil Ruffin told me this morning, came over, we met. And he's done such an amazing job with this hotel. And his wife is actually much more amazing than him. Alexandra, stand up please. Stand up. She's more amazing than Phil. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ruffin. And he told me this morning, he said, and he was talking to a group of people. And we're raising money for the republican party. And frankly I like doing it. I went around yesterday I think between yesterday and today, we raised 12 or 13 million dollars for the republican party. [ cheers and applause ] That's good. For the republican party. 14:47:25 And somebody said, well you're not raising money for -- I said I don't know. You know, I get people, I'm raising money for the republican party. And I'm not getting the kind of support . But they don't tell you though, I actually have a lot of support. But they don't talk to the people that support. Wayne Isah, who's a great guy, congressman. So many of the republicans are so supportive. They don't wanna talk about them. If somebody says something just a little bit off, headline, blaring news, breaking news, you know, they use breaking news every time there's an event there's breaking news. 14:47:52 Then when you have a real breaking news event, nobody takes it seriously. Do you ever notice? Breaking news, Donald Trump got up today and tweeted good morning. [ laughter and applause ] Crazy. It's crazy. But they don't talk about that. But I will say, Phil said to me this morning, and he said to a group. He said, you know Donald Trump didn't need to do this. He's made a fortune. He's done a great job, has a great family, an unbelievable -- Phil, do I have an unbelievable business? Stand up please, this guy knows better than -- stand up, stand up. Did I do a good job? 14:48:29 Built an unbelievable business. And I built an unbelievable business, a great, great business. Some of the greatest assets in the world. No matter where. [ protester ] Who's that guy. Is he a friend or foe? Alright, get him out of here please. Get him out. Get him out. [ boos ] Get him out. Could you let somebody else take his place please? >> [ chant ] Trump! Trump! Trump! 14:49:13 Alright, thank you very much. These are like love fests. You know, a friend of mine came over to me. ANd he said, very rich guy, very successful guy. Not a great guy, but who cares about that? We need these people to help us negotiate with China and with other countries. But he's a guy that is very successful. And he was at an arena where I had 21 thousand people. And I was speaking. And he said, and he's got a lot of guts. Financial guts I call it, you know, different kind of guts. Like, I have financial guys. When I see what our great military people do, I don't know that I'd have those kind of guts, right? Right? These people are fantastic. And we've gotta take care of our military, take care of our vets. 14:49:52 We have to replenish our military and we have to knock the hell out of ISIS. And knock the hell out of ISIS. But he came up to me, and he was with me at this arena. And he saw -- it was in Dallas. And, 21 thousand people. The Mavericks Arena, packed. Including the whole floor. And he said, could I ask you a question? How long have you prepared for this speech? How the hell do you get out there in front of that many people? I said, that's nothing. Because all the networks are covering it live, just like they are right now. He said, how do you do it? Thank you darling. You're right. She gets it. 14:50:29 You're right. And I said honestly -- and he said, how do you do this? He says -- she understands. But he said, how do you do this? How do you speak in front of that many people? He said you could never do it. I said, it's not hard, because I'm telling you ,there is such love in this room. There is such love in these rooms. I really mean it. I really, really mean it. There is such love in these arenas. We had, in Mobile, Alabama we had 35 thousand people. We started in a hotel ballroom. After about an hour, the hotel called, said we can't handle it. We then moved to the convention center. That holds 10 thousand people. They told us after two hours they can't handle it. We moved to a football stadium in Mobile. We had the most unbelievable time. We had 35 thousand people. 14:51:20 In Oklahoma we have these massive crowds. We have massive crowds everywhere. And it's so easy to do what I'm doing, because it's love. It really is love. I'm doing it for love. I'm doing it for this country. I wanna -- we are so off track. W3e are so off track. So, and I'll tell you something. The safest place -- thank you darling -- the safest place to be in this country is at a Trump rally. Remember that. Remember that. It's the safest place to be. Oh good, all the seats have now filled out. And they still, they just said there's 3,000 people outside. All the seats are now filled out. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, the press, if I had -- I'm telling you, we had to do that. That's why I waited. Is it okay that I waited? Yes. Okay. Now they're all filled out. Filled out all over this building. 14:52:11 I don't know. This guy Ruffin must be making a fortune this morning. I don't know. So, the safest place to be, seriously. And our whole theme is make America great again. But I've -- [ cheers ] -- I've revised it. It's make America great again, it's make America safe again. Safe again. It's make America safe again. And, it's also, we wanna do it for everybody. Not just us. We wanna do it for everybody. We wanna help African Americans who are -- you look at African Americans -- thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, man. [ Trump starts clapping ] 14:53:08 African American youth has a 59% rate of unemployment. Okay folks? 59. And we're letting people pour into our country. We have no idea who the hell they are, where they come from, there's no documentation, there's no paper. They come from hostile countries. They come from countries that are tremendous in terms of terrorism. And we're gonna have big problems. If you think Orlando was the end of it with this weak attitude and this pathetic president that we have, it wasn't folks. It wasn't. It wasn't. This was just the beginning. Unless we get smart and tough and vigilant. And unless we say, I'm sorry, you're coming from a region in the world, whether it's -- and I can name them all -- I can name them all. But it's radical Islamic terrorism. It's a whole new thing. It's radical Islamic terrorism. 14:54:10 And it's not guns. You know, I saw the president talk immediately about guns. It's not guns. It's terrorism. It's terrorism. It's not guns, it's terrorism. And I watched him the other day, and he was, and by the way, this wasn't just me saying it. He was more angry at Donald Trump than he was at the shooter, the maniac who killed all of those young people. He was more angry at Donald Trump. And I wasn't the only one to say it. Plenty of people saw it. Than he was at the shooter. So, we gotta change our mindset here, folks. We have to be really tough, really smart, really strong. 14:54:41 You know, in the past, we'd have a war. And we'd be fighting Japan. And they had uniforms, we knew who we'd be fighting. And we'd be fighting Germany. And we'd be fighting others. And we knew who our opponent was. We knew who the enemy was. Today, you don't know who the hell it is. And you are going to have, you are going to have problems the likes of which you've never seen unless Donald Trump becomes your president, believe me. [ cheers and applause ] Believe me. 14:55:24 Thank you. >> [ chant ] Trump! Trump! Trump! Thank you. Now we're gonna bring jobs into our country. And that's gonna solve a lot of problems. It's amazing how jobs can solve a lot of problems. Problems that we think we have, all of a sudden, somebody gets a good job, and you don't have the problems. But we're having our jobs ripped off and being sent to other countries, ripped off by currency manipulation where they're lowering the value of their currency and they're making it impossible for our companies to compete. We're being ripped off at every level. And we have leaders that are so stupid, they have no idea what's happening. 14:56:23 I mean, look at the newspapers today. Apple. Good old Apple. I was waiting for this to happen. They've been having their stuff made in China and now China has turned against them. Now here's the bad news. By my saying that, China's very smart, they're gonna say, boy Trump's picked up this one, we'll let Apple -- I'm doing such a service to Apple by even mention it. Because our word is being broadcast all over the world. And Tim Cook should end us a lot of money for what I'm doing. But China is now ripping off Apple, saying you don't have the right to sell a certain product in China. Because somebody else has the right. And they're ripping them off big league. And right now, Apple doesn't know what to do. But it always happens. But you watch. This'll be a headline -- China -- they're smart. I deal with them, they're very smart. 14:57:18 You can do great with them. I made a lot of money with China. The biggest bank in the world is my tenant, I sell condos like crazy to people in China. The Bank of America building in San Francisco indirectly through China. I mean, so much, so much stuff. I did great with China. And I have great respect for China. I'm not knocking China. And I'm not knocking Mexico. And I'm not knocking Japan. I'm not knocking anybody. I think it's great what they do for themselves. But I am knocking our leadership as being grossly incompetent, they don't know what the hell they're doing. They don't know what they're doing. And every time, in all fairness, China is just one of many. But China is the biggest, and it's the biggest abuser. China's an abuser. They abuse our country. Every time they start doing badly -- do you notice? 14:58:11 They knock out their, their currency a little bit lower, a little bit lower. They're not supposed to be doing that. That's like cheating. You know, it's a way of cheating. Now, we do it very little. Because we don't know how to play. They're like grandmasters. They're like grandmasters. And we're like checker players that don't know how to play. That's, no, that's the difference. But it won't be that way. Karl Icon, guys like Ruffin, guys like so many of my people that have backed my, so many of the people that Phil knows. These are the best business people in the world. These are the best negotiators in the world. These are the best negotiators in the world. And you know what? You know what? It's very interesting. We're gonna put it up -- I'm the best. Oh, I'm good. Good. But we have the best. We have the greatest business people. We have the greatest negotiators in the world, you know? 14:59:05 We have the greatest. Andy Beal, who's a big supporter. Andy Beel. Beal Bank in Texas. We have such unbelievable people that are supporting me. And they support me, not cause they like me, although I guess that's a part of it. But they're supporting me, cause they hear me -- you ever hear corporate inversion. We have companies that are leaving this country, taxes are too high, and they have trillions of dollars outside of our country, we can't get it back. We can't get it back. Because we have no leader. You know, we have trillions of dollars right now outside of our country. I think it's 5 trillion, they say it's 2.5 trillion, and I think it's much more. We can't bring it back. The democrats wanna bring it back. The republicans wanna bring it back. Every -- who the hell doesn't wanna bring it back? 14:59:47 It's money that we aren't allowing to come back in because of bureaucracy, it's actually not just taxes. The taxes are crazy, only a maniac would bring it back and pay those. It's crazy, too high. High -- we pay the highest taxes in the world. By the way, I have the biggest tax decrease of any candidate that's run for office, and that's close to 20 people. And Hillary Clinton has the biggest tax increase, and she doesn't even wanna talk about it. In my opinion, her taxes have to be close to 60% to pay for what she's talking about. And she got forced into a corner by crazy Bernie. One thing about Bernie, he doesn't give up. 15:00:28 This guy doesn't give up. Right? Crazy Bernie, he doesn't give up. You know, crazy Bernie. He's crazy as a bed bug, but you know, he doesn't quit. He doesn't quit. Gotta hand it to him. And I think Bernie should continue to go forward folks. He should continue to go forward. [ cheers and applause ] He should fight to the last end. Well he's waiting for really the FBI to what everybody thinks they're going to do. I mean, I think that's it, right? I think he's sort of saying, look, let's hang in there, because ultimately it's called the FBI convention. And then we'll be the only people and we will have done something like Trump did. I wanna be like Trump. 15:01:23 I wanna be like Trump. But I think he's waiting for the FBI convention. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see if the right thing happens. Everybody knows what the right thing is. I've watched and read and seen and talked to great legal scholars. Not one has said that she should be allowed to run for office. Every person that we know of that's done far less than what she's done, their lives have been destroyed And the press doesn't cover it, because the press is so one sided. CNN, as an example, it's called the Clinton News Network. Clinton News Network. [ boos ] No, it's a joke. 15:02:05 It's a joke. The Clinton News Network. So we'll see what happens. But Bernie is in there and Bernie's fighting, and I don't think he should give up. Does anybody think so? I don't think so. If he gives up, we'll say, Bernie you're a loser, you gave up, we can't do that. No, but we'll see. I mean, he's gotta have something in mind. And I personally maybe think that's what he has in mind. So, we're gonna do things for our country that are gonna be amazing. And they've resonated -- look. One year from Thursday, I ran. And everybody said, June 16th. One year. So it's one year and two days now. One year. [ cheers and applause ] One year. 15:02:47 And a lot of people said, I watched Karl Rove, he said oh he's not gonna urn. I watched Krauthammer, no he won't run. Krauthammer said, he won't run. He won't run because this is the single greatest group of talent perhaps in the history of the republican party. In fact, a month before, I said to my wife, wow, I just -- don't forget, Krauthammer wanted us to go into Iraq and bomb the hell. We've done a great job by doing that, and I was against doing that, folks. I was against it. These guys all wanted to bomb the hell out of Iraq. We've done a great job in doing that. We've totally destabilized the Middle East. What a mess we have, okay? What a total mess we have. And by the way, who takes over Iraq? Iran. 15:03:36 Not only do they make the Iran deal, I used to say that's the great deal I've seen. They gotta $150 billion back. They have the right to go wild with nuclear weapons eventually. They don't to make them, they can buy them. But, you know what? They make great -- and I used to say that's one of the greatest deals I've ever seen. I don't say that anymore. Greatest deal is that for years and years and years, decades and decades, they fought each other. And one went ten feet this way, ten feet that way, ten feet three, four years. Then they rested. Then go again, again, again. Saddam Hussein drops a little gas. Iran complains, you're not supposed to do that. The world goes crazy. And then they rest. 15:04:14 Then again. Okay, this has gone on forever. Then we come in and obliterate one of the two. Obliterate it. And now, what have we done? We have given Iran Iraq. Okay? As sure as you're sitting. Now I've been saying this for a long time. But Iran is essentially controlling Iraq. Iran is now very shortly, they're gonna just walk in. They don't have to fire a shot. And the people running Iraq are so in the pocket of Iran. And why wouldn't they be? Cause they figure, we're gone. You know, we're gone. So Iran is gonna take over Iraq. A lot of people don't know that Iraq has some of the largest oil reserves in the entire world. A lot of people don't know that. 15:05:00 So look what's happening, look what's happening to Iran. Look what we've done by sheer stupidity. So a lot of these people, they said, bomb, bomb, bomb. And I said, although what did I know? I was in business. Right? I didn't know. A lot people weren't asking me. But I said if you do that, you're gonna destabilize the Middle East. And hence, you have the migration. And hence, you have people going all over the world. Look at the problems in Germany. Look at the crime. I have friends in Germany that for years, they'd say, the greatest country, the greatest country, they love Germany, and now they're saying, we're leaving. They're leaving Germany. Look what they've done to different -- look at Brussels. How beautiful a place was Brussels. And look at what's going on. Look at Paris. Look what's happening in paris. And it's far worse than you people understand. It's far worse than people understand. In fact, there was actually a story that Paris is so, so, so out of control, so dangerous. Look at what's going on. 15:05:57 And we have Hillary Clinton wanting to take in over 500% more than Obama. No, think of it, than Obama, of people that will cause us problems like you will not believe. Not all of them. But look what one man did. One whack job. He's a whacko. Look what one whack job did. One radical Islamic terrorist. And he pledged himself to ISIS. Here's a guy, he's shooting people, and pledging himself to ISIS as he's shooting. Okay? He's calling people and talking about ISIS. ISIS. Look what one man has done to this country. Look what one man has done to the state, the great, great, great state of Florida that I love and Orlando, amazing place. This is one man. 15:06:48 We're letting in millions of people. It doesn't take large amounts. This could be the great Trojan horse. We all know the story of the Trojan horse. But this could be the great story of the Trojan horse. All because we have leadership and weak people like Hillary. She's weak. She's weak. Bernie Sanders said about Hillary Clinton that she can't be president, because she has bad judgement. Okay, she said it, i didn't say it, I would never say a thing like that. [ laughter ] And then I hear her, I hear her saying, you know reading right off, always teleprompters, she goes, Donald Trump, does not have the temperament to be president. 15:07:39 And then the, you know the people back, oh she gave a great speech. Oh, give me a break. Gave a great speech. You think she's the president? Take a look at her, you'd think she's the president? I don't think so. I don't think so. [ boos ] Donald Trump doesn't have the temperment. And I'll tell you something, I started thinking about it. And I was gonna say, I absolutely have a great temperament, and I've done great things. Hey look, I went into television, had "The Apprentice." Great hit. One of the most successful reality shows, right? I did books. Many best sellers. Many. The Art of the Deal's one of the biggest selling, certainly one of the biggest selling book of all time, by far. 15:08:13 So, I did books, tremendous success. Real estate, I have some of the greatest assets in the world. You look at my numbers, very low debt, tremendous everything, okay? I filed over 100 something odd pages. But listen to this, okay, so listen. We have, we have a great study in contrasts. So I started thinking about temperament, and I was gonna share, I do have a good temperment, I do. And then I said to myself, well wait a minute, she's probably right about one thing. I have a very tough temperament. She said, you know, but very controlled. But we need tough temperament today. We can't have this weakness. We can't have weakness. My temperament's tough. My temperament is very solid. I don't lose control. I've been doing this for a long time, folks. You've been watching me for a long time. Do you know, in New York, I want in a massive landslide. Who knows me better than the people of New York? Nobody knows me better. 15:09:07 Nobody. I won in a massive landslide, and we have 3 people. Now, New York knows me better. I've been there for a long time. If I didn't have a good temperment, I couldn't have won New York. They know me -- oh, do I get publicity. Do I get -- they write about me every day, every hour. It's always been this way. I don't know why. I don't know why. They had their debate. So Fox and the debate had 24 million people, it was actually even more than that, but 24 million people. The largest audience in the history of cable television. Now, I don't think it was for Jeb, but maybe I'm wrong, okay? 15:09:42 [ laughter ] By the way, Jeb is working on the movement. Just so you understand. I love competition like that. I love it. So, so look, look. Low energy. I didn't say it, you did. Okay. No Jeb is one of the people that's working. But the other one should be obvious to you, but we'll figure that out very easily. Okay ready? So, so, when you look and when you see. And when you see what we have to do, we have to get out there. We have 24 million people. They watch. We have 23. The next two weeks. CNN puts a debate. 23 million people. The largest audience in the history of cable television for CNN. Here, CNN covers wars, covers everything, right? So you have the largest audience in the history of cable television, and then a few weeks later -- oh yeah, they do say the debate with Hillary will be, it's gonna blow everything away. 15:10:37 Oh, I look forward to that debate. Oh, do I look forward to that debate. [ cheers and applause ] I look so forward to that debate. But think of this, so CNN a few weeks later has another debate. And they get the largest audience they've ever had. In the history of CNN. You know, that's pretty impressive right? And Variety and the magazines say, the Trump debate drew record ratings, okay. Just like they said the profits. But, here's the thing about the debate. So the debates go on. And a lot of people say, what was the biggest surprise? Well I didn't know myself as a debater, because I never debated. I create jobs, I do deals, I do business, I do this stuff, right? I don't debate. I guess my life is a debate. But I don't debate professionally. 15:11:19 And I hear all these politicians. They're debaters. We debate. Hillary Clinton supposedly said debate her. Give me a break. Will she be allowed to bring the teleprompter onto the debate stage? So, so, so what happens is we start the debates. And I never did it before. And I'm saying, but think of that. I was in 11 debates. And of the 11 debates, I think it was 11. Of the 11 debates, I was on center stage for every single debate. Meaning, you're number one. And of the 11 debates, of the 11 debates, Drudge, fantastic guy, Time magazine, Slate, they do polls. I think I really helped the polling business. I talk about polls. I like polls. 15:12:04 But only if I'm winning. I don't like them otherwise. And we're starting to catch up very rapidly, so. Pretty soon. The polling companies are gonna have their day in the sun pretty soon I think. So here's the story. So, of all of these debates, I think the 7 of them they cover, they have online polls. Hundreds of thousands of people vote. And on every single debate, by every single poll, I won every debate. Which is pretty good. Which is pretty good. You know, I don't know. I think it's pretty good. But we are going to do things that are going to be great. And a lot of people don't want me in, because they don't wanna see strong borders, okay? They don't wanna see strong -- I wanna see strong borders. They don't wanna see me job creating. They don't wanna see what I'm gonna do to help the minories. Because we have problems in this country. 15:12:56 We, I will do more for African Americans than Barack Obama has ever done. And believe me, he's done nothing. He's done nothing. He's done nothing but talk. He's done nothing but talk. And the Hispanics. So I employ thousands of Hispanics. Thank you. Where's Miriam. Where is Miriam. Where is she? Thank you. No, I employ thousands of Hispanics. Where's Miriam? She's shy. She doesn't wanna -- she has been so amazing. Where is -- thank you. Thank you. She goes around and says Donald Trump is gonna do more for Mexicans and Hispanics and I appreciate it. Thank you. 15:13:48 Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you darling. So nice. No, she's been amazing. And she knows. Because I'm gonna bring our jobs back, folks. We're bringing our jobs back. Look at Carrier. They fired everybody. They're moving to mexico. So many companies moving to Mexico. I mean, I have a list that's a mile long. They're moving to Mexico. Firing everybody. Then they make the product, not only in mexico, they make the product, they sell it into the United States, no tax, no nothing. And you know what happens? We're gonna lose a lot more companies. We're gonna lose a lot more companies. 15:14:28 If I'm president, we're not gonna lose anything. We're not gonna lose any companies. We're not gonna lose -- and I say that strongly. Because you know what? These guys don't know. I've been watching this discussion. Because for 7 or 8 years, we have been just, it's been an onslaught. And longer than that. In all fairness to Obama, long before Obama. It was called NAFTA. It was signed by Bill Clinton. And it didn't affect Bill Clinton. But it affected everybody that followed Bill Clinton. And believe me folks, it has been a disaster for this country. When I won New York state and Pennsylvania, when I won Maryland and Connecticut and Rhode Island, and when I won all of these states. And when I won Indiana, thank you Bobby Knight, boy did Bobby Knight help. Boy did Bobby Knight, that was -- Coach Knight. 900 wins. But when I won all of these states, I really got to know -- even New York State. I knew it well. 15:15:22 I knew there were tremendous problems in upstate New York. But I had no idea. When I toured those upstate areas of Albany and Rome. The real Rome, Rome New York. Okay, that's, I call that the real Rome. But, Syracuse. And you see building after building after building empty, falling down. Just a horrible sight. All over. You could buy them, folks, for could buy them for a dollar. And you know what? I'll give you, maybe, some real estate advice. Go out and buy them. And if I win, you're gonna make a hell of a lot of money. Okay? In fact, Phil Ruffin would get up and leave before the speech is over. He's headed to upstate New York right now. No, but it's true. It's true. Building after building -- by the thousands. By the thousands. And I have staticians that work for me. And before I used to speak, when we were in the primary, I'd say give me the information on upstate New York. Give me the information on Long Island. Give me the information on all these places. 15:16:23 Pennsylvania in particular. Look at West Virginia, what they've done to our coal miners. They've destroyed. Hillary Clinton said I'll put the coal miners and the mines out of business. That was not a smart statement. And then she had to go there -- [ boos ] And look at the numbers I've gotten in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. And I look -- because we're gonna bring the coal industry. And we're gonna bring every industry. We're gonna bring our energy industry back. We're gonna bring it back. We're gonna bring it back. You know, because of technology, folks. Because of technology, we have learned things, frankly, and we realize that we have wealth that we never knew we had. Over the last six or seven years, there are many forms of technology that have given us an awareness that's unbelievable. What's happened is unbelievable. So we're gonna bring these things back. And we're gonna start paying off our debt. And we're not gonna let our companies, now here's what we're going to do. So Carrier says they're leaving. I would call them and say very nicely, you know my wife gives me a very hard time. 15:17:19 She said, darling, you're president. You cannot call an air conditioning company. I said, that's okay, it's so much fun. It's like a 2 minute call. If I could save 1400 jobs in 2 minutes, let me do it. But I'd call. Meaning, I'd call. Somebody calls. Somebody calls. I got a call. Maybe I should do it, right? And I say very simply, you just fired 1400 people, you're moving to Mexico, enjoy it. Enjoy it. I respect Mexico so much for taking all of our businesses, so much of our business. But let me just tell you. Here is the story. Every air conditioning unit that you make, that you sell across, our now very, very strong border, you will be paying a 35% tax on that unit., If you leave. If you leave. Now our country has been working on this problem for years. 15:18:13 And they did all sorts of deals. Like zero interest loans and we'll give you money. They don't need money. They don't want money. How about the deals where they gave them really cheap money and they left anyway? You know, it's like great. Try collecting. They don't need money. 100% they don't leave. If I talk to them for two minutes. Phil, would you say two minutes or do I need 3? I think in 2. He says 1. Phil said 1 minute. But, in a quick conversation, and we're not gonna move. And they're not gonna be calling lobbyists. 15:18:48 Because, you know, I spent 15 million on my own campaign of my money . Okay, of my money. [ cheers and applause ] And by the way, if the republican party -- and I hope they all come together. Cause I want them to come together, it's great. But if for any reason they get a little bit like they don't wanna help out as much, then I'll fund my own campaign, I'd love to do that. I'd love to do that. You know, right now, I'm raising a lot of money for the republican party and a lot of beneficiaries so that -- and I like doing it. But we have to have help. We have to have help. They have to be, they gotta -- you know, life is like a two way street, right? 15:19:25 Otherwise I'll just keep doing what I'm doing. I'll just keep funding my own campaign. I'm okay with that. That's the easy way. I mean, for me, that's the easy way. But hopefully I can continue to go the way we're going. This weekend we raised a lot of money. We've raised a lot of money for the republican party. We'll keep doing it. Cause we do have tremendous support within the party. That I can tell you. We have tremendous support. Okay. So, what's going to happen with Carrier, what's gonna happen with any of them is they're gonna say, uh, we wanna talk about this. Then they're gonna hire a lobbyist. The lobbyists are gonna call. I'll say, I'm not giving you guys anything. Now if they call Hillary, 100%, they have a lobby -- they have a lobbyist in Washington. He's got Hillary Clinton stamped on his forehead. 15:20:04 Okay, it's 100%. With me, it doesn't work that way, okay? With me, it doesn't work that way. Within 24 hours, they would call and say, sir, we're very excited to stay in the United States. We'll stay in Indiana. Or they'll go someplace else. But they're staying in the United States. Now multiply that times thousands. Times thousands and thousands of companies. That's what you're talking about. You're not talking about 100 companies or 10, you're talking about thousands of companies have left. Thousands of companies are being killed by monetary manipulation. Okay? Thousands. We're not gonna let this happen. 15:20:45 Remember this. China -- we have rebuilt China. They have taken so much. We owe China now $1.7 trillion. Think of it. They beat us at every front. They kick the hell out of us. And we owe them money. How about Japan? We owe Japan $1.6 trillion. Now think of that one. They sell the cars, the big boats coming in, the biggest ships you've ever seen. I mean, if Wayne Newton could get one of his big audiences onto one of those ships, you would be very proud. I'm telling you Wayne. Wayne, would you stand up again? Come here. I mean, we love this guy. [ cheers and applause ] We love Wayne. We love our. You know, it's sort of like a weird experience, cause all of my life, I've been watching Wayne Newton. And now I'm performing for him. What the hell is going on over here. And the problem is, I like him better than I like myself. 15:21:47 So anyway. So, so all of this is gonna come back. Now, you have people in both parties that don't like the things I'm saying. Okay? You have people in both parties. But you know, cause I have the smartest people. A lot of people are saying that. That's even showing up. I have the most dedicated people. I have the best people. I have the best people. I have the best people. And they get it. But a lot of people, a lot of people, don't like strong borders. They don't want the wall. We're gonna have the wall, folks. We gotta have the wall. We gotta have the wall. And the wall is gonna stop drug trafficking. It's gonna help with the drugs. You know, the drugs are pouring into our country, and poisoning our youth and others beyond what anybody has any idea. If you look at New Hampshire, which I won. I love New Hampshire, because it was my first victory. It's my first victory. I never ran for office. By the way, am I doing a good job? Am I doing a good job? [ cheers and applause ] Right? I never did this before. But I love New Hampshire. And the people of New Hampshire got together with me, and they said their biggest problem is heroin. 15:22:54 I said Heroin? Just doesn't work with the beautiful trees and streams and lakes. I said heroin? And it turns about to be -- they have a tremendous. And they have it in Massachusetts. And South Carolina. They have it in all of these places. All of these places. And it's pouring across. And three weeks ago, 16,500 border patrol agents endorsed Donald Trump. They've never, ever endorsed a presidential candidate. [ cheers and applause ] And I asked them and they told me. They said, Mr. Trump, you need the wall. And Sheriff Joe Arpaio, great guy. Tough, right? Sheriff Joe from Arizona -- in fact when I finish this, I'm going to Arizona. I'll be Arizona in a little while doing the same thing with big, big beautiful crowds. But, Sheriff Joe endorsed Donald Trump. Folks, we know what we're doing. Okay? We know what we're doing. We are going to make this country so strong again. We're gonna save your social security. 15:23:57 We're gonna save your second amendment, which Hillary Clinton wants to abolish. Hillary Clinton wants to abolish your second amendment. And I got the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, the NRA. One of the earliest endorsements they've ever given. And let me tell you, between Wayne and Chris and all of those people, these are great people. These are people, and it gets lost, it gets lost in the debate. These are people that love our country. Just remember that. These are people that love or country. And you know, I've said before, some people thought it was a harsh statement. But if in Paris where 130 people died, toughest gun laws in the world, by the way. There were no guns on the other side. 15:24:42 These thugs walked in -- probably if there were, if they knew there were, they probably wouldn't have gone in there in the first place, okay. They knew there were no guns. But, toughest gun laws in the world. 130 people died. San Bernardino, 14 people died. Friends, they were friends, they killed the 14 people and so many, so badly injured. And by the way, Paris, the hospitals are still loaded with people. So horrible. And what we had this weekend. If there were a couple of folks, man, woman, had a gun strapped right here, right here, right here. [ cheers and applause ] Or a gun strapped very nicely to the ankle. And this no good, this no good sick, sick perverted, horrible terrorist, terrorist was in there starting the shooting, one of those people would have had those bullets going the other way, folks. It would have been a whole different story. It would have been a whole different story. [ cheers and applause ] 15:25:48 So we're gonna make our nation rich again. We're a poor nation. We lose to everybody. We defend Japan. They don't pay us the right money. They will. They will. You know, the press never says the second. I said, no, no. In a deal, you always have to be prepared to walk. They'll tell you that. You always have to be prepared. Not that you wanna walk, but have to be prepared. So here's Hillary Clinton when she heard about what I said about Japan. He is not being loyal to our allies. We will always stay with our allies. Well now, they're never gonna negotiate. Why would they negotiate? Why? But we have all of these nations that we defend. South Korea. Try buying a television outside of South Korea. Not easy. 15:26:31 I buy thousands and thousands of television sets. Very tough to buy them outside of South Korea, except for Sony which, not doing so well lately, okay? From Japan. But let me just tell you. South Korea, we defend, costs us a fortune. They pay something. But not what they should be saying. Japan, we defend. Billions and billions of dollars. A general gets up, Donald Trump is wrong. He was sent by Obama. Nice looking guy, general. He said, doesn't he understand that Japan pays us 50% of the cost? So he's saying Japan pays us 50% of the cost of their defense. So the press called me up, Mr. Trump, they said that Japan pays 50% of the cost. What do you -- how do you respond? I said, why don't they pay 100%, right? 15:27:22 Right? [ cheers and applause ] Right, right? I mean, we're defending Japan. So we defend Germany. Germany. Think Germany's a rich nation? I wanna tell you, it's a rich nation, but I'll tell you what, gonna have problems with what she did. But regardless, rich nation. Now, we have Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, when the oil prices were high, was making $1 billion a day. We pay rent on our bases. We pay them rent. We defend Saudi Arabia. Now listen. Saudi Arabia, I have a lot of friends from Saudi Arabia. All that stuff, right? But you know what? This is a country that has nothing but money. They have nothing but money. Not strong defense. That if we weren't there, they would've been gone 25 years ago. 15:28:13 Okay? 25 years ago. You remember the incident with Iraq when Iraq went into Kuwait and then they started looking at Saudi Arabia. And the Saudis didn't do so well. And then we had those marines of ours with the stuff under their eyes, and boy that was the end of that. Remember that? People forget these little stories, folks. So we defend Saudi Arabia. They don't pay us nearly what we should be paying. So essentially, we subsidize all of these countries. South Korea, with this guy, call him a maniac, call him whatever you want. Every time he raises his hand or raises his head, we send our ships, our planes, our this. We have 28 thousand soldiers on the line between North and South Korea. They pay us peanuts. 15:28:59 How stupid are we? How stupid are we? A country like Saudi Arabia wouldn't exist for a week. You know, when Iran took over Yemen. They don't want Yemen. They want the border, because it's a huge long border between Saudi -- they want the oil in Saudi Arabia. That's why they fight for Yemen. That's why they're in there fighting. Think of this, we're making a deal with Iran, and we're fighting iran in Yemen, when you make the deal aren't you supposed to sort of solve everything? And Kerry said he didn't wanna bring it up, because he didn't wanna complicate the negotiation. This guy's an idiot. [ boos ] 15:29:34 No, think of it. Yemen, we're fighting them. They're on the other side. We're on one side. We don't know whose side we're on. Cause, you know, we're on the side of the rebels. We have no idea who the rebels are. You ever see all our rebels? Our rebels turn out to be worse than the guys who were there in the first place. We're on the side of the rebels. And then the rebels turn out to be like the worst. But, we're fighting Iran. They're on the other side. And we're fighting, fighting. And he's out there negotiating. And then he goes on a bicycle race, he breaks his leg at 73. And I tell people, I give you my word, I will never enter a bicycle race. I promise. During a major negotiation. 15:30:15 I mean, the guy comes out. He's got a whole thing, with the outfit, the helmet, the whole deal. Right? The helmet. I think he even had the stickers on him, right? I said, what is this guy? He thinks he's in the Tour de France or something. What is he doing? We're in the middle of a very important negotiation that frankly he should have walked away from until we got our prisoners back. And he should have never agreed to give back the $150 billion. But here's the guy in the middle of a negotiation, breaks his leg. And he's out of business. I mean, it, I can't tell you folks. It is -- and I think the reason I have this tremendous support is because, you know what? A lot of it's common sense. 15:30:52 Okay? A lot of it's common sense. It's not even -- it's not even like, you could say he's a great businessman, he -- a lot of it's common sense. 99% of the people in this room would do just as well. I mean, it's like, simple stuff. We're being led by people that don't know what they're doing. Now here's what's gonna happen. So we're gonna start winning again. We're gonna have strong borders, we're gonna have the wall, we're gonna be respected again. We're gonna win with our military, we're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS. We have to do that, folks. That I have to tell you. [ cheers and applause ] Normally I would say, no. But it's gotten to a point and because of the power of weaponry, we have to do that. We really have no choice. So we have to knock the hell out of them. 15:31:33 But our military is totally depleted. You see our old jets, where we're taking parts from old airplane graveyards and museums. We have the planes in the museums and we're using them as our fighters. And other countries have modern fighter jets. This is the United States of America. Can you believe what's happening to us? So we're gonna -- our military's depleted. Horribly depleted. 1400 TRUMP LAS VEGAS NV FS3 80 15:31:54 Smaller than it's been in many, many years. And it's probably gotta be bigger right now, cause I don't know if there's ever been much more of a threat than we have right now. So we're gonna build up our military. With the equipment that we want. We're gonna take care of our veterans, because our veterans have been horribly, horribly treated. [ cheers and applause ] We're gonna make great, great trade deals, and we're gonna bring jobs and money back into our country. We're gonna create a border and borders generally that are strong and powerful. We're gonna get rid of common core, and we're gonna bring our education locally. [ cheers and applause ] We're gonna repeal and replace that horror show called Obamacare. 15:32:56 And we are going to save our second amendment. We are going to save it. So folks, you've heard it before and I say it all the time. We don't win anymore. But we're gonna win so much. And I love it. And I'll say it in honor of the people of Las Vegas. In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Newton. In honor of Miriam. In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ruffin. And in honor of everybody in all -- look at this place, ooh. [ cheers and applause ] TSA finally came through for us. Look at the corners of those rooms. Look at the corners of those rooms what a beautiful sight. 15:33:44 All over the building. So here's what's going to happen. We're gonna start winning again. We're gonna win with our military. We're gonna win for our vets. We're gonna win on education. We're gonna win on trade. We're gonna win, win, win. We're gonna win so much. And I'll be in the White House. And they'll say -- [ cheers and applause ] -- they'll say, Mr. President, Mr. President sir, we have a problem. Thousands of people from Las Vegas, from Nevada, from Texas where we just left, from all of the states by the thousands, they're calling sir. They can't stand whining so much. They're not used to winning. They want you to take it easy. And I'll say, I'm sorry, folks. I can't do that. Because we are going to make America great. Greater than ever before. Thank you. Thank you very much everybody. Thank you. LAS VEGAS, NV - Sending this wider than usual because multiple times in his speech Donald Trump went after Republicans for not lining up to support the billionaire's campaign. > >"And we're gonna beat Hillary. And it would be helpful if the Republicans could help us a little bit, you know. >>I think between yesterday and today, we raised 12 or 13 million dollars for the republican party. [ cheers and applause ] That's good. For the republican party. (14:47:25) And somebody said, well you're not raising money for -- I said I don't know. You know, I get people, I'm raising money for the republican party. >>And by the way, if the republican party -- and I hope they all come together. Cause I want them to come together, it's great. But if for any reason they get a little bit like they don't wanna help out as much, then I'll fund my own campaign, I'd love to do that. I'd love to do that. You know, right now, I'm raising a lot of money for the republican party and a lot of beneficiaries so that -- and I like doing it. But we have to have help. We have to have help. They have to be, they gotta -- you know, life is like a two way street, right? On the movement to stop Trump, he pondered who they would put up since he beat all the people that ran adding to do so would be "illegal". "I read about this, there's this insurgent group. You know, the same group that I beat is insurgent. There are a couple of guys there trying to go to -- They're trying to get delegates. I thought they already tried that. I mean, I could give you names but I won't because it's meaningless. First of all, it's illegal. Second of all, you can't do it. Third of all, we -- not me, we got 14 almost 14 million votes. 14 million votes in the primaries."(14:34:15) Going after President Obama once again for the response to the Orlando shooter, he called the President "pathetic". "If you think Orlando was the end of it with this weak attitude and this pathetic president that we have, it wasn't folks. It wasn't. It wasn't. This was just the beginning. Unless we get smart and tough and vigilant. And unless we say, I'm sorry, you're coming from a region in the world, whether it's -- and I can name them all -- I can name them all. But it's radical Islamic terrorism. It's a whole new thing. It's radical Islamic terrorism. (14:54:10) And it's not guns. You know, I saw the president talk immediately about guns. It's not guns. It's terrorism. It's terrorism. It's not guns, it's terrorism. And I watched him the other day, and he was, and by the way, this wasn't just me saying it. He was more angry at Donald Trump than he was at the shooter, the maniac who killed all of those young people. He was more angry at Donald Trump." Trump heads to Phoenix for a rally there - Candace/Bruce/Phelps are there. BACK OF THE BOOK.BERNIE IS A BED BUG. Enjoy this read.. (15:00:25) "Crazy Bernie. One thing about Bernie, he doesn't give up, this guy doesn't give up! Right? Crazy Bernie, he doesn't give up! Crazy Bernie, he's crazy as a bed bug but you know he doesn't quit, he doesn't quit. gotta hand it to him. And I think Bernie should continue to go forward folks, he should continue to go forward.. he should fight to the last day. Well he's waiting for really, the FBI to do what everybody thinks they're going to do."

