committee investigation and the 2020 election. >> ♪ i'm proud to be un-american where -- i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free ♪ and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me

from the lakes of minnesota to the hills of tennessee across the plains of texas from sea to shining sea from detroit down to houston and new york to l.a. there is pride in every american heart and it's time we stand and say i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today because there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the usa

and i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today cause there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the usa ♪ ♪ mr. trump: thank you very much, thank you. >> usa! >> usa! usa! mr. trump: i want to thank

everybody. it's wonderful to see some many friends and familiar faces. it's a great honor to be with you. i want to begin by thanking the america first policy institute. my, you have come a long way. and in particular to recognize the america first institute president brooke rollins. another fantastic woman is linda mcmahon, chairwoman. and my friend larry kudlow. when i want to learn about the markets, i called larry. we are honored to be joined as well by house republican leader and a good friend of mine, kevin mccarthy. and i see your friend steve. you don't leave without kevin.

two great people. and also to the many members. i would introduce you but there are so many. many members of the house and senate, state and local leaders, and countless other distinguished guests. thank you all for being here. a real pleasure to be with you. two years ago with the help of many in this room, we had a booming economic recovery like nobody has seen before, the strongest and most secure border in u.s. history, energy independence and even dominance, historically vogue gas prices. no inflation, a fully rebuilt military, and a country that was highly respected by other leaders, other countries. very simply, we had made america great again and we did it by

putting workers first, putting families first, and putting america first. [applause] but now our country has been brought to its knees, literally. who would have thought this could happen? inflation is the highest in 49 years, 9.1%, and a lot of people think it is much higher. gas prices have reached the highest in the history of the country. we have become a beggar nation, groveling to other countries for energy. millions of illegal aliens are stampeding across our wide open borders, pouring into our country. it's an invasion. democrat run cities are setting all-time murder records. our country is being dealt one humiliation after another on the world stage.

at home our basic rights and liberties are under siege. the american dream is being torn to shreds and we will not have a country left if this economic and social attack on civilization is not quickly reversed. newt gingrich, a friend of mine in our audience, told me our country has not been this weak in terms of prestige, economics, and respect since the civil war. yet there is time for us to bring america back from the brink. it is at the brink. got to bring it back from the brink. we gather today on the verge of an historic midterm election. the american people are poised to reject the failed reign of joe biden, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, and the radical left in a momentous landslide. this november the people are going to vote to stop the

destruction of our country and they are going to vote for america's future. i am here to talk about what we must do to achieve that future. when we win a triumphant victory in 2022 and when a republican president takes over the white house in 2020 four, which i strongly believe will happen -- [applause] there is a tremendous amount to be done, from reviving our economy to liberating our energy to restoring our standing in the world. for this afternoon, i want to speak about some of the core elements of our agenda, in particular public safety, of which we have very little.

there is no higher priority than cleaning our streets, controlling our borders, stopping drugs from pouring in, and restoring law and order in america. [applause] under the democrat rule in democrat run cities, democrat run states, and a democrat run federal government, the criminals have been given free reign more than ever before. there has never been a time like this. our streets are riddled with needles and soaked with the blood of innocent victims. many of our once great cities from new york to chicago to l.a. where the middle class used to flock to live the american dream are now literal war zones. every day there are stabbings, rapes, murders, and. violent assaults of every kind.

violent turf wars rage without mercy. parents are worried their kids will get shot on the way to school or the way back home. sadists who prey on children are released on bail, but there is no bail and no bond. unique, never happened before. drugged out lunatics attack innocent victims at random. roving mobs of thieves walk into the store and walk out with whatever merchandise they can carry. they are left alone. nobody tells them, don't do this, put it back now. homeless encampments are taking over every public park and every patch of green space in previously beautiful urban centers and the dangerously deranged rome our streets with impunity. we are living in a different

country for one primary reason, there is no longer respect for the law and there certainly is no order. our country is a cesspool of crime. we have blood, death, and suffering on a scale once unthinkable because of the democratic party's effort to dismantle law enforcement throughout america. it has to stop and it has to stop now. [applause] in philadelphia last month, a 73 year old man was walking along the street when he was approached by a band of seven teenagers, who attacked him for sport and beat him to death with a traffic cone. beat him like you have never seen anyone beaten before, laughing as they bludgeoned the life from their helpless victim, cackling as they left his body

on the side of the road, dead. in new york, a 35 year old woman was stalked back to her building by a homeless career criminal. he slipped into her apartment as she opened the door, stabbed her repeatedly as she screamed for help, and left her bleeding to death in her own bathtub. previously, that man had been arrested and released more than half a dozen times. here in washington, d.c., just a few weeks ago, a hardworking landscaper made the horrible mistake, had the misfortune, to blow a few blades of grass into a sitting car. and he was bludgeoned, absolutely bludgeoned and shot, cold blooded, point blank range, leaving behind a grieving wife and two children. he was a good man. everybody loved him.

there are so many stories, i