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WASH 5 DONALD TRUMP LAS VEGAS NV C16 061416 1400 TRUMP LAS VEGAS NV FS3 80 14:31:54 Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, I love you people. I love Las Vegas! I love this state. And if you ever need a room, I have a very nice building right down the street. You know? Hey, and I have to thank Mr and Mrs. Phil Ruffin, the room is great. We've got people in every room he's got ever here. His restaurant's now are full. This is what took so long. And the worst thing we can do, folks, is we're all together, right? This is a movement. The worst thing we can do is start a rally -- because if there's one empty seat, the press will say, oh the room didn't fill up, Trump isn't doing -- 14:32:34 Outside, you have thousands of people trying to get in. [ cheers ] And, I hate to say it, because I liked them and they work very hard, TSA lets them in. And it's working out so good. I'm not happy about it. But I have to put up with it. But they have, you know, the machines. And they didn't bring enough machines. And I don't know if the great Wayne Newton has that problem when he performs, but I love Wayne. I'll talk about Wayne in a second. But we have to be very careful of that. Because let's say I came out 10 or 15 minutes ago. Even though there are thousands of people outside, all of the conference rooms have people, they have closed circuit television. The whole hotel is packed, filled. You've never had anything like this. And he owns it. So, f I had like three empty seats, they'll say oh this is terrible. 14:33:30 And they are still piling into this room. But I think it's time we begin. Do we agree? Do we agree? [ cheers and applause ] Okay. So we have amazing people here. Amazing friends are here. And it's been going really well. You know, I read about this, there's this insurgent group. You know, the same group that I beat is insurgent. There are a couple of guys there trying to go to -- They're trying to get delegates. I thought they already tried that. I mean, I could give you names but I won't because it's meaningless. First of all, it's illegal. Second of all, you can't do it. Third of all, we -- not me, we got 14 almost 14 million votes. 14 million votes in the primaries. 14:34:15 So that's more votes than ever received in the primaries in the history of the Republican party. Okay. [ cheers and applause ] We beat a lot of people. 16 people. There were a total of 17 including myself. One after another. Boom. Boom. Boom. It was a beautiful thing to behold. Okay. A beautiful thing. It was a beautiful thing. Yeah. That's great. Just keep filling them in. That's right. Isn't it better that we're starting now. We have to. They're not happy outside but what the heck are we going to do? So it was a beautiful thing to behold. But think of this, so we got almost 14 million votes. We won 36, 37 states, which is -- others won none. People that won none are saying maybe we can get something at the convention. Doesn't work that way, folks. You would have -- because we have, you know, one of the things that we'll say we have by far the most loyal followers. Right. By far. You know, other of the candidates, I mean, take a look at this today. They've never had anything like this where every room is full, every conference room, every restaurant is loaded with people. 14:35:36 I hope you put close circuit in, Phil, they're gonna be so angry. But I think you did. This guy doesn't hold back. Believe me. But so when we get 37 states, when we get 37 states -- [ cheers and applause ] Oh, we love our police. We love our police. Thank you, thank you, officers. Thank you. [ boos ] Thank you. That's very nice. Thank you. By the way, how great are our police? Okay. They don't get enough credit. They don't get enough credit. They don't They take abuse. They don't get the credit they deserve. Believe me. So we won 37 states. We won 14 million. 14:36:41 We beat Ronald Reagan, who we love, we beat Richard Nixon, we beat Dwight D. Eisenhower. We beat everybody. We beat bush. We beat the Bushes. We beat the bushes. And by a lot. I don't mean we like edged it. I don't mean, like, you know, I mean by a lot! And now you have a couple of guys that were badly defeated and they're trying to organize maybe, like, a little bit of a delegate revolt. Maybe. Now, number one, you know, Reince Priebus -- you know what that is? Right? RNC. No, he's a good guy. And the Republican National Committee, they put out a statement. They can't do it. It's not legal. You can't do it. You're not allowed to do it. How would you like to have a party where we start it off with 17 or 18 people, actually, including somebody I won't mention, because I'm not looking to embarrass anybody, but it's 18 if you want to include somebody. Okay. 14:37:40 But how would you like to have a party, Wayne, and he's married to a great lawyer. So she understands this better than Wayne but Wayne has a better voice. Right? But how would you like to have a party where myself and others travel the country and worked for a long time. That was shorter than I thought. Because remember, I was supposed to maybe be able to pull it out at the convention and we pulled it out two months before the convention. Do you remember -- do you remember when they said 1237. That's the delegates. 123-- He cannot reach that number. He cannot reach that number. And I kept saying, what's the big deal? And one of the people, who probably hasn't quite given up yet -- one of the people was trying to buy up all the second ballot people, right. And I kept saying let them have them. Because It's expensive to get them. 14:38:40 And, by the way, I spent less money than any other candidate and I ended up in first place and they ended up boom. So now I hear after beating them fair and square. I mean, I beat them fair and square. Actually, a couple of the commentators that are negative people, actually, cause most of them are. But a couple of the commentators that are negative people said whether you like him or you don't, he beat them fair and square. [ cheers ] And then they said he didn't beat them by a little bit. He beat them by a lot. We beat them by a lot. Alright? So how would you like to have a party where somebody goes out and beats them by a lot and wins not only the vote. Largest in the history of the party. Not only wins 37 states and nobody was even, you know, like remotely close. I mean, some of these guys had none. How would you like to have that? A guy it's an all-time record, gets almost 14 million votes over a period of like nine months. 14:39:48 He gets 37 states, he gets tremendous support, he has sold out arenas, no matter where he goes. Yesterday in Houston, people said they have never seen crowds like that. One of the reporters, a good reporter, actually, from NBC, Halie, she just said, but are your crowds as big as they used to be? I said they're bigger. They're bigger. They're actually bigger. No, they're bigger. You had to see Houston, Texas last night. We were in a big arena, held about 5,000 people. That's not a big one for us, but that was biggest one we could get on short notice. And on short notice we had a line that went five abreast forever. And it's the biggest subject in all of Texas. They had helicopters over. They couldn't believe what they were seeing. They've never seen anything like it. And our crowds are bigger. Our enthusiasm is more. A poll came out OAN, a very good poll. Very -- he's actually, they've, it's a very good group of people, a poll OAN came out where I'm statistically even with crooked Hillary. And she is crooked, folks. Believe me. She is crooked. 14:41:01 Hillary Clinton doesn't have, I'll tell you what. Hillary Clinton, and you can say it anyway you want. But she doesn't have the integrity. She doesn't have the integrity to be president. And perhaps equally important, she's got very, very bad judgment. You just look at what she's done. You just look. Okay. So how would you like to be in a party where Trump wins. Where Trump keeps winning. Where Trump has the biggest crowds. Where Trump gets by the way the highest ratings in the history of television. They had a story in Variety -- I don't like to brag, but we have to brag every once in awhile, right? 14:41:47 They had a story in variety where a big headline, big massive headline. And the story was that Trump makes massive profits for cable networks. And networks. But massive. And then it went on to say that records in viewership, they're setting records in advertising. They're making a fortune., What are we getting out of -- we get nothing but maybe. But maybe we're gonna get the presidency. And we're gonna straighten out our country. Okay? We're gonna straighten out our country. [ cheers and applause ] And we'll have Wayne at that inaugural ball, Wayne will be with me, Wayne. Ba, ba, ba. So, so there's a little movement. And I just heard today where it's coming from. It's coming from people that have been badly defeated. 14:42:38 But wouldn't that be funny? Okay. A guy got much less votes, he got no states. Ladies and gentlemen, our nominee is -- I don't think so. I mean, forget about the legality, cause it's not legal. Forget about the fact that the republican national committee put out a statement last night saying it's all made up by the press folks, believe me. By these people right here. It's all made up by the press. [ boos ] Okay? It's all made up. It's a hoax. I'm telling you. These are the most dishonest people. Not all of them. Not all of them. But these are -- this is a story. I watch CNN yesterday. Knowing it can't happen, breaking news, there will be this and that at the convention. Who are they gonna pick? 14:43:28 I beat everybody. But I don't mean beat, I beat the hell out of them. [ cheers and applause ] Right? Beat the hell out of them. And we're gonna beat Hillary. And it would be helpful if the republicans could help us a little bit, you know. Okay? Just a little bit. I mean, I have people that are so -- that I've done so much for that frankly we've done a great job for -- all of us. You know, the republican party has increased, the voter turnout. Forget about me. I set the all time record. Guess what? The republican party, in the prairies, is up 70%, right? 14:44:17 I think it's even more. 70, 70% from 4 years ago. 70% more people have voted in the primaries. [ audience interruption ] Is it because of me? Oh say it. A woman -- I'm doing well with women. Go ahead. [ cheers and applause ] Thank you. Believe me, I respect women more than Hillary respects women. I can tell you that. Thank you. They're screaming, it's because of you, Mr. Trump, it's because of you. And you know what? I never brag, they happen to be 100% right. 14:44:58 Alright. We -- you take a look at these states. Couple of the states were up 102% from last year. Okay? From four years ago. 102%, it's unheard of. In the whole world, people talk about it. I mean, some people would have said the republican party is stayed. It's not bad, it's stayed. It's not, you know, a little boring maybe. And maybe the ideas weren't right. Because I don't believe -- let it be boring if the ideas are right. But the ideas weren't right. There wasn't strength on the border, our budgets are way out of whack. Look at this last budget that we approved. The Omnibus budget. You know, Obama is a terrible negotiator. 14:45:40 Iran, Iran beats him. Every country beats him. He draws the line in the sand, they beat him. Everybody beats him. But he's a great negotiator when he has to negotiate against the republicans. And we gotta stop. We gotta stop. We gotta stop. They have to focus on budgets, not focus on me. And they view me as an outsider. I have to tell you a little secret, I shouldn't say it, half of you will leave the room. Should I say it? I used to be the ultimate establishment person. I was a massive giver. I gave a lot of money, to everybody. I even gave to democrats. 14:46:17 I mean, I'm in business, right? I gave to democrats. I gave to republicans. But I gave a lot of money. The RGA, republican governor's association, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I was like establishment. And then one day I said, you know, I'm gonna run. And I announced, and they said, what happened? That's no good. Because I'm not one of them. Because I'm gonna do the right thing. I don't need this folks. I don't need this. I don't need this. [ cheers and applause ] 14:46:48 Phil Ruffin told me this morning, came over, we met. And he's done such an amazing job with this hotel. And his wife is actually much more amazing than him. Alexandra, stand up please. Stand up. She's more amazing than Phil. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ruffin. And he told me this morning, he said, and he was talking to a group of people. And we're raising money for the republican party. And frankly I like doing it. I went around yesterday I think between yesterday and today, we raised 12 or 13 million dollars for the republican party. [ cheers and applause ] That's good. For the republican party. 14:47:25 And somebody said, well you're not raising money for -- I said I don't know. You know, I get people, I'm raising money for the republican party. And I'm not getting the kind of support . But they don't tell you though, I actually have a lot of support. But they don't talk to the people that support. Wayne Isah, who's a great guy, congressman. So many of the republicans are so supportive. They don't wanna talk about them. If somebody says something just a little bit off, headline, blaring news, breaking news, you know, they use breaking news every time there's an event there's breaking news. 14:47:52 Then when you have a real breaking news event, nobody takes it seriously. Do you ever notice? Breaking news, Donald Trump got up today and tweeted good morning. [ laughter and applause ] Crazy. It's crazy. But they don't talk about that. But I will say, Phil said to me this morning, and he said to a group. He said, you know Donald Trump didn't need to do this. He's made a fortune. He's done a great job, has a great family, an unbelievable -- Phil, do I have an unbelievable business? Stand up please, this guy knows better than -- stand up, stand up. Did I do a good job? 14:48:29 Built an unbelievable business. And I built an unbelievable business, a great, great business. Some of the greatest assets in the world. No matter where. [ protester ] Who's that guy. Is he a friend or foe? Alright, get him out of here please. Get him out. Get him out. [ boos ] Get him out. Could you let somebody else take his place please? >> [ chant ] Trump! Trump! Trump! 14:49:13 Alright, thank you very much. These are like love fests. You know, a friend of mine came over to me. ANd he said, very rich guy, very successful guy. Not a great guy, but who cares about that? We need these people to help us negotiate with China and with other countries. But he's a guy that is very successful. And he was at an arena where I had 21 thousand people. And I was speaking. And he said, and he's got a lot of guts. Financial guts I call it, you know, different kind of guts. Like, I have financial guys. When I see what our great military people do, I don't know that I'd have those kind of guts, right? Right? These people are fantastic. And we've gotta take care of our military, take care of our vets. 14:49:52 We have to replenish our military and we have to knock the hell out of ISIS. And knock the hell out of ISIS. But he came up to me, and he was with me at this arena. And he saw -- it was in Dallas. And, 21 thousand people. The Mavericks Arena, packed. Including the whole floor. And he said, could I ask you a question? How long have you prepared for this speech? How the hell do you get out there in front of that many people? I said, that's nothing. Because all the networks are covering it live, just like they are right now. He said, how do you do it? Thank you darling. You're right. She gets it. 14:50:29 You're right. And I said honestly -- and he said, how do you do this? He says -- she understands. But he said, how do you do this? How do you speak in front of that many people? He said you could never do it. I said, it's not hard, because I'm telling you ,there is such love in this room. There is such love in these rooms. I really mean it. I really, really mean it. There is such love in these arenas. We had, in Mobile, Alabama we had 35 thousand people. We started in a hotel ballroom. After about an hour, the hotel called, said we can't handle it. We then moved to the convention center. That holds 10 thousand people. They told us after two hours they can't handle it. We moved to a football stadium in Mobile. We had the most unbelievable time. We had 35 thousand people. 14:51:20 In Oklahoma we have these massive crowds. We have massive crowds everywhere. And it's so easy to do what I'm doing, because it's love. It really is love. I'm doing it for love. I'm doing it for this country. I wanna -- we are so off track. W3e are so off track. So, and I'll tell you something. The safest place -- thank you darling -- the safest place to be in this country is at a Trump rally. Remember that. Remember that. It's the safest place to be. Oh good, all the seats have now filled out. And they still, they just said there's 3,000 people outside. All the seats are now filled out. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, the press, if I had -- I'm telling you, we had to do that. That's why I waited. Is it okay that I waited? Yes. Okay. Now they're all filled out. Filled out all over this building. 14:52:11 I don't know. This guy Ruffin must be making a fortune this morning. I don't know. So, the safest place to be, seriously. And our whole theme is make America great again. But I've -- [ cheers ] -- I've revised it. It's make America great again, it's make America safe again. Safe again. It's make America safe again. And, it's also, we wanna do it for everybody. Not just us. We wanna do it for everybody. We wanna help African Americans who are -- you look at African Americans -- thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, man. [ Trump starts clapping ] 14:53:08 African American youth has a 59% rate of unemployment. Okay folks? 59. And we're letting people pour into our country. We have no idea who the hell they are, where they come from, there's no documentation, there's no paper. They come from hostile countries. They come from countries that are tremendous in terms of terrorism. And we're gonna have big problems. If you think Orlando was the end of it with this weak attitude and this pathetic president that we have, it wasn't folks. It wasn't. It wasn't. This was just the beginning. Unless we get smart and tough and vigilant. And unless we say, I'm sorry, you're coming from a region in the world, whether it's -- and I can name them all -- I can name them all. But it's radical Islamic terrorism. It's a whole new thing. It's radical Islamic terrorism. 14:54:10 And it's not guns. You know, I saw the president talk immediately about guns. It's not guns. It's terrorism. It's terrorism. It's not guns, it's terrorism. And I watched him the other day, and he was, and by the way, this wasn't just me saying it. He was more angry at Donald Trump than he was at the shooter, the maniac who killed all of those young people. He was more angry at Donald Trump. And I wasn't the only one to say it. Plenty of people saw it. Than he was at the shooter. So, we gotta change our mindset here, folks. We have to be really tough, really smart, really strong. 14:54:41 You know, in the past, we'd have a war. And we'd be fighting Japan. And they had uniforms, we knew who we'd be fighting. And we'd be fighting Germany. And we'd be fighting others. And we knew who our opponent was. We knew who the enemy was. Today, you don't know who the hell it is. And you are going to have, you are going to have problems the likes of which you've never seen unless Donald Trump becomes your president, believe me. [ cheers and applause ] Believe me. 14:55:24 Thank you. >> [ chant ] Trump! Trump! Trump! Thank you. Now we're gonna bring jobs into our country. And that's gonna solve a lot of problems. It's amazing how jobs can solve a lot of problems. Problems that we think we have, all of a sudden, somebody gets a good job, and you don't have the problems. But we're having our jobs ripped off and being sent to other countries, ripped off by currency manipulation where they're lowering the value of their currency and they're making it impossible for our companies to compete. We're being ripped off at every level. And we have leaders that are so stupid, they have no idea what's happening. 14:56:23 I mean, look at the newspapers today. Apple. Good old Apple. I was waiting for this to happen. They've been having their stuff made in China and now China has turned against them. Now here's the bad news. By my saying that, China's very smart, they're gonna say, boy Trump's picked up this one, we'll let Apple -- I'm doing such a service to Apple by even mention it. Because our word is being broadcast all over the world. And Tim Cook should end us a lot of money for what I'm doing. But China is now ripping off Apple, saying you don't have the right to sell a certain product in China. Because somebody else has the right. And they're ripping them off big league. And right now, Apple doesn't know what to do. But it always happens. But you watch. This'll be a headline -- China -- they're smart. I deal with them, they're very smart. 14:57:18 You can do great with them. I made a lot of money with China. The biggest bank in the world is my tenant, I sell condos like crazy to people in China. The Bank of America building in San Francisco indirectly through China. I mean, so much, so much stuff. I did great with China. And I have great respect for China. I'm not knocking China. And I'm not knocking Mexico. And I'm not knocking Japan. I'm not knocking anybody. I think it's great what they do for themselves. But I am knocking our leadership as being grossly incompetent, they don't know what the hell they're doing. They don't know what they're doing. And every time, in all fairness, China is just one of many. But China is the biggest, and it's the biggest abuser. China's an abuser. They abuse our country. Every time they start doing badly -- do you notice? 14:58:11 They knock out their, their currency a little bit lower, a little bit lower. They're not supposed to be doing that. That's like cheating. You know, it's a way of cheating. Now, we do it very little. Because we don't know how to play. They're like grandmasters. They're like grandmasters. And we're like checker players that don't know how to play. That's, no, that's the difference. But it won't be that way. Karl Icon, guys like Ruffin, guys like so many of my people that have backed my, so many of the people that Phil knows. These are the best business people in the world. These are the best negotiators in the world. These are the best negotiators in the world. And you know what? You know what? It's very interesting. We're gonna put it up -- I'm the best. Oh, I'm good. Good. But we have the best. We have the greatest business people. We have the greatest negotiators in the world, you know? 14:59:05 We have the greatest. Andy Beal, who's a big supporter. Andy Beel. Beal Bank in Texas. We have such unbelievable people that are supporting me. And they support me, not cause they like me, although I guess that's a part of it. But they're supporting me, cause they hear me -- you ever hear corporate inversion. We have companies that are leaving this country, taxes are too high, and they have trillions of dollars outside of our country, we can't get it back. We can't get it back. Because we have no leader. You know, we have trillions of dollars right now outside of our country. I think it's 5 trillion, they say it's 2.5 trillion, and I think it's much more. We can't bring it back. The democrats wanna bring it back. The republicans wanna bring it back. Every -- who the hell doesn't wanna bring it back? 14:59:47 It's money that we aren't allowing to come back in because of bureaucracy, it's actually not just taxes. The taxes are crazy, only a maniac would bring it back and pay those. It's crazy, too high. High -- we pay the highest taxes in the world. By the way, I have the biggest tax decrease of any candidate that's run for office, and that's close to 20 people. And Hillary Clinton has the biggest tax increase, and she doesn't even wanna talk about it. In my opinion, her taxes have to be close to 60% to pay for what she's talking about. And she got forced into a corner by crazy Bernie. One thing about Bernie, he doesn't give up. 15:00:28 This guy doesn't give up. Right? Crazy Bernie, he doesn't give up. You know, crazy Bernie. He's crazy as a bed bug, but you know, he doesn't quit. He doesn't quit. Gotta hand it to him. And I think Bernie should continue to go forward folks. He should continue to go forward. [ cheers and applause ] He should fight to the last end. Well he's waiting for really the FBI to what everybody thinks they're going to do. I mean, I think that's it, right? I think he's sort of saying, look, let's hang in there, because ultimately it's called the FBI convention. And then we'll be the only people and we will have done something like Trump did. I wanna be like Trump. 15:01:23 I wanna be like Trump. But I think he's waiting for the FBI convention. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see if the right thing happens. Everybody knows what the right thing is. I've watched and read and seen and talked to great legal scholars. Not one has said that she should be allowed to run for office. Every person that we know of that's done far less than what she's done, their lives have been destroyed And the press doesn't cover it, because the press is so one sided. CNN, as an example, it's called the Clinton News Network. Clinton News Network. [ boos ] No, it's a joke. 15:02:05 It's a joke. The Clinton News Network. So we'll see what happens. But Bernie is in there and Bernie's fighting, and I don't think he should give up. Does anybody think so? I don't think so. If he gives up, we'll say, Bernie you're a loser, you gave up, we can't do that. No, but we'll see. I mean, he's gotta have something in mind. And I personally maybe think that's what he has in mind. So, we're gonna do things for our country that are gonna be amazing. And they've resonated -- look. One year from Thursday, I ran. And everybody said, June 16th. One year. So it's one year and two days now. One year. [ cheers and applause ] One year. 15:02:47 And a lot of people said, I watched Karl Rove, he said oh he's not gonna urn. I watched Krauthammer, no he won't run. Krauthammer said, he won't run. He won't run because this is the single greatest group of talent perhaps in the history of the republican party. In fact, a month before, I said to my wife, wow, I just -- don't forget, Krauthammer wanted us to go into Iraq and bomb the hell. We've done a great job by doing that, and I was against doing that, folks. I was against it. These guys all wanted to bomb the hell out of Iraq. We've done a great job in doing that. We've totally destabilized the Middle East. What a mess we have, okay? What a total mess we have. And by the way, who takes over Iraq? Iran. 15:03:36 Not only do they make the Iran deal, I used to say that's the great deal I've seen. They gotta $150 billion back. They have the right to go wild with nuclear weapons eventually. They don't to make them, they can buy them. But, you know what? They make great -- and I used to say that's one of the greatest deals I've ever seen. I don't say that anymore. Greatest deal is that for years and years and years, decades and decades, they fought each other. And one went ten feet this way, ten feet that way, ten feet three, four years. Then they rested. Then go again, again, again. Saddam Hussein drops a little gas. Iran complains, you're not supposed to do that. The world goes crazy. And then they rest. 15:04:14 Then again. Okay, this has gone on forever. Then we come in and obliterate one of the two. Obliterate it. And now, what have we done? We have given Iran Iraq. Okay? As sure as you're sitting. Now I've been saying this for a long time. But Iran is essentially controlling Iraq. Iran is now very shortly, they're gonna just walk in. They don't have to fire a shot. And the people running Iraq are so in the pocket of Iran. And why wouldn't they be? Cause they figure, we're gone. You know, we're gone. So Iran is gonna take over Iraq. A lot of people don't know that Iraq has some of the largest oil reserves in the entire world. A lot of people don't know that. 15:05:00 So look what's happening, look what's happening to Iran. Look what we've done by sheer stupidity. So a lot of these people, they said, bomb, bomb, bomb. And I said, although what did I know? I was in business. Right? I didn't know. A lot people weren't asking me. But I said if you do that, you're gonna destabilize the Middle East. And hence, you have the migration. And hence, you have people going all over the world. Look at the problems in Germany. Look at the crime. I have friends in Germany that for years, they'd say, the greatest country, the greatest country, they love Germany, and now they're saying, we're leaving. They're leaving Germany. Look what they've done to different -- look at Brussels. How beautiful a place was Brussels. And look at what's going on. Look at Paris. Look what's happening in paris. And it's far worse than you people understand. It's far worse than people understand. In fact, there was actually a story that Paris is so, so, so out of control, so dangerous. Look at what's going on. 15:05:57 And we have Hillary Clinton wanting to take in over 500% more than Obama. No, think of it, than Obama, of people that will cause us problems like you will not believe. Not all of them. But look what one man did. One whack job. He's a whacko. Look what one whack job did. One radical Islamic terrorist. And he pledged himself to ISIS. Here's a guy, he's shooting people, and pledging himself to ISIS as he's shooting. Okay? He's calling people and talking about ISIS. ISIS. Look what one man has done to this country. Look what one man has done to the state, the great, great, great state of Florida that I love and Orlando, amazing place. This is one man. 15:06:48 We're letting in millions of people. It doesn't take large amounts. This could be the great Trojan horse. We all know the story of the Trojan horse. But this could be the great story of the Trojan horse. All because we have leadership and weak people like Hillary. She's weak. She's weak. Bernie Sanders said about Hillary Clinton that she can't be president, because she has bad judgement. Okay, she said it, i didn't say it, I would never say a thing like that. [ laughter ] And then I hear her, I hear her saying, you know reading right off, always teleprompters, she goes, Donald Trump, does not have the temperament to be president. 15:07:39 And then the, you know the people back, oh she gave a great speech. Oh, give me a break. Gave a great speech. You think she's the president? Take a look at her, you'd think she's the president? I don't think so. I don't think so. [ boos ] Donald Trump doesn't have the temperment. And I'll tell you something, I started thinking about it. And I was gonna say, I absolutely have a great temperament, and I've done great things. Hey look, I went into television, had "The Apprentice." Great hit. One of the most successful reality shows, right? I did books. Many best sellers. Many. The Art of the Deal's one of the biggest selling, certainly one of the biggest selling book of all time, by far. 15:08:13 So, I did books, tremendous success. Real estate, I have some of the greatest assets in the world. You look at my numbers, very low debt, tremendous everything, okay? I filed over 100 something odd pages. But listen to this, okay, so listen. We have, we have a great study in contrasts. So I started thinking about temperament, and I was gonna share, I do have a good temperment, I do. And then I said to myself, well wait a minute, she's probably right about one thing. I have a very tough temperament. She said, you know, but very controlled. But we need tough temperament today. We can't have this weakness. We can't have weakness. My temperament's tough. My temperament is very solid. I don't lose control. I've been doing this for a long time, folks. You've been watching me for a long time. Do you know, in New York, I want in a massive landslide. Who knows me better than the people of New York? Nobody knows me better. 15:09:07 Nobody. I won in a massive landslide, and we have 3 people. Now, New York knows me better. I've been there for a long time. If I didn't have a good temperment, I couldn't have won New York. They know me -- oh, do I get publicity. Do I get -- they write about me every day, every hour. It's always been this way. I don't know why. I don't know why. They had their debate. So Fox and the debate had 24 million people, it was actually even more than that, but 24 million people. The largest audience in the history of cable television. Now, I don't think it was for Jeb, but maybe I'm wrong, okay? 15:09:42 [ laughter ] By the way, Jeb is working on the movement. Just so you understand. I love competition like that. I love it. So, so look, look. Low energy. I didn't say it, you did. Okay. No Jeb is one of the people that's working. But the other one should be obvious to you, but we'll figure that out very easily. Okay ready? So, so, when you look and when you see. And when you see what we have to do, we have to get out there. We have 24 million people. They watch. We have 23. The next two weeks. CNN puts a debate. 23 million people. The largest audience in the history of cable television for CNN. Here, CNN covers wars, covers everything, right? So you have the largest audience in the history of cable television, and then a few weeks later -- oh yeah, they do say the debate with Hillary will be, it's gonna blow everything away. 15:10:37 Oh, I look forward to that debate. Oh, do I look forward to that debate. [ cheers and applause ] I look so forward to that debate. But think of this, so CNN a few weeks later has another debate. And they get the largest audience they've ever had. In the history of CNN. You know, that's pretty impressive right? And Variety and the magazines say, the Trump debate drew record ratings, okay. Just like they said the profits. But, here's the thing about the debate. So the debates go on. And a lot of people say, what was the biggest surprise? Well I didn't know myself as a debater, because I never debated. I create jobs, I do deals, I do business, I do this stuff, right? I don't debate. I guess my life is a debate. But I don't debate professionally. 15:11:19 And I hear all these politicians. They're debaters. We debate. Hillary Clinton supposedly said debate her. Give me a break. Will she be allowed to bring the teleprompter onto the debate stage? So, so, so what happens is we start the debates. And I never did it before. And I'm saying, but think of that. I was in 11 debates. And of the 11 debates, I think it was 11. Of the 11 debates, I was on center stage for every single debate. Meaning, you're number one. And of the 11 debates, of the 11 debates, Drudge, fantastic guy, Time magazine, Slate, they do polls. I think I really helped the polling business. I talk about polls. I like polls. 15:12:04 But only if I'm winning. I don't like them otherwise. And we're starting to catch up very rapidly, so. Pretty soon. The polling companies are gonna have their day in the sun pretty soon I think. So here's the story. So, of all of these debates, I think the 7 of them they cover, they have online polls. Hundreds of thousands of people vote. And on every single debate, by every single poll, I won every debate. Which is pretty good. Which is pretty good. You know, I don't know. I think it's pretty good. But we are going to do things that are going to be great. And a lot of people don't want me in, because they don't wanna see strong borders, okay? They don't wanna see strong -- I wanna see strong borders. They don't wanna see me job creating. They don't wanna see what I'm gonna do to help the minories. Because we have problems in this country. 15:12:56 We, I will do more for African Americans than Barack Obama has ever done. And believe me, he's done nothing. He's done nothing. He's done nothing but talk. He's done nothing but talk. And the Hispanics. So I employ thousands of Hispanics. Thank you. Where's Miriam. Where is Miriam. Where is she? Thank you. No, I employ thousands of Hispanics. Where's Miriam? She's shy. She doesn't wanna -- she has been so amazing. Where is -- thank you. Thank you. She goes around and says Donald Trump is gonna do more for Mexicans and Hispanics and I appreciate it. Thank you. 15:13:48 Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you darling. So nice. No, she's been amazing. And she knows. Because I'm gonna bring our jobs back, folks. We're bringing our jobs back. Look at Carrier. They fired everybody. They're moving to mexico. So many companies moving to Mexico. I mean, I have a list that's a mile long. They're moving to Mexico. Firing everybody. Then they make the product, not only in mexico, they make the product, they sell it into the United States, no tax, no nothing. And you know what happens? We're gonna lose a lot more companies. We're gonna lose a lot more companies. 15:14:28 If I'm president, we're not gonna lose anything. We're not gonna lose any companies. We're not gonna lose -- and I say that strongly. Because you know what? These guys don't know. I've been watching this discussion. Because for 7 or 8 years, we have been just, it's been an onslaught. And longer than that. In all fairness to Obama, long before Obama. It was called NAFTA. It was signed by Bill Clinton. And it didn't affect Bill Clinton. But it affected everybody that followed Bill Clinton. And believe me folks, it has been a disaster for this country. When I won New York state and Pennsylvania, when I won Maryland and Connecticut and Rhode Island, and when I won all of these states. And when I won Indiana, thank you Bobby Knight, boy did Bobby Knight help. Boy did Bobby Knight, that was -- Coach Knight. 900 wins. But when I won all of these states, I really got to know -- even New York State. I knew it well. 15:15:22 I knew there were tremendous problems in upstate New York. But I had no idea. When I toured those upstate areas of Albany and Rome. The real Rome, Rome New York. Okay, that's, I call that the real Rome. But, Syracuse. And you see building after building after building empty, falling down. Just a horrible sight. All over. You could buy them, folks, for could buy them for a dollar. And you know what? I'll give you, maybe, some real estate advice. Go out and buy them. And if I win, you're gonna make a hell of a lot of money. Okay? In fact, Phil Ruffin would get up and leave before the speech is over. He's headed to upstate New York right now. No, but it's true. It's true. Building after building -- by the thousands. By the thousands. And I have staticians that work for me. And before I used to speak, when we were in the primary, I'd say give me the information on upstate New York. Give me the information on Long Island. Give me the information on all these places. 15:16:23 Pennsylvania in particular. Look at West Virginia, what they've done to our coal miners. They've destroyed. Hillary Clinton said I'll put the coal miners and the mines out of business. That was not a smart statement. And then she had to go there -- [ boos ] And look at the numbers I've gotten in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. And I look -- because we're gonna bring the coal industry. And we're gonna bring every industry. We're gonna bring our energy industry back. We're gonna bring it back. We're gonna bring it back. You know, because of technology, folks. Because of technology, we have learned things, frankly, and we realize that we have wealth that we never knew we had. Over the last six or seven years, there are many forms of technology that have given us an awareness that's unbelievable. What's happened is unbelievable. So we're gonna bring these things back. And we're gonna start paying off our debt. And we're not gonna let our companies, now here's what we're going to do. So Carrier says they're leaving. I would call them and say very nicely, you know my wife gives me a very hard time. 15:17:19 She said, darling, you're president. You cannot call an air conditioning company. I said, that's okay, it's so much fun. It's like a 2 minute call. If I could save 1400 jobs in 2 minutes, let me do it. But I'd call. Meaning, I'd call. Somebody calls. Somebody calls. I got a call. Maybe I should do it, right? And I say very simply, you just fired 1400 people, you're moving to Mexico, enjoy it. Enjoy it. I respect Mexico so much for taking all of our businesses, so much of our business. But let me just tell you. Here is the story. Every air conditioning unit that you make, that you sell across, our now very, very strong border, you will be paying a 35% tax on that unit., If you leave. If you leave. Now our country has been working on this problem for years. 15:18:13 And they did all sorts of deals. Like zero interest loans and we'll give you money. They don't need money. They don't want money. How about the deals where they gave them really cheap money and they left anyway? You know, it's like great. Try collecting. They don't need money. 100% they don't leave. If I talk to them for two minutes. Phil, would you say two minutes or do I need 3? I think in 2. He says 1. Phil said 1 minute. But, in a quick conversation, and we're not gonna move. And they're not gonna be calling lobbyists. 15:18:48 Because, you know, I spent 15 million on my own campaign of my money . Okay, of my money. [ cheers and applause ] And by the way, if the republican party -- and I hope they all come together. Cause I want them to come together, it's great. But if for any reason they get a little bit like they don't wanna help out as much, then I'll fund my own campaign, I'd love to do that. I'd love to do that. You know, right now, I'm raising a lot of money for the republican party and a lot of beneficiaries so that -- and I like doing it. But we have to have help. We have to have help. They have to be, they gotta -- you know, life is like a two way street, right? 15:19:25 Otherwise I'll just keep doing what I'm doing. I'll just keep funding my own campaign. I'm okay with that. That's the easy way. I mean, for me, that's the easy way. But hopefully I can continue to go the way we're going. This weekend we raised a lot of money. We've raised a lot of money for the republican party. We'll keep doing it. Cause we do have tremendous support within the party. That I can tell you. We have tremendous support. Okay. So, what's going to happen with Carrier, what's gonna happen with any of them is they're gonna say, uh, we wanna talk about this. Then they're gonna hire a lobbyist. The lobbyists are gonna call. I'll say, I'm not giving you guys anything. Now if they call Hillary, 100%, they have a lobby -- they have a lobbyist in Washington. He's got Hillary Clinton stamped on his forehead. 15:20:04 Okay, it's 100%. With me, it doesn't work that way, okay? With me, it doesn't work that way. Within 24 hours, they would call and say, sir, we're very excited to stay in the United States. We'll stay in Indiana. Or they'll go someplace else. But they're staying in the United States. Now multiply that times thousands. Times thousands and thousands of companies. That's what you're talking about. You're not talking about 100 companies or 10, you're talking about thousands of companies have left. Thousands of companies are being killed by monetary manipulation. Okay? Thousands. We're not gonna let this happen. 15:20:45 Remember this. China -- we have rebuilt China. They have taken so much. We owe China now $1.7 trillion. Think of it. They beat us at every front. They kick the hell out of us. And we owe them money. How about Japan? We owe Japan $1.6 trillion. Now think of that one. They sell the cars, the big boats coming in, the biggest ships you've ever seen. I mean, if Wayne Newton could get one of his big audiences onto one of those ships, you would be very proud. I'm telling you Wayne. Wayne, would you stand up again? Come here. I mean, we love this guy. [ cheers and applause ] We love Wayne. We love our. You know, it's sort of like a weird experience, cause all of my life, I've been watching Wayne Newton. And now I'm performing for him. What the hell is going on over here. And the problem is, I like him better than I like myself. 15:21:47 So anyway. So, so all of this is gonna come back. Now, you have people in both parties that don't like the things I'm saying. Okay? You have people in both parties. But you know, cause I have the smartest people. A lot of people are saying that. That's even showing up. I have the most dedicated people. I have the best people. I have the best people. I have the best people. And they get it. But a lot of people, a lot of people, don't like strong borders. They don't want the wall. We're gonna have the wall, folks. We gotta have the wall. We gotta have the wall. And the wall is gonna stop drug trafficking. It's gonna help with the drugs. You know, the drugs are pouring into our country, and poisoning our youth and others beyond what anybody has any idea. If you look at New Hampshire, which I won. I love New Hampshire, because it was my first victory. It's my first victory. I never ran for office. By the way, am I doing a good job? Am I doing a good job? [ cheers and applause ] Right? I never did this before. But I love New Hampshire. And the people of New Hampshire got together with me, and they said their biggest problem is heroin. 15:22:54 I said Heroin? Just doesn't work with the beautiful trees and streams and lakes. I said heroin? And it turns about to be -- they have a tremendous. And they have it in Massachusetts. And South Carolina. They have it in all of these places. All of these places. And it's pouring across. And three weeks ago, 16,500 border patrol agents endorsed Donald Trump. They've never, ever endorsed a presidential candidate. [ cheers and applause ] And I asked them and they told me. They said, Mr. Trump, you need the wall. And Sheriff Joe Arpaio, great guy. Tough, right? Sheriff Joe from Arizona -- in fact when I finish this, I'm going to Arizona. I'll be Arizona in a little while doing the same thing with big, big beautiful crowds. But, Sheriff Joe endorsed Donald Trump. Folks, we know what we're doing. Okay? We know what we're doing. We are going to make this country so strong again. We're gonna save your social security. 15:23:57 We're gonna save your second amendment, which Hillary Clinton wants to abolish. Hillary Clinton wants to abolish your second amendment. And I got the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, the NRA. One of the earliest endorsements they've ever given. And let me tell you, between Wayne and Chris and all of those people, these are great people. These are people, and it gets lost, it gets lost in the debate. These are people that love our country. Just remember that. These are people that love or country. And you know, I've said before, some people thought it was a harsh statement. But if in Paris where 130 people died, toughest gun laws in the world, by the way. There were no guns on the other side. 15:24:42 These thugs walked in -- probably if there were, if they knew there were, they probably wouldn't have gone in there in the first place, okay. They knew there were no guns. But, toughest gun laws in the world. 130 people died. San Bernardino, 14 people died. Friends, they were friends, they killed the 14 people and so many, so badly injured. And by the way, Paris, the hospitals are still loaded with people. So horrible. And what we had this weekend. If there were a couple of folks, man, woman, had a gun strapped right here, right here, right here. [ cheers and applause ] Or a gun strapped very nicely to the ankle. And this no good, this no good sick, sick perverted, horrible terrorist, terrorist was in there starting the shooting, one of those people would have had those bullets going the other way, folks. It would have been a whole different story. It would have been a whole different story. [ cheers and applause ] 15:25:48 So we're gonna make our nation rich again. We're a poor nation. We lose to everybody. We defend Japan. They don't pay us the right money. They will. They will. You know, the press never says the second. I said, no, no. In a deal, you always have to be prepared to walk. They'll tell you that. You always have to be prepared. Not that you wanna walk, but have to be prepared. So here's Hillary Clinton when she heard about what I said about Japan. He is not being loyal to our allies. We will always stay with our allies. Well now, they're never gonna negotiate. Why would they negotiate? Why? But we have all of these nations that we defend. South Korea. Try buying a television outside of South Korea. Not easy. 15:26:31 I buy thousands and thousands of television sets. Very tough to buy them outside of South Korea, except for Sony which, not doing so well lately, okay? From Japan. But let me just tell you. South Korea, we defend, costs us a fortune. They pay something. But not what they should be saying. Japan, we defend. Billions and billions of dollars. A general gets up, Donald Trump is wrong. He was sent by Obama. Nice looking guy, general. He said, doesn't he understand that Japan pays us 50% of the cost? So he's saying Japan pays us 50% of the cost of their defense. So the press called me up, Mr. Trump, they said that Japan pays 50% of the cost. What do you -- how do you respond? I said, why don't they pay 100%, right? 15:27:22 Right? [ cheers and applause ] Right, right? I mean, we're defending Japan. So we defend Germany. Germany. Think Germany's a rich nation? I wanna tell you, it's a rich nation, but I'll tell you what, gonna have problems with what she did. But regardless, rich nation. Now, we have Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, when the oil prices were high, was making $1 billion a day. We pay rent on our bases. We pay them rent. We defend Saudi Arabia. Now listen. Saudi Arabia, I have a lot of friends from Saudi Arabia. All that stuff, right? But you know what? This is a country that has nothing but money. They have nothing but money. Not strong defense. That if we weren't there, they would've been gone 25 years ago. 15:28:13 Okay? 25 years ago. You remember the incident with Iraq when Iraq went into Kuwait and then they started looking at Saudi Arabia. And the Saudis didn't do so well. And then we had those marines of ours with the stuff under their eyes, and boy that was the end of that. Remember that? People forget these little stories, folks. So we defend Saudi Arabia. They don't pay us nearly what we should be paying. So essentially, we subsidize all of these countries. South Korea, with this guy, call him a maniac, call him whatever you want. Every time he raises his hand or raises his head, we send our ships, our planes, our this. We have 28 thousand soldiers on the line between North and South Korea. They pay us peanuts. 15:28:59 How stupid are we? How stupid are we? A country like Saudi Arabia wouldn't exist for a week. You know, when Iran took over Yemen. They don't want Yemen. They want the border, because it's a huge long border between Saudi -- they want the oil in Saudi Arabia. That's why they fight for Yemen. That's why they're in there fighting. Think of this, we're making a deal with Iran, and we're fighting iran in Yemen, when you make the deal aren't you supposed to sort of solve everything? And Kerry said he didn't wanna bring it up, because he didn't wanna complicate the negotiation. This guy's an idiot. [ boos ] 15:29:34 No, think of it. Yemen, we're fighting them. They're on the other side. We're on one side. We don't know whose side we're on. Cause, you know, we're on the side of the rebels. We have no idea who the rebels are. You ever see all our rebels? Our rebels turn out to be worse than the guys who were there in the first place. We're on the side of the rebels. And then the rebels turn out to be like the worst. But, we're fighting Iran. They're on the other side. And we're fighting, fighting. And he's out there negotiating. And then he goes on a bicycle race, he breaks his leg at 73. And I tell people, I give you my word, I will never enter a bicycle race. I promise. During a major negotiation. 15:30:15 I mean, the guy comes out. He's got a whole thing, with the outfit, the helmet, the whole deal. Right? The helmet. I think he even had the stickers on him, right? I said, what is this guy? He thinks he's in the Tour de France or something. What is he doing? We're in the middle of a very important negotiation that frankly he should have walked away from until we got our prisoners back. And he should have never agreed to give back the $150 billion. But here's the guy in the middle of a negotiation, breaks his leg. And he's out of business. I mean, it, I can't tell you folks. It is -- and I think the reason I have this tremendous support is because, you know what? A lot of it's common sense. 15:30:52 Okay? A lot of it's common sense. It's not even -- it's not even like, you could say he's a great businessman, he -- a lot of it's common sense. 99% of the people in this room would do just as well. I mean, it's like, simple stuff. We're being led by people that don't know what they're doing. Now here's what's gonna happen. So we're gonna start winning again. We're gonna have strong borders, we're gonna have the wall, we're gonna be respected again. We're gonna win with our military, we're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS. We have to do that, folks. That I have to tell you. [ cheers and applause ] Normally I would say, no. But it's gotten to a point and because of the power of weaponry, we have to do that. We really have no choice. So we have to knock the hell out of them. 15:31:33 But our military is totally depleted. You see our old jets, where we're taking parts from old airplane graveyards and museums. We have the planes in the museums and we're using them as our fighters. And other countries have modern fighter jets. This is the United States of America. Can you believe what's happening to us? So we're gonna -- our military's depleted. Horribly depleted. 1400 TRUMP LAS VEGAS NV FS3 80 15:31:54 Smaller than it's been in many, many years. And it's probably gotta be bigger right now, cause I don't know if there's ever been much more of a threat than we have right now. So we're gonna build up our military. With the equipment that we want. We're gonna take care of our veterans, because our veterans have been horribly, horribly treated. [ cheers and applause ] We're gonna make great, great trade deals, and we're gonna bring jobs and money back into our country. We're gonna create a border and borders generally that are strong and powerful. We're gonna get rid of common core, and we're gonna bring our education locally. [ cheers and applause ] We're gonna repeal and replace that horror show called Obamacare. 15:32:56 And we are going to save our second amendment. We are going to save it. So folks, you've heard it before and I say it all the time. We don't win anymore. But we're gonna win so much. And I love it. And I'll say it in honor of the people of Las Vegas. In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Newton. In honor of Miriam. In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ruffin. And in honor of everybody in all -- look at this place, ooh. [ cheers and applause ] TSA finally came through for us. Look at the corners of those rooms. Look at the corners of those rooms what a beautiful sight. 15:33:44 All over the building. So here's what's going to happen. We're gonna start winning again. We're gonna win with our military. We're gonna win for our vets. We're gonna win on education. We're gonna win on trade. We're gonna win, win, win. We're gonna win so much. And I'll be in the White House. And they'll say -- [ cheers and applause ] -- they'll say, Mr. President, Mr. President sir, we have a problem. Thousands of people from Las Vegas, from Nevada, from Texas where we just left, from all of the states by the thousands, they're calling sir. They can't stand whining so much. They're not used to winning. They want you to take it easy. And I'll say, I'm sorry, folks. I can't do that. Because we are going to make America great. Greater than ever before. Thank you. Thank you very much everybody. Thank you. LAS VEGAS, NV - Sending this wider than usual because multiple times in his speech Donald Trump went after Republicans for not lining up to support the billionaire's campaign. > >"And we're gonna beat Hillary. And it would be helpful if the Republicans could help us a little bit, you know. >>I think between yesterday and today, we raised 12 or 13 million dollars for the republican party. [ cheers and applause ] That's good. For the republican party. (14:47:25) And somebody said, well you're not raising money for -- I said I don't know. You know, I get people, I'm raising money for the republican party. >>And by the way, if the republican party -- and I hope they all come together. Cause I want them to come together, it's great. But if for any reason they get a little bit like they don't wanna help out as much, then I'll fund my own campaign, I'd love to do that. I'd love to do that. You know, right now, I'm raising a lot of money for the republican party and a lot of beneficiaries so that -- and I like doing it. But we have to have help. We have to have help. They have to be, they gotta -- you know, life is like a two way street, right? On the movement to stop Trump, he pondered who they would put up since he beat all the people that ran adding to do so would be "illegal". "I read about this, there's this insurgent group. You know, the same group that I beat is insurgent. There are a couple of guys there trying to go to -- They're trying to get delegates. I thought they already tried that. I mean, I could give you names but I won't because it's meaningless. First of all, it's illegal. Second of all, you can't do it. Third of all, we -- not me, we got 14 almost 14 million votes. 14 million votes in the primaries."(14:34:15) Going after President Obama once again for the response to the Orlando shooter, he called the President "pathetic". "If you think Orlando was the end of it with this weak attitude and this pathetic president that we have, it wasn't folks. It wasn't. It wasn't. This was just the beginning. Unless we get smart and tough and vigilant. And unless we say, I'm sorry, you're coming from a region in the world, whether it's -- and I can name them all -- I can name them all. But it's radical Islamic terrorism. It's a whole new thing. It's radical Islamic terrorism. (14:54:10) And it's not guns. You know, I saw the president talk immediately about guns. It's not guns. It's terrorism. It's terrorism. It's not guns, it's terrorism. And I watched him the other day, and he was, and by the way, this wasn't just me saying it. He was more angry at Donald Trump than he was at the shooter, the maniac who killed all of those young people. He was more angry at Donald Trump." Trump heads to Phoenix for a rally there - Candace/Bruce/Phelps are there. BACK OF THE BOOK.BERNIE IS A BED BUG. Enjoy this read.. (15:00:25) "Crazy Bernie. One thing about Bernie, he doesn't give up, this guy doesn't give up! Right? Crazy Bernie, he doesn't give up! Crazy Bernie, he's crazy as a bed bug but you know he doesn't quit, he doesn't quit. gotta hand it to him. And I think Bernie should continue to go forward folks, he should continue to go forward.. he should fight to the last day. Well he's waiting for really, the FBI to do what everybody thinks they're going to do."

WASH 5 DONALD TRUMP LAS VEGAS NV C16 061416 1400 TRUMP LAS VEGAS NV FS3 80 14:31:54 Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, I love you people. I love Las Vegas! I love this state. And if you ever need a room, I have a very nice building right down the street. You know? Hey, and I have to thank Mr and Mrs. Phil Ruffin, the room is great. We've got people in every room he's got ever here. His restaurant's now are full. This is what took so long. And the worst thing we can do, folks, is we're all together, right? This is a movement. The worst thing we can do is start a rally -- because if there's one empty seat, the press will say, oh the room didn't fill up, Trump isn't doing -- 14:32:34 Outside, you have thousands of people trying to get in. [ cheers ] And, I hate to say it, because I liked them and they work very hard, TSA lets them in. And it's working out so good. I'm not happy about it. But I have to put up with it. But they have, you know, the machines. And they didn't bring enough machines. And I don't know if the great Wayne Newton has that problem when he performs, but I love Wayne. I'll talk about Wayne in a second. But we have to be very careful of that. Because let's say I came out 10 or 15 minutes ago. Even though there are thousands of people outside, all of the conference rooms have people, they have closed circuit television. The whole hotel is packed, filled. You've never had anything like this. And he owns it. So, f I had like three empty seats, they'll say oh this is terrible. 14:33:30 And they are still piling into this room. But I think it's time we begin. Do we agree? Do we agree? [ cheers and applause ] Okay. So we have amazing people here. Amazing friends are here. And it's been going really well. You know, I read about this, there's this insurgent group. You know, the same group that I beat is insurgent. There are a couple of guys there trying to go to -- They're trying to get delegates. I thought they already tried that. I mean, I could give you names but I won't because it's meaningless. First of all, it's illegal. Second of all, you can't do it. Third of all, we -- not me, we got 14 almost 14 million votes. 14 million votes in the primaries. 14:34:15 So that's more votes than ever received in the primaries in the history of the Republican party. Okay. [ cheers and applause ] We beat a lot of people. 16 people. There were a total of 17 including myself. One after another. Boom. Boom. Boom. It was a beautiful thing to behold. Okay. A beautiful thing. It was a beautiful thing. Yeah. That's great. Just keep filling them in. That's right. Isn't it better that we're starting now. We have to. They're not happy outside but what the heck are we going to do? So it was a beautiful thing to behold. But think of this, so we got almost 14 million votes. We won 36, 37 states, which is -- others won none. People that won none are saying maybe we can get something at the convention. Doesn't work that way, folks. You would have -- because we have, you know, one of the things that we'll say we have by far the most loyal followers. Right. By far. You know, other of the candidates, I mean, take a look at this today. They've never had anything like this where every room is full, every conference room, every restaurant is loaded with people. 14:35:36 I hope you put close circuit in, Phil, they're gonna be so angry. But I think you did. This guy doesn't hold back. Believe me. But so when we get 37 states, when we get 37 states -- [ cheers and applause ] Oh, we love our police. We love our police. Thank you, thank you, officers. Thank you. [ boos ] Thank you. That's very nice. Thank you. By the way, how great are our police? Okay. They don't get enough credit. They don't get enough credit. They don't They take abuse. They don't get the credit they deserve. Believe me. So we won 37 states. We won 14 million. 14:36:41 We beat Ronald Reagan, who we love, we beat Richard Nixon, we beat Dwight D. Eisenhower. We beat everybody. We beat bush. We beat the Bushes. We beat the bushes. And by a lot. I don't mean we like edged it. I don't mean, like, you know, I mean by a lot! And now you have a couple of guys that were badly defeated and they're trying to organize maybe, like, a little bit of a delegate revolt. Maybe. Now, number one, you know, Reince Priebus -- you know what that is? Right? RNC. No, he's a good guy. And the Republican National Committee, they put out a statement. They can't do it. It's not legal. You can't do it. You're not allowed to do it. How would you like to have a party where we start it off with 17 or 18 people, actually, including somebody I won't mention, because I'm not looking to embarrass anybody, but it's 18 if you want to include somebody. Okay. 14:37:40 But how would you like to have a party, Wayne, and he's married to a great lawyer. So she understands this better than Wayne but Wayne has a better voice. Right? But how would you like to have a party where myself and others travel the country and worked for a long time. That was shorter than I thought. Because remember, I was supposed to maybe be able to pull it out at the convention and we pulled it out two months before the convention. Do you remember -- do you remember when they said 1237. That's the delegates. 123-- He cannot reach that number. He cannot reach that number. And I kept saying, what's the big deal? And one of the people, who probably hasn't quite given up yet -- one of the people was trying to buy up all the second ballot people, right. And I kept saying let them have them. Because It's expensive to get them. 14:38:40 And, by the way, I spent less money than any other candidate and I ended up in first place and they ended up boom. So now I hear after beating them fair and square. I mean, I beat them fair and square. Actually, a couple of the commentators that are negative people, actually, cause most of them are. But a couple of the commentators that are negative people said whether you like him or you don't, he beat them fair and square. [ cheers ] And then they said he didn't beat them by a little bit. He beat them by a lot. We beat them by a lot. Alright? So how would you like to have a party where somebody goes out and beats them by a lot and wins not only the vote. Largest in the history of the party. Not only wins 37 states and nobody was even, you know, like remotely close. I mean, some of these guys had none. How would you like to have that? A guy it's an all-time record, gets almost 14 million votes over a period of like nine months. 14:39:48 He gets 37 states, he gets tremendous support, he has sold out arenas, no matter where he goes. Yesterday in Houston, people said they have never seen crowds like that. One of the reporters, a good reporter, actually, from NBC, Halie, she just said, but are your crowds as big as they used to be? I said they're bigger. They're bigger. They're actually bigger. No, they're bigger. You had to see Houston, Texas last night. We were in a big arena, held about 5,000 people. That's not a big one for us, but that was biggest one we could get on short notice. And on short notice we had a line that went five abreast forever. And it's the biggest subject in all of Texas. They had helicopters over. They couldn't believe what they were seeing. They've never seen anything like it. And our crowds are bigger. Our enthusiasm is more. A poll came out OAN, a very good poll. Very -- he's actually, they've, it's a very good group of people, a poll OAN came out where I'm statistically even with crooked Hillary. And she is crooked, folks. Believe me. She is crooked. 14:41:01 Hillary Clinton doesn't have, I'll tell you what. Hillary Clinton, and you can say it anyway you want. But she doesn't have the integrity. She doesn't have the integrity to be president. And perhaps equally important, she's got very, very bad judgment. You just look at what she's done. You just look. Okay. So how would you like to be in a party where Trump wins. Where Trump keeps winning. Where Trump has the biggest crowds. Where Trump gets by the way the highest ratings in the history of television. They had a story in Variety -- I don't like to brag, but we have to brag every once in awhile, right? 14:41:47 They had a story in variety where a big headline, big massive headline. And the story was that Trump makes massive profits for cable networks. And networks. But massive. And then it went on to say that records in viewership, they're setting records in advertising. They're making a fortune., What are we getting out of -- we get nothing but maybe. But maybe we're gonna get the presidency. And we're gonna straighten out our country. Okay? We're gonna straighten out our country. [ cheers and applause ] And we'll have Wayne at that inaugural ball, Wayne will be with me, Wayne. Ba, ba, ba. So, so there's a little movement. And I just heard today where it's coming from. It's coming from people that have been badly defeated. 14:42:38 But wouldn't that be funny? Okay. A guy got much less votes, he got no states. Ladies and gentlemen, our nominee is -- I don't think so. I mean, forget about the legality, cause it's not legal. Forget about the fact that the republican national committee put out a statement last night saying it's all made up by the press folks, believe me. By these people right here. It's all made up by the press. [ boos ] Okay? It's all made up. It's a hoax. I'm telling you. These are the most dishonest people. Not all of them. Not all of them. But these are -- this is a story. I watch CNN yesterday. Knowing it can't happen, breaking news, there will be this and that at the convention. Who are they gonna pick? 14:43:28 I beat everybody. But I don't mean beat, I beat the hell out of them. [ cheers and applause ] Right? Beat the hell out of them. And we're gonna beat Hillary. And it would be helpful if the republicans could help us a little bit, you know. Okay? Just a little bit. I mean, I have people that are so -- that I've done so much for that frankly we've done a great job for -- all of us. You know, the republican party has increased, the voter turnout. Forget about me. I set the all time record. Guess what? The republican party, in the prairies, is up 70%, right? 14:44:17 I think it's even more. 70, 70% from 4 years ago. 70% more people have voted in the primaries. [ audience interruption ] Is it because of me? Oh say it. A woman -- I'm doing well with women. Go ahead. [ cheers and applause ] Thank you. Believe me, I respect women more than Hillary respects women. I can tell you that. Thank you. They're screaming, it's because of you, Mr. Trump, it's because of you. And you know what? I never brag, they happen to be 100% right. 14:44:58 Alright. We -- you take a look at these states. Couple of the states were up 102% from last year. Okay? From four years ago. 102%, it's unheard of. In the whole world, people talk about it. I mean, some people would have said the republican party is stayed. It's not bad, it's stayed. It's not, you know, a little boring maybe. And maybe the ideas weren't right. Because I don't believe -- let it be boring if the ideas are right. But the ideas weren't right. There wasn't strength on the border, our budgets are way out of whack. Look at this last budget that we approved. The Omnibus budget. You know, Obama is a terrible negotiator. 14:45:40 Iran, Iran beats him. Every country beats him. He draws the line in the sand, they beat him. Everybody beats him. But he's a great negotiator when he has to negotiate against the republicans. And we gotta stop. We gotta stop. We gotta stop. They have to focus on budgets, not focus on me. And they view me as an outsider. I have to tell you a little secret, I shouldn't say it, half of you will leave the room. Should I say it? I used to be the ultimate establishment person. I was a massive giver. I gave a lot of money, to everybody. I even gave to democrats. 14:46:17 I mean, I'm in business, right? I gave to democrats. I gave to republicans. But I gave a lot of money. The RGA, republican governor's association, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I was like establishment. And then one day I said, you know, I'm gonna run. And I announced, and they said, what happened? That's no good. Because I'm not one of them. Because I'm gonna do the right thing. I don't need this folks. I don't need this. I don't need this. [ cheers and applause ] 14:46:48 Phil Ruffin told me this morning, came over, we met. And he's done such an amazing job with this hotel. And his wife is actually much more amazing than him. Alexandra, stand up please. Stand up. She's more amazing than Phil. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ruffin. And he told me this morning, he said, and he was talking to a group of people. And we're raising money for the republican party. And frankly I like doing it. I went around yesterday I think between yesterday and today, we raised 12 or 13 million dollars for the republican party. [ cheers and applause ] That's good. For the republican party. 14:47:25 And somebody said, well you're not raising money for -- I said I don't know. You know, I get people, I'm raising money for the republican party. And I'm not getting the kind of support . But they don't tell you though, I actually have a lot of support. But they don't talk to the people that support. Wayne Isah, who's a great guy, congressman. So many of the republicans are so supportive. They don't wanna talk about them. If somebody says something just a little bit off, headline, blaring news, breaking news, you know, they use breaking news every time there's an event there's breaking news. 14:47:52 Then when you have a real breaking news event, nobody takes it seriously. Do you ever notice? Breaking news, Donald Trump got up today and tweeted good morning. [ laughter and applause ] Crazy. It's crazy. But they don't talk about that. But I will say, Phil said to me this morning, and he said to a group. He said, you know Donald Trump didn't need to do this. He's made a fortune. He's done a great job, has a great family, an unbelievable -- Phil, do I have an unbelievable business? Stand up please, this guy knows better than -- stand up, stand up. Did I do a good job? 14:48:29 Built an unbelievable business. And I built an unbelievable business, a great, great business. Some of the greatest assets in the world. No matter where. [ protester ] Who's that guy. Is he a friend or foe? Alright, get him out of here please. Get him out. Get him out. [ boos ] Get him out. Could you let somebody else take his place please? >> [ chant ] Trump! Trump! Trump! 14:49:13 Alright, thank you very much. These are like love fests. You know, a friend of mine came over to me. ANd he said, very rich guy, very successful guy. Not a great guy, but who cares about that? We need these people to help us negotiate with China and with other countries. But he's a guy that is very successful. And he was at an arena where I had 21 thousand people. And I was speaking. And he said, and he's got a lot of guts. Financial guts I call it, you know, different kind of guts. Like, I have financial guys. When I see what our great military people do, I don't know that I'd have those kind of guts, right? Right? These people are fantastic. And we've gotta take care of our military, take care of our vets. 14:49:52 We have to replenish our military and we have to knock the hell out of ISIS. And knock the hell out of ISIS. But he came up to me, and he was with me at this arena. And he saw -- it was in Dallas. And, 21 thousand people. The Mavericks Arena, packed. Including the whole floor. And he said, could I ask you a question? How long have you prepared for this speech? How the hell do you get out there in front of that many people? I said, that's nothing. Because all the networks are covering it live, just like they are right now. He said, how do you do it? Thank you darling. You're right. She gets it. 14:50:29 You're right. And I said honestly -- and he said, how do you do this? He says -- she understands. But he said, how do you do this? How do you speak in front of that many people? He said you could never do it. I said, it's not hard, because I'm telling you ,there is such love in this room. There is such love in these rooms. I really mean it. I really, really mean it. There is such love in these arenas. We had, in Mobile, Alabama we had 35 thousand people. We started in a hotel ballroom. After about an hour, the hotel called, said we can't handle it. We then moved to the convention center. That holds 10 thousand people. They told us after two hours they can't handle it. We moved to a football stadium in Mobile. We had the most unbelievable time. We had 35 thousand people. 14:51:20 In Oklahoma we have these massive crowds. We have massive crowds everywhere. And it's so easy to do what I'm doing, because it's love. It really is love. I'm doing it for love. I'm doing it for this country. I wanna -- we are so off track. W3e are so off track. So, and I'll tell you something. The safest place -- thank you darling -- the safest place to be in this country is at a Trump rally. Remember that. Remember that. It's the safest place to be. Oh good, all the seats have now filled out. And they still, they just said there's 3,000 people outside. All the seats are now filled out. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, the press, if I had -- I'm telling you, we had to do that. That's why I waited. Is it okay that I waited? Yes. Okay. Now they're all filled out. Filled out all over this building. 14:52:11 I don't know. This guy Ruffin must be making a fortune this morning. I don't know. So, the safest place to be, seriously. And our whole theme is make America great again. But I've -- [ cheers ] -- I've revised it. It's make America great again, it's make America safe again. Safe again. It's make America safe again. And, it's also, we wanna do it for everybody. Not just us. We wanna do it for everybody. We wanna help African Americans who are -- you look at African Americans -- thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, man. [ Trump starts clapping ] 14:53:08 African American youth has a 59% rate of unemployment. Okay folks? 59. And we're letting people pour into our country. We have no idea who the hell they are, where they come from, there's no documentation, there's no paper. They come from hostile countries. They come from countries that are tremendous in terms of terrorism. And we're gonna have big problems. If you think Orlando was the end of it with this weak attitude and this pathetic president that we have, it wasn't folks. It wasn't. It wasn't. This was just the beginning. Unless we get smart and tough and vigilant. And unless we say, I'm sorry, you're coming from a region in the world, whether it's -- and I can name them all -- I can name them all. But it's radical Islamic terrorism. It's a whole new thing. It's radical Islamic terrorism. 14:54:10 And it's not guns. You know, I saw the president talk immediately about guns. It's not guns. It's terrorism. It's terrorism. It's not guns, it's terrorism. And I watched him the other day, and he was, and by the way, this wasn't just me saying it. He was more angry at Donald Trump than he was at the shooter, the maniac who killed all of those young people. He was more angry at Donald Trump. And I wasn't the only one to say it. Plenty of people saw it. Than he was at the shooter. So, we gotta change our mindset here, folks. We have to be really tough, really smart, really strong. 14:54:41 You know, in the past, we'd have a war. And we'd be fighting Japan. And they had uniforms, we knew who we'd be fighting. And we'd be fighting Germany. And we'd be fighting others. And we knew who our opponent was. We knew who the enemy was. Today, you don't know who the hell it is. And you are going to have, you are going to have problems the likes of which you've never seen unless Donald Trump becomes your president, believe me. [ cheers and applause ] Believe me. 14:55:24 Thank you. >> [ chant ] Trump! Trump! Trump! Thank you. Now we're gonna bring jobs into our country. And that's gonna solve a lot of problems. It's amazing how jobs can solve a lot of problems. Problems that we think we have, all of a sudden, somebody gets a good job, and you don't have the problems. But we're having our jobs ripped off and being sent to other countries, ripped off by currency manipulation where they're lowering the value of their currency and they're making it impossible for our companies to compete. We're being ripped off at every level. And we have leaders that are so stupid, they have no idea what's happening. 14:56:23 I mean, look at the newspapers today. Apple. Good old Apple. I was waiting for this to happen. They've been having their stuff made in China and now China has turned against them. Now here's the bad news. By my saying that, China's very smart, they're gonna say, boy Trump's picked up this one, we'll let Apple -- I'm doing such a service to Apple by even mention it. Because our word is being broadcast all over the world. And Tim Cook should end us a lot of money for what I'm doing. But China is now ripping off Apple, saying you don't have the right to sell a certain product in China. Because somebody else has the right. And they're ripping them off big league. And right now, Apple doesn't know what to do. But it always happens. But you watch. This'll be a headline -- China -- they're smart. I deal with them, they're very smart. 14:57:18 You can do great with them. I made a lot of money with China. The biggest bank in the world is my tenant, I sell condos like crazy to people in China. The Bank of America building in San Francisco indirectly through China. I mean, so much, so much stuff. I did great with China. And I have great respect for China. I'm not knocking China. And I'm not knocking Mexico. And I'm not knocking Japan. I'm not knocking anybody. I think it's great what they do for themselves. But I am knocking our leadership as being grossly incompetent, they don't know what the hell they're doing. They don't know what they're doing. And every time, in all fairness, China is just one of many. But China is the biggest, and it's the biggest abuser. China's an abuser. They abuse our country. Every time they start doing badly -- do you notice? 14:58:11 They knock out their, their currency a little bit lower, a little bit lower. They're not supposed to be doing that. That's like cheating. You know, it's a way of cheating. Now, we do it very little. Because we don't know how to play. They're like grandmasters. They're like grandmasters. And we're like checker players that don't know how to play. That's, no, that's the difference. But it won't be that way. Karl Icon, guys like Ruffin, guys like so many of my people that have backed my, so many of the people that Phil knows. These are the best business people in the world. These are the best negotiators in the world. These are the best negotiators in the world. And you know what? You know what? It's very interesting. We're gonna put it up -- I'm the best. Oh, I'm good. Good. But we have the best. We have the greatest business people. We have the greatest negotiators in the world, you know? 14:59:05 We have the greatest. Andy Beal, who's a big supporter. Andy Beel. Beal Bank in Texas. We have such unbelievable people that are supporting me. And they support me, not cause they like me, although I guess that's a part of it. But they're supporting me, cause they hear me -- you ever hear corporate inversion. We have companies that are leaving this country, taxes are too high, and they have trillions of dollars outside of our country, we can't get it back. We can't get it back. Because we have no leader. You know, we have trillions of dollars right now outside of our country. I think it's 5 trillion, they say it's 2.5 trillion, and I think it's much more. We can't bring it back. The democrats wanna bring it back. The republicans wanna bring it back. Every -- who the hell doesn't wanna bring it back? 14:59:47 It's money that we aren't allowing to come back in because of bureaucracy, it's actually not just taxes. The taxes are crazy, only a maniac would bring it back and pay those. It's crazy, too high. High -- we pay the highest taxes in the world. By the way, I have the biggest tax decrease of any candidate that's run for office, and that's close to 20 people. And Hillary Clinton has the biggest tax increase, and she doesn't even wanna talk about it. In my opinion, her taxes have to be close to 60% to pay for what she's talking about. And she got forced into a corner by crazy Bernie. One thing about Bernie, he doesn't give up. 15:00:28 This guy doesn't give up. Right? Crazy Bernie, he doesn't give up. You know, crazy Bernie. He's crazy as a bed bug, but you know, he doesn't quit. He doesn't quit. Gotta hand it to him. And I think Bernie should continue to go forward folks. He should continue to go forward. [ cheers and applause ] He should fight to the last end. Well he's waiting for really the FBI to what everybody thinks they're going to do. I mean, I think that's it, right? I think he's sort of saying, look, let's hang in there, because ultimately it's called the FBI convention. And then we'll be the only people and we will have done something like Trump did. I wanna be like Trump. 15:01:23 I wanna be like Trump. But I think he's waiting for the FBI convention. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see if the right thing happens. Everybody knows what the right thing is. I've watched and read and seen and talked to great legal scholars. Not one has said that she should be allowed to run for office. Every person that we know of that's done far less than what she's done, their lives have been destroyed And the press doesn't cover it, because the press is so one sided. CNN, as an example, it's called the Clinton News Network. Clinton News Network. [ boos ] No, it's a joke. 15:02:05 It's a joke. The Clinton News Network. So we'll see what happens. But Bernie is in there and Bernie's fighting, and I don't think he should give up. Does anybody think so? I don't think so. If he gives up, we'll say, Bernie you're a loser, you gave up, we can't do that. No, but we'll see. I mean, he's gotta have something in mind. And I personally maybe think that's what he has in mind. So, we're gonna do things for our country that are gonna be amazing. And they've resonated -- look. One year from Thursday, I ran. And everybody said, June 16th. One year. So it's one year and two days now. One year. [ cheers and applause ] One year. 15:02:47 And a lot of people said, I watched Karl Rove, he said oh he's not gonna urn. I watched Krauthammer, no he won't run. Krauthammer said, he won't run. He won't run because this is the single greatest group of talent perhaps in the history of the republican party. In fact, a month before, I said to my wife, wow, I just -- don't forget, Krauthammer wanted us to go into Iraq and bomb the hell. We've done a great job by doing that, and I was against doing that, folks. I was against it. These guys all wanted to bomb the hell out of Iraq. We've done a great job in doing that. We've totally destabilized the Middle East. What a mess we have, okay? What a total mess we have. And by the way, who takes over Iraq? Iran. 15:03:36 Not only do they make the Iran deal, I used to say that's the great deal I've seen. They gotta $150 billion back. They have the right to go wild with nuclear weapons eventually. They don't to make them, they can buy them. But, you know what? They make great -- and I used to say that's one of the greatest deals I've ever seen. I don't say that anymore. Greatest deal is that for years and years and years, decades and decades, they fought each other. And one went ten feet this way, ten feet that way, ten feet three, four years. Then they rested. Then go again, again, again. Saddam Hussein drops a little gas. Iran complains, you're not supposed to do that. The world goes crazy. And then they rest. 15:04:14 Then again. Okay, this has gone on forever. Then we come in and obliterate one of the two. Obliterate it. And now, what have we done? We have given Iran Iraq. Okay? As sure as you're sitting. Now I've been saying this for a long time. But Iran is essentially controlling Iraq. Iran is now very shortly, they're gonna just walk in. They don't have to fire a shot. And the people running Iraq are so in the pocket of Iran. And why wouldn't they be? Cause they figure, we're gone. You know, we're gone. So Iran is gonna take over Iraq. A lot of people don't know that Iraq has some of the largest oil reserves in the entire world. A lot of people don't know that. 15:05:00 So look what's happening, look what's happening to Iran. Look what we've done by sheer stupidity. So a lot of these people, they said, bomb, bomb, bomb. And I said, although what did I know? I was in business. Right? I didn't know. A lot people weren't asking me. But I said if you do that, you're gonna destabilize the Middle East. And hence, you have the migration. And hence, you have people going all over the world. Look at the problems in Germany. Look at the crime. I have friends in Germany that for years, they'd say, the greatest country, the greatest country, they love Germany, and now they're saying, we're leaving. They're leaving Germany. Look what they've done to different -- look at Brussels. How beautiful a place was Brussels. And look at what's going on. Look at Paris. Look what's happening in paris. And it's far worse than you people understand. It's far worse than people understand. In fact, there was actually a story that Paris is so, so, so out of control, so dangerous. Look at what's going on. 15:05:57 And we have Hillary Clinton wanting to take in over 500% more than Obama. No, think of it, than Obama, of people that will cause us problems like you will not believe. Not all of them. But look what one man did. One whack job. He's a whacko. Look what one whack job did. One radical Islamic terrorist. And he pledged himself to ISIS. Here's a guy, he's shooting people, and pledging himself to ISIS as he's shooting. Okay? He's calling people and talking about ISIS. ISIS. Look what one man has done to this country. Look what one man has done to the state, the great, great, great state of Florida that I love and Orlando, amazing place. This is one man. 15:06:48 We're letting in millions of people. It doesn't take large amounts. This could be the great Trojan horse. We all know the story of the Trojan horse. But this could be the great story of the Trojan horse. All because we have leadership and weak people like Hillary. She's weak. She's weak. Bernie Sanders said about Hillary Clinton that she can't be president, because she has bad judgement. Okay, she said it, i didn't say it, I would never say a thing like that. [ laughter ] And then I hear her, I hear her saying, you know reading right off, always teleprompters, she goes, Donald Trump, does not have the temperament to be president. 15:07:39 And then the, you know the people back, oh she gave a great speech. Oh, give me a break. Gave a great speech. You think she's the president? Take a look at her, you'd think she's the president? I don't think so. I don't think so. [ boos ] Donald Trump doesn't have the temperment. And I'll tell you something, I started thinking about it. And I was gonna say, I absolutely have a great temperament, and I've done great things. Hey look, I went into television, had "The Apprentice." Great hit. One of the most successful reality shows, right? I did books. Many best sellers. Many. The Art of the Deal's one of the biggest selling, certainly one of the biggest selling book of all time, by far. 15:08:13 So, I did books, tremendous success. Real estate, I have some of the greatest assets in the world. You look at my numbers, very low debt, tremendous everything, okay? I filed over 100 something odd pages. But listen to this, okay, so listen. We have, we have a great study in contrasts. So I started thinking about temperament, and I was gonna share, I do have a good temperment, I do. And then I said to myself, well wait a minute, she's probably right about one thing. I have a very tough temperament. She said, you know, but very controlled. But we need tough temperament today. We can't have this weakness. We can't have weakness. My temperament's tough. My temperament is very solid. I don't lose control. I've been doing this for a long time, folks. You've been watching me for a long time. Do you know, in New York, I want in a massive landslide. Who knows me better than the people of New York? Nobody knows me better. 15:09:07 Nobody. I won in a massive landslide, and we have 3 people. Now, New York knows me better. I've been there for a long time. If I didn't have a good temperment, I couldn't have won New York. They know me -- oh, do I get publicity. Do I get -- they write about me every day, every hour. It's always been this way. I don't know why. I don't know why. They had their debate. So Fox and the debate had 24 million people, it was actually even more than that, but 24 million people. The largest audience in the history of cable television. Now, I don't think it was for Jeb, but maybe I'm wrong, okay? 15:09:42 [ laughter ] By the way, Jeb is working on the movement. Just so you understand. I love competition like that. I love it. So, so look, look. Low energy. I didn't say it, you did. Okay. No Jeb is one of the people that's working. But the other one should be obvious to you, but we'll figure that out very easily. Okay ready? So, so, when you look and when you see. And when you see what we have to do, we have to get out there. We have 24 million people. They watch. We have 23. The next two weeks. CNN puts a debate. 23 million people. The largest audience in the history of cable television for CNN. Here, CNN covers wars, covers everything, right? So you have the largest audience in the history of cable television, and then a few weeks later -- oh yeah, they do say the debate with Hillary will be, it's gonna blow everything away. 15:10:37 Oh, I look forward to that debate. Oh, do I look forward to that debate. [ cheers and applause ] I look so forward to that debate. But think of this, so CNN a few weeks later has another debate. And they get the largest audience they've ever had. In the history of CNN. You know, that's pretty impressive right? And Variety and the magazines say, the Trump debate drew record ratings, okay. Just like they said the profits. But, here's the thing about the debate. So the debates go on. And a lot of people say, what was the biggest surprise? Well I didn't know myself as a debater, because I never debated. I create jobs, I do deals, I do business, I do this stuff, right? I don't debate. I guess my life is a debate. But I don't debate professionally. 15:11:19 And I hear all these politicians. They're debaters. We debate. Hillary Clinton supposedly said debate her. Give me a break. Will she be allowed to bring the teleprompter onto the debate stage? So, so, so what happens is we start the debates. And I never did it before. And I'm saying, but think of that. I was in 11 debates. And of the 11 debates, I think it was 11. Of the 11 debates, I was on center stage for every single debate. Meaning, you're number one. And of the 11 debates, of the 11 debates, Drudge, fantastic guy, Time magazine, Slate, they do polls. I think I really helped the polling business. I talk about polls. I like polls. 15:12:04 But only if I'm winning. I don't like them otherwise. And we're starting to catch up very rapidly, so. Pretty soon. The polling companies are gonna have their day in the sun pretty soon I think. So here's the story. So, of all of these debates, I think the 7 of them they cover, they have online polls. Hundreds of thousands of people vote. And on every single debate, by every single poll, I won every debate. Which is pretty good. Which is pretty good. You know, I don't know. I think it's pretty good. But we are going to do things that are going to be great. And a lot of people don't want me in, because they don't wanna see strong borders, okay? They don't wanna see strong -- I wanna see strong borders. They don't wanna see me job creating. They don't wanna see what I'm gonna do to help the minories. Because we have problems in this country. 15:12:56 We, I will do more for African Americans than Barack Obama has ever done. And believe me, he's done nothing. He's done nothing. He's done nothing but talk. He's done nothing but talk. And the Hispanics. So I employ thousands of Hispanics. Thank you. Where's Miriam. Where is Miriam. Where is she? Thank you. No, I employ thousands of Hispanics. Where's Miriam? She's shy. She doesn't wanna -- she has been so amazing. Where is -- thank you. Thank you. She goes around and says Donald Trump is gonna do more for Mexicans and Hispanics and I appreciate it. Thank you. 15:13:48 Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you darling. So nice. No, she's been amazing. And she knows. Because I'm gonna bring our jobs back, folks. We're bringing our jobs back. Look at Carrier. They fired everybody. They're moving to mexico. So many companies moving to Mexico. I mean, I have a list that's a mile long. They're moving to Mexico. Firing everybody. Then they make the product, not only in mexico, they make the product, they sell it into the United States, no tax, no nothing. And you know what happens? We're gonna lose a lot more companies. We're gonna lose a lot more companies. 15:14:28 If I'm president, we're not gonna lose anything. We're not gonna lose any companies. We're not gonna lose -- and I say that strongly. Because you know what? These guys don't know. I've been watching this discussion. Because for 7 or 8 years, we have been just, it's been an onslaught. And longer than that. In all fairness to Obama, long before Obama. It was called NAFTA. It was signed by Bill Clinton. And it didn't affect Bill Clinton. But it affected everybody that followed Bill Clinton. And believe me folks, it has been a disaster for this country. When I won New York state and Pennsylvania, when I won Maryland and Connecticut and Rhode Island, and when I won all of these states. And when I won Indiana, thank you Bobby Knight, boy did Bobby Knight help. Boy did Bobby Knight, that was -- Coach Knight. 900 wins. But when I won all of these states, I really got to know -- even New York State. I knew it well. 15:15:22 I knew there were tremendous problems in upstate New York. But I had no idea. When I toured those upstate areas of Albany and Rome. The real Rome, Rome New York. Okay, that's, I call that the real Rome. But, Syracuse. And you see building after building after building empty, falling down. Just a horrible sight. All over. You could buy them, folks, for could buy them for a dollar. And you know what? I'll give you, maybe, some real estate advice. Go out and buy them. And if I win, you're gonna make a hell of a lot of money. Okay? In fact, Phil Ruffin would get up and leave before the speech is over. He's headed to upstate New York right now. No, but it's true. It's true. Building after building -- by the thousands. By the thousands. And I have staticians that work for me. And before I used to speak, when we were in the primary, I'd say give me the information on upstate New York. Give me the information on Long Island. Give me the information on all these places. 15:16:23 Pennsylvania in particular. Look at West Virginia, what they've done to our coal miners. They've destroyed. Hillary Clinton said I'll put the coal miners and the mines out of business. That was not a smart statement. And then she had to go there -- [ boos ] And look at the numbers I've gotten in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. And I look -- because we're gonna bring the coal industry. And we're gonna bring every industry. We're gonna bring our energy industry back. We're gonna bring it back. We're gonna bring it back. You know, because of technology, folks. Because of technology, we have learned things, frankly, and we realize that we have wealth that we never knew we had. Over the last six or seven years, there are many forms of technology that have given us an awareness that's unbelievable. What's happened is unbelievable. So we're gonna bring these things back. And we're gonna start paying off our debt. And we're not gonna let our companies, now here's what we're going to do. So Carrier says they're leaving. I would call them and say very nicely, you know my wife gives me a very hard time. 15:17:19 She said, darling, you're president. You cannot call an air conditioning company. I said, that's okay, it's so much fun. It's like a 2 minute call. If I could save 1400 jobs in 2 minutes, let me do it. But I'd call. Meaning, I'd call. Somebody calls. Somebody calls. I got a call. Maybe I should do it, right? And I say very simply, you just fired 1400 people, you're moving to Mexico, enjoy it. Enjoy it. I respect Mexico so much for taking all of our businesses, so much of our business. But let me just tell you. Here is the story. Every air conditioning unit that you make, that you sell across, our now very, very strong border, you will be paying a 35% tax on that unit., If you leave. If you leave. Now our country has been working on this problem for years. 15:18:13 And they did all sorts of deals. Like zero interest loans and we'll give you money. They don't need money. They don't want money. How about the deals where they gave them really cheap money and they left anyway? You know, it's like great. Try collecting. They don't need money. 100% they don't leave. If I talk to them for two minutes. Phil, would you say two minutes or do I need 3? I think in 2. He says 1. Phil said 1 minute. But, in a quick conversation, and we're not gonna move. And they're not gonna be calling lobbyists. 15:18:48 Because, you know, I spent 15 million on my own campaign of my money . Okay, of my money. [ cheers and applause ] And by the way, if the republican party -- and I hope they all come together. Cause I want them to come together, it's great. But if for any reason they get a little bit like they don't wanna help out as much, then I'll fund my own campaign, I'd love to do that. I'd love to do that. You know, right now, I'm raising a lot of money for the republican party and a lot of beneficiaries so that -- and I like doing it. But we have to have help. We have to have help. They have to be, they gotta -- you know, life is like a two way street, right? 15:19:25 Otherwise I'll just keep doing what I'm doing. I'll just keep funding my own campaign. I'm okay with that. That's the easy way. I mean, for me, that's the easy way. But hopefully I can continue to go the way we're going. This weekend we raised a lot of money. We've raised a lot of money for the republican party. We'll keep doing it. Cause we do have tremendous support within the party. That I can tell you. We have tremendous support. Okay. So, what's going to happen with Carrier, what's gonna happen with any of them is they're gonna say, uh, we wanna talk about this. Then they're gonna hire a lobbyist. The lobbyists are gonna call. I'll say, I'm not giving you guys anything. Now if they call Hillary, 100%, they have a lobby -- they have a lobbyist in Washington. He's got Hillary Clinton stamped on his forehead. 15:20:04 Okay, it's 100%. With me, it doesn't work that way, okay? With me, it doesn't work that way. Within 24 hours, they would call and say, sir, we're very excited to stay in the United States. We'll stay in Indiana. Or they'll go someplace else. But they're staying in the United States. Now multiply that times thousands. Times thousands and thousands of companies. That's what you're talking about. You're not talking about 100 companies or 10, you're talking about thousands of companies have left. Thousands of companies are being killed by monetary manipulation. Okay? Thousands. We're not gonna let this happen. 15:20:45 Remember this. China -- we have rebuilt China. They have taken so much. We owe China now $1.7 trillion. Think of it. They beat us at every front. They kick the hell out of us. And we owe them money. How about Japan? We owe Japan $1.6 trillion. Now think of that one. They sell the cars, the big boats coming in, the biggest ships you've ever seen. I mean, if Wayne Newton could get one of his big audiences onto one of those ships, you would be very proud. I'm telling you Wayne. Wayne, would you stand up again? Come here. I mean, we love this guy. [ cheers and applause ] We love Wayne. We love our. You know, it's sort of like a weird experience, cause all of my life, I've been watching Wayne Newton. And now I'm performing for him. What the hell is going on over here. And the problem is, I like him better than I like myself. 15:21:47 So anyway. So, so all of this is gonna come back. Now, you have people in both parties that don't like the things I'm saying. Okay? You have people in both parties. But you know, cause I have the smartest people. A lot of people are saying that. That's even showing up. I have the most dedicated people. I have the best people. I have the best people. I have the best people. And they get it. But a lot of people, a lot of people, don't like strong borders. They don't want the wall. We're gonna have the wall, folks. We gotta have the wall. We gotta have the wall. And the wall is gonna stop drug trafficking. It's gonna help with the drugs. You know, the drugs are pouring into our country, and poisoning our youth and others beyond what anybody has any idea. If you look at New Hampshire, which I won. I love New Hampshire, because it was my first victory. It's my first victory. I never ran for office. By the way, am I doing a good job? Am I doing a good job? [ cheers and applause ] Right? I never did this before. But I love New Hampshire. And the people of New Hampshire got together with me, and they said their biggest problem is heroin. 15:22:54 I said Heroin? Just doesn't work with the beautiful trees and streams and lakes. I said heroin? And it turns about to be -- they have a tremendous. And they have it in Massachusetts. And South Carolina. They have it in all of these places. All of these places. And it's pouring across. And three weeks ago, 16,500 border patrol agents endorsed Donald Trump. They've never, ever endorsed a presidential candidate. [ cheers and applause ] And I asked them and they told me. They said, Mr. Trump, you need the wall. And Sheriff Joe Arpaio, great guy. Tough, right? Sheriff Joe from Arizona -- in fact when I finish this, I'm going to Arizona. I'll be Arizona in a little while doing the same thing with big, big beautiful crowds. But, Sheriff Joe endorsed Donald Trump. Folks, we know what we're doing. Okay? We know what we're doing. We are going to make this country so strong again. We're gonna save your social security. 15:23:57 We're gonna save your second amendment, which Hillary Clinton wants to abolish. Hillary Clinton wants to abolish your second amendment. And I got the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, the NRA. One of the earliest endorsements they've ever given. And let me tell you, between Wayne and Chris and all of those people, these are great people. These are people, and it gets lost, it gets lost in the debate. These are people that love our country. Just remember that. These are people that love or country. And you know, I've said before, some people thought it was a harsh statement. But if in Paris where 130 people died, toughest gun laws in the world, by the way. There were no guns on the other side. 15:24:42 These thugs walked in -- probably if there were, if they knew there were, they probably wouldn't have gone in there in the first place, okay. They knew there were no guns. But, toughest gun laws in the world. 130 people died. San Bernardino, 14 people died. Friends, they were friends, they killed the 14 people and so many, so badly injured. And by the way, Paris, the hospitals are still loaded with people. So horrible. And what we had this weekend. If there were a couple of folks, man, woman, had a gun strapped right here, right here, right here. [ cheers and applause ] Or a gun strapped very nicely to the ankle. And this no good, this no good sick, sick perverted, horrible terrorist, terrorist was in there starting the shooting, one of those people would have had those bullets going the other way, folks. It would have been a whole different story. It would have been a whole different story. [ cheers and applause ] 15:25:48 So we're gonna make our nation rich again. We're a poor nation. We lose to everybody. We defend Japan. They don't pay us the right money. They will. They will. You know, the press never says the second. I said, no, no. In a deal, you always have to be prepared to walk. They'll tell you that. You always have to be prepared. Not that you wanna walk, but have to be prepared. So here's Hillary Clinton when she heard about what I said about Japan. He is not being loyal to our allies. We will always stay with our allies. Well now, they're never gonna negotiate. Why would they negotiate? Why? But we have all of these nations that we defend. South Korea. Try buying a television outside of South Korea. Not easy. 15:26:31 I buy thousands and thousands of television sets. Very tough to buy them outside of South Korea, except for Sony which, not doing so well lately, okay? From Japan. But let me just tell you. South Korea, we defend, costs us a fortune. They pay something. But not what they should be saying. Japan, we defend. Billions and billions of dollars. A general gets up, Donald Trump is wrong. He was sent by Obama. Nice looking guy, general. He said, doesn't he understand that Japan pays us 50% of the cost? So he's saying Japan pays us 50% of the cost of their defense. So the press called me up, Mr. Trump, they said that Japan pays 50% of the cost. What do you -- how do you respond? I said, why don't they pay 100%, right? 15:27:22 Right? [ cheers and applause ] Right, right? I mean, we're defending Japan. So we defend Germany. Germany. Think Germany's a rich nation? I wanna tell you, it's a rich nation, but I'll tell you what, gonna have problems with what she did. But regardless, rich nation. Now, we have Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, when the oil prices were high, was making $1 billion a day. We pay rent on our bases. We pay them rent. We defend Saudi Arabia. Now listen. Saudi Arabia, I have a lot of friends from Saudi Arabia. All that stuff, right? But you know what? This is a country that has nothing but money. They have nothing but money. Not strong defense. That if we weren't there, they would've been gone 25 years ago. 15:28:13 Okay? 25 years ago. You remember the incident with Iraq when Iraq went into Kuwait and then they started looking at Saudi Arabia. And the Saudis didn't do so well. And then we had those marines of ours with the stuff under their eyes, and boy that was the end of that. Remember that? People forget these little stories, folks. So we defend Saudi Arabia. They don't pay us nearly what we should be paying. So essentially, we subsidize all of these countries. South Korea, with this guy, call him a maniac, call him whatever you want. Every time he raises his hand or raises his head, we send our ships, our planes, our this. We have 28 thousand soldiers on the line between North and South Korea. They pay us peanuts. 15:28:59 How stupid are we? How stupid are we? A country like Saudi Arabia wouldn't exist for a week. You know, when Iran took over Yemen. They don't want Yemen. They want the border, because it's a huge long border between Saudi -- they want the oil in Saudi Arabia. That's why they fight for Yemen. That's why they're in there fighting. Think of this, we're making a deal with Iran, and we're fighting iran in Yemen, when you make the deal aren't you supposed to sort of solve everything? And Kerry said he didn't wanna bring it up, because he didn't wanna complicate the negotiation. This guy's an idiot. [ boos ] 15:29:34 No, think of it. Yemen, we're fighting them. They're on the other side. We're on one side. We don't know whose side we're on. Cause, you know, we're on the side of the rebels. We have no idea who the rebels are. You ever see all our rebels? Our rebels turn out to be worse than the guys who were there in the first place. We're on the side of the rebels. And then the rebels turn out to be like the worst. But, we're fighting Iran. They're on the other side. And we're fighting, fighting. And he's out there negotiating. And then he goes on a bicycle race, he breaks his leg at 73. And I tell people, I give you my word, I will never enter a bicycle race. I promise. During a major negotiation. 15:30:15 I mean, the guy comes out. He's got a whole thing, with the outfit, the helmet, the whole deal. Right? The helmet. I think he even had the stickers on him, right? I said, what is this guy? He thinks he's in the Tour de France or something. What is he doing? We're in the middle of a very important negotiation that frankly he should have walked away from until we got our prisoners back. And he should have never agreed to give back the $150 billion. But here's the guy in the middle of a negotiation, breaks his leg. And he's out of business. I mean, it, I can't tell you folks. It is -- and I think the reason I have this tremendous support is because, you know what? A lot of it's common sense. 15:30:52 Okay? A lot of it's common sense. It's not even -- it's not even like, you could say he's a great businessman, he -- a lot of it's common sense. 99% of the people in this room would do just as well. I mean, it's like, simple stuff. We're being led by people that don't know what they're doing. Now here's what's gonna happen. So we're gonna start winning again. We're gonna have strong borders, we're gonna have the wall, we're gonna be respected again. We're gonna win with our military, we're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS. We have to do that, folks. That I have to tell you. [ cheers and applause ] Normally I would say, no. But it's gotten to a point and because of the power of weaponry, we have to do that. We really have no choice. So we have to knock the hell out of them. 15:31:33 But our military is totally depleted. You see our old jets, where we're taking parts from old airplane graveyards and museums. We have the planes in the museums and we're using them as our fighters. And other countries have modern fighter jets. This is the United States of America. Can you believe what's happening to us? So we're gonna -- our military's depleted. Horribly depleted. LAS VEGAS, NV - Sending this wider than usual because multiple times in his speech Donald Trump went after Republicans for not lining up to support the billionaire's campaign. > >"And we're gonna beat Hillary. And it would be helpful if the Republicans could help us a little bit, you know. >>I think between yesterday and today, we raised 12 or 13 million dollars for the republican party. [ cheers and applause ] That's good. For the republican party. (14:47:25) And somebody said, well you're not raising money for -- I said I don't know. You know, I get people, I'm raising money for the republican party. >>And by the way, if the republican party -- and I hope they all come together. Cause I want them to come together, it's great. But if for any reason they get a little bit like they don't wanna help out as much, then I'll fund my own campaign, I'd love to do that. I'd love to do that. You know, right now, I'm raising a lot of money for the republican party and a lot of beneficiaries so that -- and I like doing it. But we have to have help. We have to have help. They have to be, they gotta -- you know, life is like a two way street, right? On the movement to stop Trump, he pondered who they would put up since he beat all the people that ran adding to do so would be "illegal". "I read about this, there's this insurgent group. You know, the same group that I beat is insurgent. There are a couple of guys there trying to go to -- They're trying to get delegates. I thought they already tried that. I mean, I could give you names but I won't because it's meaningless. First of all, it's illegal. Second of all, you can't do it. Third of all, we -- not me, we got 14 almost 14 million votes. 14 million votes in the primaries."(14:34:15) Going after President Obama once again for the response to the Orlando shooter, he called the President "pathetic". "If you think Orlando was the end of it with this weak attitude and this pathetic president that we have, it wasn't folks. It wasn't. It wasn't. This was just the beginning. Unless we get smart and tough and vigilant. And unless we say, I'm sorry, you're coming from a region in the world, whether it's -- and I can name them all -- I can name them all. But it's radical Islamic terrorism. It's a whole new thing. It's radical Islamic terrorism. (14:54:10) And it's not guns. You know, I saw the president talk immediately about guns. It's not guns. It's terrorism. It's terrorism. It's not guns, it's terrorism. And I watched him the other day, and he was, and by the way, this wasn't just me saying it. He was more angry at Donald Trump than he was at the shooter, the maniac who killed all of those young people. He was more angry at Donald Trump." Trump heads to Phoenix for a rally there - Candace/Bruce/Phelps are there. BACK OF THE BOOK.BERNIE IS A BED BUG. Enjoy this read.. (15:00:25) "Crazy Bernie. One thing about Bernie, he doesn't give up, this guy doesn't give up! Right? Crazy Bernie, he doesn't give up! Crazy Bernie, he's crazy as a bed bug but you know he doesn't quit, he doesn't quit. gotta hand it to him. And I think Bernie should continue to go forward folks, he should continue to go forward.. he should fight to the last day. Well he's waiting for really, the FBI to do what everybody thinks they're going to do."

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WASH 5 DONALD TRUMP LAS VEGAS NV C16 061416 1400 TRUMP LAS VEGAS NV FS3 80 14:31:54 Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, I love you people. I love Las Vegas! I love this state. And if you ever need a room, I have a very nice building right down the street. You know? Hey, and I have to thank Mr and Mrs. Phil Ruffin, the room is great. We've got people in every room he's got ever here. His restaurant's now are full. This is what took so long. And the worst thing we can do, folks, is we're all together, right? This is a movement. The worst thing we can do is start a rally -- because if there's one empty seat, the press will say, oh the room didn't fill up, Trump isn't doing -- 14:32:34 Outside, you have thousands of people trying to get in. [ cheers ] And, I hate to say it, because I liked them and they work very hard, TSA lets them in. And it's working out so good. I'm not happy about it. But I have to put up with it. But they have, you know, the machines. And they didn't bring enough machines. And I don't know if the great Wayne Newton has that problem when he performs, but I love Wayne. I'll talk about Wayne in a second. But we have to be very careful of that. Because let's say I came out 10 or 15 minutes ago. Even though there are thousands of people outside, all of the conference rooms have people, they have closed circuit television. The whole hotel is packed, filled. You've never had anything like this. And he owns it. So, f I had like three empty seats, they'll say oh this is terrible. 14:33:30 And they are still piling into this room. But I think it's time we begin. Do we agree? Do we agree? [ cheers and applause ] Okay. So we have amazing people here. Amazing friends are here. And it's been going really well. You know, I read about this, there's this insurgent group. You know, the same group that I beat is insurgent. There are a couple of guys there trying to go to -- They're trying to get delegates. I thought they already tried that. I mean, I could give you names but I won't because it's meaningless. First of all, it's illegal. Second of all, you can't do it. Third of all, we -- not me, we got 14 almost 14 million votes. 14 million votes in the primaries. 14:34:15 So that's more votes than ever received in the primaries in the history of the Republican party. Okay. [ cheers and applause ] We beat a lot of people. 16 people. There were a total of 17 including myself. One after another. Boom. Boom. Boom. It was a beautiful thing to behold. Okay. A beautiful thing. It was a beautiful thing. Yeah. That's great. Just keep filling them in. That's right. Isn't it better that we're starting now. We have to. They're not happy outside but what the heck are we going to do? So it was a beautiful thing to behold. But think of this, so we got almost 14 million votes. We won 36, 37 states, which is -- others won none. People that won none are saying maybe we can get something at the convention. Doesn't work that way, folks. You would have -- because we have, you know, one of the things that we'll say we have by far the most loyal followers. Right. By far. You know, other of the candidates, I mean, take a look at this today. They've never had anything like this where every room is full, every conference room, every restaurant is loaded with people. 14:35:36 I hope you put close circuit in, Phil, they're gonna be so angry. But I think you did. This guy doesn't hold back. Believe me. But so when we get 37 states, when we get 37 states -- [ cheers and applause ] Oh, we love our police. We love our police. Thank you, thank you, officers. Thank you. [ boos ] Thank you. That's very nice. Thank you. By the way, how great are our police? Okay. They don't get enough credit. They don't get enough credit. They don't They take abuse. They don't get the credit they deserve. Believe me. So we won 37 states. We won 14 million. 14:36:41 We beat Ronald Reagan, who we love, we beat Richard Nixon, we beat Dwight D. Eisenhower. We beat everybody. We beat bush. We beat the Bushes. We beat the bushes. And by a lot. I don't mean we like edged it. I don't mean, like, you know, I mean by a lot! And now you have a couple of guys that were badly defeated and they're trying to organize maybe, like, a little bit of a delegate revolt. Maybe. Now, number one, you know, Reince Priebus -- you know what that is? Right? RNC. No, he's a good guy. And the Republican National Committee, they put out a statement. They can't do it. It's not legal. You can't do it. You're not allowed to do it. How would you like to have a party where we start it off with 17 or 18 people, actually, including somebody I won't mention, because I'm not looking to embarrass anybody, but it's 18 if you want to include somebody. Okay. 14:37:40 But how would you like to have a party, Wayne, and he's married to a great lawyer. So she understands this better than Wayne but Wayne has a better voice. Right? But how would you like to have a party where myself and others travel the country and worked for a long time. That was shorter than I thought. Because remember, I was supposed to maybe be able to pull it out at the convention and we pulled it out two months before the convention. Do you remember -- do you remember when they said 1237. That's the delegates. 123-- He cannot reach that number. He cannot reach that number. And I kept saying, what's the big deal? And one of the people, who probably hasn't quite given up yet -- one of the people was trying to buy up all the second ballot people, right. And I kept saying let them have them. Because It's expensive to get them. 14:38:40 And, by the way, I spent less money than any other candidate and I ended up in first place and they ended up boom. So now I hear after beating them fair and square. I mean, I beat them fair and square. Actually, a couple of the commentators that are negative people, actually, cause most of them are. But a couple of the commentators that are negative people said whether you like him or you don't, he beat them fair and square. [ cheers ] And then they said he didn't beat them by a little bit. He beat them by a lot. We beat them by a lot. Alright? So how would you like to have a party where somebody goes out and beats them by a lot and wins not only the vote. Largest in the history of the party. Not only wins 37 states and nobody was even, you know, like remotely close. I mean, some of these guys had none. How would you like to have that? A guy it's an all-time record, gets almost 14 million votes over a period of like nine months. 14:39:48 He gets 37 states, he gets tremendous support, he has sold out arenas, no matter where he goes. Yesterday in Houston, people said they have never seen crowds like that. One of the reporters, a good reporter, actually, from NBC, Halie, she just said, but are your crowds as big as they used to be? I said they're bigger. They're bigger. They're actually bigger. No, they're bigger. You had to see Houston, Texas last night. We were in a big arena, held about 5,000 people. That's not a big one for us, but that was biggest one we could get on short notice. And on short notice we had a line that went five abreast forever. And it's the biggest subject in all of Texas. They had helicopters over. They couldn't believe what they were seeing. They've never seen anything like it. And our crowds are bigger. Our enthusiasm is more. A poll came out OAN, a very good poll. Very -- he's actually, they've, it's a very good group of people, a poll OAN came out where I'm statistically even with crooked Hillary. And she is crooked, folks. Believe me. She is crooked. 14:41:01 Hillary Clinton doesn't have, I'll tell you what. Hillary Clinton, and you can say it anyway you want. But she doesn't have the integrity. She doesn't have the integrity to be president. And perhaps equally important, she's got very, very bad judgment. You just look at what she's done. You just look. Okay. So how would you like to be in a party where Trump wins. Where Trump keeps winning. Where Trump has the biggest crowds. Where Trump gets by the way the highest ratings in the history of television. They had a story in Variety -- I don't like to brag, but we have to brag every once in awhile, right? 14:41:47 They had a story in variety where a big headline, big massive headline. And the story was that Trump makes massive profits for cable networks. And networks. But massive. And then it went on to say that records in viewership, they're setting records in advertising. They're making a fortune., What are we getting out of -- we get nothing but maybe. But maybe we're gonna get the presidency. And we're gonna straighten out our country. Okay? We're gonna straighten out our country. [ cheers and applause ] And we'll have Wayne at that inaugural ball, Wayne will be with me, Wayne. Ba, ba, ba. So, so there's a little movement. And I just heard today where it's coming from. It's coming from people that have been badly defeated. 14:42:38 But wouldn't that be funny? Okay. A guy got much less votes, he got no states. Ladies and gentlemen, our nominee is -- I don't think so. I mean, forget about the legality, cause it's not legal. Forget about the fact that the republican national committee put out a statement last night saying it's all made up by the press folks, believe me. By these people right here. It's all made up by the press. [ boos ] Okay? It's all made up. It's a hoax. I'm telling you. These are the most dishonest people. Not all of them. Not all of them. But these are -- this is a story. I watch CNN yesterday. Knowing it can't happen, breaking news, there will be this and that at the convention. Who are they gonna pick? 14:43:28 I beat everybody. But I don't mean beat, I beat the hell out of them. [ cheers and applause ] Right? Beat the hell out of them. And we're gonna beat Hillary. And it would be helpful if the republicans could help us a little bit, you know. Okay? Just a little bit. I mean, I have people that are so -- that I've done so much for that frankly we've done a great job for -- all of us. You know, the republican party has increased, the voter turnout. Forget about me. I set the all time record. Guess what? The republican party, in the prairies, is up 70%, right? 14:44:17 I think it's even more. 70, 70% from 4 years ago. 70% more people have voted in the primaries. [ audience interruption ] Is it because of me? Oh say it. A woman -- I'm doing well with women. Go ahead. [ cheers and applause ] Thank you. Believe me, I respect women more than Hillary respects women. I can tell you that. Thank you. They're screaming, it's because of you, Mr. Trump, it's because of you. And you know what? I never brag, they happen to be 100% right. 14:44:58 Alright. We -- you take a look at these states. Couple of the states were up 102% from last year. Okay? From four years ago. 102%, it's unheard of. In the whole world, people talk about it. I mean, some people would have said the republican party is stayed. It's not bad, it's stayed. It's not, you know, a little boring maybe. And maybe the ideas weren't right. Because I don't believe -- let it be boring if the ideas are right. But the ideas weren't right. There wasn't strength on the border, our budgets are way out of whack. Look at this last budget that we approved. The Omnibus budget. You know, Obama is a terrible negotiator. 14:45:40 Iran, Iran beats him. Every country beats him. He draws the line in the sand, they beat him. Everybody beats him. But he's a great negotiator when he has to negotiate against the republicans. And we gotta stop. We gotta stop. We gotta stop. They have to focus on budgets, not focus on me. And they view me as an outsider. I have to tell you a little secret, I shouldn't say it, half of you will leave the room. Should I say it? I used to be the ultimate establishment person. I was a massive giver. I gave a lot of money, to everybody. I even gave to democrats. 14:46:17 I mean, I'm in business, right? I gave to democrats. I gave to republicans. But I gave a lot of money. The RGA, republican governor's association, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I was like establishment. And then one day I said, you know, I'm gonna run. And I announced, and they said, what happened? That's no good. Because I'm not one of them. Because I'm gonna do the right thing. I don't need this folks. I don't need this. I don't need this. [ cheers and applause ] 14:46:48 Phil Ruffin told me this morning, came over, we met. And he's done such an amazing job with this hotel. And his wife is actually much more amazing than him. Alexandra, stand up please. Stand up. She's more amazing than Phil. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ruffin. And he told me this morning, he said, and he was talking to a group of people. And we're raising money for the republican party. And frankly I like doing it. I went around yesterday I think between yesterday and today, we raised 12 or 13 million dollars for the republican party. [ cheers and applause ] That's good. For the republican party. 14:47:25 And somebody said, well you're not raising money for -- I said I don't know. You know, I get people, I'm raising money for the republican party. And I'm not getting the kind of support . But they don't tell you though, I actually have a lot of support. But they don't talk to the people that support. Wayne Isah, who's a great guy, congressman. So many of the republicans are so supportive. They don't wanna talk about them. If somebody says something just a little bit off, headline, blaring news, breaking news, you know, they use breaking news every time there's an event there's breaking news. 14:47:52 Then when you have a real breaking news event, nobody takes it seriously. Do you ever notice? Breaking news, Donald Trump got up today and tweeted good morning. [ laughter and applause ] Crazy. It's crazy. But they don't talk about that. But I will say, Phil said to me this morning, and he said to a group. He said, you know Donald Trump didn't need to do this. He's made a fortune. He's done a great job, has a great family, an unbelievable -- Phil, do I have an unbelievable business? Stand up please, this guy knows better than -- stand up, stand up. Did I do a good job? 14:48:29 Built an unbelievable business. And I built an unbelievable business, a great, great business. Some of the greatest assets in the world. No matter where. [ protester ] Who's that guy. Is he a friend or foe? Alright, get him out of here please. Get him out. Get him out. [ boos ] Get him out. Could you let somebody else take his place please? >> [ chant ] Trump! Trump! Trump! 14:49:13 Alright, thank you very much. These are like love fests. You know, a friend of mine came over to me. ANd he said, very rich guy, very successful guy. Not a great guy, but who cares about that? We need these people to help us negotiate with China and with other countries. But he's a guy that is very successful. And he was at an arena where I had 21 thousand people. And I was speaking. And he said, and he's got a lot of guts. Financial guts I call it, you know, different kind of guts. Like, I have financial guys. When I see what our great military people do, I don't know that I'd have those kind of guts, right? Right? These people are fantastic. And we've gotta take care of our military, take care of our vets. 14:49:52 We have to replenish our military and we have to knock the hell out of ISIS. And knock the hell out of ISIS. But he came up to me, and he was with me at this arena. And he saw -- it was in Dallas. And, 21 thousand people. The Mavericks Arena, packed. Including the whole floor. And he said, could I ask you a question? How long have you prepared for this speech? How the hell do you get out there in front of that many people? I said, that's nothing. Because all the networks are covering it live, just like they are right now. He said, how do you do it? Thank you darling. You're right. She gets it. 14:50:29 You're right. And I said honestly -- and he said, how do you do this? He says -- she understands. But he said, how do you do this? How do you speak in front of that many people? He said you could never do it. I said, it's not hard, because I'm telling you ,there is such love in this room. There is such love in these rooms. I really mean it. I really, really mean it. There is such love in these arenas. We had, in Mobile, Alabama we had 35 thousand people. We started in a hotel ballroom. After about an hour, the hotel called, said we can't handle it. We then moved to the convention center. That holds 10 thousand people. They told us after two hours they can't handle it. We moved to a football stadium in Mobile. We had the most unbelievable time. We had 35 thousand people. 14:51:20 In Oklahoma we have these massive crowds. We have massive crowds everywhere. And it's so easy to do what I'm doing, because it's love. It really is love. I'm doing it for love. I'm doing it for this country. I wanna -- we are so off track. W3e are so off track. So, and I'll tell you something. The safest place -- thank you darling -- the safest place to be in this country is at a Trump rally. Remember that. Remember that. It's the safest place to be. Oh good, all the seats have now filled out. And they still, they just said there's 3,000 people outside. All the seats are now filled out. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, the press, if I had -- I'm telling you, we had to do that. That's why I waited. Is it okay that I waited? Yes. Okay. Now they're all filled out. Filled out all over this building. 14:52:11 I don't know. This guy Ruffin must be making a fortune this morning. I don't know. So, the safest place to be, seriously. And our whole theme is make America great again. But I've -- [ cheers ] -- I've revised it. It's make America great again, it's make America safe again. Safe again. It's make America safe again. And, it's also, we wanna do it for everybody. Not just us. We wanna do it for everybody. We wanna help African Americans who are -- you look at African Americans -- thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, man. [ Trump starts clapping ] 14:53:08 African American youth has a 59% rate of unemployment. Okay folks? 59. And we're letting people pour into our country. We have no idea who the hell they are, where they come from, there's no documentation, there's no paper. They come from hostile countries. They come from countries that are tremendous in terms of terrorism. And we're gonna have big problems. If you think Orlando was the end of it with this weak attitude and this pathetic president that we have, it wasn't folks. It wasn't. It wasn't. This was just the beginning. Unless we get smart and tough and vigilant. And unless we say, I'm sorry, you're coming from a region in the world, whether it's -- and I can name them all -- I can name them all. But it's radical Islamic terrorism. It's a whole new thing. It's radical Islamic terrorism. 14:54:10 And it's not guns. You know, I saw the president talk immediately about guns. It's not guns. It's terrorism. It's terrorism. It's not guns, it's terrorism. And I watched him the other day, and he was, and by the way, this wasn't just me saying it. He was more angry at Donald Trump than he was at the shooter, the maniac who killed all of those young people. He was more angry at Donald Trump. And I wasn't the only one to say it. Plenty of people saw it. Than he was at the shooter. So, we gotta change our mindset here, folks. We have to be really tough, really smart, really strong. 14:54:41 You know, in the past, we'd have a war. And we'd be fighting Japan. And they had uniforms, we knew who we'd be fighting. And we'd be fighting Germany. And we'd be fighting others. And we knew who our opponent was. We knew who the enemy was. Today, you don't know who the hell it is. And you are going to have, you are going to have problems the likes of which you've never seen unless Donald Trump becomes your president, believe me. [ cheers and applause ] Believe me. 14:55:24 Thank you. >> [ chant ] Trump! Trump! Trump! Thank you. Now we're gonna bring jobs into our country. And that's gonna solve a lot of problems. It's amazing how jobs can solve a lot of problems. Problems that we think we have, all of a sudden, somebody gets a good job, and you don't have the problems. But we're having our jobs ripped off and being sent to other countries, ripped off by currency manipulation where they're lowering the value of their currency and they're making it impossible for our companies to compete. We're being ripped off at every level. And we have leaders that are so stupid, they have no idea what's happening. 14:56:23 I mean, look at the newspapers today. Apple. Good old Apple. I was waiting for this to happen. They've been having their stuff made in China and now China has turned against them. Now here's the bad news. By my saying that, China's very smart, they're gonna say, boy Trump's picked up this one, we'll let Apple -- I'm doing such a service to Apple by even mention it. Because our word is being broadcast all over the world. And Tim Cook should end us a lot of money for what I'm doing. But China is now ripping off Apple, saying you don't have the right to sell a certain product in China. Because somebody else has the right. And they're ripping them off big league. And right now, Apple doesn't know what to do. But it always happens. But you watch. This'll be a headline -- China -- they're smart. I deal with them, they're very smart. 14:57:18 You can do great with them. I made a lot of money with China. The biggest bank in the world is my tenant, I sell condos like crazy to people in China. The Bank of America building in San Francisco indirectly through China. I mean, so much, so much stuff. I did great with China. And I have great respect for China. I'm not knocking China. And I'm not knocking Mexico. And I'm not knocking Japan. I'm not knocking anybody. I think it's great what they do for themselves. But I am knocking our leadership as being grossly incompetent, they don't know what the hell they're doing. They don't know what they're doing. And every time, in all fairness, China is just one of many. But China is the biggest, and it's the biggest abuser. China's an abuser. They abuse our country. Every time they start doing badly -- do you notice? 14:58:11 They knock out their, their currency a little bit lower, a little bit lower. They're not supposed to be doing that. That's like cheating. You know, it's a way of cheating. Now, we do it very little. Because we don't know how to play. They're like grandmasters. They're like grandmasters. And we're like checker players that don't know how to play. That's, no, that's the difference. But it won't be that way. Karl Icon, guys like Ruffin, guys like so many of my people that have backed my, so many of the people that Phil knows. These are the best business people in the world. These are the best negotiators in the world. These are the best negotiators in the world. And you know what? You know what? It's very interesting. We're gonna put it up -- I'm the best. Oh, I'm good. Good. But we have the best. We have the greatest business people. We have the greatest negotiators in the world, you know? 14:59:05 We have the greatest. Andy Beal, who's a big supporter. Andy Beel. Beal Bank in Texas. We have such unbelievable people that are supporting me. And they support me, not cause they like me, although I guess that's a part of it. But they're supporting me, cause they hear me -- you ever hear corporate inversion. We have companies that are leaving this country, taxes are too high, and they have trillions of dollars outside of our country, we can't get it back. We can't get it back. Because we have no leader. You know, we have trillions of dollars right now outside of our country. I think it's 5 trillion, they say it's 2.5 trillion, and I think it's much more. We can't bring it back. The democrats wanna bring it back. The republicans wanna bring it back. Every -- who the hell doesn't wanna bring it back? 14:59:47 It's money that we aren't allowing to come back in because of bureaucracy, it's actually not just taxes. The taxes are crazy, only a maniac would bring it back and pay those. It's crazy, too high. High -- we pay the highest taxes in the world. By the way, I have the biggest tax decrease of any candidate that's run for office, and that's close to 20 people. And Hillary Clinton has the biggest tax increase, and she doesn't even wanna talk about it. In my opinion, her taxes have to be close to 60% to pay for what she's talking about. And she got forced into a corner by crazy Bernie. One thing about Bernie, he doesn't give up. 15:00:28 This guy doesn't give up. Right? Crazy Bernie, he doesn't give up. You know, crazy Bernie. He's crazy as a bed bug, but you know, he doesn't quit. He doesn't quit. Gotta hand it to him. And I think Bernie should continue to go forward folks. He should continue to go forward. [ cheers and applause ] He should fight to the last end. Well he's waiting for really the FBI to what everybody thinks they're going to do. I mean, I think that's it, right? I think he's sort of saying, look, let's hang in there, because ultimately it's called the FBI convention. And then we'll be the only people and we will have done something like Trump did. I wanna be like Trump. 15:01:23 I wanna be like Trump. But I think he's waiting for the FBI convention. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see if the right thing happens. Everybody knows what the right thing is. I've watched and read and seen and talked to great legal scholars. Not one has said that she should be allowed to run for office. Every person that we know of that's done far less than what she's done, their lives have been destroyed And the press doesn't cover it, because the press is so one sided. CNN, as an example, it's called the Clinton News Network. Clinton News Network. [ boos ] No, it's a joke. 15:02:05 It's a joke. The Clinton News Network. So we'll see what happens. But Bernie is in there and Bernie's fighting, and I don't think he should give up. Does anybody think so? I don't think so. If he gives up, we'll say, Bernie you're a loser, you gave up, we can't do that. No, but we'll see. I mean, he's gotta have something in mind. And I personally maybe think that's what he has in mind. So, we're gonna do things for our country that are gonna be amazing. And they've resonated -- look. One year from Thursday, I ran. And everybody said, June 16th. One year. So it's one year and two days now. One year. [ cheers and applause ] One year. 15:02:47 And a lot of people said, I watched Karl Rove, he said oh he's not gonna urn. I watched Krauthammer, no he won't run. Krauthammer said, he won't run. He won't run because this is the single greatest group of talent perhaps in the history of the republican party. In fact, a month before, I said to my wife, wow, I just -- don't forget, Krauthammer wanted us to go into Iraq and bomb the hell. We've done a great job by doing that, and I was against doing that, folks. I was against it. These guys all wanted to bomb the hell out of Iraq. We've done a great job in doing that. We've totally destabilized the Middle East. What a mess we have, okay? What a total mess we have. And by the way, who takes over Iraq? Iran. 15:03:36 Not only do they make the Iran deal, I used to say that's the great deal I've seen. They gotta $150 billion back. They have the right to go wild with nuclear weapons eventually. They don't to make them, they can buy them. But, you know what? They make great -- and I used to say that's one of the greatest deals I've ever seen. I don't say that anymore. Greatest deal is that for years and years and years, decades and decades, they fought each other. And one went ten feet this way, ten feet that way, ten feet three, four years. Then they rested. Then go again, again, again. Saddam Hussein drops a little gas. Iran complains, you're not supposed to do that. The world goes crazy. And then they rest. 15:04:14 Then again. Okay, this has gone on forever. Then we come in and obliterate one of the two. Obliterate it. And now, what have we done? We have given Iran Iraq. Okay? As sure as you're sitting. Now I've been saying this for a long time. But Iran is essentially controlling Iraq. Iran is now very shortly, they're gonna just walk in. They don't have to fire a shot. And the people running Iraq are so in the pocket of Iran. And why wouldn't they be? Cause they figure, we're gone. You know, we're gone. So Iran is gonna take over Iraq. A lot of people don't know that Iraq has some of the largest oil reserves in the entire world. A lot of people don't know that. 15:05:00 So look what's happening, look what's happening to Iran. Look what we've done by sheer stupidity. So a lot of these people, they said, bomb, bomb, bomb. And I said, although what did I know? I was in business. Right? I didn't know. A lot people weren't asking me. But I said if you do that, you're gonna destabilize the Middle East. And hence, you have the migration. And hence, you have people going all over the world. Look at the problems in Germany. Look at the crime. I have friends in Germany that for years, they'd say, the greatest country, the greatest country, they love Germany, and now they're saying, we're leaving. They're leaving Germany. Look what they've done to different -- look at Brussels. How beautiful a place was Brussels. And look at what's going on. Look at Paris. Look what's happening in paris. And it's far worse than you people understand. It's far worse than people understand. In fact, there was actually a story that Paris is so, so, so out of control, so dangerous. Look at what's going on. 15:05:57 And we have Hillary Clinton wanting to take in over 500% more than Obama. No, think of it, than Obama, of people that will cause us problems like you will not believe. Not all of them. But look what one man did. One whack job. He's a whacko. Look what one whack job did. One radical Islamic terrorist. And he pledged himself to ISIS. Here's a guy, he's shooting people, and pledging himself to ISIS as he's shooting. Okay? He's calling people and talking about ISIS. ISIS. Look what one man has done to this country. Look what one man has done to the state, the great, great, great state of Florida that I love and Orlando, amazing place. This is one man. 15:06:48 We're letting in millions of people. It doesn't take large amounts. This could be the great Trojan horse. We all know the story of the Trojan horse. But this could be the great story of the Trojan horse. All because we have leadership and weak people like Hillary. She's weak. She's weak. Bernie Sanders said about Hillary Clinton that she can't be president, because she has bad judgement. Okay, she said it, i didn't say it, I would never say a thing like that. [ laughter ] And then I hear her, I hear her saying, you know reading right off, always teleprompters, she goes, Donald Trump, does not have the temperament to be president. 15:07:39 And then the, you know the people back, oh she gave a great speech. Oh, give me a break. Gave a great speech. You think she's the president? Take a look at her, you'd think she's the president? I don't think so. I don't think so. [ boos ] Donald Trump doesn't have the temperment. And I'll tell you something, I started thinking about it. And I was gonna say, I absolutely have a great temperament, and I've done great things. Hey look, I went into television, had "The Apprentice." Great hit. One of the most successful reality shows, right? I did books. Many best sellers. Many. The Art of the Deal's one of the biggest selling, certainly one of the biggest selling book of all time, by far. 15:08:13 So, I did books, tremendous success. Real estate, I have some of the greatest assets in the world. You look at my numbers, very low debt, tremendous everything, okay? I filed over 100 something odd pages. But listen to this, okay, so listen. We have, we have a great study in contrasts. So I started thinking about temperament, and I was gonna share, I do have a good temperment, I do. And then I said to myself, well wait a minute, she's probably right about one thing. I have a very tough temperament. She said, you know, but very controlled. But we need tough temperament today. We can't have this weakness. We can't have weakness. My temperament's tough. My temperament is very solid. I don't lose control. I've been doing this for a long time, folks. You've been watching me for a long time. Do you know, in New York, I want in a massive landslide. Who knows me better than the people of New York? Nobody knows me better. 15:09:07 Nobody. I won in a massive landslide, and we have 3 people. Now, New York knows me better. I've been there for a long time. If I didn't have a good temperment, I couldn't have won New York. They know me -- oh, do I get publicity. Do I get -- they write about me every day, every hour. It's always been this way. I don't know why. I don't know why. They had their debate. So Fox and the debate had 24 million people, it was actually even more than that, but 24 million people. The largest audience in the history of cable television. Now, I don't think it was for Jeb, but maybe I'm wrong, okay? 15:09:42 [ laughter ] By the way, Jeb is working on the movement. Just so you understand. I love competition like that. I love it. So, so look, look. Low energy. I didn't say it, you did. Okay. No Jeb is one of the people that's working. But the other one should be obvious to you, but we'll figure that out very easily. Okay ready? So, so, when you look and when you see. And when you see what we have to do, we have to get out there. We have 24 million people. They watch. We have 23. The next two weeks. CNN puts a debate. 23 million people. The largest audience in the history of cable television for CNN. Here, CNN covers wars, covers everything, right? So you have the largest audience in the history of cable television, and then a few weeks later -- oh yeah, they do say the debate with Hillary will be, it's gonna blow everything away. 15:10:37 Oh, I look forward to that debate. Oh, do I look forward to that debate. [ cheers and applause ] I look so forward to that debate. But think of this, so CNN a few weeks later has another debate. And they get the largest audience they've ever had. In the history of CNN. You know, that's pretty impressive right? And Variety and the magazines say, the Trump debate drew record ratings, okay. Just like they said the profits. But, here's the thing about the debate. So the debates go on. And a lot of people say, what was the biggest surprise? Well I didn't know myself as a debater, because I never debated. I create jobs, I do deals, I do business, I do this stuff, right? I don't debate. I guess my life is a debate. But I don't debate professionally. 15:11:19 And I hear all these politicians. They're debaters. We debate. Hillary Clinton supposedly said debate her. Give me a break. Will she be allowed to bring the teleprompter onto the debate stage? So, so, so what happens is we start the debates. And I never did it before. And I'm saying, but think of that. I was in 11 debates. And of the 11 debates, I think it was 11. Of the 11 debates, I was on center stage for every single debate. Meaning, you're number one. And of the 11 debates, of the 11 debates, Drudge, fantastic guy, Time magazine, Slate, they do polls. I think I really helped the polling business. I talk about polls. I like polls. 15:12:04 But only if I'm winning. I don't like them otherwise. And we're starting to catch up very rapidly, so. Pretty soon. The polling companies are gonna have their day in the sun pretty soon I think. So here's the story. So, of all of these debates, I think the 7 of them they cover, they have online polls. Hundreds of thousands of people vote. And on every single debate, by every single poll, I won every debate. Which is pretty good. Which is pretty good. You know, I don't know. I think it's pretty good. But we are going to do things that are going to be great. And a lot of people don't want me in, because they don't wanna see strong borders, okay? They don't wanna see strong -- I wanna see strong borders. They don't wanna see me job creating. They don't wanna see what I'm gonna do to help the minories. Because we have problems in this country. 15:12:56 We, I will do more for African Americans than Barack Obama has ever done. And believe me, he's done nothing. He's done nothing. He's done nothing but talk. He's done nothing but talk. And the Hispanics. So I employ thousands of Hispanics. Thank you. Where's Miriam. Where is Miriam. Where is she? Thank you. No, I employ thousands of Hispanics. Where's Miriam? She's shy. She doesn't wanna -- she has been so amazing. Where is -- thank you. Thank you. She goes around and says Donald Trump is gonna do more for Mexicans and Hispanics and I appreciate it. Thank you. 15:13:48 Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you darling. So nice. No, she's been amazing. And she knows. Because I'm gonna bring our jobs back, folks. We're bringing our jobs back. Look at Carrier. They fired everybody. They're moving to mexico. So many companies moving to Mexico. I mean, I have a list that's a mile long. They're moving to Mexico. Firing everybody. Then they make the product, not only in mexico, they make the product, they sell it into the United States, no tax, no nothing. And you know what happens? We're gonna lose a lot more companies. We're gonna lose a lot more companies. 15:14:28 If I'm president, we're not gonna lose anything. We're not gonna lose any companies. We're not gonna lose -- and I say that strongly. Because you know what? These guys don't know. I've been watching this discussion. Because for 7 or 8 years, we have been just, it's been an onslaught. And longer than that. In all fairness to Obama, long before Obama. It was called NAFTA. It was signed by Bill Clinton. And it didn't affect Bill Clinton. But it affected everybody that followed Bill Clinton. And believe me folks, it has been a disaster for this country. When I won New York state and Pennsylvania, when I won Maryland and Connecticut and Rhode Island, and when I won all of these states. And when I won Indiana, thank you Bobby Knight, boy did Bobby Knight help. Boy did Bobby Knight, that was -- Coach Knight. 900 wins. But when I won all of these states, I really got to know -- even New York State. I knew it well. 15:15:22 I knew there were tremendous problems in upstate New York. But I had no idea. When I toured those upstate areas of Albany and Rome. The real Rome, Rome New York. Okay, that's, I call that the real Rome. But, Syracuse. And you see building after building after building empty, falling down. Just a horrible sight. All over. You could buy them, folks, for could buy them for a dollar. And you know what? I'll give you, maybe, some real estate advice. Go out and buy them. And if I win, you're gonna make a hell of a lot of money. Okay? In fact, Phil Ruffin would get up and leave before the speech is over. He's headed to upstate New York right now. No, but it's true. It's true. Building after building -- by the thousands. By the thousands. And I have staticians that work for me. And before I used to speak, when we were in the primary, I'd say give me the information on upstate New York. Give me the information on Long Island. Give me the information on all these places. 15:16:23 Pennsylvania in particular. Look at West Virginia, what they've done to our coal miners. They've destroyed. Hillary Clinton said I'll put the coal miners and the mines out of business. That was not a smart statement. And then she had to go there -- [ boos ] And look at the numbers I've gotten in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. And I look -- because we're gonna bring the coal industry. And we're gonna bring every industry. We're gonna bring our energy industry back. We're gonna bring it back. We're gonna bring it back. You know, because of technology, folks. Because of technology, we have learned things, frankly, and we realize that we have wealth that we never knew we had. Over the last six or seven years, there are many forms of technology that have given us an awareness that's unbelievable. What's happened is unbelievable. So we're gonna bring these things back. And we're gonna start paying off our debt. And we're not gonna let our companies, now here's what we're going to do. So Carrier says they're leaving. I would call them and say very nicely, you know my wife gives me a very hard time. 15:17:19 She said, darling, you're president. You cannot call an air conditioning company. I said, that's okay, it's so much fun. It's like a 2 minute call. If I could save 1400 jobs in 2 minutes, let me do it. But I'd call. Meaning, I'd call. Somebody calls. Somebody calls. I got a call. Maybe I should do it, right? And I say very simply, you just fired 1400 people, you're moving to Mexico, enjoy it. Enjoy it. I respect Mexico so much for taking all of our businesses, so much of our business. But let me just tell you. Here is the story. Every air conditioning unit that you make, that you sell across, our now very, very strong border, you will be paying a 35% tax on that unit., If you leave. If you leave. Now our country has been working on this problem for years. 15:18:13 And they did all sorts of deals. Like zero interest loans and we'll give you money. They don't need money. They don't want money. How about the deals where they gave them really cheap money and they left anyway? You know, it's like great. Try collecting. They don't need money. 100% they don't leave. If I talk to them for two minutes. Phil, would you say two minutes or do I need 3? I think in 2. He says 1. Phil said 1 minute. But, in a quick conversation, and we're not gonna move. And they're not gonna be calling lobbyists. 15:18:48 Because, you know, I spent 15 million on my own campaign of my money . Okay, of my money. [ cheers and applause ] And by the way, if the republican party -- and I hope they all come together. Cause I want them to come together, it's great. But if for any reason they get a little bit like they don't wanna help out as much, then I'll fund my own campaign, I'd love to do that. I'd love to do that. You know, right now, I'm raising a lot of money for the republican party and a lot of beneficiaries so that -- and I like doing it. But we have to have help. We have to have help. They have to be, they gotta -- you know, life is like a two way street, right? 15:19:25 Otherwise I'll just keep doing what I'm doing. I'll just keep funding my own campaign. I'm okay with that. That's the easy way. I mean, for me, that's the easy way. But hopefully I can continue to go the way we're going. This weekend we raised a lot of money. We've raised a lot of money for the republican party. We'll keep doing it. Cause we do have tremendous support within the party. That I can tell you. We have tremendous support. Okay. So, what's going to happen with Carrier, what's gonna happen with any of them is they're gonna say, uh, we wanna talk about this. Then they're gonna hire a lobbyist. The lobbyists are gonna call. I'll say, I'm not giving you guys anything. Now if they call Hillary, 100%, they have a lobby -- they have a lobbyist in Washington. He's got Hillary Clinton stamped on his forehead. 15:20:04 Okay, it's 100%. With me, it doesn't work that way, okay? With me, it doesn't work that way. Within 24 hours, they would call and say, sir, we're very excited to stay in the United States. We'll stay in Indiana. Or they'll go someplace else. But they're staying in the United States. Now multiply that times thousands. Times thousands and thousands of companies. That's what you're talking about. You're not talking about 100 companies or 10, you're talking about thousands of companies have left. Thousands of companies are being killed by monetary manipulation. Okay? Thousands. We're not gonna let this happen. 15:20:45 Remember this. China -- we have rebuilt China. They have taken so much. We owe China now $1.7 trillion. Think of it. They beat us at every front. They kick the hell out of us. And we owe them money. How about Japan? We owe Japan $1.6 trillion. Now think of that one. They sell the cars, the big boats coming in, the biggest ships you've ever seen. I mean, if Wayne Newton could get one of his big audiences onto one of those ships, you would be very proud. I'm telling you Wayne. Wayne, would you stand up again? Come here. I mean, we love this guy. [ cheers and applause ] We love Wayne. We love our. You know, it's sort of like a weird experience, cause all of my life, I've been watching Wayne Newton. And now I'm performing for him. What the hell is going on over here. And the problem is, I like him better than I like myself. 15:21:47 So anyway. So, so all of this is gonna come back. Now, you have people in both parties that don't like the things I'm saying. Okay? You have people in both parties. But you know, cause I have the smartest people. A lot of people are saying that. That's even showing up. I have the most dedicated people. I have the best people. I have the best people. I have the best people. And they get it. But a lot of people, a lot of people, don't like strong borders. They don't want the wall. We're gonna have the wall, folks. We gotta have the wall. We gotta have the wall. And the wall is gonna stop drug trafficking. It's gonna help with the drugs. You know, the drugs are pouring into our country, and poisoning our youth and others beyond what anybody has any idea. If you look at New Hampshire, which I won. I love New Hampshire, because it was my first victory. It's my first victory. I never ran for office. By the way, am I doing a good job? Am I doing a good job? [ cheers and applause ] Right? I never did this before. But I love New Hampshire. And the people of New Hampshire got together with me, and they said their biggest problem is heroin. 15:22:54 I said Heroin? Just doesn't work with the beautiful trees and streams and lakes. I said heroin? And it turns about to be -- they have a tremendous. And they have it in Massachusetts. And South Carolina. They have it in all of these places. All of these places. And it's pouring across. And three weeks ago, 16,500 border patrol agents endorsed Donald Trump. They've never, ever endorsed a presidential candidate. [ cheers and applause ] And I asked them and they told me. They said, Mr. Trump, you need the wall. And Sheriff Joe Arpaio, great guy. Tough, right? Sheriff Joe from Arizona -- in fact when I finish this, I'm going to Arizona. I'll be Arizona in a little while doing the same thing with big, big beautiful crowds. But, Sheriff Joe endorsed Donald Trump. Folks, we know what we're doing. Okay? We know what we're doing. We are going to make this country so strong again. We're gonna save your social security. 15:23:57 We're gonna save your second amendment, which Hillary Clinton wants to abolish. Hillary Clinton wants to abolish your second amendment. And I got the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, the NRA. One of the earliest endorsements they've ever given. And let me tell you, between Wayne and Chris and all of those people, these are great people. These are people, and it gets lost, it gets lost in the debate. These are people that love our country. Just remember that. These are people that love or country. And you know, I've said before, some people thought it was a harsh statement. But if in Paris where 130 people died, toughest gun laws in the world, by the way. There were no guns on the other side. 15:24:42 These thugs walked in -- probably if there were, if they knew there were, they probably wouldn't have gone in there in the first place, okay. They knew there were no guns. But, toughest gun laws in the world. 130 people died. San Bernardino, 14 people died. Friends, they were friends, they killed the 14 people and so many, so badly injured. And by the way, Paris, the hospitals are still loaded with people. So horrible. And what we had this weekend. If there were a couple of folks, man, woman, had a gun strapped right here, right here, right here. [ cheers and applause ] Or a gun strapped very nicely to the ankle. And this no good, this no good sick, sick perverted, horrible terrorist, terrorist was in there starting the shooting, one of those people would have had those bullets going the other way, folks. It would have been a whole different story. It would have been a whole different story. [ cheers and applause ] 15:25:48 So we're gonna make our nation rich again. We're a poor nation. We lose to everybody. We defend Japan. They don't pay us the right money. They will. They will. You know, the press never says the second. I said, no, no. In a deal, you always have to be prepared to walk. They'll tell you that. You always have to be prepared. Not that you wanna walk, but have to be prepared. So here's Hillary Clinton when she heard about what I said about Japan. He is not being loyal to our allies. We will always stay with our allies. Well now, they're never gonna negotiate. Why would they negotiate? Why? But we have all of these nations that we defend. South Korea. Try buying a television outside of South Korea. Not easy. 15:26:31 I buy thousands and thousands of television sets. Very tough to buy them outside of South Korea, except for Sony which, not doing so well lately, okay? From Japan. But let me just tell you. South Korea, we defend, costs us a fortune. They pay something. But not what they should be saying. Japan, we defend. Billions and billions of dollars. A general gets up, Donald Trump is wrong. He was sent by Obama. Nice looking guy, general. He said, doesn't he understand that Japan pays us 50% of the cost? So he's saying Japan pays us 50% of the cost of their defense. So the press called me up, Mr. Trump, they said that Japan pays 50% of the cost. What do you -- how do you respond? I said, why don't they pay 100%, right? 15:27:22 Right? [ cheers and applause ] Right, right? I mean, we're defending Japan. So we defend Germany. Germany. Think Germany's a rich nation? I wanna tell you, it's a rich nation, but I'll tell you what, gonna have problems with what she did. But regardless, rich nation. Now, we have Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, when the oil prices were high, was making $1 billion a day. We pay rent on our bases. We pay them rent. We defend Saudi Arabia. Now listen. Saudi Arabia, I have a lot of friends from Saudi Arabia. All that stuff, right? But you know what? This is a country that has nothing but money. They have nothing but money. Not strong defense. That if we weren't there, they would've been gone 25 years ago. 15:28:13 Okay? 25 years ago. You remember the incident with Iraq when Iraq went into Kuwait and then they started looking at Saudi Arabia. And the Saudis didn't do so well. And then we had those marines of ours with the stuff under their eyes, and boy that was the end of that. Remember that? People forget these little stories, folks. So we defend Saudi Arabia. They don't pay us nearly what we should be paying. So essentially, we subsidize all of these countries. South Korea, with this guy, call him a maniac, call him whatever you want. Every time he raises his hand or raises his head, we send our ships, our planes, our this. We have 28 thousand soldiers on the line between North and South Korea. They pay us peanuts. 15:28:59 How stupid are we? How stupid are we? A country like Saudi Arabia wouldn't exist for a week. You know, when Iran took over Yemen. They don't want Yemen. They want the border, because it's a huge long border between Saudi -- they want the oil in Saudi Arabia. That's why they fight for Yemen. That's why they're in there fighting. Think of this, we're making a deal with Iran, and we're fighting iran in Yemen, when you make the deal aren't you supposed to sort of solve everything? And Kerry said he didn't wanna bring it up, because he didn't wanna complicate the negotiation. This guy's an idiot. [ boos ] 15:29:34 No, think of it. Yemen, we're fighting them. They're on the other side. We're on one side. We don't know whose side we're on. Cause, you know, we're on the side of the rebels. We have no idea who the rebels are. You ever see all our rebels? Our rebels turn out to be worse than the guys who were there in the first place. We're on the side of the rebels. And then the rebels turn out to be like the worst. But, we're fighting Iran. They're on the other side. And we're fighting, fighting. And he's out there negotiating. And then he goes on a bicycle race, he breaks his leg at 73. And I tell people, I give you my word, I will never enter a bicycle race. I promise. During a major negotiation. 15:30:15 I mean, the guy comes out. He's got a whole thing, with the outfit, the helmet, the whole deal. Right? The helmet. I think he even had the stickers on him, right? I said, what is this guy? He thinks he's in the Tour de France or something. What is he doing? We're in the middle of a very important negotiation that frankly he should have walked away from until we got our prisoners back. And he should have never agreed to give back the $150 billion. But here's the guy in the middle of a negotiation, breaks his leg. And he's out of business. I mean, it, I can't tell you folks. It is -- and I think the reason I have this tremendous support is because, you know what? A lot of it's common sense. 15:30:52 Okay? A lot of it's common sense. It's not even -- it's not even like, you could say he's a great businessman, he -- a lot of it's common sense. 99% of the people in this room would do just as well. I mean, it's like, simple stuff. We're being led by people that don't know what they're doing. Now here's what's gonna happen. So we're gonna start winning again. We're gonna have strong borders, we're gonna have the wall, we're gonna be respected again. We're gonna win with our military, we're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS. We have to do that, folks. That I have to tell you. [ cheers and applause ] Normally I would say, no. But it's gotten to a point and because of the power of weaponry, we have to do that. We really have no choice. So we have to knock the hell out of them. 15:31:33 But our military is totally depleted. You see our old jets, where we're taking parts from old airplane graveyards and museums. We have the planes in the museums and we're using them as our fighters. And other countries have modern fighter jets. This is the United States of America. Can you believe what's happening to us? So we're gonna -- our military's depleted. Horribly depleted. LAS VEGAS, NV - Sending this wider than usual because multiple times in his speech Donald Trump went after Republicans for not lining up to support the billionaire's campaign. > >"And we're gonna beat Hillary. And it would be helpful if the Republicans could help us a little bit, you know. >>I think between yesterday and today, we raised 12 or 13 million dollars for the republican party. [ cheers and applause ] That's good. For the republican party. (14:47:25) And somebody said, well you're not raising money for -- I said I don't know. You know, I get people, I'm raising money for the republican party. >>And by the way, if the republican party -- and I hope they all come together. Cause I want them to come together, it's great. But if for any reason they get a little bit like they don't wanna help out as much, then I'll fund my own campaign, I'd love to do that. I'd love to do that. You know, right now, I'm raising a lot of money for the republican party and a lot of beneficiaries so that -- and I like doing it. But we have to have help. We have to have help. They have to be, they gotta -- you know, life is like a two way street, right? On the movement to stop Trump, he pondered who they would put up since he beat all the people that ran adding to do so would be "illegal". "I read about this, there's this insurgent group. You know, the same group that I beat is insurgent. There are a couple of guys there trying to go to -- They're trying to get delegates. I thought they already tried that. I mean, I could give you names but I won't because it's meaningless. First of all, it's illegal. Second of all, you can't do it. Third of all, we -- not me, we got 14 almost 14 million votes. 14 million votes in the primaries."(14:34:15) Going after President Obama once again for the response to the Orlando shooter, he called the President "pathetic". "If you think Orlando was the end of it with this weak attitude and this pathetic president that we have, it wasn't folks. It wasn't. It wasn't. This was just the beginning. Unless we get smart and tough and vigilant. And unless we say, I'm sorry, you're coming from a region in the world, whether it's -- and I can name them all -- I can name them all. But it's radical Islamic terrorism. It's a whole new thing. It's radical Islamic terrorism. (14:54:10) And it's not guns. You know, I saw the president talk immediately about guns. It's not guns. It's terrorism. It's terrorism. It's not guns, it's terrorism. And I watched him the other day, and he was, and by the way, this wasn't just me saying it. He was more angry at Donald Trump than he was at the shooter, the maniac who killed all of those young people. He was more angry at Donald Trump." Trump heads to Phoenix for a rally there - Candace/Bruce/Phelps are there. BACK OF THE BOOK.BERNIE IS A BED BUG. Enjoy this read.. (15:00:25) "Crazy Bernie. One thing about Bernie, he doesn't give up, this guy doesn't give up! Right? Crazy Bernie, he doesn't give up! Crazy Bernie, he's crazy as a bed bug but you know he doesn't quit, he doesn't quit. gotta hand it to him. And I think Bernie should continue to go forward folks, he should continue to go forward.. he should fight to the last day. Well he's waiting for really, the FBI to do what everybody thinks they're going to do."

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The House convenes in emergency session to consider the $10 Billion Federal Emergency Managament Agency FEMA relief appropriation for victims of Hurricane Katrina. 14:00:13.2 the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. under the speaker's announced policy of january 4, 2005 and under a previous previous order of the house the following members are recognized for five minutes each. the gentleman from ohio, mr. kucinich. mr. kucinich: i thank the speak. the amount of money that the house just appropriated is only a fraction of what is needed 14:00:27.3 and everyone here knows it. but let it go forward quickly with bipartisan cooperation and with heart felt thanks to those who are helping to save lives with necessary food, water, shelter, medical care, and security. congress must also demand 14:00:42.4 disability gilt with the appropriations. because until there are basic changes in the direction of this government this tragedy will multifly to apocalyptic proportions. the administration said yesterday that no one anticipated the breach of the 14:00:58.5 levees. did the administration not see or care about the 2001 fema warning about the risk of a devastating hurricane hitting the people of new orleans? did it not know or care that civil and army engineers were warning for years about the 14:01:16.2 consequences of failure to strengthen the flood control system? was it aware or did it care that the same administration which decries the plight of the people today cut from the budget tens of millions needed for flood control projects? 14:01:30.6 countless lives have been lost with the cost of hundreds of billions in ruined homes, businesses and the destruction of entire physical and social infrastructure. the president said a couple hours ago that the gulf looks like it's been obliterated by a 14:01:46.7 weapon. it has. indifference is a weapon of mass destruction. our indifferent government is in a crisis of the legitimacy. if it continues to ignore basic responsibility for the health and economic welfare of the american people, will there 14:02:01.4 ever be enough money to clean up after their indifference? as our government continues to squander human and monetary resources of this country on the war, people are beginning to ask, isn't it time we began to take care of our people at home snch isn't it time we rescued our own? 14:02:18.2 isn't it time we fed our own people, sheltered our own people? isn't it time we provided physical and economic security for our own people and isn't i time we stopped the oil companies from profiting from this tragedy? we have plenty of work to do here at home. it's time for america to come 14:02:34.3 home and take care of its own people who are drowning in the streets, suffocating in the aparticulars, dying from exposure to the elements, oppressed by poverty and illness, wracked with despair and hunger and thirst. the time is now to bring back to the united states the 78,000 14:02:51.5 national guard troops currently deployed overseas. many of our troops are already stationed in the wrong gulf. the time is now to bring back to the u.s. the equipment which 14:03:07.0 will be needed to search and rescue, for cleanup and regular clam mation. if the time is for federal resources including closed army bases to be used for temporary shelter. the time is now to plan massive public works with jobs going to 14:03:23.8 the people of the gulf coast states, build new levees, roads, schools, colleges and universities, and to rebuild owl public institutions including hospitals. medicare ought to be extended to everyone so every person can get the physical and mental health care they might need as 14:03:41.1 a result of the disaster. the time is now for the federal government to take seriously the research of scientists who have warned for years about the dangers of change in the global climate and prepare other regions for other possible weather disasters until we change our disastrous energy policies. 14:03:56.2 the time is now for changes in our energy policies. to end the domination of oil and fossil fuel and to invest 14:04:03.9 heavily in alternative energy including wind and thermal and by owe fuels. as bad as this catastrophe will prove to be it is in fact only a warning p. our government must change direction. it mu must become involved in making america a better place 14:04:18.2 to live, a place where all may survive and thrive. it must get off the path of war and seek the peace. peace with the natural environment. peace with other nations. peace through a just economic system. the speaker pro tempore: the 14:04:35.6 gentleman yields back the balance of times. under previous order of the house the gentleman from missouri, mr. blunt, is recognized for five minutes. for what purpose does the gentleman from nevada rise? mr. gibbons: i ask unanimous consent to take the time 14:04:51.9 assigned to mr. blunt. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. gibbons: thank you very much, mr. speaker. today we come here, we come to this floor of this body not as democrats, not as republicans, but as americans united in an effort to find a solution to 14:05:08.6 find help for the people affected by the wrath of hurricane katrina. and today, mr. speaker, we unanimously passed financial assistance to the victims of hurricane katrina. and this united -- this nation stands united, this entire 14:05:24.8 nation stands ready and willing to help the many thousands of victims in hurricane katrina's wrath. but first, let me extend my zeepest sympathies to those -- deepest sthimpstho hose tho 14:05:40.2 loved loved ones in the rising devastation of this storm. we all share the grief they are feeling during this tragic time. our most immediate concern is the safety and security of the people of louisiana, mississippi, and alabama, who are fighting this very day, this very hour, this very 14:05:57.7 moment to survive. many nevadans have stepped up to offer their help in this effort. we have contractors in nevada who have donated construction materials, concrete, steel to help rebuild these efforts. 14:06:13.5 we have banking institutions like wells fargo that have offered emergency financial assistance, emergency financial support and processes by which these people can access financial assistance. 14:06:31.4 members of the national guard in the state of nevada have also been called up from the 152nd air national guard medical group based in reno and the army's guard medical detach management 5 headquartered in 14:06:45.3 reno and las vegas were among the 100 already deployed nevadans assisting in the emergency response currently underway. the emergency team doctors, nurses and other medical specialists and their equipment left reno on a c-130 with less than 24 hours' notice. 14:07:04.2 the team will spend up to two weeks aiding the victims of hurricane katrina. as the recovery effort continues, congress took the necessary steps today as a united body to enable these communities to begin to 14:07:18.5 rebuild. thousands of residents in louisiana, mississippi, and alabama have had their lives shattered, have lost their homes, their businesses, and even their entire livelihoods have been swept away. rebuilding these cities like 14:07:34.7 new orleans, gulfport, biloxi, and the many other bustling resort towns, will not be done overnight, mr. speaker. but the people of these gulf coast communities should know that the american people stand 14:07:50.3 united, united not just with our rhetoric but with our action. and that we will work with them to rebuild these cherished communities. the people and businesses of nevada, like albertson's which will provide $9 million in 14:08:05.2 water and food, have given generously to the relief effort and will continue to do so. may our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of hurricane katrina as they work to find the strength to overcome the devastation mother nature has brought upon them. 14:08:22.8 and with that, mr. speaker, may god bless this great country and assist these people and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. under previous order of the house the gentleman from florida, mr. wexler, is recognized for five minutes. mr. wexler: thank you, mr. 14:08:39.1 speaker. like all americans, my heart goes out to the millions of people displaced and suffering from one of our largest natural catastrophes in our history. i hope the victims of hurricane katrina know that our prayers 14:08:54.0 are with them in this most difficult hour. and i strongly support today's initial package to help the 14:09:02.3 victims of hurricane katrina. however, the administration's response to this catastrophe is nothing short of a national disgrace itself. how is it possible, how is it 14:09:18.5 possible that the administration did not realize earlier what a catastrophe this is? there is a 90,000 square mile footprint of disaster, and yet last night fema's director, 14:09:34.1 michael brown, admitted that the administration had no idea exactly how bad the situation was. even worse, he had previous characterized the security situation in new orleans as 14:09:50.9 "pretty darn good." and stopped just short of blaming the residents of new orleans themselves for not evacuating. the bush administration failed the american people in advance 14:10:07.7 of this hurricane by cutting critical funding in spite of the pleas by the army corps of engineers, money that would have been used to reenforce the very levees that broke and flooded new orleans. 14:10:23.7 we had plenty of money to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, but none, apparently, to save the poorest americans with an ounce of prevention. and in terms of the response to the disaster itself, what we 14:10:40.7 have seen is unquestionabley too little, too late. while the president today said that relief efforts so far were "not acceptable," how can he possibly be surprised by this 14:10:58.0 deplorable response? how can he say that flooding wasn't anticipated? quite to the contrary -- it was expected. it was predicted. what is not acceptable is the president's response. 14:11:12.4 one year ago, we had an opportunity to learn from the disasters in my home state of florida. floridians experienced the consequences of fema's failure to deliver aid to community who needed it the most. we saw the most vulnerable in our society, the elderly and the poor, being left out and 14:11:31.3 overlooked. last year we had the opportunity to prevent this from happening again. at the time i called for the resignation of the head of fema, michael brown, because of his grieveious mismanagement in florida. 14:11:47.2 the president did not heed that call, nor did he see fit to make any substantial changes in fema. last year, when the president's election was in question, his response to the hurricanes in the swing state of florida was tremendously fast, even passing out ice in the immediate 14:12:05.1 aftermatt. -- aftermath. where was he in the immediate aftermath for new orleans? where were the trucks of food? where were the water buffalo? where were the tents of aid that are now just being established and delivered? when the issue was the medical 14:12:19.1 condition of terri schiavo, the president and congress flew back to washington on palm sunday to intervene. why did the president delay so long for an entire american city in crisis? 14:12:34.2 these are desperate people who need food, water, shelter, and safety, not a photo opportunity which even itself comes five days too late. every asset of the great american military in this hemisphere should have been 14:12:50.0 devoted to america's humanitarian crisis, starting on monday at 5:00 in the afternoon. i was in indonesia last month. i saw firsthand the greatness of the american aid efforts. our response in the aftermath 14:13:08.4 of the tsunami was one of america's finest hours. i was extremely proud as an american to see all the work that americans in our country had done to stave off famine and disease for 10's of thousands of desperate people. our aircraft carrier was off 14:13:24.2 the achay coast within two days. if we can do that 12,000 miles away in indonesia, why not in new orleans? if we had even just met that same standard, help would in new orleans on wednesday. 14:13:39.1 we wouldn't be seeing the horrific scenes we saw yesterday and today. it should have been self-evident on monday that now is the time to use our enormous strength for the benefit of our own people. thank you, mr. speaker. now is a wake-up call for america. 14:13:56.0 this should never happen again. it shouldn't have happened this time. 14:14:00.6 thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from connecticut, mr. shays is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. speaker. a disaster of this magnitude can be hard to comprehend. convinced of our mastery of the fiscal world, we too often underestimate nature's 14:14:18.0 horrible, irresistible power. a storm like hurricane katrina should punctuate that hubris and occasion in its wake a humble assessment of our plans and preparations to meet the catastrophes mother nature sends our way. as our fellow citizens in the 14:14:36.4 affected states struggle to cope, now is not the time. to compound their fears with criticisms and second-guessing about rescue and recovery efforts. but gaps and flaws in the joint local, state, and federal 14:14:51.8 response are clearly showing. today, the president concluded those efforts so far were not acceptable. they aren't acceptable. in the weeks and months ahead, those of us charged with oversight of homeland security issues will be asking hard questions about the 14:15:07.4 effectiveness of the department of homeland security and federal emergency management agency, commonly referred to as fema, for their response, planning, and execution. streams of refugees and reports of lawless gangs terrorizing 14:15:23.7 the streets of new orleans convey images more commonly associated with the third world than with a major commercial port in the new world. when a catastrophe, natural or man made, rips through the 14:15:38.3 social fabric, the first obligation of government at all levels is to maintain order and deal with the short-term needs of the populous. the capability to re-establish public safety and protect the lives and property of law abiding citizens must be 14:15:55.3 brought to bear visibly and promptly. katrina's destruction took just hours, but reconstruction will take months and years. together, we must work overtime until homes are built and people are back to work. 14:16:10.8 we must continue to provide all the government support, money, and manpower they need. we must continue to encourage private donations of food, blood, funding, and services. though the burden of this storm has been borne by those who 14:16:26.5 live in the region, this is truly a national challenge. i have heard from so am of my constituents and all want to express their love and concern and convey their desire to be of help, by lending their skills, opening their homes, 14:16:43.6 providing financial assistance, and do whatever else they can. two wonderful organizations in our district, save the children and americares, are working around the clock to provide relief. 14:16:56.6 on our website we have provided information on ways to donate money, food, and water to the efforts. since katrina washed away homes, businesses, families, and lives, america has grieved deeply. we all mourn those who lost their lives and we grief with those who have lost their loved 14:17:15.6 ones and friends. while we cannot reverse katrina's damage, we can begin to repair the region, which assistance millions of americans and is vital to our nation. today's legislation will help us begin that process of rebuilding the area, providing 14:17:31.6 support to law enforcement, and getting gulf coast residents back to the business of their lives. in the days and weeks to come, there will be much more that follows. >> on behalf of the people of 14:17:51.6 the state of california -- to the thousands who have lost family and friends and those still searching for loved ones, and as the chairperson of the california democratic congressial delegation, i want 14:18:05.9 to let the people suffering today know that we care and that we californians stand with them. the people of california have also faced natural disasters in the form of earthquakes, floods, fires. i recall the loma earthquake on november 17, 1989, that 14:18:23.5 measures 7.1 on the richter scale. 16 years have passed, but everyone who lives in the bay area remembers where we were when the earthquake struck. americans everywhere stood with californians, and this gave us the strength we needed to 14:18:37.5 recover, rebound, and rebuild. as difficult as that earthquake was for us in california, the situation on the gulf coast is infinityly more challenging. homes across the gulf coast are gone. people are left with nothing 14:18:52.2 but the clothes on their back. biloxi, gulfport, bay st. 14:19:00.0 louis, waveland, kiln, slidell, and other towns barely exist. our nation has never had a city in the desperate shape that new orleans finds itself in right now. 14:19:11.0 the rule of law has broken down. people at the superdome and the convention center are suffering in ways that are just not seen in our country in the 21st century. mayor nagan has said that thousands may be dead in new orleans. this is an unprecedented human tragedy. 14:19:27.3 as a nation, we must be steadfast and commit ourselves to save these people. we must stand with all of the people of the gulf coast and let them know that we're here today to help them get back on their feet. we're here to lend you a shoulder to lean on. we will be with you as long as it takes to get you your lives in order, as long as it takes 14:19:45.4 to get your cities back. the people of the gulf coast have experienced hell on earth over the past week. they will face challenges in the coming days, weeks, and months that are almost unimaginable. people are hungry, sick, homeless, and desperate. the storm has hit everyone hard 14:20:01.6 and it has hit the poor hardest of all. the federal response to this disaster has been too little, and it has been too slow. the situation must change, and it must change right now. last night i flew across our great country to be here today 14:20:17.3 to participate in this emergency session of congress. it is important that the necessary resources be provided for this disaster, but action and leadership by the administration is desperately needed right now. there are dead bodies floating 14:20:32.4 in new orleans as we speak. there are thousands, 10's of thousands of our fellow americans who have been without the help that they need for this entire week. i do not believe that our federal government is incapable of mobilizing to meet this disaster. 14:20:47.2 the problem is that we have not yet done so as comprehensively as is necessary. even the president stated today that the response of his administration has been inadequate. there will be plenty of opportunity in the months to come to analyze what we could have done better, but today our 14:21:04.3 task is simply to do better, to engage in a massive mobilization to save the lives of our fellow citizens, and to end the chaos that has descended upon new orleans and other areas devastated by this hurricane. 14:21:18.7 our nation stands united with the victims of this ruthless storm. our fellow citizens, from mobile, alabama, to new orleans, louisiana, need to know that they have our commitment to do all that we can. the bill we pass today is just a start. we will recover. 14:21:34.4 we will rebuild. we will prevail. in the days and weeks to come, the congress will have many tasks before it, from fully funding the army corps' effort, to revising the bankruptcy laws so that the victims who've lost 14:21:50.4 their homes can have a fresh start. but today, we call on you, mr. president, article 2, section 1, the executive power shall be vested in a president of the united states. we expect that the resources, the food, the water, the health care, the evacuation, the 14:22:07.1 shelter will be brought to bear so that our fellow citizens can end their suffering. thank you. and i yield back, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the previous order of the house the gentlelady from florida, ms. 14:22:21.7 harris is recognized. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to seek the time of the gentlelady from florida. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from spelf recognized for five minutes. >> we their the midst of a crisis of crushing proportions in terms of lives lost and 14:22:39.5 property destroyed. time is clearly of the essence and i commend speaker hastert for calling congress back into session over this holiday weekend. while we are still assessing the full extent of the damage caused by hurricane katrina, we know that the damage is severe 14:22:55.2 and that the response must be strong and stead write. the legislation that we have just passed in the house will provide financial assistance to the victims who have borne the brunt of this devastating 14:23:10.7 storm. it will allow the federal emergency management agency adequate resources to continue operating and to restore order in the affected areas. rescuing and evacuating those who are trapped, getting food, 14:23:26.1 drinking water and medical care to those who are stranded should be our top priority and this funding is essential to accommodate some of those basic initiatives. the image we've seen on 14:23:40.1 television and in the newspapers only begins to convey the desperation of those in and around the areas that have been hit. my heart goes out to these families and i'm pleased that congress has answered the call here today and sent and guaranteed the much-needed 14:23:56.1 resources. and on behalf of western pennsylvania, an area where we are familiar with mother nature and how tough she can be, i'm here to express our solidarity with the people in those communities that have been 14:24:12.4 hardest hit. the economic impact of katrina also looms over us as we move forward and as gass and other oil prices spiral out of control, this natural disaster certainly has the potential to 14:24:28.7 become a serious economic challenge as well. we need to take action in congress to's leave yate the short-term crisis that has --, alleviate the short-term crisis that has been caused by katrina. 14:24:41.7 it will likely take the next several weeks and perhaps longer before we know the full extent and the true extent of the damage and begin to repair our critical energy infrastructure. we recognize already that electricity remains sparse in some communities, limiting the capacity of refineries to 14:24:59.4 operate. in addition, distribution pipelines also lack capacity so refined products are unable to reach local gas stations. the production and delivery problem will without a doubt have significant impact on 14:25:17.8 consumers and a ripple effect on the economy. we in congress i think need to anticipate that and respond. i think it's essential that we act to address any fuel shortage and act decisively to blunt its nationwide 14:25:33.6 consequence he. so while our supply chain is coming back on-line, congress needs to carefully consider options for managing the energy supply and the price of gasoline such as giving the president the authority to 14:25:47.9 fight price gouging for oil and oil by-products and manage strategic fuel supplies. further, we ought to consider a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax to give consumers at least a small break from the unanticipated increases. 14:26:05.4 any temporary measures we can engage will ameliorate the enormous impact of the current situation and these need to be carefully thought through. for now, however, we have to quickly move forward as we've done so with this emergency appropriation bill today which 14:26:23.9 will help the victims who have suffered most from the devastation of this storm. this storm is a challenge to the nation, and i urge the american people to pull together and to help each other get through this. i encourage people to donate what they can to the charity of 14:26:41.6 their choice, and do what they independently can do to conserve energy. and i believe this will test us and perhaps also show us at our best. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. 14:26:56.7 the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. under previous order of the house the gentlelady from ohio, mrs. tubbs jones, is recognized for five minutes. mrs. jones: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. 14:27:10.7 mrs. jones: mr. speaker, i rise today in support of this legislation, but i rise today also to say to america it's time now not later on, one of my favorite speaker, dr. king, had a speech that he gave, 14:27:29.3 saying that now is the time. for a moment i'm going to paraphrase some of words. he said now is the time to make the real -- make real the promise of democracy. he said now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate 14:27:45.7 valley, and i say the valley is this national despair we're in right now, to the sunlit path of americans helping americans. now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of 14:28:01.6 hurricane katrina to the solid rock of safety and normalcy for the people of america. we've had all these images on television. we've had images of people in facilities that were built for games, we had images of people 14:28:17.1 in facilities that were built for conventions. we've had images of people who are american people, they are taxpayers, they are the elderly, they are the frail, they are the poor, the people left out without any housing. this is a class issue because 14:28:32.4 those of us who had the money to get out of new orleans, to get out of mississippi, to get out of alabama, the got out. but these are people who are american taxpayers who couldn't get out and why aren't we helping them? today we've allocated resources. 14:28:48.1 what i'm concerned about is who will the resources go to? when we looked at iraq they went to halliburton. 14:28:56.0 what about the resources going to the american taxpayers who are entitled to dollars? they paid their dues. i took a moment and went on the internet and got the application for disaster resource. the application and the pages to go with them are some 25 pages. 14:29:10.2 can you imagine if you were in the situation of some of these people that they would in fact have to fill out this form? let's get rid of the form and give them what they need. let's put these people on cruise ships. imagine a cruise ship. a bedroom, a bathroom, a bed, food, a place where they could 14:29:26.4 be. let's not try and figure out and make magic. we know what can work for these people. finally, i'll say that these women and men and children and families are entitled, they are american taxpayers. take care of then. and i yield the balance of my time to my colleague, carolyn 14:29:43.4 kilpatrick from detroit, michigan. ms. kilpatrick: thank you very much. i first want to say these people are not refugees. they're american citizens to who pay taxes and are raising their children and i hope we 14:29:57.4 could not relegate them to something less than american citizens. i rise in support of the legislation and would like to report on what the city of detroit is doing. mayor kwame kilpatrick has put together an organization with private as well as fema with the last 48 hours and we are offering to the families 14:30:13.8 decimated 500 housing spots immediately. we've been working with united way and our grocers as well as our health care industry to provide the resources that these families will need, housing, health care, water, food, clothing. 14:30:28.4 we this the industry of detroit stand ready under mayor kilpatrick's leadership and is offering this to the families. we have spoken with congressman bennie thomas from alabama and 14:30:47.1 congressman bill jefferson from louisiana and the people of new orleans need to get out of new orleans and we need other government officials around the country to step up and they have nothing to go back to. mr. speaker and members of the 14:30:59.7 house, we're proud of our mayor in the city of detroit and thank you, very much, congresswoman from ohio for yielding. detroit has stood up through mayor kilpatrick's leadership and we ask other cities around this nation to have the wherewithal, private companies 14:31:16.2 are ready to help. our public schools has agreed to stake the children who will be coming from the ravaged areas. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of our time and i thank the mayor of detroit as well as my colleague for yielding. mrs. jones: thank you, mr. speaker, for the opportunity to 14:31:32.4 present again. we say it's urgent. now is the time to help the people of america who have been in this situation for three or four days. if we can go to iraq and rebrilled iraq, we can take a hospital with a red horse and build a hospital in iraq in the sands we can build what the 14:31:48.2 people of america need in the gulf region and take care of them. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. under previous order of the house, the gentlelady from west virginia, mrs. capito is recognized. for what purpose does the 14:32:02.5 gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. wamp: i ask unanimous consent to claim the gentlelady's time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for five minutes. mr. wamp: thank you, mr. speaker. i began this week with a stomach virus that had me flat on my back and very quickly that illness was replaced with 14:32:19.7 a sickness in my stomach from watching my fellow man, our fellow americans, some of the most vulnerable, some of the poorest, hurting, even dying and all week long, like many of 14:32:40.5 my colleagues, i've spoken with today, feeling somewhat helpless even as a federal legislator, not being able to roll up my sleeves and grow and help our fellow man. we are with all of these people 14:32:57.9 from the tennessee valley to the silicon valley, we stand with our friends and neighbors in louisiana and mississippi and alabama, but particularly in the new orleans area and in southern mississippi where the 14:33:11.2 devastation is so bad. mr. speaker, there's going to be plenty of time to point fingers, scrub the problems, determine what changes need to be made, with what broke down 14:33:26.3 at the local, state, federal level. i hope knowing this institution now as well as i have known it for 11 years and knowing the goodness of most people from both sides of the aisle, that we can do as much as possible, like we did after september 11 14:33:44.4 and come together, bring the nation together around the solutions. this has just been an extraordinary time over these last four years in this 14:33:54.5 country, as we put 22 agencies together to form the department of homeland security, including taking fema from independent agency under this new umbrella. obviously all the bugs haven't been worked out, and obviously as the president said today, 14:34:11.3 this is an unacceptable response. frankly, at every level. local, state, and federal. but let's today try to hold off on too much of the blame and come together to support all of these people. 14:34:27.2 i'm greatly encouraged today to see the truckloads now and the airloads going in and people being evacuated and until every person that is still living is in a safe place and secure place, let's try to meet each other at the water's edge and 14:34:44.2 try to solve these problems that i can say that every minute now it is improving, and the system is improving at every level of government. it is so important that we come together. these are difficult, difficult times. natural disasters, terrorist 14:35:00.7 activities, these activities will probably continue. and we have to make sure, i believe, as leaders that the unity of purpose, of mind, of spirit is maintained in order to preserve what we have. 14:35:16.0 it's going to be easy for chaos to take place in the cities that are affected or even on the floor of this great institution if we're not careful that we don't dumb down to lowest common denominator of 14:35:34.7 criticizing or breaking down. it's a time of unity and a difficult time, the days and months ahead. the solutions are extremely difficult. i want to also talk beyond this crisis and this hurricane because i believe, mr. speaker, we were headed for serious 14:35:47.2 trouble before this hurricane hit. in places where people are on fixed income, the cost of energy, not just gasoline but all energy, was becoming such a burden and now it's compounded, egregiously compounded because 14:36:03.4 of this particular incident. let me say that when crisis sets in, character is born, leaders emerge, we must in the short run use every bit of influence to increase the capacity for oil for our 14:36:20.1 country. opec is just 11 countries. many of which get significant funding annually from our country. we need oil. if they can't release more oil, we should hold back the contributions we make to their 14:36:35.7 country until we get a satisfactory flow of crude oil into this country. from opec countries as well as non-opec countries but let me tell you, opec countries have much more oil than non-opec countries but non-opec countries are actually 14:36:50.6 producing much more oil than opec nations today. pressure needs to be placed from the executive branch but even from the legislative branch which has the power of the purse. we need to say this is a time of crisis in america following this hurricane, and following incredibly accelerating gas 14:37:08.7 prices. we need relief we need the refinery capacity as well. we need cooperation at every level. we need response in the short term and in the long term we need to bring about changes in our country's policy to get ourselves off of oil. so let's unite and solve these problems and help america at 14:37:26.3 this critical time and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. under previous order of the house the gentleman from california, mr. schiff, is recognized for five minutes. mr. schiff: mr. speaker, i rise in support of the supplemental appropriation to help the people that have been 14:37:41.7 devastated by this hurricane. as you can probably tell, i've lost my voice, i have laryngitis, i may lose it again during the course of my remarks, but i feel compelled to come and speak today at the outset to express my sincere 14:37:59.1 condolence to all those families that have lost loved ones or still wond wrer their loved ones are in the wake of this terrifying and hurricane. my heart goes out to all that have been impacted, the effects 14:38:15.0 of this hurricane have been devastating. we've seen its physical force, the extraordinary winds, the water, the flooding, the wrath of nature in hurricane katrina. it has been awesome and terrible in its destruction. 14:38:32.0 but sadness has given way to anger and disbelief as we have seen people stranded on rooftops, as we have seen mothers worry about whether their babies will have enough to eat, as we've seen children 14:38:48.5 worry about their parents' medical conditions and the lack of medicine, as we have 14:38:54.9 wondered how this could happen in the united states of america. national disasters afflict every part of the globe. but it seems that this national disaster has been compounded by 14:39:09.7 our response, and in cases by our lack of response. the images we have seen have been horrifying. we have all wondered how it was that so many people came to be left behind, how it was that we could have assumed that when 14:39:27.1 20% of the population of new orleans lives under the level of poverty, that everyone would have a means of getting out of new orleans before the storm. how it is that there are not buses running around the clock 14:39:42.5 to take people away from this terrible place with no food, with no water, giving way to lawlessness. i heard today that the district of columbia is sending 10 buses 14:39:57.2 and i applaud the district of columbia. but it will take days for those buses to get there. why are not there buses around the clock, why is it that these news crews can go and take this devastating footage and find 14:40:14.9 these survivors and the relief effort cannot? i, like a great american americans, don't understand how this is possible in the united states of america. my constituents demand that we move both ert and heaven to 14:40:30.7 bring relief as fast as possible to the people of the gulf coast states. and we have been bitterly disappointed to see how this tragedy has been prolonged and we have the most profound 14:40:45.6 questions about how in the richest nation on earth it can take so long to simply get people out of that disaster zone to higher ground, to drier ground, to food, to medicine. i don't understand the 14:41:03.1 government's response. i really don't. and yes, there will be plenty of time to ask these questions and we will ask them. but the rest of the country is asking them now. and we demand a better response than we're getting. now, i hope that as some of the officials from fema and the 14:41:21.8 national guard are now saying 2 cavalry is on the way the cavalry is truly on the way. and i hope that effort only accelerates and mushrooms and doesn't stop until every last person has been evacuated. 14:41:38.8 this has been a devastating week for the united states. we have seen bodies floating through the streets. we have heard the voices of americans question how their government could leave them in 14:41:55.5 such a place at such a time with such developed mass transportation. without air lifts of food and medicine, without rapid evacuation, this country can do 14:42:14.1 better. this country must do better. and i hope and pray we're doing a lot better right this moment and i'm proud of this congress for coming into session and 14:42:25.0 rapidly approving this aid and it's going to be incumbent on this congress to make sure this aid gets delivered asap and not another moment goes by with another victim waiting to be rescued. mr. speaker, i yield back the 14:42:41.2 balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. under previous order of the house the gentleman from texas, mr. burgess, is recognized for five minutes. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to take the time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the 14:42:55.4 gentleman from illinois is recognized for five minutes. >> mr. speaker, thomas paine wrote in 1776 that now is the time that tries men's souls and this is also one of those times in the life of our country. 14:43:12.0 that we -- as we witness the destruction of a major u.s. city and the pain of our fellow americans on the gulf coast, in our constitution the federal government is charged with the mission to provide for the common defense. that defense is not just against threats coming from 14:43:27.8 other countries but also from natural disasters like hurricane katrina. i have heard recriminations against the mayor of new orleans, against the governor of louisiana, and against the president of the united states, 14:43:42.9 but now is not the time to divide americans and political -- in political fighting. the mayor, the governor and the president must pull together at 14:43:53.0 this time for search and rescue, for humanitarian relief, and for the reconstruction of the gulf coast. catastrophes like this illustrate the kindness and generosity of the american spirit and with hundreds of thousands unable to return to 14:44:06.9 their homes, communities have opened their doors and welcomed victims. in my district we have seen five major high schools and scores of other schools begin fundraising drives for hurricane relief. major illinois employers have 14:44:22.7 already donated $7.2 million in cash. laboratories, medline, cardinal, health, all have donated major supplies and thanks to their generosity truckloads of medicine and baby formula, nutritional 14:44:37.4 supplements and electrical generators are on their way from illinois to the scene. to help police and emergency officials regain control of the situation, motorola has sent 2,500 portable radios to new orleans. now, today in congress we approved a $10.5 billion 14:44:56.2 supplemental emergency appropriation to ensure the continuation of the rescue and recovery effort. today's bill enacted by congress and in just 22 hours is already the third largest disaster supplemental in our 14:45:10.0 history. and no doubt there will be katrina supplementals two and three to follow. we should do this but we also do more by encouraging americans and corporate citizens to open their hearts and their wallets and with this 14:45:25.7 outpouring of support we will speed the recovery. mr. speaker, for the last two weeks i have been on active duty as a reservist in the united states navy, and working as an intelligence officer in the joint commeefs i spent the first week on duty reporting on 14:45:41.7 the usual top ibs, developments in afghanistan, the withdrawal of israel from gaza, etc. but all of that changed when katrina loomed off the coast of the united states. deep in the operations center of the joint staff we formed a 14:45:57.5 katrina response cell to coordinate what is now becoming the largest u.s. military civilian relief effort in history. we focused all of the vast resources of the defense department on the defense of new orleans. within hours of the response 14:46:13.1 cell's creation, dozens of ships, hundreds of planes, thousands of troops and millions of meals were on the way. like if u.s. military's response to the tsunami, the current operation will save lives, will repair infrastructure, and will speed 14:46:28.4 the recovery. i want to particularly thank our new chief of naval operations to took it on his own initiative to send ships towards the relief effort. his prompt action meant that the navy relief helicopters arrived on the scene much 14:46:44.5 sooner than planned. today in the wake of this natural disaster we are witnessing selfless dedication by americans in uniform. there are over 21,000 military personnel responding to the hurricane. the bulk of these forces are national guardsmen and 14:47:02.5 naurdswomen called into service to assist in the effort. they are truly citizen soldiers and their services are urgently needed and deeply appreciated. as more troops arrive on the scene, law and order will be 14:47:17.2 restored and communications and power re-established. today there are more than 154 helicopters rescuing trapped civilians, delivering desperately needed food and water and dropping sandbags to plug the beaches in the levee system. 14:47:33.0 the corps of engineers is working to begin pumping the water out of new orleans. more help is on the way. the crew of the u.s.s. bataan is off the coast with helicopters delivering supplies and conducting search and rescue missions. another helicopter carrier, u.s.s. iwo jima and the 14:47:52.7 aircraft carrier u.s.s. harry truman are there to provide helicopter support. all thold there are over 10 navy ships currently on station or on their way to provide support and this includes the hospital ship usns comfort with 2,000 hospital beds. 14:48:08.3 the defense logistics agency has made more than 750,000 meals ready-to-eat available and has access to three million more if needed. the response from the department of defense has been impressive and is accelerating. 14:48:23.5 i want to thank admiral keating of the northern command, lieutenant general honori and lieutenant general blume for their efforts. mr. speaker, there are countless acts of heroism 14:48:39.8 taking place along the gulf coast. the military, the coast guard and fema are spearheading this response. every day people are doing their part for the relief effort and at least we here in 14:48:51.4 congress should do that as well by trecting these additional resources to the effort. today is just a first step in what is going to be a long and costly recovery. we should stand united by our commitment to help rebuild those hurt by katrina. the speaker pro tempore: the 14:49:06.3 gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington, mr. baird, is recognized for five minutes. mr. baird: i thank the chairman. i rise today to spend my personal condolences and that of my family to the families and victims of this terblet 14:49:22.8 natural disaster. i almost didn't come down here today because i'm painfully aware nothing we can say here is going to make the kind of difference we'd like to make. the $10.5 billion we've recently appropriated today will make some difference but frankly, it is very small in 14:49:38.5 comparison to the magnitude of the suffering. but i think myself and all my colleagues would rather be doing is being down there in new orleans helping with the effort. we'd like to be giving water to those who are no in need of that, comfort to those who have lost loved ones. 14:49:53.4 we'd like to begin the rebuilding process with our own hands if we ca could. we're not able the to be there because frankly we're not needed as much as rescue personnel. while we'd like to be there we have constituents calling and asking tough questions and i think it's incumbent on us to 14:50:09.8 respond to some of those questions. our phones as i'm sure many others have been ringing with constituents asking why was the preparation not better np why is it taking so long to rescue people and provide basic food 14:50:24.6 and shelter and clothing? and frankly, why are oil companies who are already enjoying record profits being able to take what seems to be exorbitant profit from even this catastrophe? i don't have the answer to all of those but i do have some things we ought to consider as 14:50:41.4 a congress and that the american people have a right to know. the american people have a right to know that for the past five years the administration has proposed draconian cuts to the corps of engineers' budgets including nearly a 50% cut to hurricane flood prevention in 14:50:59.2 the very area now affected by this tragedy. it would be fair perhaps to call it a natural disaster but in this case this natural disaster was aided and abetted by budget cuts to prohibited 14:51:17.8 the corps of engineers to prevent the devastating damage we have seen now and i think the american people have a right to know that. government in the end is about choices. and choices have consequences. if we choose tax cuts in the short term for some of the wealthiest americans, and in 14:51:34.7 exchange for tax cuts we cut the budget for the corps of engineers for flood control, for harbor maintenance, for all the other things the corps does, we see the consequences. i serve on the water resources subcommittee and we have oversight over the corps and i 14:51:48.8 can tell you when the administration has come with these proposed cuts they've been supported by groups like taxpayers for common sense and i and some of my colleagues have asked help us understand something. if we spend a few dollars today to save hundreds or thousands 14:52:04.2 of dollars and countless lives tomorrow, how is it common sense to not spend those dollars? it may look in the short term politically more appealing to say we've cut the terrible corps of engineers or saved 14:52:19.3 pork spending but if in the long run what you have done is failed to maintain your levees, failed to provide flood control prevention, failed to prepare for precisely this disaster, you have been beyond penny-wise pound-foolish, have you been 14:52:38.5 irresponsible and i believe the policies of this administration with regard to corps of engineers projects have been precisely that and tragically, the people of new orleans are suffering the consequences. we have made other choices. we've chosen to send the guard and other military resources and american dollars overseas 14:52:54.6 to iraq and now we will be stretched and our economy's ability to fund this relief effort. we must do so and we should do so but believe me the $300 billion spent in iraq right now could certainly be perhaps better used by the people in the southeast. 14:53:11.3 we've chosen to allow energy companies to raise their prices without any constraint at all. and now consumers who used to be paying $20 to $30 to fill up their pank are paying $80 to $890 to $100 and this will have 14:53:29.0 a devastating effect on our economy. i commend the citizens in the region affect who are pulling together in spite of what they see as a lack of government support to help one another in a time of need and i commend the people of my own and the other districts around the 14:53:44.3 country who though not directly touched by this are digging deep in their wallets and their 14:53:49.9 resources. i know of school groups gathering clothing, having fundraising drives this very weekend. these young people in many cases but all people who are supporting deserve to be commended and i urge all americans to pitch in and do whatever we can to help out as americans always do to help the 14:54:05.3 victims of this tragedy. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yield the gentleman yields back his time. the gentleman from new jersey, mr. smith sprks is recognized for five minutes. for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut rise? mr. larson: i ask unanimous consent to take his time. 14:54:22.3 the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from connecticut is recognized for five minutes. mr. larsen: i thank the speaker. today we've approved $10.5 billion in federal funding to help the victims of hurricane katrina. this is one of the largest natural disasters to ever hit the united states. 14:54:38.3 and it is essential that federal, state, and local governments work together in a bipartisan fashion to provide the relief that is vitally needed. as a member of the homeland security committee, i recognize the important job that the 14:54:55.9 federal emergency management agency has to coordinate disaster relief and life saving efforts. and the funding that we provide here today will go a long way to support that effort. the effort to recover the gulf 14:55:12.4 coast is costing fema $750 million a day. at that rate, we anticipated that we would run out of funding by next tuesday. so it is critical that we deliver this help today. 14:55:27.9 and we have. katrina hit the gulf coast, but this is not just a gulf coast disaster. we're all in this together. we're all americans. we all want to help our fellow 14:55:44.9 citizens. back home in my state of connecticut, governor rell and members of the delegation are taking action. we've activated 100 national 14:55:58.6 guard troops with experience as military police to try to help regain civil order in new orleans. in addition, the governor has asked four colleges and our state university system to offer free tuition and space to students from connecticut who 14:56:15.1 otherwise were studying at colleges that have been demolished by the storm. the governor has called upon connecticut residents to do what they can to help and they are responding. around the state, civic groups, churches, businesses, 14:56:31.5 individuals are collecting bottled water, blankets, batteries and other essentials to ship into the region. just this morning my wife heidi dropped off food and baby formula at the new london armory in an effort to help. 14:56:47.2 others are doing the same. hurricane katrina has given america a tremendous challenge. family members cannot contact loved ones, and are unaware of their condition and their fate. 14:57:03.4 there are sanitation and health problems that must be addressed. people are homeless and need to be evacuated. children are out of school. and need to get back into school. the hurricane and the ensuing flood were deadly, disruptive, 14:57:21.4 and costly. we must respond as a people and stay united in that response. just as we recovered from the manmade disaster of 9/11, a few 14:57:38.5 years ago, so we will recover from this natural disaster as well. if we work together. if we're divided, we fail. we fail ourselves, we fail 14:57:53.3 those who look to us and who need us, and we fail the nation. i thank the chair and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. under previous order of the house the gentleman from new york, mr. nadler, is recognized for five minutes. 14:58:07.5 mr. nadler: mr. speaker, it is with a heavy heart i rise today in support of the emergency relief bill. i know that all of us have been held rapt by the images and sponsors coming out of the gulf coast. the sorrow and suffering there is almost unimaginable and it 14:58:24.8 is my fervent hope and prayer that relief, real relief will come soon. on top of our grief there is also outrage. for it is nothing short of outrages that in this country where we talk of 9/11 every day, we still haven't dedicated 14:58:41.3 enough resources to improving our emergency response capabilities. the people of new orleans and 14:58:48.5 the gulf coast as they wait day after agonizing day for help to arrive are crying out for leadership and more simply for help. and for those who have died unnecessarily, the help is already too late. 14:59:03.0 if this is the best the world's greatest power can do for its own people, or if it isn't, it's a natural disgrace. there will be plenty of time in the future to assess exactly why we were so poorly prepared for this storm, and why it has taken the federal government so 14:59:19.6 long after the levees broke to get effective help to formulas. -- new orleans. certainly the roots of the inept handling of the situation are old and deep but in the short term we need to focus on solutions. we need real leadership, a real plan, and a much bigger 14:59:36.9 contingent of emergency transportation and aid workers. reports from every corner of embattled new orleans are that the presence of law enforcement is at best minimal, despite the declarations of the secretary of homeland security, and there 14:59:52.4 is five days after the hurricane, and three days after the levees broke, still no effective distribution of food, water, or medicine. how can this be? we cannot let another hour pass without a substantive response

1500 DOD BRIEF FS22 72 DEFENSE DEPARTMENT PRESS BRIEFING OCTOBER 5, 2017 SPEAKERS: DANA W. WHITE, ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS LIEUTENANT GENERAL KENNETH F. MCKENZIE JR., JOINT STAFF DIRECTOR [*] WHITE: Good afternoon, everyone. Joining me today is Lieutenant General Frank McKenzie, director of the joint staff. As many of you have already reported, last night three U.S. servicemembers and one partner nation member were killed; two U.S. servicemembers were injured while conducting an advise and assist mission in (sic) Niger security forces in southwest Niger. On behalf of everyone in the department and the secretary of defense, we extend our deepest condolences and sympathies to the families of the fallen, and those injured in this attack. We also send our thoughts and prayers to all of our fellow Americans who have been devastated by successive hurricanes and the tragic shooting in Las Vegas this week. First, I will update you on our ongoing hurricane relief efforts. Second, I'll discuss where we stand on the current continuing resolution and our need for a full F.Y. '18 budget. Then we'll take your questions. Today, the department continues to support FEMA and hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico. To date, the department has deployed more than 11,000 active duty and National Guard troops; dispatched 80 tilt- and rotary-wing aircraft; provided 5.8 million liters of water; 7.3 million meals; 22,000 costs; 11,000 tarps; 278 generators; and more than 100 field trucks and drivers. Lieutenant General Buchanan, commander, U.S. Army North, has been on the ground for a week, and his team has already opened all nine seaports and all 10 airports. Their work was critical to delivering relief supplies to the island. On Tuesday, the USNS Comfort arrived with 800 medical personnel, providing patients with a full suite of care, including surgical, pediatric and trauma support, with 250 hospital beds. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been on the ground installing generators at critical facilities, to include 66 hospitals; 15 of those hospitals are not operational; and 51 are operating on generator power. At the Guatajaca Dam in northeast Puerto Rico, the Corps of Engineers is doing erosion repairs. This work is critical to more than 230,000 people who rely on the reservoir above the dam for drinking water. The department will remain fully engaged in providing humanitarian assistance to our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico until we've restored some semblance of normalcy to their lives. As the secretary of defense said in testimony this week, "When it comes to helping Americans, it's all hands on deck." In addition to our support in Puerto Rico, we are also helping in Dominica, Martinique, Guadaloupe, where we are -- where we are assisting France and the Netherlands in their relief effort on these islands. In addition to supporting state and local authorities during these recent natural disasters, the Department of Defense supports a variety of operations around the world, which is why the department needs a sufficient and predictable budget. This week marked the ninth consecutive fiscal year the department has operated under a congressional -- a continuing resolution, or C.R. Over the last decade, the department has operated under a C.R. for over 1,000 days. That's nearly three full years. The current C.R. funds the government through the first 10 weeks of the fiscal year. Continuing resolutions hurt the readiness of our forces and their equipment. The longer the C.R. lasts, the more damage they do. That is why it is imperative that Congress passes a full-year budget and eliminates the defense budget caps in the Budget Control Act. As Secretary Mattis testified earlier this year, "No enemy in the field has done more to harm the combat readiness of our military than sequestration." The department needs the F.Y. '18 budget to strengthen our armed forces and improve lethality. Therefore, we encourage the Congress to exercise the rightful stewardship of the taxpayers' dollars and pass a fiscal year '18 budget before the C.R. ends on December 8th. And with that, I will take your questions. Lita? QUESTION: Dana, I'm looking for sort of an update on the last time we saw you, on some troop issues. At that time, you suggested that the secretary was adamant about his -- his belief that there should be more transparency. And you said that numbers -- some general, broad troop numbers for Iraq and Syria would be forthcoming. I'm wondering if you can update us on the progress of that? And the secretary also this week said, or acknowledged that because of the broad hurricane effort, that some of the deployment (inaudible) have been delayed. General McKenzie, I'm wondering if you can give us a little bit more granularity on that. At the time you did your last briefing, we were told there were about 11,000 troops in Afghanistan. This week, (inaudible) said there are still about 11,000 troops in Afghanistan, suggesting that very little of this close to 3,500, 4,000 (inaudible) come in. Can you tell us what the impact has been? How has it affected the actual work on the ground? Because both General Nicholson and the chairman have both talked about this need for additional support on the ground. WHITE: Well, I'll take your first question. We are still working on the Iraq-Syria numbers. That is a commitment of the secretary's to be more transparent. And as soon as we have those accounting practices and we -- the principles are the same as for Afghanistan -- we will announce those numbers. General? MCKENZIE: Sure. Last time I was in here, I mentioned the number approximately 11,000. That's still the number that we're working off. Forces are flowing to Afghanistan. They have been slightly delayed by ongoing hurricane relief efforts. I'm not going to go further in characterizing the nature of those delays. Forces continue to flow, but there has been a slight delay. It'll take a little bit of time to build up a force in Afghanistan. At some point in the future, we'll come back in and we'll give you a new, approximate number. But right now, it's in the vicinity of 11,000, probably a little bit over that number, but I'm not prepared to give you a number above that right now. WHITE: And is it accurate that it may -- some of these may be delayed until next year because of the hurricane efforts? I mean, what -- what is -- is it a transport problem? Could you at least give us a sense of what the issues are? MCKENZIE: Actually, one of the key points that I noted when I talked the last time in here was we wanted to get away from talking about the flow of forces into -- into Afghanistan, because it does in fact give a cover (ph) to the enemy. They're able to calculate what forces are coming in. So I'm not gonna be able to give you additional information on that. WHITE: But you can't -- I'm not looking for timelines or specific locations. I'm asking what the problem is -- can you give us a better idea of what the problem is, and whether it's impacting ... MCKENZIE: Certainly. So let me -- let me characterize it like this. There's a -- there's a finite number of transport aircraft that U.S. Transportation Command has. We're moving things to Puerto Rico, we're doing a variety of things to help down there. The department has been very aggressive in supporting FEMA and the other agencies of the United States government, given the fact that we have a finite number of transport aircraft that will inevitably slow movement to other theaters. And that -- the slight delay in the flow of forces to Afghanistan. Just sort of a natural -- a natural component of that, and that's about as much detail as I'm prepared to give. WHITE: Hans (ph)? QUESTION: General, if I could a couple -- just on the situation in Niger. Could you kind of describe the on (ph), the advise and assist the training mission going on there. Are these forces -- U.S. forces looking to engage Islamic militants? MCKENZIE: No, we're there on a -- on a security assistance advise mission. This was a -- and I don't have any further particular operational detail on this, but it's a pretty broad mission with the government of Niger in order to increase their capability to stand alone and to prosecute violent extremists in the region. QUESTION: When they were ambushed, did the opposing force know these were American forces? MCKENZIE: I don't know that they were ambushed. I don't know that we are prepared to characterize this. There was an engagement, I think we're still gathering information on that. QUESTION: But just one real quick follow-up, did they know that they were Americans? WHITE: We are not prepared to tell any more details. Ryan (ph)? QUESTION: I just wanted to follow-up quickly on Niger. What kind of risks do the some-800 U.S. forces in Niger right now -- I mean, advise, I know it's an advise and assist mission, but what kind of risk, what kind of environment? Is this considered a combat environment? MCKENZIE: I think clearly there's risk for our forces in Niger. Anytime we deploy full forces globally, we will look very hard at the enablers that need to be in place in order to provide security for them. And that ranges from the ability to pull them out if they're injured, to the ability to reinforce them at the point of -- at the point of a fight if they -- if they need reinforcement. We look at all those things, and evaluate on a continual basis. I'm not gonna go in any further detail on what's actually happening inside Niger, because we have ongoing partner operations occurring now. WHITE: Christina (ph)? QUESTION: Thank you so much. There was a report today that the DOD is shifting $440 million into its missile defense budget instead of waiting for next year. Can you discuss why the DOD is taking this step, and what message that sends to North Korea? WHITE: I don't have any particular details on that, but let me take that and I'll come back to you Christina (ph). QUESTION: And then just a second question. Congress recently -- Senate Arms Services Committee recently slammed the DOD for not giving it more information on the -- on the plans for Iraq and Afghanistan. And Senator McCain is holding up defense nominees. What's your response to those actions, and have you taken any steps to engage with the committee since then? WHITE: This -- the department engages with the committee consistently. They -- as you heard in the Secretary's testimony, we are committed to provide as much transparency in an open or closed session to the committee. And we are working with Senator McCain's staff to ensure he gets all the answers that he needs, as well as the ask (ph). The Senator and the Chairman were on the Hill for six hours. So, we -- they are both personally committed to making sure that -- that the committees get exactly what they need. Lucas (ph)? QUESTION: Who carried out the attack in Niger? WHITE: We don't have any details on this. Remember, this -- our -- our mission there was a security assistance. We've been there a long time in helping African nations build partner capacity. QUESTION: You must have some suspects. WHITE: We're -- they're ongoing operations and we're gonna -- no more details right now. QUESTION: Was there a surveillance drone flying overhead when the U.S. forces were attacked? MCKENZIE: I'm gonna have to just tell you, ongoing operations, we're not prepared to go in any details on them right now. QUESTION: Would it have made a difference if there was? WHITE: We're -- we're not gonna talk about any more details. Tara (ph)? Carla (ph), I'm sorry. QUESTION: That's OK. I just really wanted to quickly follow up on that. Were there any (ph) forces killed during the attack in Niger? WHITE: Again, they're ongoing operations and we're not prepared to talk any more details. QUESTION: (inaudible), my question would be on Iraq. There are reports coming out of Iraq saying that U.S. is establishing a base in Mahmoud (ph), and deploying forces down there, as well as some other elements. Can you confirm that the U.S. is establishing or forming a base, or enlarging any bases in Mahmoud (ph)? And what is the reason for deploying forces in -- in these efforts down in Mahmoud? MCKENZIE: That's an operational issue. I'm not gonna -- I'm not just not gonna refer to it at all. I'm not denying it or confirming it, I'm just -- it's an operational issue, so I'm not gonna be able to discuss it. WHITE: In the back? QUESTION: (inaudible) Military Times. Do you know if U.S. troops were mounted or dismounted when they were attacked, and are U.S. troops in Niger operating at a -- tough armored vehicles or light-skinned tactical vehicles? MCKENZIE: Not gonna share the nature of what the patrol's doing, what the operation was doing at the time that it came under fire. I don't think it'd be useful to share that information. I'll have to get back to you on the nature of the vehicles, if any. QUESTION: Tony Ratuka (ph), Inside Defense. FYI18 budget question. General Dunford said when he was on the Hill that the building is working on a missile defense supplemental package for F.Y. '18. How big is that going to be? Is it in the billions of dollars or hundreds of millions? WHITE: I will get you more details specifically on these -- on the programming. But -- but again, our emphasis is that we need a full year, fiscal year 18 budget. The C.R. ends on December 8th, and they -- and the longer they go, the worse it is for all our programs. And it's a waste of taxpayer dollars. QUESTION: Yes, and this is separate from programming? WHITE: Absolutely. QUESTION: This is additional F.Y. '18 money being requested. You can confirm, though, that it's in the works and it's being built? WHITE: We will -- we will get you more details. Tony (ph)? QUESTION: Can you add -- give some specificity to the damage being caused to the specific programs under the prepared -- continued resolution, and General, I had a couple for you. WHITE: Well I can tell you one that both the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force had all planned in strength growth (ph), and that can't happen under a C.R.. So that's one implication. But again, the issue is that under a C.R., we can't do new starts. It's the fact that we don't have a budget horizon, or the fact that we can't predict where things are going. And it wastes millions of dollars in administrative costs because you can't plan. So again, we want the Congress to be good stewards of the American people's dollars and ensure we get a full F.Y. '18 budget by December 8th. QUESTION: ... a specific program that would be damaged or delayed? WHITE: I will -- I will come back to you. Because right now, there are conversations going on with the Hill, and that -- and those conversations are privileged. QUESTION: General, can you, in layman's language, talk a little bit about the -- the rules of engagement being relaxed, might be the wrong word, but being revised? The secretary tried in his six hours in testimony, but it was somewhat elliptical and cryptic. Can you talk at -- at the ground-level? What will U.S. troops and Afghan troops be able to do under the new construct that they couldn't do this week and last week? MCKENZIE: Sure. Well, first of all, we believe that today, ROE that our forces applying in Afghanistan, doing (ph) all the authorities they need to execute the task that -- that they've been given. That includes the ability to call fire, when necessary, that -- in -- in support of Afghan forces. We're not directly engaged in ground combat, as you know. We're in a train, advise, assist, accompany mission. So we don't anticipate the requirement for U.S. forces to engage directly. They're always (sic) have the option to engage in a -- with self-defense, should that be required. Additionally, we have the -- the commander has the authority to target any group or entity that is taking action against the government of Afghanistan, or coalition, or U.S. forces in the area. Those are actually pretty clear sets of ROE, and we believe they actually give the commander and forces there all they need to continue to prosecute the campaign. QUESTION: We keep hearing about military options for Korea. How well-developed are the options? Are they -- have final options been presented to the White House? And do most of those options assume ROK participation? WHITE: You know, again, we are a department all about plans, and we have a full range of options, and the conversations of the secretary has about option with the president are privileged. (inaudible). QUESTION: At one -- one -- at one point, when the testimonies, Secretary Mattis said he believed that it was in national security interest to stay in the Iranian (inaudible). Has he shared that opinion with president directly? WHITE: The -- the -- the secretary has shared many opinions with the president. QUESTION: This specific one. WHITE: There is still a consideration. I think you just heard that there is an imminent decision. I'm not going to talk about what conversations the secretary has or doesn't have, or what advice he gives to the president. He gives his honest opinion about what should be done, and ultimately, the president decides where we're going. QUESTION: The Washington Post (inaudible) just came out that said Trump is going to announce next week that he -- he -- he was decertify the Iran nuclear deal, and his national security advisers had said that they were in favor of it. That, of course, go against what Trump -- or, sorry, Secretary Mattis said publicly in testimony. So has he provided different guidance privately? WHITE: Again, what the secretary talks to the president about is -- is between him and the president. When there's a decision, I'm sure the White House will announce it. (inaudible). QUESTION: I wanted to go back to the hurricane deployment question for a minute, and delays. Because the secretary this week said on the Hill that it was going to impact deployments of some troops overseas, possibly into next year, because we've interrupted their preparations. So he's talking about delays very specifically; the -- the deployment of U.S. troops overseas next year because of the commitment to the hurricane. So it's hard to see how this is not really having an important, if not significant impact on U.S. troop deployments overseas, if -- if you listen to what -- if one listens to what the secretary says. So could you -- could I ask you, General McKenzie, specifically, as someone involved in military planning, to come back to that question: How do you, with a continuing commitment to Puerto Rico, how do you see this, what the secretary's talking about, impacting troop deployments all the way into next year? MCKENZIE: Well, of course, when the secretary made the comment, he's probably talking about global troop deployments. The question up here that we talked a little bit about earlier was specifically in relation Afghanistan, so we should draw -- so we should -- so we should draw a distinction there. But I would not actually further characterize it. There are going to be delays. I think the delays are relatively minor. If -- if the secretary said it's going to affect deployments on into next year, then I'll just let that -- I'll let that statement lie, but I'm not going to further elaborate on the nature of those delays. QUESTION: What is the impact? Iwo Jima is off Puerto Rico. Just took on more helicopters. Obviously, not leaving anytime soon, since it just took on more helicopters for relief missions. Was supposed to go to Japan; take on F-35s, the most advanced fighter in that region, where North Korea is. So what is the impact of the Iwo Jima being delayed on its way to Japan, to take on those F-35s? MCKENZIE: I -- I think it's actually the Wasp you're referring to, (inaudible), that's on our way to WESTPAC, to -- to that row (ph). And certainly, that is going to -- that's going to slow the deployment of -- of that ship to the -- to the Pacific, and it's going to have a cascading effect. So it could be very likely that when the secretary talked about things that might affect in the next year, that's what he had in mind. But I would tell you, at the same time, and in the same testimony, and as we've already mentioned here, the secretary said were all in to help Puerto Rico. And there are just going to be downstream effects when you make those decisions. But American citizens are involved in Puerto Rico, and that's a very high priority for this department. So we're probably going to accept some downstream delay as a result of that. WHITE: (inaudible) Let me -- let me get to (inaudible), and we'll come back to (inaudible). QUESTION: Just to follow up (inaudible), is the sanction reversed, if there's delaying redeployments, bringing any troops home from either Afghanistan or Iraq, or other local deployments? MCKENZIE: I'm just trying to -- I'm sorry. WHITE: No, but again, I think when -- when the secretary says that this could delay some deployments, again, we have lots of options, and the priority, as he said, it's all hands on deck. We will do whatever is necessary to help our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico. But we will -- but he is still going -- orders are being signed. There are still forces flowing in, as the general has said, and there will be minimal delay to -- to the strategy. (inaudible). QUESTION: What do those delays say about the overall health of the military, though? If several, just 3,000 troops going into Afghanistan are being delayed because of these storms, what if something like major combat op popped up. QUESTION: Like Korea? WHITE: Again, this is a building all about plans, and we do what we have to do. We are prepared for all contingencies. We are -- it is not the first time we've had natural disasters and deployed forces. Again, if -- if it's a minor delay, but there are still forces flowing in. General, if you'd like to explain. MCKENZIE: Sure. I -- I -- I'm not sure I actually agree with you, that it's a minor -- Puerto Rico was a minor event, and it was a minor response. I think it was a pretty significant event, and you've seen a pretty significant response, not only from this department, but also across the entire interagency. And of course, I'm just really coming to talk about what DOD does. But -- but again, as -- as we've noted earlier, the large DOD response down there, it -- Puerto Rico is a difficult technical problem, because it's an island. It's physically separate from the United States. Everything has to go there by some mode of conveyance, be it Strat Lift going in, on -- on either commercial or military transport, or on naval ships, or ships that we've chartered to go down there. So I -- I don't think we should say that that's a small thing. That's a large thing, and so I'm not sure that you can naturally infer from that the force is unhealthy because we responded to a pretty significant natural disaster in Puerto Rico. WHITE: (inaudible) QUESTION: I -- I have a question on Niger. Iraq, Afghanistan, there's an infrastructure in place where American troops can be medevaced from battlefield within 45 minutes. Is there a certain -- is there a similar capability for U.S. troops in Niger? MCKENZIE: That's an operational issue that I'm not going to discuss. QUESTION: I don't think that's an operational issue. This -- this is not an ongoing operation. This is a question that U.S. troops are being sent in harm's (ph) way, have the ability to be sent to a proper medical facility. MCKENZIE: I appreciate your position, but partner operations are ongoing even today, so I'm not going to be able to go into any more detail on that. QUESTION: (inaudible) Following on (inaudible) question, we don't -- we've been waiting for numbers on -- ultimate numbers on Iraq and Afghanistan troops for a while. We can't get answers to things like whether or not there's proper medevac facilities for troops deployed down-range. This is for both special forces and conventional forces. Even last night when troops were killed in combat, it took a while to just get confirmation that troops were killed. How is the Pentagon being more transparent these days besides talking about transparency? WHITE: So, I think it's very important to understand that last night, we did lose three servicemembers. And it was a very dynamic situation, and we still have ongoing operations. The reason is takes a little while, and I think AFRICOM did a fantastic job under circumstances -- is that we don't have the benefit of corrections. We have to get it right when it -- when there are servicemembers' lives at stake. So, we will be as transparent as we can be. But again, the secretary's been very clear we're not going to telegraph information to the enemy. And as the general as said, as we have said, there are ongoing operations. We can give you information. We were -- it was the secretary's initiative to give the full number, an approximate number about the 11,000 in Afghanistan. And it is a -- it is his commitment to continue to do that. QUESTION: But what has been done to actually provide transparency? What -- what's more transparent now? WHITE: We changed -- we changed the accounting rules. So before in Afghanistan, it was reported that there were 84,000 (sic) U.S. troops. And now we've told you it's approximately 11,000. So that -- that's a change. (CROSSTALK) WHITE: There's 11,000... (CROSSTALK) WHITE: We had reported in the past 8,400. You all had had that number for years; 8,400. And now with the new accounting rules, it's 11,000. That is a demonstration of our commitment to transparency. QUESTION: (inaudible) than transparent? WHITE: Again, it is with the caveat that we are not going to telegraph to the enemy what we're doing. Paul, you had a question? QUESTION: Paul (inaudible), U.S. News and World Report. Just to follow up on the attack in Niger, has this changed at all the U.S. understanding of extremist groups' ability to target U.S. forces stationed abroad? WHITE: I would say, listen, we have ongoing operations. Our mission there was train and assist. We've worked in AFRICOM to build capacity among partners for years. We will continue to do that. And as we get more information, we will let you know. QUESTION: Do you have confidence that you can protect U.S. forces stationed abroad still? WHITE: Yes, we're confident (inaudible). QUESTION: And then a followup question. Earlier this week, a senior official from the CIA said at a conference at G.W. that he expects there to be some sort of provocative activity from North Korea on Columbus Day, which coincides with the anniversary of the founding of the Korean Workers Party. Do you have any indication that North Korea is planning anything for that day? Have you taken any (inaudible) precautions? WHITE: I'm not going to begin to predict what North Korea is going to do. Corey? (ph) QUESTION: Can you talk about why is the Iraq and Syria numbers taking so much longer than what the Afghanistan numbers took for? What's the process (inaudible) accountability? WHITE: Well, first of all, each (inaudible) on each operation is different. So there are different factors that factor into how -- how we come to those decisions. And again, we said during that first -- last time that we also take in consideration, you know, what are the forces, what are they doing. So again, we will give you those numbers. Joint staff is diligently working on that. That when we have those numbers, we will -- we will let you know. Barbara? QUESTION: I want to come back to (inaudible) and another question over here. I want to be very clear. I am not asking about ongoing operations. I would like to ask a Defense Department policy question about how Secretary Mattis and the chairman view the following -- policy question, not current events. Are they committed around the world to the golden hour for wounded troops? It's pretty much, with all due respect, a yes or no question. Is this department committed to the golden hour for wounded troops? WHITE: We are committed to always protecting our troops. That is our first priority. QUESTION: (inaudible) can I ask you, you're very familiar with what that is on the battlefield. Are -- it's a question for military families. I think they deserve -- they might be very interested in the answer. Is the U.S. military committed to the golden hour to get U.S. troops to trauma care with an hour of being wounded? MCKENZIE: The department puts vast resources against that problem. It is one of the primary considerations for each geographic combatant commander. It's a signal concern of the chairman and the secretary as well. Whenever possible, we seek to achieve that goal. There are occasional times when operational events, maintenance problems may cause you not to meet that goal. But it is our goal to be as rapid as possible in taking our casualties off the battlefield. QUESTION: And does that include West Africa? WHITE: That includes all of our troops. QUESTION: So that does include West Africa. WHITE: It does. (CROSSTALK) QUESTION: (inaudible) Korea (inaudible). What topics will be addressed (inaudible) time? WHITE: What topics will we raise? So, the big topic will be how we curtail North Korea's provocations. Remember, this is a global threat. And we need global support to address it. Kevin? QUESTION: Two things. One, we -- I think we learned either today or just very recently that the cocoms were in town. Are we going to see them in the briefing room like we used to see more often in the past, and we (inaudible)? (LAUGHTER) (CROSSTALK) WHITE: They -- we -- there is no plan to have any in the briefing room at this particular moment; but they do come periodically. This is a part of a gathering of senior leadership meeting. But I will take that under serious assessment. QUESTION: Why not have the cocoms (inaudible) not to speak to the press that often a they have in the past? WHITE: The cocoms often speak to the press. We just had Admiral Tidd here giving a briefing on SOUTHCOM's effort. So the cocoms do speak. General Votel was here as well. So... (CROSSTALK) WHITE: Yes, so... (CROSSTALK) QUESTION: OK. Same question. Russia just had a major exercise along the European borders (inaudible) in the last month. Have you -- do you have any kind of a readout or assessment of what you saw, what the concerns are, what the U.S. response-reactions might be? WHITE: Our concern with the exercise is, as it's always been, is that Russia just isn't as transparent as we'd like. What is there and what has been reported are not the same. And what -- so therefore, we would ask Russia to be as transparent as possible with respect to all of their -- their exercises. Tiem (ph)? QUESTION: First, about last week's (inaudible) attack in Kabul. There was a missile fired from a U.S. helicopter that malfunctioned, killed four people and I think injured two. Has the Defense Department paid condolence payments to those families? WHITE: I don't have any details about that. I will -- but I will come back to you regarding whether that (inaudible). Ryan? QUESTION: Just one on Syria real quickly. Russia has said -- accused the United States of being the number one encumbrance in the fight against ISIS in Syria. There was an episode a little while ago where Russian air forces bombed positions where U.S. troops were. I know there have been some high-profile meetings, but is there a concern that Russia is being increasingly -- representing increasingly a threat to U.S. and U.S.-backed forces in Syria? Is there any steps -- additional steps being taken to kind of prevent Russia from taking offensive action against U.S. forces? WHITE: We continue to work with Russia to de-conflict. It's a complicated area, and we are still working with Russia to deconflict in the area. General, if you'd like to expand... MCKENZIE: Sure, I would just tell you. There are a variety of deconfliction channels with the Russia. We're working pretty aggressively. As you know, we're limited in the context and scale and scope we can have with the Russian federation, and we scrupulously adhere to the intent as well as the letter of the law when it comes to that. I would simply say that, Russian -- recent Russian comments about U.S. activities is probably not helpful. We believe that we and our partners, and our coalition partners, as well as our partners on the ground, are in Syria to go after ISIS. We're having great success closing out on Raqqa, heading further south, even now. And so, I think it's a good news story. I do believe though, that as Syrian state forces supported by Russia have moved to the West, they have found it increasingly difficult actually to provide a hold force. They're unable to hold the ground they've taken, which sort of tells you of the relative affection for which the Syrian population bear for Assad and his government. Whereas we're actually not experiencing those problems in areas that we've actually cleared and come further south. So I think, I don't want to minimize the nature of the problem. I would simply tell you, there are a variety of procedures that are in place to ensure that we don't get into a problem by miscalculation or error on the ground. QUESTION: Just a follow-up really quickly, would the U.S. prefer to see its backed forces take places like Myadine versus Syrian regime troops, given, as you said, the proven ability to hold areas, moreso than regime forces? MCKENZIE: The priority is, completing the elimination of ISIS in the Euphrates river valley. I think we're neutral on who actually does that work as long as the work is accomplished, and it's effective. WHITE: Lita (ph)? QUESTION: Can you -- I guess, General, for you -- you've probably got a lot more broad experience in this, AQIM -- can you give us your assessment of the strength of AQIM in the Niger-Mali region, and perspective on what you've seen? Have they grown, have they become more lethal, what have you seen over, say, the last year? Does this represent a greater lethality on that? MCKENZIE: So, the campaign against violent extremists is a global campaign. We're having enormous success in Iraq and in Syria. In fact, we're squeezing the life out of the caliphate right now. It's in its dying last days. It is inevitable that people will try to go, what we call, the coldest quarter (ph) in the room, go to other places. They tried to go to Libya, it didn't work out real well in Libya. And I don't want to make Libya into a model success story, but they've been unable to establish themselves there. They've also tried to fly into -- flown into Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb area down there. And I think we're having success in there as well. I would not, at this time, draw any particular conclusion from the incident that happened yesterday. I think that it does reflect the fact, though, that we're having enormous success against the core, the very heart of this movement. But we're going to be operating across the service of the entire globe, for quite a while to complete these operations. This is simply a manifestation of that. QUESTION: Do I interpret -- can I interpret that as that you've seen more ISIS, or at least some ISIS, moving into the Maghreb, and that may be part of what's going on there? MCKENZIE: No, I'm not -- I would not -- I would not assert that. I would not. QUESTION: So you haven't seen it? MCKENZIE: No. Well, I'm not prepared to comment on that one way or another. That would be an intelligence question better answered by someone that's not me. WHITE: OK. Bill (ph), in the back. QUESTION: Has the incident in Niger caused the Pentagon to reassess the defense posture there? WHITE: Again, this was a mission in which we were training and assisting. The mission we've -- the Department does partner capacity- building across Africa, and it's to help partners combat the scourge that is terrorism, and violent extremism. That was the mission, that is what we'll continue to do. QUESTION: Understood, but there's three dead soldiers now. So, are you reassessing the way that our forces are being protected there, in light of these events? MCKENZIE: So we -- we continually reassess force protection posture of our forces globally. And the Commander AFRICOM, who's the first senior officer in the chain of command to do that, is undoubtedly doing that right now. And I'll just -- and that's as far as I care to go on that, but we look at that all the time. WHITE: Travis (ph)? QUESTION: Travis Triton (ph), the Washington Examiner. I had a question about your decision to bring up the CR today. The current CR just kicked in and has until December, and I'm wondering if there's something that happened or you have some reason to believe that, come December, Congress is not gonna reach some type of a budget agreement and they're going to pass another continuing resolution into the new year. WHITE: Well we've been talking about the CR for -- the Secretary has talked about it in his testimony, it's a consistent drumbeat for us. Obviously the current CR was developed to avoid a government shutdown. Our goal is to ensure that the Congress provides us with a full -- full funding in a F.Y. '18 budget in advance of this CR expiring. QUESTION: Do you believe that, at this point, they won't reach an agreement, though? Is that your concern? WHITE: My concern is that the longer a CR goes on, the more damage it does to the department. Carla (ph)? QUESTION: Thank you. Last week, they -- an Air Force General basically came up at the Air Force Academy and addressed racial slurs that had been posted on a message board, telling -- telling the airmen that if they can't treat somebody with dignity and respect to get out. I was just wondering what is the Secretary's stance, and where does he think race relations are in the U.S. Military at this point? WHITE: I think the Secretary has said that military is a model. It is a -- it is the most respected institution right now in America. And together in the military, people of all races, creeds, and religions work together for a common mission, which is to defend this nation. So the Secretary is very clear about that and will continue to be. Lucas (ph)? QUESTION: Just one more on Niger. Would you say in the last few years the United States has increased its military presence in that country? WHITE: I'll let you take that. MCKENZIE: Yes, I would say that over the last few years we have increased our military presence in that country. It depends on how far back you look. I don't have the exact numbers, but yeah, because Niger is an important partner of ours. We have a deep relationship with them. We have a great opportunity there to do train, advise, assist, to do a variety of things with them to help them stand on their own two feet. So we're committed to that relationship, we believe that they are, as well. In fact, it's -- I think it's a very good success story. WHITE: Tony (ph)? QUESTION: The Secretary signaled late in the half hearing (ph) that he's gonna visit Islamabad. Can you give a sense of when his trip to Pakistan might be? WHITE: I -- I don't have a sense of that, but it will be -- but as he said, he will visit Pakistan soon. QUESTION: (inaudible). WHITE: I don't have any specifics. QUESTION: ... foreign policy. Was yesterday the first time U.S. troops have been involved in combat in Niger, in what you described as combat? WHITE: I wouldn't -- again, what they were doing in Niger was a train, assist, and advise mission. Obviously anything that our troops do, they are in harm's way, and again -- but that mission was a security assistance mission. QUESTION: Are there other firefights that U.S. forces have been involved in in Niger? WHITE: Not to my recollection. MCKENZIE: I don't believe so. I would just add, I'm not gonna parse the language with you. Certainly to the soldiers in the fight, it was combat. So, I'm -- you know, I don't want to dance around that. I mean, it was certainly a remarkable experience for those -- for those people that were actually there. I'm not aware there's been any -- there's been any incidents of that nature in the recent past. We -- we will look back into several years going back. But I'm just not aware that there's been anything there. QUESTION: Just for clarification purposes, you said 11,000 troops active duty and National Guard are in the Caribbean or in Puerto Rico specifically for Hurricane clean-up efforts? WHITE: The -- it is that there are 11 active-duty and National Guard troops in Puerto Rico. QUESTION: Lieutenant General Cannon has said that there isn't enough equipment or troops, he said this last week. Has he requested any additional troops or do you anticipate sending anymore? WHITE: We have had -- we are still fulfilling requests. Again, there's a process, but yes there are still assets flowing in. As you know, Tuesday, The Comfort ported in Puerto Rico, so again, we will get -- as the secretary said, it's all hands on deck. We will fulfill whatever needs that FEMA has requested of us, and we will provide whatever they need. QUESTION: How many troops are you anticipating sending down? WHITE: I don't have a number right now. I don't have it. But as they flow we will keep you updated. There are daily press briefings from Puerto Rico, and we will keep you abreast of those operations. MCKENZIE: Maybe we have time for one more question. WHITE: Wall Street Journal, Dan (ph). QUESTION: Today, Mac Thornberry sent a letter to the White House with 152 signatures, that said that we commend the president's explicit endorsement for funding National Defense's $700 billion this year during his speech at the U.N. General Assembly. This $700 billion, is that a number that the Pentagon agrees with, and has -- yeah is that a number that you all endorse as well? WHITE: We support the president's budget -- what -- when we will always especially appreciate the Chairman's assistance in ensuring that we get what we need for our service members. The most important thing is that we have predictability in our budget, so we welcome the Chairman's leadership in ensuring that we get that. Thank you all very much. END

DONALD TRUMP RALLY IN NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, TALKS ABOUT UNION LEADER NEWSPAPER, BEING ON 60 MINUTES WITH PUTIN, MCQUAID, CHRISTIE AND BRIDGEGATE, ALMOST SAYS THE WORD "SCHLONGED" AND DEFENDS USE OF WORD. INCLUDES STOP IN THE OVERFLOW ROOM TALKING WITH SUPPORTERS FROM PODIUM (NOT LOGGED) PART THREE OF THREE NASHUA, N.H. - Speaking to nearly a thousand supporters at Pennichuck Middle School, Donald Trump continued his tirade against Chris Christie and the New Hampshire Union Leader, saying the New Jersey Governor was "like a little boy" as he greeted President Obama in the aftermath of Sandy in 2012. He also brought up Bridgegate, saying there was no chance Chris Christie wouldn't be involved in the closure of the "most-traveled bridge" in the United States. At one point a member of the audience shouted "give him a hamburger!" to which Trump responded, "it's called sprit, by the way, and you're ok." He echoed his comments to MSNBC earlier today, crying foul over the New Hampshire Union Leader's editorial today, above the fold, which called Trump a "bully. Trump said publisher Joe McQuaid (aka "a lowlife"), who has endorsed Christie, colluded with the candidate as he attempted to get Christie on the mainstage for the recent Fox Business News debate. Trump also defended the use of a crude sexual term he used to describe Hillary Clinton's 2008 loss to Obama - but he mouthed the word. "Can I say it?" he asked supporters, who eagerly shouted the phrase back to him. "By the way, that word, that's a common word in New York," he reassured them. About midday through the event, a long-haired protestor yelling "fascist" got in a scuffle with a supporter. No punches thrown, but it appeared a Trump supporter tried to force the protestor to sit down. The protestor was removed by security as chants of "USA" filled the room. (I have unilateral video of this that I'll be feeding in shortly.) After the event, while giving remarks to an overflow room of about 100 supporters, Trump confirmed what has been reported widely in the past several weeks - that he'll be spending millions of his own dollars on his campaign. "Starting around January 4th we're spending a lot of money," he said. "The press is hearing this for the first time, they're probably going to go crazy. But we are going to spend a lot of money over the next four weeks - we don't want to take any chances.we are too close." The question in New Hampshire continues to be if his army of supporters will actually turn up to vote - a question not lost on Trump. Several times he begged them to come out to the polls, at one point saying he didn't care what the weather was - people need to be out in force on February 8th. When New Hampshire residents pointed out the primary was on February 9th, he grinned. "You know what you should do on February 8th?" he asked. "Stand there!" If tonight was any indication, the crowd seemed happy to wait in the cold tonight - many stood for over an hour in 27-degree weather to get in. FULL LOG BELOW: 19:12:24 Beautiful. This is great, I love it. I love it. I'll tell you, you know I missed. [LAUGHS] Thank you. Thank you. We have got to get out and vote, remember that folks. No matter what's going on in your life, if you are feeling miserable, if you are depressed, if you are down, if you are whatever the hell you lost your job, like everybody else is losing their job, you have to get out and you have to vote. Because you know, I was watching today television, they said if Trump, we get by far the biggest crowd, it's not even a contest, and they said if those people actually go out and vote, but you know the dishonest press back there, they say "But I don't think they will." I think they will, but they said, no, they said if they actually go out and vote, the people that show up like in Iowa we had massive, the same thing, Virginia, Dallas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, North Carolina, we have these massive rallies, and it's incredible and they said well, if they vote Trump wins. They actually said that. 19:13:40 And we have to get out, we have to get out we have to vote. Ok. So you know we've had some amazing news, I missed this, you know for like a week and a half we sort of have been in limbo right, all I could do is tweet, it was driving me crazy, cause there were no like events or anything planned. But we all had a good Christmas, right? [CHEERS] Good, merry Christmas, we say merry Christmas. Other people won't say merry christmas. They'll say oh, happy holiday. Happy Holiday. Merry Christmas folks. Merry Christmas. [CHEERS] The pools have been fantastic you have seen the polls just came out and today one came out Rasmussen where I am tied with Hillary, but don't worry that's gonna end. We are gonna be far ahead. 19:14:29 And Fox came out a couple of weeks ago and we were leading and another one came out we were leading, we are doing very well, we haven't started on her, you know, she says oh we'd love to run against Trump, it's her worst nightmare. These people, these people back here, they said, well the Hillary campaign said they'd love to run, yea, she wants to run against me instead of somebody else I guarantee you, you know, and I explain, I try to explain to Chuck Todd and all these guys, you don't understand Chuck, when they say they want to run against Trump that means they don't want to run against Trump. You don't, they don't understand. You know they report, yes. 19:15:08 But then tonight somebody reported that they are absolutely going crazy and they our devastated over what Trump is saying. Now we're getting back to the basics. Look at what happens with the Republicans. Every single person that's gone after me is gone. They're gone. They're gone (cheering) When I say gone, they've ever left the race or they're down in the very very low portion. They're low. You just said one. With all the millions that they're spending. so you saw the one where I spent essentially nothing and Bush has spent 59 million. He's down toward the bottom with 3% or 2% or something and we have, we had a poll come out at 42%. Look at these polls it's crazy. We have numbers. We have go through them. 19:16:08 They always say why do you go through the polls. I say because I'm winning. Honestly, if I wasn't I wouldn't be talking about them, and the other candidates say he always talks about the polls, we don't. Well they shouldn't because they're not winning. SO we have a lot of good ones. CNN 36%. Cruz is 16, Carson is 14, Rubio is 12, Christie is 4, Bush is 3. You spend 59 million and you're 3. YOu know what's impressive is the economy, Trump is 55%. (applause). On the budget, Trump is 51. How about this and remember that's out of 15 people. once 17, now 15, now it's at 14, and it;'s going down and it's gonna go down quickly. By the way I have to tell you, new Hampshire will always maintain it's place if I win. Just say you understand. There's A big movement to put you at the back of the pack or the middle of the pack so it would no longer be the same. YOu'll never see me again, but you will see me. I have so many friends. You'll never see a lot of people again. But there's a big movement to put New Hampshire way back. 19:17:24 I don't know why. Is it retribution, it is that they don't want it, they don't like it. I mean you have a lot of power and (audience member says "buy it") Buy it. They have problems. They have a heroin problem that's really incredible. I hear so much about that from the people here. We're gonna build a wall,a real border, and (applause) that whole heroin thing, we gotta get it under control but I hear more about it from here than I do anywhere else. You don't think of it in terms of New Hampshire but whenever I am up here I hear more about it here and we have to solve to problem, we gotta help the people that our hooked because they get hooked and it's not easy but on the budget im 51%. 51% with 14 and actually when they did this. 15 people. 19:18:12 So you have 51%. I'd be happy if I had 51% with two people right? Ok? On illegal immigration, listen to this 48%, because they know I am not gonna play games, I saw one of the people that I am running against the other day, they came up and they said we are going to build the wall. FIrst time he said that. My wife was like, she said darling he is copying you, he said the exact same words, he said there is gonna be a big wall, it's gonna be a great wall. He said the same words, I, listen to it. I listened to it, I said what are we doing here? The guy is copying. 19:18:46 You know if you remember when I started, when I started this all dialogue and we announced in June 16th at trump Tower and I said illegal immigration and we are gonna stop, everybody said oh, and I went through and the papers and I was getting absolutely, Rush Limbaugh who is like a great guy said he has never seen anybody receive so much incoming, I was getting, these guys were killing me, and then within two, three weeks all of a sudden it sort of like, people were saying yo know I think he is right and then you had Kate, beautiful Kate from San Francisco and you had Jamil (?) from Los Angeles, you had a woman, a female a veteran a wonderful woman 66 year old veteran who was raped, who was sodomized who was killed by an illegal immigrant who was here who was not supposed to be here, came in a number of times, like the Kate horrible person came in 5 different times at least that they know of. And all of a sudden, and these are just, these are three instances we have thousands, it's out of control horrible for the economy, taking our jobs, taking our money, it's a one way street. They come over, they bring drugs lot of drugs. Lot of drugs, you people know better than anybody, cause you are really the recipients of that. 19:20:01 But they come over with drugs they go back with cash, ok. Not a good deal. And they go over walls and you saw the ramp they built a little ramp, the wall is this high, they build a ramp, the trucks drive over the wall. [LAUGHTER] They have Jeeps they are loaded up with drugs. They drive over the wall, they didn't even rip the wall down, the wall is so small they said let's just put a ramp up it would have been easier. They should have ripped the wall, no those are not Trump walls. they are not Trump walls. So illegal immigration 48%, ISIS, oh ISIS we are gonna knock the hell out of them. ISIS. [CHEER + APPLAUSE] Oh, we are going. We are gonna knock them. We are gonna do a job. We are gonna get the real general, they may not have nice language, you know, we got rif (?) one of our best generals because he was very rough and tough. Even though the men and women that were under him loved him. 19:20:52 But very tough and gave an interview and he used foul language and he said things and you know, now of course our generals shouldn't be talking, they should be shooting, they should be out there.Did you see generals, they are always interviewed, they are always on television, generals and they are always saying how bad we are. One of them, just said, they were talking about ISIS, said what do you think, oh, it's a very tough problem for-- tough problem. Can you imagine general Douglas MAcArthur saying ISIS is a tough problem. He'd come up with his corn cob pipe and his hat and I tell you he would be, or General George Patton. [CHEERS] It would be over fast, folks, it would be over, it would be brutal but it would be over. We wouldn't be fighting the endless war. 19:21:38 I have been saying take the oil, bomb the oil, kill the oil for years. They started doing it three, four weeks ago and they don't do it right, you know why, they don't want to hurt the environment, can you, no this is the truth, they don't want to hurt the environment. Ok? We are now, we have a president that considers global warming more important than fighting wars , there are people who wanna blow up our country, blow up our cities, kill our people and he said global warming is our biggest problem, I don't, it's hard, the all thing is crazy. [BOOING] The all thing is crazy. Ok. Foreign policy, Trump wins with 30% so here is some good numbers. Morning Consult, listen to these numbers, I don't know, are they right? I think. 40% for Trump, 9% for Cruz, everyone else way below that. ABC Washington Post, great company, right? I don't love the Washington Post actually because they don't treat, but they treat me good in the polls, ok, nobody is gonna say they give me and favors, that I can tell you. 38% for Trump, 15%, 12%, 11 then you get into singles, right. The Monmouth poll 41 to 14, PPP Iowa, very, came out recently, 28 to 25 Trump over Cruz. They don't tell you that. 19:23:01 They only go to the one poll, the Des Moines register, which I have a big problem with. Between that and the union leader which I think might be worse. What a pile of garbage that newspaper is. But I'll tell you about that. 19:23:22 Should I tell you about what happened? Yeah. You've heard a lot of the stories so let's talk about the union leader, how dishonest. CNN, 36 is the national. 36 to 16. Monmouth poll 41-14. FOX, 39-16. Listen to these numbers. I demand the election be today. I want it today. unbelievable. In Iowa, A CNN poll which was so one-sided that it never gets reported other than by CNN, 33-20. Trump is at 33. Cruz is at 20. It's an Iowa poll. You don't hear about it. They only talked about this crazy Bloomberg poll which was frankly fine but it's one of the few polls where I'm actually behind and I think that people in Iowa, I think we're gonna win it. I really do. Like New Hampshire, like South Carolina, we have great friends in Iowa and I think we're gonna win it, my people think we're gonna win it, but we'll find out. If we don't, I know we're gonna do well, but I think we're gonna win it. PPP. we're gonna win New Hampshire right? (applause, Trump chants) 19:24:55 It's so great, it's like this everywhere and sometimes, we're only confined, like this is a nice room, but it's a little smaller room. We have thousands of people outside. I have to do a second one after this. Do you believe it. Unless you wanna give them your location and let them switch, but we have such incredible enthusiasm. You go to these meetings and even the press says it's incredible. When we were in Oklahoma 20,000 people were standing in a park. We couldn't get a building to hold it, we just said let's do it in the park. It was a very windy day so I put the hat on. Very windy day. Make America great. Do we love that? 19:25:37 And in Dallas we had 20,000 people where the Mavericks play and Mark Cuban was great. He gave us the arena and he said you'll fill it up fast and he was right. We started on a Thursday and on Monday we were packed and we were actually packed before that but on Monday we came and it was an amazing event. In Mobile, Alabama we had 35,000 people. We started in a hotel ballroom after about 2 minutes that was no good because the people heard we were there and you know we don't have a long time. We set it up a few days in advance sometimes but in Mobile we started off in a ballroom, we went to a convention center which held 10,000. After about 2 hours we realized that wasn't going to work so we just went to the football stadium, the place was packed, you probably saw that. So we just, in Phoenix we have 15,000 people, it's been unbelievable, you saw the other one where we pulled up the plane in front of the big hangar that was a massive hangar the place was packed. 19:26:29 We gave them a little show with that plane, I tell you that was good, right? That was a good visual. Everybody loved it. But it was great. That plane was made in America. We don't say that, that's Boeing. Made in America. So in Iowa, we had PPP 28 - 25, we have Quinnipiac, my favorite Quinnipiac 28-27 and as I said CNN 33-20. in my favor, so I think we are gonna do great in Iowa, I am looking forward to Iowa. And you know we are down to almost 4 weeks, can you believe this, I mean how quickly it goes? When I started on this journey it was actually June 16th but thinking about it a little before, and it takes guts to run for president. It really does, especially, you know I am not a politician, I never did this before, I am self funding by the way, all these guys are taking money. They are all blood suckers, they are all taking money. 19:27:20 They are all controlled, they are all controlled by the people that put up the money believe me, and I used to put up a lot of money, I paid 350,000 to the republican governors association recently, you know just a little while ago, during the year, it's, I understand it. But, and I am not blaming anyone, it's the system and it's, but it's a bad system. In terms of making our country great again, in terms of rebuilding what we have to do, the infrastructure, in terms of being smart, like for instance putin said Trump is brilliant. [CHEERS] No, no, no Putin. Now, I don't know Putin, we did six-- well, we did do 60 Minutes together, now we weren't together but he was on I was on the same night. We got great ratings by the way, even CBS will admit that we got great ratings. but it was Putin and Trump were on 60 Minutes. But he came out and he said Trump is brilliant, Trump is leading the pack, Trump is all positive stuff. 19:28:13 And my opponents: isn't that terrible that he said? What's terrible? Let's get along with people. What is terrible? Will do fine.Believe me, we'll do fine. But having Russia on our side, instead of you know these guys wanna start, some of them want to start the Third World War. Let's start Third World War. Let's have no fly zones. Let's-- no this is what these guys wanna do, let's you know, let's start shooting down everybody's air planes over Syria, over Syria. I think maybe we have other ideas, but if they want to bomb ISIS I said, and I have said this right from the beginning, you know it, [SOMEONE SCREAMING] if Russia wants to go and bomb ISIS, I agree. If Russia wants to bomb isis, excuse me, go ahead. Go ahead, go ahead. Hey, and they don't like ISIS any better than we do folks. You know you hear the all thing, Now we can't fight Syria and Assad, who is not a good guy but we are backing people to fight Assad, we have no idea, look at Hillary Clinton, what happened with Libya. Look at that, no. [BOOING] 19:29:14 Now look at what she did with, you know, you take a look at Libya, you look at what Obama has done with Iran, I mean Iran is becoming, they are becoming a force. We gave them, we gave them 150 billion dollars, we gave them everything they wanted, we didn't win anything, we don't even get our prisoners back, and you look at that deal and you just see gross incompetence. Gross stupidity, that's what it is. And now Iran is taking over Iraq, and I said this, you know it's funny I never put it together, I put things together really quickly, especially when involves economics, so I said that Iran made the single greatest deal that I have ever seen made. 19:29:59 And I am not talking about countries I am just saying our side was incompetently represented, the persians are great negotiators, great negotiators and they just beat us at every front, they got everything. How about self inspecting? How about they are going to self inspect. They are going to say no, no we are not building nuclear, you can take our word for it. And then on the other case we have 24 hours, but before the, 24 days,but before the 24 days starts what happens? we have to go through a process and the process could take a long time, right, so it's ridiculous, so we made this horrible deal, and I keep talking what a horrible deal, then I said wait a minute, because of us, and I was against this from the beginning, I am the most militaristic person in this room. But I was against [SOMEONE SCREAMING] right? Noo, I mean look, I am, but you gotta know what you are doing. I'd like to build up our military, I am gonna build it up so strong, so powerful nobody is gonna mess with us, believe me. [APPLAUSE] 19:30:53 And we are gonna take care of our vets, where's my man? Where the hell is my man? Are we going to take care of our vets? [APPLAUSE] We have our vets in many cases are treated worse than illegals who come across the, the country (?) Good, good vet. Good vet. Beautiful vet. Right? We take good care of you. No, I don't know if you saw it over the weekend in Phoenix, this is where really a lot of bad news came out two years ago, and a year ago, lot of dishonesty, lot of corruption, it's worst than ever. Just came out, two days ago. You saw it, it was in the news. In, it takes so long to get a doctor, people are dying, they are dying waiting to get a doctor for something that could be a procedure or a pill or something really little not a big deal. And they are dying and these are our vets, these are, this is why we are here. These are great people, we gotta take care of our vets. So we are gonna take care of our vets, and you are holding me to that right? You better believe it. No, we are gonna take care of our vets. We are gonna build it so big, so strong, and you know the funny thing is that you build your military really strong, it's really the cheapest thing you can do because you don't have to fight, nobody wants to mess with you. REally, nobody wants, nobody is going to mess. 19:32:13 Right now General Oriano (?) when he left he said our country is the least prepared than it's ever been. He is talking about the army. Was on television again. all these guys on television. [SOMEONE SCREAMING] You know what? If I had one of my generals, even if they are retiring, if I had one, I'd say don't say we are weak, even if we are. Don't say we are weak, he said we are the least prepared, I think he said in history, maybe from world war two, it's almost like what difference does it make? It's a hell of a long time. But we are the least prepared ever, ever, and I am saying even it it's true don't say it, why would the enemy-- why do we have to have that on television? And then we have the other guys saying how tough it's gonna be. I see so many of these people on television. You know there are certain words to describe what's happening with our country. And I used to say we are incompetently led, I gave up the word incompetent because it's really not good enough. What's the word we use? Stupid. [CROWD: STUPID!] 19:33:11 Stupid. Stupid. So we have to be, you know what's so important? We have to be unpredictable we are too predictable, even these guys, I get up before these debates and some of these, and by the way debate, speaking of, see the small Trump on top? That's just because it's my (?) paper, I don't know. But on the bottom they have make america great again GOP debate who won in the polls, these are all separate polls. [CROWD: TRUMP] No, it's true, listen to this Drudge who is an incredible guy, Drudge 46%, now you gotta say again 15, 16 people, 46 %, Time Magazine other that I was on the cover four weeks ago they do nothing for me believe me. Of course I should have been man of the year, but that's ok. Right? 19:34:04 Everyone says that, I don't say it. I said they'll never pick me because I am not establishment. MAN: You are man of the year. DT: Thank you. I'll be your man of the year. [CHEERS] WEll you know I really want to be man of the year in a year from now, couple of years from now when we want to straighten this mess out and then let them put me. So Time Magazine 49. Slate 51. Syracuse.com 49. US news and World report 69%. PBS, Public Broadcasting I mean, people think, oh these polls because they are online, they gotta do them immediately right? They think I am sitting by the phone calling in. They are getting 100,000 calls, I am not making that many calls, I am not gonna spend that much money, it's not worth it. 19:34:55 So anyway, PBS 69% said I won the debate, right. Washington / Times 62%. CBS 59%. FOX 5 Las Vegas 62% and NewJersey.com 49%. Think of it. Think of it. I mean and then I go home and I watch these very very dishonest people, well Trump was ok in the debate, he was ok, not his best night, not his best night, I said I thought I did great. You know, I thought. How about Bush where he makes a commercial, you now he is trying to show he is tough right, tough. He is trying to show his energy, I said you are doing better, you keep going about her 20 year you'd be ok. No. He is trying to show he is-- so he makes a commercial about me, he is spending millions and millions of dollars, ok. And he has me standing there and he is making, he is doing all the talking because when I am ready to talk where every time I talked he got killed. 19:35:54 But when I am ready to talk they don't have me talking. So he goes, and you will do this, and you will do that. And Donald Trump and I am saying do I ever get to talk, so they just have me standing there like this. You remember when I talked? I said wait a minute, I am at 42% you are 2%, you started off over here next to me, now you are falling off the end of the stage. [CHEERS] No, it's true. It's true. No but think of it. Think how dishonest. That's actually dishonest advertising. How do you do a commercial where you are talking but he cuts off your talk, when everybody says I won the debate, and by the way you know who last in the debate came out? I think it was Bush he came in last. Either bush, Bush or Kasich, I am not sure which one. But one of them came out low. I think it was Bush he came out with one percent. Who the hell voted for him? Ah, it was his family, his family was. 19:36:51 No but, and I don't think he is a bad person, I really don't but you know we can't go by this anymore. We gotta get this done, we don't need, we need people who really know what the hell they are doing, we need people, we need people that are gonna take back our jobs from China, from Mexico from Japan, from Vietnam. We need. I just, cause I turned on, I am coming up today and I see the television and this ad is over and over and over again. I don't even watch myself, I always watch things when I am on, right? I can't even watch it anymore, I just say turn it off, it's so boring. But again he is saying and I don't get a chance to answer. So what's the purpose of an ad like that. Now most people saw the debate, right, so you know why am I asking. 19:37:39 So I think it has no impact, I don't know, you know he spent 10 million or 18 million or something on ads. It's gonna be very interesting what's happening, again get out to vote. Here is another one. SO the press here, you know how I feel, they are very dishonest people, they are very bad people, some are fine, but for the most part these are really sleazebags, these are bad people. [BOOING] No, they are bad. They are bad. I go to stadiums, we fill up stadiums and I tell the camera to turn the cameras, right, they won't turn the cameras. They won't turn them, they won't show how many people and all the time I say it, my wife she said were there many people tonight, I said well did you watch? Yea, it was live. It was, I said they didn't show it again? 19:38:21 And I tell them turn the camera, they won't do it. But if there is a protester, one protester will stand up in the corner of the room or in the corner of the stadium and that's the only time, I actually like protesters cause it's the only time you see how many people are there is when there is a protester. It's true. They focus on my face, which I don't like, I don't like that I wanna to see the crowd, I like the crowd better than my face. What can I tell you, right? I love you too darling, thank you. So I want to tell you, so we had an interesting thing. Because you GAP 19:38:55 Because you have a very dishonest newspaper up here. It's also a failing newspaper. It's going down the tubers. (laughter) I remember when this was a big paper. (holding up paper) Look at the size of this thing. If they cut it down anymore, you won't be able to find it. It looks like the things when you go to the grocery store and they give you little handouts. WHat do they call them. Coupons. So this guy. His name is Joe Mcquaid (booing) . He's a lowlife. I'm telling you. Here's what happens. So I thought (laughter) He's useless. I thought he was fine. I thought he was an aggressive guy. He'd call me, he'd talk to me, he'd want me to come up and make a speech in New Hampshire. I'd do it. He asked me to help James Foley, which I liked very much. I have him a big contribution to his parents. His parents are great people. 19:39:47 He asked me to speak at that event, I spoke at that event. he asked me to do many many things. He'd go through a whole litany of things and then he said would you do me a big favor, would you come to. I'm gonna have a debate. Now I never debated before folks. I never did this before. I'm a job producer. I built a great company and if I didn't do a great company we wouldn't be talking to you, but I'm not a debater. That's why I'm so impressed that I'm winning all these debates, but a lot of it's common sense. Let's face it, right? 19:40:14 But I'm a job producer. I'll be the greatest jobs president that God ever created, but this guy Mcquaid. First he wants ads and I see he's doing very badly. He tells me the paper is doing terribly which it is. It's doing very badly. He's gonna move out of his space or something because the building is like an empty building but I don't care about that stuff and then he calls me up, fairly short time ago and he says would you do me a favor. What? Because I have ten million between facebook and Twitter, more than ten million people. I have a big following 19:40:55 He said could you do me a favor. Chris Christie is not on the big stage. Could you tweet that he should be. Think of it (booing) Now he may try and deny it but it's awfully tough. I didn't put it there for my health. Go check it out. I said do you really want me to do that. I mean it sounds a little bit strange for me to be saying, you're supposed to get on there by yourself right. He said, well I would consider it a favor. I tweet: It would be nice to have Christie on the stage. I felt a little weird. People calling me saying what'd you do that for. I said Joe Mcquaid from the.. I figure I'll get some better treatment, right? Then he asks me for different things and then he asks me. He said would you play a round of golf with me up in New Hampshire. 19:41:34 At his course. He's a member of a course. So, I said I can't take that much time Joe. I'm not like President Obama, the guy is out forever (applause). I just can't take that much time. I said Joe I can't take a whole day just to play golf. I just can't do it. He said, would you then come and have lunch with me at this club. Nice club and very nice I said alright. So I come up I made a speech. I was with a group so I wasn't so bad. I then go over, we have lunch. I meet his, he's riding me, he's walking me all over the place saying hello the people. This is Trump. I'm not bragging, I'm just saying he's having a good time right. I'm sitting there: I order a hamburger. This is all about a hamburger. I think he paid for the meal too. I saw him on television. He said oh well he looked like he didn't know what hit him because I believe in hitting back, don't you think so (applause) 19:42:32 Look at this sleeze bag. WIth all of the things I do. but here's the big thing. So he's doing a debate or as he calls it a forum, and it's like the night before FOX and everybody is talking about it all over the world for months and is becoming bigger and bigger, didn't used to be big, but when I got involved it became big. I mean VAriety, all the Hollywood things, they call it the Trump debate. So, number one, I didn't really wanna come up here, but I was the only one. I said Joe I can't do it. I'm not doing it. I wrote him a note. I said I'm not doing it. I don't feel good about doing it. I don't know how it pertains and actually it was a disaster. Very few people went and it got very very low ratings. Almost nobody watched and Bush had a bad night. I'm not knocking him, but he had a horrible night. He shouldn't have done the debate. It was very bad for him, but they did it because the union leader they figure has some power. It used to have power when it was run by the Loeb family. They did a great job, but it's lost it's power I think. I don't know. I mean maybe it has more power than I think but I watch this guy and honestly he's a loser. 19:43:35 So listen. He wants me to come up and do the debate and I say Joe I really don't think it's appropriate. I speak to the people at Fox and I say how would you feel if I went and did a debate, they weren't exactly thrilled, because they wanna have the big first debate. They don't wanna have me debating, and I didn't do it. I think I was the only one. Some did it by satellite. I think I was the only one.. they were down senators. They were down.. they thought they were gonna do well, it hasn't worked out for them either, but they did by satellite, and it was over, it was done, nobody cared and it was . I looked at the seats, there were a lot of empty seats in the auditorium and it was a disaster. I should get credit for that. They call that vision. Just like vision was don't go into Iraq even though you're strong on the military don't go into Iraq. You'll destabilize the middle east. Vision was writing about Osama bin Laden in my book in 2000. I wrote about Osama bin Laden. Joe Scarborough, a great host in the morning, morning Joe. He said, wait a minute, Trump wrote about bin Laden 2 years before the World Trade Center came down. 19:44:42 Somebody should have gone out and gotten him, and I wrote about him because I would see him and read about him and he was a very threatening guy. I said we gotta take this guy out, but I wrote about him. That's what you need, but I should get credit for not doing the debate. So I didn't do the debate. He was really furious. He was very very angry and I wrote him a nice letter afterwards. I said sorry I just can't and it probably means you won't endorse me, but I can't do it. Okay, but in the meantime I've done all these things. I've made big contributions to charity, I came up and made speeches with him. I thought I got along with him fine and then what happens? So tell me what happens. he endorses Christie and that was okay and I figured that was gonna happen because when he called me up a couple of months ago to see if I could get Christie onto the main stage, I said I think he's gonna endorse Christie right? 19:45:12 Why would he be doing that and the first time I met with him, he said I'll never endorse Christie and the reason he said that, he hated that Christie embraced Obama so strongly before the election. I happen to think, I don't know if it cost him the election, but it cost him a lot of votes and there are many people that think that endorsement, when Obama went to New Jersey, that endorsement was responsible for the loss of the Republican party and Romney. It was certainly not good. When I saw it, I said I think he's gonna vote for Obama. I called a friend of mine who's involved with him, and I said is he voting for Obama. It was terrible. It was where they had the food and the hurricane and Obama went to New Jersey and it was like, he was a little child Christie, like he was .. (audience member screams "Give him a hamburger") . Right! Only in New Hampshire could this happen. 19:46:19 But it's called spirit by the way and you're okay. I didn't knock you for that. I think it's very cool (talking to audience member) . But, so he told me, that was terrible and I said, I came out and told my people, this was a long time ago when I first met Joe Mcquaid. I think the first time. I said I really think the one person he's not going to endorse is Christie because he couldn't stand the fact that he did this. 19:46:45 What he did, what he did is he endorsed Christie and that's fine, I mean you can do it. But he doesn't understand the Star Ledger which is the big paper in New Jersey said he must have made a mistake, there must be something wrong. Nobody called us, you have had tremendous downgrades either 9 or 11 downgrades of the bonds, it's number 50 out of 50 in terms of economic development and in terms of the economy. It's like one of the worse in the country for jobs. It's a disaster, I have property in NJ, the taxes are through the roof, they are through the roof, and you go through it so you have Obama, I don't call it a hug, I call it a hug mentally, it was like, it was unbelievable, it was like a little boy, oh I am with the president, remember he flew in the helicopter and he was all excited to be in the helicopter. I said I would have put you in my helicopter, it's much nicer. [LAUGHTER] It's true. No I thought it was a terrible thing. Ok, So what else happened? The George Washington Bridge. Now, he's got 3 or 4 people they are with him everyday, you , a lot of you people you have companies, you have friends and you are with the friends everyday, right, and you have breakfast. 19:47:55 He would have lunch or breakfast with them all the time and dinner, with this little group of you know, his cabinet. now the George Washington Bridge is the largest in the United States and it's the most travelled on Bridge I believe in the United States. They wanted as retribution for the mayor of Fort Lee New Jersey, they wanted close it, I don't know why, because nobody is going to think about the mayor of Fort Lee, nobody even knows it's in Fort Lee. They are going to think the governor of New Jersey is doing a bad job. But they close the bridge. Now, you just, put yourself in a common sense mode, you are with your cabinet, you are with them all the time, they are closing the biggest bridge in the United State, the most travelled on bridge, one of them in the world, most travelled on in the United States, you are doing that and you are not telling the governor and you are with him all the time. 19:48:45 You are not saying Governor by the way, sir, we are closing the George Washington bridge tonight. No, you are having lunch and you don't happen to bring it up. Does anybody believe that? Honestly. Is there one person? No. [CROWD: NO] Is there one percent chance. 19:49:02 And I'm not, I've been friends with Christie, but when Mcquaid who is really Christie's lapdog, I will tell you. First of all I know you're happy he's up here because he's up here but the people of New Jersey wanna throw him out of office. They say why isn't he running New Jersey. We're a disaster state, we're going to hell, and our governor is up in New Hampshire every single day having town hall meetings. He ought to be doing it in New Jersey in all fairness. We love New Hampshire but he shouldn't be up here all the time. He's supposed to be running a state so what happens is Mcquaid endorses Christie. I thought that was a really strange endorsement because again 11 or 9 out of 9 downgrades. The whole thing and I think that it's an incredible circumstance so that was okay too but the star ledger wrote a whole big thing about how could they possibly do it, and they said he's one of the worst governors in the history of the state. How could they possibly do this endorsement. They didn't understand it, and they said they never even called us. You know normally you call the big newspaper in New Jersey, and they'd say what do you think. It was, I don't know strange thing. So what happens is the following 19:50:16 I figured that's okay, but I've been really nice. I get killed! I get absolutely killed. Today, this guy writes a front page story about me. A lot of what he said is really good. I'm tough and I am tough and you know we need a little toughness now (applause) . But it's a dying paper and again this was a big power here years ago. Although, think of this. In 36 years since 1980, think of that. They've picked one president. It was Ronald Reagan. They endorsed one guy who ran and won for president. Their one out of a 36 year period. They've got one and they're not gonna win this time I can tell you. I mean one thing I'll say.. they didn't pick the guy who's gonna win because that would have been easy. We're gonna win right. (loud cheering) I respect it. So, just to finish this story. (crowd gets rowdy) PART 2 19:51:32 Okay thank you.(scuffle in audience, protester escorted out) (USA! chants) .. You know it's always a single and whatever that happens, they make that the big story. Imagine with all these people . I tell the story. The first couple of times I was rough. Get them out of here. I want him out of here, and the next day they said Trump was brutal. he's a horrible human being. The next time it happened . I said be nice. Be really nice. Please don't hurt him. The next day they said Trump is a much weaker person than we thought. I can't win. So you're too tough or you're too, whatever. But I will just tell you, I said there's no way because I did so much for this guy, a sleeze bag. There's no way he'll say badly about me because I mean he actually told a big announcer that Trump is a wonderful guy. Can you believe it? Then he writes this stuff. 19:52:55 So, he's controlled and I just have to tell you. Your paper, it's not a good paper. You know it's dying. I don't think it's gonna be in business more than two years. He told me it's doing.. they gotta move out of their building and the whole thing. They let John and some other guys go that our fantastic people and writers, but I just wanna tell you. I think it's a very disloyal act when you're nice to a person. If he endorsed Christie, I don't care. That's up to him, but you don't go and try to hurt someone that's been helping you and that really has done a good job, okay? You don't do that so here you can have it darling (tosses newspaper to audience) (applause) That's all it's worth, a piece of garbage. 19:53:38 So we our going to make our country strong, we're gonna make it great, we're going to make it safe. Now, what has happened and it's interesting because I had a big boost in the polls. I was at 28, now I'm at 39 in CNN and 42 in Morning Consult and others and what happened is Paris, what happened is California where these radicalized people went wild and you know what I did. I said we have to find out what's going on folks, we have to find out what's going on. There's too much hatred, there's too much anger, there's too much killing. We have to find out what's going on. I mean we can continue to be nice and stupid and soft and our country is going to go to hell. We have these people coming in now from Syria where nobody knows anything about them. 19:54:26 They are young they are strong, mostly men, you look at this migration and it looks like an army. I mean you don't see many women, you don't see many children, you look at the men, they are not as strong as you by the way, you look stronger, that's good. But you look at these men, they are strong, fit, they look physically fit, you actually say why aren't they back home fighting for their country? You know, what are they doing? So, we are bringing them in and then you saw they have cell phones, some of them, many of them have cell phones and they have the ISIS flag on it. Ok? they have, I don't know if you saw that one? And then you saw where they've come up with a counterfeiting of our passports. Did you see that? Where they actually have our passport and they have a printing machine now, these are not stupid people, we need smart people, we need tough but we need smart. 19:55:11 Tough is no good, we need tough, we need smart. We need really smart, because these are not stupid people. so now they have our passports And then we take people in and we know sometimes they are with ISIS. And they come back and they are fighting for ISIS, kill friends of ours, kill us, cause eventually they are just going to say why do I have to away for, let's just do it at home. and when you think about it we let them back into the country, now we know they are ISIS. Why are we letting them back in? I gotta tell you, one of the first things I am doing they are not coming back in, they go out they gone. They gone, they gone. [APPLAUSE] 19:55:52 No, it's terrible, it's terrible, so when I started off my campaign was very much about economic development and we are gonna stop with China who is just absolutely ripping us, I have to say that, they are ripping, like we have a trade imbalance, we have a deficit with China of almost 500 billion dollars a year, a deficit. In other words 500 billion and then I hear people say [unclear] I am a free trader, but I hear people say, oh no, you want free trade, yea I want free trade, but I want to be like smart trade. like let's break even, I even take breaking even, but I don't want to lose 505 billion dollars a year for the privilege of being ripped off by china, I don't want that. It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. With Japan, you know they send us their cars, we have all, by the way we have all the cards, we have all the cards, but we have people that don't have any idea about negotiation or, or they are bought off by their lobbyists and by the special interest, cause I actually said nobody can be that incompetent. You know some of these deals we make folks, it's not because they are incompetent, actually they are very competent for themselves, but they are not really incompetent. 19:57:05 They are lobbyists, they are special interest, when somebody gives Hillary, you know 10 million dollars and 5 million dollars, and 2 million dollars, and they are on Wall Street and you know she is trying to go back a little bit, she is trying to go to the left a little bit because she's got this wackjob, this wako named Bernie Sanders. He was telling people well Trump and I have some of the same people, I don't think there is too many Bernie Sanders people here. [BOOING] Well we have a few different, although he does agree that we are getting ripped off in trade, that's one thing I'll say. the one thing I agree with, he is very strong, he feels we are getting rip-- the problem is he can't do anything about the rip off, he won't be able to do anything I am very good at that.That's what I do. But you know, the one big thing he wants to double and triple your taxes and give everybody everything free. and you are gonna pay for it, your taxes are going through the roof. [BOOING] 19:57:56 Can't do it. You can't do it and I am cutting your taxes down very very low, you saw my tax plan. Cut it. Cutting it way down. We are cutting business taxes down. We are cutting all of them down. So I can't imagine this guy has a chance but I heard yesterday he is trying to get some of my people, and I said, I don't know is he talking about the same people that I am talking about? I don't think so. So anyway, but he wants to do massive, massive, massive tax increases. And people don't talk about that. And Hillary Clinton doesn't talk about it. And the reason I am talking about it, I think you know and I am saying this and I really mean it, she does not mean it when she talks about Trump. It was so funny today when they said actually, I think maybe she is not wanting Trump so badly. But I will tell you, and I am telling you this very strongly, first of all she has committed a criminal act. [CHEERING] A criminal act. 19:58:55 What she did with the emails was criminal according to every single person that I have met that knows this stuff, and not just in one, and Benghazi also, although Benghazi was different, Benghazi she was too lazy to answer phone calls. Remember her commercial? About the phone ringing at night? Guess what she didn't answer it. She didn't answer it. Did you see where the ambassador sent 700 or 500 calls in, emails, everything, and yet she spoke to a friend many times. But they saw they were in trouble, and many many emails were coming, she didn't even ever respond. And remember that commercial, it was a pretty famous commercial, who do you trust at night? Obviously they didn't trust her because Obama [DOESN'T SAY IT] her. Can I say the word? Obama [...] I won't. By the way, that word, that's a common word in New York. And it means to be beaten badly. I won't give the press any more fun with it. And by the way also NPR, ok, National Public Radio, one of the most revered MCs, political people, one of the most revered used it and he used the exact same word, even the ed at the end, for him it was ok , for Trump it's horrible. But what it means is to be beaten badly, I mean that's what it means, I guess it has other meanings but it means and what I meant is to be beaten badly. I won't use it again today, we don't want to make that the story, we want to make other things the story. 20:00:32 But, but, but, if you look at what's going on and you see what's happening we have all of the power economically, we have tremendous power because China, remember this, it's one of the greatest thefts in the history of the world what china has done to our country. If you look at what Mexico is doing to our country, it's a mini version of what China does and you people know better because all the jobs that went down to Mexico, you practically know better than anybody because they came right out of New Hampshire, they came out of New England and you have suffered because of crazy policies and it doesn't help us. So, with Mexico we have the wall, we have the border, we're gonna do everything right. They're gonna respect us more by doing what we're going to do. I tell the story with Ford. Does everybody know the ford story? 20:01:23 The ford story and just simple. I mean it's such a great story because it's so simple but Ford is gonna spend 2 and a half billion dollars building a plant in Mexico so that means they're gonna close different plants mostly in Michigan I guess and how does this help us and then we take their cars, trucks, and parts , no tax, no nothing, like people that don't know what they're doing. Next thing they're gonna have the illegals drive them write across the board. Might as well. If Hillary gets in that's what's gonna happen. Ford will build its plants and the illegals will drive their cars right in and they'll probably give them the car too. Might as well have the car. They won't give them to our vets but they'll give them to the illegals. So I said that's not gonna happen and I tell the story. I'm just doing an abbreviated because a lot of you heard it, but a lot of people didn't hear it and it's so good. 2 and a half billion dollars Ford is spending 20:02:19 And they're spending it in Mexico. by the way Nabisco now is closing their big plant in Chicago and they're moving it to Mexico, why. We're never gonna have an Oreo right? No more oreos for Trump, which is a good thing, not a bad thing. That's good in a lot of different ways, but with Ford, they're gonna send their cars. Now here's what happens. When Hillary gets called and she knows, these aren't stupid people. She knows it's no good for our country, but her lobbyists and her special interests our all getting paid by different companies including Ford and various others and they're gonna say, you can't. the super pacs, the crooked super pacs, how crooked our those super pacs, man. They are bad news. They are so crooked. They are bad news. We had a super pac set up for Trump. I didn't even know who the hell the people were. You see people on television. One of them did the art of the deal pac. Two nice looking young guys. I saw them on FOX They were being interviewed. I don't know what they're gonna do with the money. I have no idea what they're gonna do. Some of the candidates now have their super pacs running their campaigns. They've given up, but the super pacs are running and I think it's, I guess it's, not correct. They're not supposed to be doing it. I guess you could say it's illegal, but you're not supposed to be doing it, but these super pacs our out of control. So, with Ford. Ford has this plant and Hillary let's say finds out and she says I don't want it, I don't want it, and then she'll be called by one of her donors, by special interests, or a lobbyist and they'll say we gave you 5 million dollars, you can't do that, that would be very disloyal, etc. 20:03:52 And bottom line, they will fold 100% With me, I don't take any of their money. I have turned down so much money, it sickens me to think of it because my whole (applause) No! My whole life has been taken money, that's what I do.. We're business people. We take money. Take, take, take. Some people said he plays too tough a game. We need somebody who's gonna play . yeah. I play tough. We play. We do it. It's a game, at a certain point, and now I wanna put that, whatever that is. I wanna put that to use so that we get rid of some of the 19 trillion, which by the way is going to 21 trillion and did you see what was passed weeks ago (booing) It won't happen. 20:04:40 Here we are. So we're disappointed in Democrats. I'm more disappointed in the Republicans, that the Republicans let that get passed. The visas, the Syrians, all funded. The everything, the border, coming through. Everything is funded. That is one of the most disgraceful thing I've ever seen and it took what, 24 hours? It was like done. These Republicans, they were gonna go down . I'm a Republican. I'm a conservative and some don't like me because I tell the truth. They were gonna go down to Washington and they were gonna raise their hand against Obamacare, they didn't fo it. They were gonna kill Obamacare, they didn't do it. They even had a judge that should have don it. Judge Roberts. He didn't do it (booing) 20:05:23 He had two chances to do it. The first time 100%, the second time would have made it so it would have gone fast. It's gonna go anyway. Here's the good news. It's going anyway. (cheering) . The beautiful thing about if I run and if I win. So I run, and I say this. If I run and if I win I'll be able to undo these horrible rules and regulations that have been crippling our businesses. (audience member: "You'd win") TRUMP:I hope so because I'm working my ass off. (cheering) This beautiful young guy. He's not gonna be voting for another ten years but I'll tell you what I appreciate it. He's shouting make America great again. I appreciate it, but I am working. I'm working really hard and frankly I'm doing it because I've always had a talent at getting things good and I've had a talent at money and we need it. We have to have a talent and I made the statement about a month ago. I said we wanna make our country rich again and then we're gonna make it great again and a woman came up to me and said Mr. Trump that sounds very crude to say. I said do me a favor, it's not crude. We gotta make it rich. We're a (?) nation right now. We're a third world nation. If you look at our school system, we're in 28th position. We spend the most per student by far. The second is so far behind us and we're number 28 in the world in schools and by the way common core. Gone! (applause) 20:07:00 Common core is gone. Second amendment, yes! We're keeping second amendment. Obama's looking to do in my opinion, an executive order on the second amendment. I think he's looking because he can't get the support and I think that's gonna be a problem. That could be a tough one of rihm. i think he's gonna do some kind of executive order on the second amendment just based on what I'm feeling and what I'm seeing and I'll tell you (booing) that's gonna be a rough one because there's nobody more impassioned than the people that believe strongly in the second amendment. I'll tell you about the second amendment. If in California or in Paris frankly, we're not talking second amendment Paris, but when these animals came in and they started shooting in the various places in Paris, if we had a couple of people like you and like you (pointing to people in audience) a couple of people, 2 or 3, definitely you guys. They wouldn't have gotten off the first shot. This guy. But you know what Paris and France have the toughest gun control laws in the world. Nobody has guns except the bad guys okay. 20:08:12 So they walk in with AK47s and they walk in with all this stuff and you know they have it, they bring it in, it's not so hard to get it in if you don't mind breaking the law. They were the only ones with any weapons and they had big weapons, powerful weapons. I mean hundred and thirty people dead, many more our gonna die. You have people hanging by a thread in hospitals and they were just shooting people randomly and then the press calls the guy, the head guy with the dirty what, they call him a mastermind, and I've been hitting them so hard. I said don't call him a mastermind because they are playing the Internet better than we do. We invented the Internet, they play it better than we do. They radicalize people over the Internet. So I said to them, the press, don't call him mastermind and I've been saying that for three weeks and I don't hear it anymore. I said he's a low class sleaze bag who happens to be dead right now and I call him the guy with the dirty hat, okay because that's a good expression and they go in and they shoot people. 20:09:11 Now if one you folks had a gun strapped to your waist or on your ankle and you could say whoa look at that, that's not good and they received a little fire. It would have been people hurt, but it would have been a very small number by comparison and I know one thing, they would be gone but we don't have that and when you think about it, same thing in California, they walk into a room with no guns, no anything, innocent people, they were friends. These people threw them like an anniversary party or something. There's a sickness going. This radicalization is very, it's a real sickness. I say it's a sickness and someone will say that's not nice. Folks, there's something wrong. We gotta find out what's going wrong. There's something really bad happening. 20:10:03 So they go in and they shoot all those people. 14/16 people dead, others going to die and they shoot them. If a couple of people had guns in that room, it wouldn't have been that way. You don't need to have everybody. If a few of the people had guns, it wouldn't have been that way and you can say it for everybody. How about the army base where the six soldiers were killed and two of them were like world class, I mean these were top of the line soldiers. One of them was a world class marksman, and they had a gun free zone on a military base. You believe this. First thing I'll do. We're gonna take care of our vets, we're gonna take care of our police because our police our being mistreated terribly. 20:10:49 And we are gonna end free zones on military bases. That's gonna end day one. That's an executive order if I ever saw one. That's gonna end day one. SO when I'm with friends from New York, liberal, they say we're against guns, and then I go into Paris. I say let's assume that we're in PAris and they're shooting us and everybody's standing there like "oh please" (puts hands u8p like he's surrendering) . and they're saying "you over here," boom. This is what was happening. Come over here, boom. Nobody could do anything. They were helpless. It was horrible. When you hear the stories. It was horrible. I explain that to these guys, these people that wanna knock out the second amendment. They lose the debate so badly that they're embarrassed. They don't even wanna talk about it. Well let's go to a different subject. And the next day, so have you have changed your mind. They don't change their mind and I'm not even saying they're bad people. There's something gone wrong there, but we our going to have a strong second amendment. We our going to keep it. We're not gonna let them play with the bullets. They wanna take away the bullets. one of the concepts, because it doesn't necessarily talk about bullets so they wanna take away your ammunition. We're gonna have a strong second amendment. We're gonna have it. 20:12:07 And it's better for the country. It's strong, it's good. I have two young sons, they're hunters, and they've been for the NRA for so long. So am I but they've been in for so long. And Hillary wants to take away your guns, and that is such a bad thing. She wants to take away your guns folks and I'll tell you what. They say the Republicans have a structural problem and we do, it's harder for a Republican to win. We have certain structural problems, but when you talk about the guns, the common core, different things, we have some big advantages over them, but the guns our going to be so safe. Another thing that's going to be safe is this great state so I wanna tell you, and as I said it's going to be and you know what's going and it's going on in lots of circles where they wanna and I don't know but they wanna do something bad to New Hampshire. it's not gonna happen if I win. That I can tell you. I give you my word. never gonna happen. 20:13:15 So, I just wanna finish by saying that we're gonna strong, we're gonna be smart, but we have to be unpredictable so I'll go to these debates and I'll have some of these people, some our excellent and some our real sleaze. You know the ones I'm talking about. Mr. Trump, what do you think of this and that and that. I said that's not a question. That's a statement. We know who they are, but I say to them and I say it strongly, I say we have to be unpredictable. They say what would you do with ISIS. I hated to say that I was gonna bomb the hell out of the oil, but I had to say it eventually. That's one problem, I had to say it and now people are saying it. I've been saying it for years, but I don't wanna say everything. i wanna be unpredictable. I wanna be a General Patton, a General Macarthur. We wanna go in, we don't want them to know what the hell we're doing. We have to go in and a lot of people love it when I say that. 20:14:13 It's the kind of thing, and then the MCs our gonna say well he didn't know...I did know. I know so much. Remember, Osama bin Laden in my book. Remember bomb the oil. For years I've been saying it, but I said bomb it and keep it. There's a difference because I wanted to give a lot of money to the vets and the families of the vets that were killed and to the wounded warriors. These are the greatest people, the way they go through life and a big smile on their face. I wanted to give plenty and we'd have so much left. We'd have so much, but I wanted to keep it, but look. We're going to do something. I am so happy I did this. I really was torn. I said to my wife on June.. (points to audience member) Thanks I appreciate it. i said to my wife, boy and in Trump tower, I went down the famous escalator where she was elegant and I was waving and it's a pretty famous scene and from day one we hit it in the head and we took a lot of heat and a lot of abuse and everyone's now coming back, same thing with the Muslim situation. I took a lot of heat two or three days of heat and now people are saying you know maybe he's right. Now they're all talking about it. Someone had to bring it up and I'll tell you what if I didn't bring it up it would have never been brought up and we have Muslims that our wonderful. 20:15:38 We have wonderful people, but there's something going on there. They have to turn in, like for instance, these people in California. People knew he had bombs all over the floor. People knew, why didn't they turn him in. You gotta turn them in. Because it's their culture, they're around each other, they see each other, they know what's going on. You gotta turn them in. You can't have people dying. You can't let this happen. So, I brought that up. When I brought up illegal immigration, you wouldn't even have that as a topic if I didn't bring it up. Nobody was even talking about it and it turns out to be a very big topic. 20:16:13 So, I just finish by saying this. It's so important that on February 8th, 9th. What you should do on February 8th stand there. (laughter) Because you know what you're gonna have tremendous numbers at those polls, but it's so important that you get there early and on February 9th, you get in and vote. It's so important because otherwise it's just all a big waste of time. I got a call from one of the most prominent reporters and very highly respected and he said to me. I don't know, but he's one of the most respected in the world actually and I took his call and he said how does it feel and I said how does what feel. he said what you've done nobody else has ever ever done in the history of politics in this country. 20:17:10 And even the other day CNN said number one story, Trump. NBC said number on story, Trump. So many of them, number on story Trump, Trump, Trump. Okay that's fine, but you know what he said how does it feel. I said I don't know what you mean. He said what you've done. I said look, let me just tell you a little secret. I said what I've done doesn't mean anything if I don't win, to me. It really doesn't, and he said no no. It doesn't matter if you win or lose. What you've done is you've changed the whole dialogue. You've changed everything. You've changed politics as we know it, and I wanna know how you feel. I say, I will let you know after I win because honestly unless I win, it doesn't mean a damn thing to me. I can tell you that (applause) 20:17:57 So, on the 9th. It's like when I talk to the folks In iowa. I think we're gonna have tremendous success in Iowa, meaning, and I say you because we're all together. It's not me, we're all together. This is a movement folks. You'll get one of these other candidates up here and they'll have 30 people, 40 people, 28 people. It's true. I see it. We had a thing where we had 4,500 people in New Hampshire and Bush was down the road, meaning like 30 miles down the road. It's New Hampshire, it's a long way, and he had a 109 people. We had 4,500 people. This is a movement. An unbelievable thing is happening and I don't even use the term silent majority because they're really a noisy group of people. It's true (applause) 20:18:49 So I've been saying and to a large extent this ture, the American dream is dead, but I'm gonna make it bigger and stronger, more powerful and more beautiful than ever. More beautiful than ever. Remember that, and just to finish off we our going to make America great again. I love you. Thank you everybody [end]

DONALD TRUMP RALLY IN NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, TALKS ABOUT UNION LEADER NEWSPAPER, BEING ON 60 MINUTES WITH PUTIN, MCQUAID, CHRISTIE AND BRIDGEGATE, ALMOST SAYS THE WORD "SCHLONGED" AND DEFENDS USE OF WORD. PART ONE OF THREE NASHUA, N.H. - Speaking to nearly a thousand supporters at Pennichuck Middle School, Donald Trump continued his tirade against Chris Christie and the New Hampshire Union Leader, saying the New Jersey Governor was "like a little boy" as he greeted President Obama in the aftermath of Sandy in 2012. He also brought up Bridgegate, saying there was no chance Chris Christie wouldn't be involved in the closure of the "most-traveled bridge" in the United States. At one point a member of the audience shouted "give him a hamburger!" to which Trump responded, "it's called sprit, by the way, and you're ok." He echoed his comments to MSNBC earlier today, crying foul over the New Hampshire Union Leader's editorial today, above the fold, which called Trump a "bully. Trump said publisher Joe McQuaid (aka "a lowlife"), who has endorsed Christie, colluded with the candidate as he attempted to get Christie on the mainstage for the recent Fox Business News debate. Trump also defended the use of a crude sexual term he used to describe Hillary Clinton's 2008 loss to Obama - but he mouthed the word. "Can I say it?" he asked supporters, who eagerly shouted the phrase back to him. "By the way, that word, that's a common word in New York," he reassured them. About midday through the event, a long-haired protestor yelling "fascist" got in a scuffle with a supporter. No punches thrown, but it appeared a Trump supporter tried to force the protestor to sit down. The protestor was removed by security as chants of "USA" filled the room. (I have unilateral video of this that I'll be feeding in shortly.) After the event, while giving remarks to an overflow room of about 100 supporters, Trump confirmed what has been reported widely in the past several weeks - that he'll be spending millions of his own dollars on his campaign. "Starting around January 4th we're spending a lot of money," he said. "The press is hearing this for the first time, they're probably going to go crazy. But we are going to spend a lot of money over the next four weeks - we don't want to take any chances.we are too close." The question in New Hampshire continues to be if his army of supporters will actually turn up to vote - a question not lost on Trump. Several times he begged them to come out to the polls, at one point saying he didn't care what the weather was - people need to be out in force on February 8th. When New Hampshire residents pointed out the primary was on February 9th, he grinned. "You know what you should do on February 8th?" he asked. "Stand there!" If tonight was any indication, the crowd seemed happy to wait in the cold tonight - many stood for over an hour in 27-degree weather to get in. FULL LOG BELOW 19:12:24 Beautiful. This is great, I love it. I love it. I'll tell you, you know I missed. [LAUGHS] Thank you. Thank you. We have got to get out and vote, remember that folks. No matter what's going on in your life, if you are feeling miserable, if you are depressed, if you are down, if you are whatever the hell you lost your job, like everybody else is losing their job, you have to get out and you have to vote. Because you know, I was watching today television, they said if Trump, we get by far the biggest crowd, it's not even a contest, and they said if those people actually go out and vote, but you know the dishonest press back there, they say "But I don't think they will." I think they will, but they said, no, they said if they actually go out and vote, the people that show up like in Iowa we had massive, the same thing, Virginia, Dallas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, North Carolina, we have these massive rallies, and it's incredible and they said well, if they vote Trump wins. They actually said that. 19:13:40 And we have to get out, we have to get out we have to vote. Ok. So you know we've had some amazing news, I missed this, you know for like a week and a half we sort of have been in limbo right, all I could do is tweet, it was driving me crazy, cause there were no like events or anything planned. But we all had a good Christmas, right? [CHEERS] Good, merry Christmas, we say merry Christmas. Other people won't say merry christmas. They'll say oh, happy holiday. Happy Holiday. Merry Christmas folks. Merry Christmas. [CHEERS] The pools have been fantastic you have seen the polls just came out and today one came out Rasmussen where I am tied with Hillary, but don't worry that's gonna end. We are gonna be far ahead. 19:14:29 And Fox came out a couple of weeks ago and we were leading and another one came out we were leading, we are doing very well, we haven't started on her, you know, she says oh we'd love to run against Trump, it's her worst nightmare. These people, these people back here, they said, well the Hillary campaign said they'd love to run, yea, she wants to run against me instead of somebody else I guarantee you, you know, and I explain, I try to explain to Chuck Todd and all these guys, you don't understand Chuck, when they say they want to run against Trump that means they don't want to run against Trump. You don't, they don't understand. You know they report, yes. 19:15:08 But then tonight somebody reported that they are absolutely going crazy and they our devastated over what Trump is saying. Now we're getting back to the basics. Look at what happens with the Republicans. Every single person that's gone after me is gone. They're gone. They're gone (cheering) When I say gone, they've ever left the race or they're down in the very very low portion. They're low. You just said one. With all the millions that they're spending. so you saw the one where I spent essentially nothing and Bush has spent 59 million. He's down toward the bottom with 3% or 2% or something and we have, we had a poll come out at 42%. Look at these polls it's crazy. We have numbers. We have go through them. 19:16:08 They always say why do you go through the polls. I say because I'm winning. Honestly, if I wasn't I wouldn't be talking about them, and the other candidates say he always talks about the polls, we don't. Well they shouldn't because they're not winning. SO we have a lot of good ones. CNN 36%. Cruz is 16, Carson is 14, Rubio is 12, Christie is 4, Bush is 3. You spend 59 million and you're 3. YOu know what's impressive is the economy, Trump is 55%. (applause). On the budget, Trump is 51. How about this and remember that's out of 15 people. once 17, now 15, now it's at 14, and it;'s going down and it's gonna go down quickly. By the way I have to tell you, new Hampshire will always maintain it's place if I win. Just say you understand. There's A big movement to put you at the back of the pack or the middle of the pack so it would no longer be the same. YOu'll never see me again, but you will see me. I have so many friends. You'll never see a lot of people again. But there's a big movement to put New Hampshire way back. 19:17:24 I don't know why. Is it retribution, it is that they don't want it, they don't like it. I mean you have a lot of power and (audience member says "buy it") Buy it. They have problems. They have a heroin problem that's really incredible. I hear so much about that from the people here. We're gonna build a wall,a real border, and (applause) that whole heroin thing, we gotta get it under control but I hear more about it from here than I do anywhere else. You don't think of it in terms of New Hampshire but whenever I am up here I hear more about it here and we have to solve to problem, we gotta help the people that our hooked because they get hooked and it's not easy but on the budget im 51%. 51% with 14 and actually when they did this. 15 people. 19:18:12 So you have 51%. I'd be happy if I had 51% with two people right? Ok? On illegal immigration, listen to this 48%, because they know I am not gonna play games, I saw one of the people that I am running against the other day, they came up and they said we are going to build the wall. FIrst time he said that. My wife was like, she said darling he is copying you, he said the exact same words, he said there is gonna be a big wall, it's gonna be a great wall. He said the same words, I, listen to it. I listened to it, I said what are we doing here? The guy is copying. 19:18:46 You know if you remember when I started, when I started this all dialogue and we announced in June 16th at trump Tower and I said illegal immigration and we are gonna stop, everybody said oh, and I went through and the papers and I was getting absolutely, Rush Limbaugh who is like a great guy said he has never seen anybody receive so much incoming, I was getting, these guys were killing me, and then within two, three weeks all of a sudden it sort of like, people were saying yo know I think he is right and then you had Kate, beautiful Kate from San Francisco and you had Jamil (?) from Los Angeles, you had a woman, a female a veteran a wonderful woman 66 year old veteran who was raped, who was sodomized who was killed by an illegal immigrant who was here who was not supposed to be here, came in a number of times, like the Kate horrible person came in 5 different times at least that they know of. And all of a sudden, and these are just, these are three instances we have thousands, it's out of control horrible for the economy, taking our jobs, taking our money, it's a one way street. They come over, they bring drugs lot of drugs. Lot of drugs, you people know better than anybody, cause you are really the recipients of that. 19:20:01 But they come over with drugs they go back with cash, ok. Not a good deal. And they go over walls and you saw the ramp they built a little ramp, the wall is this high, they build a ramp, the trucks drive over the wall. [LAUGHTER] They have Jeeps they are loaded up with drugs. They drive over the wall, they didn't even rip the wall down, the wall is so small they said let's just put a ramp up it would have been easier. They should have ripped the wall, no those are not Trump walls. they are not Trump walls. So illegal immigration 48%, ISIS, oh ISIS we are gonna knock the hell out of them. ISIS. [CHEER + APPLAUSE] Oh, we are going. We are gonna knock them. We are gonna do a job. We are gonna get the real general, they may not have nice language, you know, we got rif (?) one of our best generals because he was very rough and tough. Even though the men and women that were under him loved him. 19:20:52 But very tough and gave an interview and he used foul language and he said things and you know, now of course our generals shouldn't be talking, they should be shooting, they should be out there.Did you see generals, they are always interviewed, they are always on television, generals and they are always saying how bad we are. One of them, just said, they were talking about ISIS, said what do you think, oh, it's a very tough problem for-- tough problem. Can you imagine general Douglas MAcArthur saying ISIS is a tough problem. He'd come up with his corn cob pipe and his hat and I tell you he would be, or General George Patton. [CHEERS] It would be over fast, folks, it would be over, it would be brutal but it would be over. We wouldn't be fighting the endless war. 19:21:38 I have been saying take the oil, bomb the oil, kill the oil for years. They started doing it three, four weeks ago and they don't do it right, you know why, they don't want to hurt the environment, can you, no this is the truth, they don't want to hurt the environment. Ok? We are now, we have a president that considers global warming more important than fighting wars , there are people who wanna blow up our country, blow up our cities, kill our people and he said global warming is our biggest problem, I don't, it's hard, the all thing is crazy. [BOOING] The all thing is crazy. Ok. Foreign policy, Trump wins with 30% so here is some good numbers. Morning Consult, listen to these numbers, I don't know, are they right? I think. 40% for Trump, 9% for Cruz, everyone else way below that. ABC Washington Post, great company, right? I don't love the Washington Post actually because they don't treat, but they treat me good in the polls, ok, nobody is gonna say they give me and favors, that I can tell you. 38% for Trump, 15%, 12%, 11 then you get into singles, right. The Monmouth poll 41 to 14, PPP Iowa, very, came out recently, 28 to 25 Trump over Cruz. They don't tell you that. 19:23:01 They only go to the one poll, the Des Moines register, which I have a big problem with. Between that and the union leader which I think might be worse. What a pile of garbage that newspaper is. But I'll tell you about that. 19:23:22 Should I tell you about what happened? Yeah. You've heard a lot of the stories so let's talk about the union leader, how dishonest. CNN, 36 is the national. 36 to 16. Monmouth poll 41-14. FOX, 39-16. Listen to these numbers. I demand the election be today. I want it today. unbelievable. In Iowa, A CNN poll which was so one-sided that it never gets reported other than by CNN, 33-20. Trump is at 33. Cruz is at 20. It's an Iowa poll. You don't hear about it. They only talked about this crazy Bloomberg poll which was frankly fine but it's one of the few polls where I'm actually behind and I think that people in Iowa, I think we're gonna win it. I really do. Like New Hampshire, like South Carolina, we have great friends in Iowa and I think we're gonna win it, my people think we're gonna win it, but we'll find out. If we don't, I know we're gonna do well, but I think we're gonna win it. PPP. we're gonna win New Hampshire right? (applause, Trump chants) 19:24:55 It's so great, it's like this everywhere and sometimes, we're only confined, like this is a nice room, but it's a little smaller room. We have thousands of people outside. I have to do a second one after this. Do you believe it. Unless you wanna give them your location and let them switch, but we have such incredible enthusiasm. You go to these meetings and even the press says it's incredible. When we were in Oklahoma 20,000 people were standing in a park. We couldn't get a building to hold it, we just said let's do it in the park. It was a very windy day so I put the hat on. Very windy day. Make America great. Do we love that? 19:25:37 And in Dallas we had 20,000 people where the Mavericks play and Mark Cuban was great. He gave us the arena and he said you'll fill it up fast and he was right. We started on a Thursday and on Monday we were packed and we were actually packed before that but on Monday we came and it was an amazing event. In Mobile, Alabama we had 35,000 people. We started in a hotel ballroom after about 2 minutes that was no good because the people heard we were there and you know we don't have a long time. We set it up a few days in advance sometimes but in Mobile we started off in a ballroom, we went to a convention center which held 10,000. After about 2 hours we realized that wasn't going to work so we just went to the football stadium, the place was packed, you probably saw that. So we just, in Phoenix we have 15,000 people, it's been unbelievable, you saw the other one where we pulled up the plane in front of the big hangar that was a massive hangar the place was packed. 19:26:29 We gave them a little show with that plane, I tell you that was good, right? That was a good visual. Everybody loved it. But it was great. That plane was made in America. We don't say that, that's Boeing. Made in America. So in Iowa, we had PPP 28 - 25, we have Quinnipiac, my favorite Quinnipiac 28-27 and as I said CNN 33-20. in my favor, so I think we are gonna do great in Iowa, I am looking forward to Iowa. And you know we are down to almost 4 weeks, can you believe this, I mean how quickly it goes? When I started on this journey it was actually June 16th but thinking about it a little before, and it takes guts to run for president. It really does, especially, you know I am not a politician, I never did this before, I am self funding by the way, all these guys are taking money. They are all blood suckers, they are all taking money. 19:27:20 They are all controlled, they are all controlled by the people that put up the money believe me, and I used to put up a lot of money, I paid 350,000 to the republican governors association recently, you know just a little while ago, during the year, it's, I understand it. But, and I am not blaming anyone, it's the system and it's, but it's a bad system. In terms of making our country great again, in terms of rebuilding what we have to do, the infrastructure, in terms of being smart, like for instance putin said Trump is brilliant. [CHEERS] No, no, no Putin. Now, I don't know Putin, we did six-- well, we did do 60 Minutes together, now we weren't together but he was on I was on the same night. We got great ratings by the way, even CBS will admit that we got great ratings. but it was Putin and Trump were on 60 Minutes. But he came out and he said Trump is brilliant, Trump is leading the pack, Trump is all positive stuff. 19:28:13 And my opponents: isn't that terrible that he said? What's terrible? Let's get along with people. What is terrible? Will do fine.Believe me, we'll do fine. But having Russia on our side, instead of you know these guys wanna start, some of them want to start the Third World War. Let's start Third World War. Let's have no fly zones. Let's-- no this is what these guys wanna do, let's you know, let's start shooting down everybody's air planes over Syria, over Syria. I think maybe we have other ideas, but if they want to bomb ISIS I said, and I have said this right from the beginning, you know it, [SOMEONE SCREAMING] if Russia wants to go and bomb ISIS, I agree. If Russia wants to bomb isis, excuse me, go ahead. Go ahead, go ahead. Hey, and they don't like ISIS any better than we do folks. You know you hear the all thing, Now we can't fight Syria and Assad, who is not a good guy but we are backing people to fight Assad, we have no idea, look at Hillary Clinton, what happened with Libya. Look at that, no. [BOOING] 19:29:14 Now look at what she did with, you know, you take a look at Libya, you look at what Obama has done with Iran, I mean Iran is becoming, they are becoming a force. We gave them, we gave them 150 billion dollars, we gave them everything they wanted, we didn't win anything, we don't even get our prisoners back, and you look at that deal and you just see gross incompetence. Gross stupidity, that's what it is. And now Iran is taking over Iraq, and I said this, you know it's funny I never put it together, I put things together really quickly, especially when involves economics, so I said that Iran made the single greatest deal that I have ever seen made. 19:29:59 And I am not talking about countries I am just saying our side was incompetently represented, the persians are great negotiators, great negotiators and they just beat us at every front, they got everything. How about self inspecting? How about they are going to self inspect. They are going to say no, no we are not building nuclear, you can take our word for it. And then on the other case we have 24 hours, but before the, 24 days,but before the 24 days starts what happens? we have to go through a process and the process could take a long time, right, so it's ridiculous, so we made this horrible deal, and I keep talking what a horrible deal, then I said wait a minute, because of us, and I was against this from the beginning, I am the most militaristic person in this room. But I was against [SOMEONE SCREAMING] right? Noo, I mean look, I am, but you gotta know what you are doing. I'd like to build up our military, I am gonna build it up so strong, so powerful nobody is gonna mess with us, believe me. [APPLAUSE] 19:30:53 And we are gonna take care of our vets, where's my man? Where the hell is my man? Are we going to take care of our vets? [APPLAUSE] We have our vets in many cases are treated worse than illegals who come across the, the country (?) Good, good vet. Good vet. Beautiful vet. Right? We take good care of you. No, I don't know if you saw it over the weekend in Phoenix, this is where really a lot of bad news came out two years ago, and a year ago, lot of dishonesty, lot of corruption, it's worst than ever. Just came out, two days ago. You saw it, it was in the news. In, it takes so long to get a doctor, people are dying, they are dying waiting to get a doctor for something that could be a procedure or a pill or something really little not a big deal. And they are dying and these are our vets, these are, this is why we are here. These are great people, we gotta take care of our vets. So we are gonna take care of our vets, and you are holding me to that right? You better believe it. No, we are gonna take care of our vets. We are gonna build it so big, so strong, and you know the funny thing is that you build your military really strong, it's really the cheapest thing you can do because you don't have to fight, nobody wants to mess with you. REally, nobody wants, nobody is going to mess. 19:32:13 Right now General Oriano (?) when he left he said our country is the least prepared than it's ever been. He is talking about the army. Was on television again. all these guys on television. [SOMEONE SCREAMING] You know what? If I had one of my generals, even if they are retiring, if I had one, I'd say don't say we are weak, even if we are. Don't say we are weak, he said we are the least prepared, I think he said in history, maybe from world war two, it's almost like what difference does it make? It's a hell of a long time. But we are the least prepared ever, ever, and I am saying even it it's true don't say it, why would the enemy-- why do we have to have that on television? And then we have the other guys saying how tough it's gonna be. I see so many of these people on television. You know there are certain words to describe what's happening with our country. And I used to say we are incompetently led, I gave up the word incompetent because it's really not good enough. What's the word we use? Stupid. [CROWD: STUPID!] 19:33:11 Stupid. Stupid. So we have to be, you know what's so important? We have to be unpredictable we are too predictable, even these guys, I get up before these debates and some of these, and by the way debate, speaking of, see the small Trump on top? That's just because it's my (?) paper, I don't know. But on the bottom they have make america great again GOP debate who won in the polls, these are all separate polls. [CROWD: TRUMP] No, it's true, listen to this Drudge who is an incredible guy, Drudge 46%, now you gotta say again 15, 16 people, 46 %, Time Magazine other that I was on the cover four weeks ago they do nothing for me believe me. Of course I should have been man of the year, but that's ok. Right? 19:34:04 Everyone says that, I don't say it. I said they'll never pick me because I am not establishment. MAN: You are man of the year. DT: Thank you. I'll be your man of the year. [CHEERS] WEll you know I really want to be man of the year in a year from now, couple of years from now when we want to straighten this mess out and then let them put me. So Time Magazine 49. Slate 51. Syracuse.com 49. US news and World report 69%. PBS, Public Broadcasting I mean, people think, oh these polls because they are online, they gotta do them immediately right? They think I am sitting by the phone calling in. They are getting 100,000 calls, I am not making that many calls, I am not gonna spend that much money, it's not worth it. 19:34:55 So anyway, PBS 69% said I won the debate, right. Washington / Times 62%. CBS 59%. FOX 5 Las Vegas 62% and NewJersey.com 49%. Think of it. Think of it. I mean and then I go home and I watch these very very dishonest people, well Trump was ok in the debate, he was ok, not his best night, not his best night, I said I thought I did great. You know, I thought. How about Bush where he makes a commercial, you now he is trying to show he is tough right, tough. He is trying to show his energy, I said you are doing better, you keep going about her 20 year you'd be ok. No. He is trying to show he is-- so he makes a commercial about me, he is spending millions and millions of dollars, ok. And he has me standing there and he is making, he is doing all the talking because when I am ready to talk where every time I talked he got killed. 19:35:54 But when I am ready to talk they don't have me talking. So he goes, and you will do this, and you will do that. And Donald Trump and I am saying do I ever get to talk, so they just have me standing there like this. You remember when I talked? I said wait a minute, I am at 42% you are 2%, you started off over here next to me, now you are falling off the end of the stage. [CHEERS] No, it's true. It's true. No but think of it. Think how dishonest. That's actually dishonest advertising. How do you do a commercial where you are talking but he cuts off your talk, when everybody says I won the debate, and by the way you know who last in the debate came out? I think it was Bush he came in last. Either bush, Bush or Kasich, I am not sure which one. But one of them came out low. I think it was Bush he came out with one percent. Who the hell voted for him? Ah, it was his family, his family was. 19:36:51 No but, and I don't think he is a bad person, I really don't but you know we can't go by this anymore. We gotta get this done, we don't need, we need people who really know what the hell they are doing, we need people, we need people that are gonna take back our jobs from China, from Mexico from Japan, from Vietnam. We need. I just, cause I turned on, I am coming up today and I see the television and this ad is over and over and over again. I don't even watch myself, I always watch things when I am on, right? I can't even watch it anymore, I just say turn it off, it's so boring. But again he is saying and I don't get a chance to answer. So what's the purpose of an ad like that. Now most people saw the debate, right, so you know why am I asking. 19:37:39 So I think it has no impact, I don't know, you know he spent 10 million or 18 million or something on ads. It's gonna be very interesting what's happening, again get out to vote. Here is another one. SO the press here, you know how I feel, they are very dishonest people, they are very bad people, some are fine, but for the most part these are really sleazebags, these are bad people. [BOOING] No, they are bad. They are bad. I go to stadiums, we fill up stadiums and I tell the camera to turn the cameras, right, they won't turn the cameras. They won't turn them, they won't show how many people and all the time I say it, my wife she said were there many people tonight, I said well did you watch? Yea, it was live. It was, I said they didn't show it again? 19:38:21 And I tell them turn the camera, they won't do it. But if there is a protester, one protester will stand up in the corner of the room or in the corner of the stadium and that's the only time, I actually like protesters cause it's the only time you see how many people are there is when there is a protester. It's true. They focus on my face, which I don't like, I don't like that I wanna to see the crowd, I like the crowd better than my face. What can I tell you, right? I love you too darling, thank you. So I want to tell you, so we had an interesting thing. Because you GAP 19:38:55 Because you have a very dishonest newspaper up here. It's also a failing newspaper. It's going down the tubers. (laughter) I remember when this was a big paper. (holding up paper) Look at the size of this thing. If they cut it down anymore, you won't be able to find it. It looks like the things when you go to the grocery store and they give you little handouts. WHat do they call them. Coupons. So this guy. His name is Joe Mcquaid (booing) . He's a lowlife. I'm telling you. Here's what happens. So I thought (laughter) He's useless. I thought he was fine. I thought he was an aggressive guy. He'd call me, he'd talk to me, he'd want me to come up and make a speech in New Hampshire. I'd do it. He asked me to help James Foley, which I liked very much. I have him a big contribution to his parents. His parents are great people. 19:39:47 He asked me to speak at that event, I spoke at that event. he asked me to do many many things. He'd go through a whole litany of things and then he said would you do me a big favor, would you come to. I'm gonna have a debate. Now I never debated before folks. I never did this before. I'm a job producer. I built a great company and if I didn't do a great company we wouldn't be talking to you, but I'm not a debater. That's why I'm so impressed that I'm winning all these debates, but a lot of it's common sense. Let's face it, right? 19:40:14 But I'm a job producer. I'll be the greatest jobs president that God ever created, but this guy Mcquaid. First he wants ads and I see he's doing very badly. He tells me the paper is doing terribly which it is. It's doing very badly. He's gonna move out of his space or something because the building is like an empty building but I don't care about that stuff and then he calls me up, fairly short time ago and he says would you do me a favor. What? Because I have ten million between facebook and Twitter, more than ten million people. I have a big following 19:40:55 He said could you do me a favor. Chris Christie is not on the big stage. Could you tweet that he should be. Think of it (booing) Now he may try and deny it but it's awfully tough. I didn't put it there for my health. Go check it out. I said do you really want me to do that. I mean it sounds a little bit strange for me to be saying, you're supposed to get on there by yourself right. He said, well I would consider it a favor. I tweet: It would be nice to have Christie on the stage. I felt a little weird. People calling me saying what'd you do that for. I said Joe Mcquaid from the.. I figure I'll get some better treatment, right? Then he asks me for different things and then he asks me. He said would you play a round of golf with me up in New Hampshire. 19:41:34 At his course. He's a member of a course. So, I said I can't take that much time Joe. I'm not like President Obama, the guy is out forever (applause). I just can't take that much time. I said Joe I can't take a whole day just to play golf. I just can't do it. He said, would you then come and have lunch with me at this club. Nice club and very nice I said alright. So I come up I made a speech. I was with a group so I wasn't so bad. I then go over, we have lunch. I meet his, he's riding me, he's walking me all over the place saying hello the people. This is Trump. I'm not bragging, I'm just saying he's having a good time right. I'm sitting there: I order a hamburger. This is all about a hamburger. I think he paid for the meal too. I saw him on television. He said oh well he looked like he didn't know what hit him because I believe in hitting back, don't you think so (applause) 19:42:32 Look at this sleeze bag. WIth all of the things I do. but here's the big thing. So he's doing a debate or as he calls it a forum, and it's like the night before FOX and everybody is talking about it all over the world for months and is becoming bigger and bigger, didn't used to be big, but when I got involved it became big. I mean VAriety, all the Hollywood things, they call it the Trump debate. So, number one, I didn't really wanna come up here, but I was the only one. I said Joe I can't do it. I'm not doing it. I wrote him a note. I said I'm not doing it. I don't feel good about doing it. I don't know how it pertains and actually it was a disaster. Very few people went and it got very very low ratings. Almost nobody watched and Bush had a bad night. I'm not knocking him, but he had a horrible night. He shouldn't have done the debate. It was very bad for him, but they did it because the union leader they figure has some power. It used to have power when it was run by the Loeb family. They did a great job, but it's lost it's power I think. I don't know. I mean maybe it has more power than I think but I watch this guy and honestly he's a loser. 19:43:35 So listen. He wants me to come up and do the debate and I say Joe I really don't think it's appropriate. I speak to the people at Fox and I say how would you feel if I went and did a debate, they weren't exactly thrilled, because they wanna have the big first debate. They don't wanna have me debating, and I didn't do it. I think I was the only one. Some did it by satellite. I think I was the only one.. they were down senators. They were down.. they thought they were gonna do well, it hasn't worked out for them either, but they did by satellite, and it was over, it was done, nobody cared and it was . I looked at the seats, there were a lot of empty seats in the auditorium and it was a disaster. I should get credit for that. They call that vision. Just like vision was don't go into Iraq even though you're strong on the military don't go into Iraq. You'll destabilize the middle east. Vision was writing about Osama bin Laden in my book in 2000. I wrote about Osama bin Laden. Joe Scarborough, a great host in the morning, morning Joe. He said, wait a minute, Trump wrote about bin Laden 2 years before the World Trade Center came down. 19:44:42 Somebody should have gone out and gotten him, and I wrote about him because I would see him and read about him and he was a very threatening guy. I said we gotta take this guy out, but I wrote about him. That's what you need, but I should get credit for not doing the debate. So I didn't do the debate. He was really furious. He was very very angry and I wrote him a nice letter afterwards. I said sorry I just can't and it probably means you won't endorse me, but I can't do it. Okay, but in the meantime I've done all these things. I've made big contributions to charity, I came up and made speeches with him. I thought I got along with him fine and then what happens? So tell me what happens. he endorses Christie and that was okay and I figured that was gonna happen because when he called me up a couple of months ago to see if I could get Christie onto the main stage, I said I think he's gonna endorse Christie right? 19:45:12 Why would he be doing that and the first time I met with him, he said I'll never endorse Christie and the reason he said that, he hated that Christie embraced Obama so strongly before the election. I happen to think, I don't know if it cost him the election, but it cost him a lot of votes and there are many people that think that endorsement, when Obama went to New Jersey, that endorsement was responsible for the loss of the Republican party and Romney. It was certainly not good. When I saw it, I said I think he's gonna vote for Obama. I called a friend of mine who's involved with him, and I said is he voting for Obama. It was terrible. It was where they had the food and the hurricane and Obama went to New Jersey and it was like, he was a little child Christie, like he was .. (audience member screams "Give him a hamburger") . Right! Only in New Hampshire could this happen. 19:46:19 But it's called spirit by the way and you're okay. I didn't knock you for that. I think it's very cool (talking to audience member) . But, so he told me, that was terrible and I said, I came out and told my people, this was a long time ago when I first met Joe Mcquaid. I think the first time. I said I really think the one person he's not going to endorse is Christie because he couldn't stand the fact that he did this. 19:46:45 What he did, what he did is he endorsed Christie and that's fine, I mean you can do it. But he doesn't understand the Star Ledger which is the big paper in New Jersey said he must have made a mistake, there must be something wrong. Nobody called us, you have had tremendous downgrades either 9 or 11 downgrades of the bonds, it's number 50 out of 50 in terms of economic development and in terms of the economy. It's like one of the worse in the country for jobs. It's a disaster, I have property in NJ, the taxes are through the roof, they are through the roof, and you go through it so you have Obama, I don't call it a hug, I call it a hug mentally, it was like, it was unbelievable, it was like a little boy, oh I am with the president, remember he flew in the helicopter and he was all excited to be in the helicopter. I said I would have put you in my helicopter, it's much nicer. [LAUGHTER] It's true. No I thought it was a terrible thing. Ok, So what else happened? The George Washington Bridge. Now, he's got 3 or 4 people they are with him everyday, you , a lot of you people you have companies, you have friends and you are with the friends everyday, right, and you have breakfast. 19:47:55 He would have lunch or breakfast with them all the time and dinner, with this little group of you know, his cabinet. now the George Washington Bridge is the largest in the United States and it's the most travelled on Bridge I believe in the United States. They wanted as retribution for the mayor of Fort Lee New Jersey, they wanted close it, I don't know why, because nobody is going to think about the mayor of Fort Lee, nobody even knows it's in Fort Lee. They are going to think the governor of New Jersey is doing a bad job. But they close the bridge. Now, you just, put yourself in a common sense mode, you are with your cabinet, you are with them all the time, they are closing the biggest bridge in the United State, the most travelled on bridge, one of them in the world, most travelled on in the United States, you are doing that and you are not telling the governor and you are with him all the time. 19:48:45 You are not saying Governor by the way, sir, we are closing the George Washington bridge tonight. No, you are having lunch and you don't happen to bring it up. Does anybody believe that? Honestly. Is there one person? No. [CROWD: NO] Is there one percent chance. 19:49:02 And I'm not, I've been friends with Christie, but when Mcquaid who is really Christie's lapdog, I will tell you. First of all I know you're happy he's up here because he's up here but the people of New Jersey wanna throw him out of office. They say why isn't he running New Jersey. We're a disaster state, we're going to hell, and our governor is up in New Hampshire every single day having town hall meetings. He ought to be doing it in New Jersey in all fairness. We love New Hampshire but he shouldn't be up here all the time. He's supposed to be running a state so what happens is Mcquaid endorses Christie. I thought that was a really strange endorsement because again 11 or 9 out of 9 downgrades. The whole thing and I think that it's an incredible circumstance so that was okay too but the star ledger wrote a whole big thing about how could they possibly do it, and they said he's one of the worst governors in the history of the state. How could they possibly do this endorsement. They didn't understand it, and they said they never even called us. You know normally you call the big newspaper in New Jersey, and they'd say what do you think. It was, I don't know strange thing. So what happens is the following 19:50:16 I figured that's okay, but I've been really nice. I get killed! I get absolutely killed. Today, this guy writes a front page story about me. A lot of what he said is really good. I'm tough and I am tough and you know we need a little toughness now (applause) . But it's a dying paper and again this was a big power here years ago. Although, think of this. In 36 years since 1980, think of that. They've picked one president. It was Ronald Reagan. They endorsed one guy who ran and won for president. Their one out of a 36 year period. They've got one and they're not gonna win this time I can tell you. I mean one thing I'll say.. they didn't pick the guy who's gonna win because that would have been easy. We're gonna win right. (loud cheering) I respect it. So, just to finish this story. (crowd gets rowdy) PART 2 19:51:32 Okay thank you.(scuffle in audience, protester escorted out) (USA! chants) .. You know it's always a single and whatever that happens, they make that the big story. Imagine with all these people . I tell the story. The first couple of times I was rough. Get them out of here. I want him out of here, and the next day they said Trump was brutal. he's a horrible human being. The next time it happened . I said be nice. Be really nice. Please don't hurt him. The next day they said Trump is a much weaker person than we thought. I can't win. So you're too tough or you're too, whatever. But I will just tell you, I said there's no way because I did so much for this guy, a sleeze bag. There's no way he'll say badly about me because I mean he actually told a big announcer that Trump is a wonderful guy. Can you believe it? Then he writes this stuff. 19:52:55 So, he's controlled and I just have to tell you. Your paper, it's not a good paper. You know it's dying. I don't think it's gonna be in business more than two years. He told me it's doing.. they gotta move out of their building and the whole thing. They let John and some other guys go that our fantastic people and writers, but I just wanna tell you. I think it's a very disloyal act when you're nice to a person. If he endorsed Christie, I don't care. That's up to him, but you don't go and try to hurt someone that's been helping you and that really has done a good job, okay? You don't do that so here you can have it darling (tosses newspaper to audience) (applause) That's all it's worth, a piece of garbage. 19:53:38 So we our going to make our country strong, we're gonna make it great, we're going to make it safe. Now, what has happened and it's interesting because I had a big boost in the polls. I was at 28, now I'm at 39 in CNN and 42 in Morning Consult and others and what happened is Paris, what happened is California where these radicalized people went wild and you know what I did. I said we have to find out what's going on folks, we have to find out what's going on. There's too much hatred, there's too much anger, there's too much killing. We have to find out what's going on. I mean we can continue to be nice and stupid and soft and our country is going to go to hell. We have these people coming in now from Syria where nobody knows anything about them. 19:54:26 They are young they are strong, mostly men, you look at this migration and it looks like an army. I mean you don't see many women, you don't see many children, you look at the men, they are not as strong as you by the way, you look stronger, that's good. But you look at these men, they are strong, fit, they look physically fit, you actually say why aren't they back home fighting for their country? You know, what are they doing? So, we are bringing them in and then you saw they have cell phones, some of them, many of them have cell phones and they have the ISIS flag on it. Ok? they have, I don't know if you saw that one? And then you saw where they've come up with a counterfeiting of our passports. Did you see that? Where they actually have our passport and they have a printing machine now, these are not stupid people, we need smart people, we need tough but we need smart. 19:55:11 Tough is no good, we need tough, we need smart. We need really smart, because these are not stupid people. so now they have our passports And then we take people in and we know sometimes they are with ISIS. And they come back and they are fighting for ISIS, kill friends of ours, kill us, cause eventually they are just going to say why do I have to away for, let's just do it at home. and when you think about it we let them back into the country, now we know they are ISIS. Why are we letting them back in? I gotta tell you, one of the first things I am doing they are not coming back in, they go out they gone. They gone, they gone. [APPLAUSE] 19:55:52 No, it's terrible, it's terrible, so when I started off my campaign was very much about economic development and we are gonna stop with China who is just absolutely ripping us, I have to say that, they are ripping, like we have a trade imbalance, we have a deficit with China of almost 500 billion dollars a year, a deficit. In other words 500 billion and then I hear people say [unclear] I am a free trader, but I hear people say, oh no, you want free trade, yea I want free trade, but I want to be like smart trade. like let's break even, I even take breaking even, but I don't want to lose 505 billion dollars a year for the privilege of being ripped off by china, I don't want that. It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. With Japan, you know they send us their cars, we have all, by the way we have all the cards, we have all the cards, but we have people that don't have any idea about negotiation or, or they are bought off by their lobbyists and by the special interest, cause I actually said nobody can be that incompetent. You know some of these deals we make folks, it's not because they are incompetent, actually they are very competent for themselves, but they are not really incompetent. 19:57:05 They are lobbyists, they are special interest, when somebody gives Hillary, you know 10 million dollars and 5 million dollars, and 2 million dollars, and they are on Wall Street and you know she is trying to go back a little bit, she is trying to go to the left a little bit because she's got this wackjob, this wako named Bernie Sanders. He was telling people well Trump and I have some of the same people, I don't think there is too many Bernie Sanders people here. [BOOING] Well we have a few different, although he does agree that we are getting ripped off in trade, that's one thing I'll say. the one thing I agree with, he is very strong, he feels we are getting rip-- the problem is he can't do anything about the rip off, he won't be able to do anything I am very good at that.That's what I do. But you know, the one big thing he wants to double and triple your taxes and give everybody everything free. and you are gonna pay for it, your taxes are going through the roof. [BOOING] 19:57:56 Can't do it. You can't do it and I am cutting your taxes down very very low, you saw my tax plan. Cut it. Cutting it way down. We are cutting business taxes down. We are cutting all of them down. So I can't imagine this guy has a chance but I heard yesterday he is trying to get some of my people, and I said, I don't know is he talking about the same people that I am talking about? I don't think so. So anyway, but he wants to do massive, massive, massive tax increases. And people don't talk about that. And Hillary Clinton doesn't talk about it. And the reason I am talking about it, I think you know and I am saying this and I really mean it, she does not mean it when she talks about Trump. It was so funny today when they said actually, I think maybe she is not wanting Trump so badly. But I will tell you, and I am telling you this very strongly, first of all she has committed a criminal act. [CHEERING] A criminal act. 19:58:55 What she did with the emails was criminal according to every single person that I have met that knows this stuff, and not just in one, and Benghazi also, although Benghazi was different, Benghazi she was too lazy to answer phone calls. Remember her commercial? About the phone ringing at night? Guess what she didn't answer it. She didn't answer it. Did you see where the ambassador sent 700 or 500 calls in, emails, everything, and yet she spoke to a friend many times. But they saw they were in trouble, and many many emails were coming, she didn't even ever respond. And remember that commercial, it was a pretty famous commercial, who do you trust at night? Obviously they didn't trust her because Obama [DOESN'T SAY IT] her. Can I say the word? Obama [...] I won't. By the way, that word, that's a common word in New York. And it means to be beaten badly. I won't give the press any more fun with it. And by the way also NPR, ok, National Public Radio, one of the most revered MCs, political people, one of the most revered used it and he used the exact same word, even the ed at the end, for him it was ok , for Trump it's horrible. But what it means is to be beaten badly, I mean that's what it means, I guess it has other meanings but it means and what I meant is to be beaten badly. I won't use it again today, we don't want to make that the story, we want to make other things the story. 20:00:32 But, but, but, if you look at what's going on and you see what's happening we have all of the power economically, we have tremendous power because China, remember this, it's one of the greatest thefts in the history of the world what china has done to our country. If you look at what Mexico is doing to our country, it's a mini version of what China does and you people know better because all the jobs that went down to Mexico, you practically know better than anybody because they came right out of New Hampshire, they came out of New England and you have suffered because of crazy policies and it doesn't help us. So, with Mexico we have the wall, we have the border, we're gonna do everything right. They're gonna respect us more by doing what we're going to do. I tell the story with Ford. Does everybody know the ford story? 20:01:23 The ford story and just simple. I mean it's such a great story because it's so simple but Ford is gonna spend 2 and a half billion dollars building a plant in Mexico so that means they're gonna close different plants mostly in Michigan I guess and how does this help us and then we take their cars, trucks, and parts , no tax, no nothing, like people that don't know what they're doing. Next thing they're gonna have the illegals drive them write across the board. Might as well. If Hillary gets in that's what's gonna happen. Ford will build its plants and the illegals will drive their cars right in and they'll probably give them the car too. Might as well have the car. They won't give them to our vets but they'll give them to the illegals. So I said that's not gonna happen and I tell the story. I'm just doing an abbreviated because a lot of you heard it, but a lot of people didn't hear it and it's so good. 2 and a half billion dollars Ford is spending 20:02:19 And they're spending it in Mexico. by the way Nabisco now is closing their big plant in Chicago and they're moving it to Mexico, why. We're never gonna have an Oreo right? No more oreos for Trump, which is a good thing, not a bad thing. That's good in a lot of different ways, but with Ford, they're gonna send their cars. Now here's what happens. When Hillary gets called and she knows, these aren't stupid people. She knows it's no good for our country, but her lobbyists and her special interests our all getting paid by different companies including Ford and various others and they're gonna say, you can't. the super pacs, the crooked super pacs, how crooked our those super pacs, man. They are bad news. They are so crooked. They are bad news. We had a super pac set up for Trump. I didn't even know who the hell the people were. You see people on television. One of them did the art of the deal pac. Two nice looking young guys. I saw them on FOX They were being interviewed. I don't know what they're gonna do with the money. I have no idea what they're gonna do. Some of the candidates now have their super pacs running their campaigns. They've given up, but the super pacs are running and I think it's, I guess it's, not correct. They're not supposed to be doing it. I guess you could say it's illegal, but you're not supposed to be doing it, but these super pacs our out of control. So, with Ford. Ford has this plant and Hillary let's say finds out and she says I don't want it, I don't want it, and then she'll be called by one of her donors, by special interests, or a lobbyist and they'll say we gave you 5 million dollars, you can't do that, that would be very disloyal, etc. 20:03:52 And bottom line, they will fold 100% With me, I don't take any of their money. I have turned down so much money, it sickens me to think of it because my whole (applause) No! My whole life has been taken money, that's what I do.. We're business people. We take money. Take, take, take. Some people said he plays too tough a game. We need somebody who's gonna play . yeah. I play tough. We play. We do it. It's a game, at a certain point, and now I wanna put that, whatever that is. I wanna put that to use so that we get rid of some of the 19 trillion, which by the way is going to 21 trillion and did you see what was passed weeks ago (booing) It won't happen. 20:04:40 Here we are. So we're disappointed in Democrats. I'm more disappointed in the Republicans, that the Republicans let that get passed. The visas, the Syrians, all funded. The everything, the border, coming through. Everything is funded. That is one of the most disgraceful thing I've ever seen and it took what, 24 hours? It was like done. These Republicans, they were gonna go down . I'm a Republican. I'm a conservative and some don't like me because I tell the truth. They were gonna go down to Washington and they were gonna raise their hand against Obamacare, they didn't fo it. They were gonna kill Obamacare, they didn't do it. They even had a judge that should have don it. Judge Roberts. He didn't do it (booing) 20:05:23 He had two chances to do it. The first time 100%, the second time would have made it so it would have gone fast. It's gonna go anyway. Here's the good news. It's going anyway. (cheering) . The beautiful thing about if I run and if I win. So I run, and I say this. If I run and if I win I'll be able to undo these horrible rules and regulations that have been crippling our businesses. (audience member: "You'd win") TRUMP:I hope so because I'm working my ass off. (cheering) This beautiful young guy. He's not gonna be voting for another ten years but I'll tell you what I appreciate it. He's shouting make America great again. I appreciate it, but I am working. I'm working really hard and frankly I'm doing it because I've always had a talent at getting things good and I've had a talent at money and we need it. We have to have a talent and I made the statement about a month ago. I said we wanna make our country rich again and then we're gonna make it great again and a woman came up to me and said Mr. Trump that sounds very crude to say. I said do me a favor, it's not crude. We gotta make it rich. We're a (?) nation right now. We're a third world nation. If you look at our school system, we're in 28th position. We spend the most per student by far. The second is so far behind us and we're number 28 in the world in schools and by the way common core. Gone! (applause) 20:07:00 Common core is gone. Second amendment, yes! We're keeping second amendment. Obama's looking to do in my opinion, an executive order on the second amendment. I think he's looking because he can't get the support and I think that's gonna be a problem. That could be a tough one of rihm. i think he's gonna do some kind of executive order on the second amendment just based on what I'm feeling and what I'm seeing and I'll tell you (booing) that's gonna be a rough one because there's nobody more impassioned than the people that believe strongly in the second amendment. I'll tell you about the second amendment. If in California or in Paris frankly, we're not talking second amendment Paris, but when these animals came in and they started shooting in the various places in Paris, if we had a couple of people like you and like you (pointing to people in audience) a couple of people, 2 or 3, definitely you guys. They wouldn't have gotten off the first shot. This guy. But you know what Paris and France have the toughest gun control laws in the world. Nobody has guns except the bad guys okay. 20:08:12 So they walk in with AK47s and they walk in with all this stuff and you know they have it, they bring it in, it's not so hard to get it in if you don't mind breaking the law. They were the only ones with any weapons and they had big weapons, powerful weapons. I mean hundred and thirty people dead, many more our gonna die. You have people hanging by a thread in hospitals and they were just shooting people randomly and then the press calls the guy, the head guy with the dirty what, they call him a mastermind, and I've been hitting them so hard. I said don't call him a mastermind because they are playing the Internet better than we do. We invented the Internet, they play it better than we do. They radicalize people over the Internet. So I said to them, the press, don't call him mastermind and I've been saying that for three weeks and I don't hear it anymore. I said he's a low class sleaze bag who happens to be dead right now and I call him the guy with the dirty hat, okay because that's a good expression and they go in and they shoot people. 20:09:11 Now if one you folks had a gun strapped to your waist or on your ankle and you could say whoa look at that, that's not good and they received a little fire. It would have been people hurt, but it would have been a very small number by comparison and I know one thing, they would be gone but we don't have that and when you think about it, same thing in California, they walk into a room with no guns, no anything, innocent people, they were friends. These people threw them like an anniversary party or something. There's a sickness going. This radicalization is very, it's a real sickness. I say it's a sickness and someone will say that's not nice. Folks, there's something wrong. We gotta find out what's going wrong. There's something really bad happening. 20:10:03 So they go in and they shoot all those people. 14/16 people dead, others going to die and they shoot them. If a couple of people had guns in that room, it wouldn't have been that way. You don't need to have everybody. If a few of the people had guns, it wouldn't have been that way and you can say it for everybody. How about the army base where the six soldiers were killed and two of them were like world class, I mean these were top of the line soldiers. One of them was a world class marksman, and they had a gun free zone on a military base. You believe this. First thing I'll do. We're gonna take care of our vets, we're gonna take care of our police because our police our being mistreated terribly. 20:10:49 And we are gonna end free zones on military bases. That's gonna end day one. That's an executive order if I ever saw one. That's gonna end day one. SO when I'm with friends from New York, liberal, they say we're against guns, and then I go into Paris. I say let's assume that we're in PAris and they're shooting us and everybody's standing there like "oh please" (puts hands u8p like he's surrendering) . and they're saying "you over here," boom. This is what was happening. Come over here, boom. Nobody could do anything. They were helpless. It was horrible. When you hear the stories. It was horrible. I explain that to these guys, these people that wanna knock out the second amendment. They lose the debate so badly that they're embarrassed. They don't even wanna talk about it. Well let's go to a different subject. And the next day, so have you have changed your mind. They don't change their mind and I'm not even saying they're bad people. There's something gone wrong there, but we our going to have a strong second amendment. We our going to keep it. We're not gonna let them play with the bullets. They wanna take away the bullets. one of the concepts, because it doesn't necessarily talk about bullets so they wanna take away your ammunition. We're gonna have a strong second amendment. We're gonna have it. 20:12:07 And it's better for the country. It's strong, it's good. I have two young sons, they're hunters, and they've been for the NRA for so long. So am I but they've been in for so long. And Hillary wants to take away your guns, and that is such a bad thing. She wants to take away your guns folks and I'll tell you what. They say the Republicans have a structural problem and we do, it's harder for a Republican to win. We have certain structural problems, but when you talk about the guns, the common core, different things, we have some big advantages over them, but the guns our going to be so safe. Another thing that's going to be safe is this great state so I wanna tell you, and as I said it's going to be and you know what's going and it's going on in lots of circles where they wanna and I don't know but they wanna do something bad to New Hampshire. it's not gonna happen if I win. That I can tell you. I give you my word. never gonna happen. 20:13:15 So, I just wanna finish by saying that we're gonna strong, we're gonna be smart, but we have to be unpredictable so I'll go to these debates and I'll have some of these people, some our excellent and some our real sleaze. You know the ones I'm talking about. Mr. Trump, what do you think of this and that and that. I said that's not a question. That's a statement. We know who they are, but I say to them and I say it strongly, I say we have to be unpredictable. They say what would you do with ISIS. I hated to say that I was gonna bomb the hell out of the oil, but I had to say it eventually. That's one problem, I had to say it and now people are saying it. I've been saying it for years, but I don't wanna say everything. i wanna be unpredictable. I wanna be a General Patton, a General Macarthur. We wanna go in, we don't want them to know what the hell we're doing. We have to go in and a lot of people love it when I say that. 20:14:13 It's the kind of thing, and then the MCs our gonna say well he didn't know...I did know. I know so much. Remember, Osama bin Laden in my book. Remember bomb the oil. For years I've been saying it, but I said bomb it and keep it. There's a difference because I wanted to give a lot of money to the vets and the families of the vets that were killed and to the wounded warriors. These are the greatest people, the way they go through life and a big smile on their face. I wanted to give plenty and we'd have so much left. We'd have so much, but I wanted to keep it, but look. We're going to do something. I am so happy I did this. I really was torn. I said to my wife on June.. (points to audience member) Thanks I appreciate it. i said to my wife, boy and in Trump tower, I went down the famous escalator where she was elegant and I was waving and it's a pretty famous scene and from day one we hit it in the head and we took a lot of heat and a lot of abuse and everyone's now coming back, same thing with the Muslim situation. I took a lot of heat two or three days of heat and now people are saying you know maybe he's right. Now they're all talking about it. Someone had to bring it up and I'll tell you what if I didn't bring it up it would have never been brought up and we have Muslims that our wonderful. 20:15:38 We have wonderful people, but there's something going on there. They have to turn in, like for instance, these people in California. People knew he had bombs all over the floor. People knew, why didn't they turn him in. You gotta turn them in. Because it's their culture, they're around each other, they see each other, they know what's going on. You gotta turn them in. You can't have people dying. You can't let this happen. So, I brought that up. When I brought up illegal immigration, you wouldn't even have that as a topic if I didn't bring it up. Nobody was even talking about it and it turns out to be a very big topic. 20:16:13 So, I just finish by saying this. It's so important that on February 8th, 9th. What you should do on February 8th stand there. (laughter) Because you know what you're gonna have tremendous numbers at those polls, but it's so important that you get there early and on February 9th, you get in and vote. It's so important because otherwise it's just all a big waste of time. I got a call from one of the most prominent reporters and very highly respected and he said to me. I don't know, but he's one of the most respected in the world actually and I took his call and he said how does it feel and I said how does what feel. he said what you've done nobody else has ever ever done in the history of politics in this country. 20:17:10 And even the other day CNN said number one story, Trump. NBC said number on story, Trump. So many of them, number on story Trump, Trump, Trump. Okay that's fine, but you know what he said how does it feel. I said I don't know what you mean. He said what you've done. I said look, let me just tell you a little secret. I said what I've done doesn't mean anything if I don't win, to me. It really doesn't, and he said no no. It doesn't matter if you win or lose. What you've done is you've changed the whole dialogue. You've changed everything. You've changed politics as we know it, and I wanna know how you feel. I say, I will let you know after I win because honestly unless I win, it doesn't mean a damn thing to me. I can tell you that (applause) 20:17:57 So, on the 9th. It's like when I talk to the folks In iowa. I think we're gonna have tremendous success in Iowa, meaning, and I say you because we're all together. It's not me, we're all together. This is a movement folks. You'll get one of these other candidates up here and they'll have 30 people, 40 people, 28 people. It's true. I see it. We had a thing where we had 4,500 people in New Hampshire and Bush was down the road, meaning like 30 miles down the road. It's New Hampshire, it's a long way, and he had a 109 people. We had 4,500 people. This is a movement. An unbelievable thing is happening and I don't even use the term silent majority because they're really a noisy group of people. It's true (applause) 20:18:49 So I've been saying and to a large extent this ture, the American dream is dead, but I'm gonna make it bigger and stronger, more powerful and more beautiful than ever. More beautiful than ever. Remember that, and just to finish off we our going to make America great again. I love you. Thank you everybody [end]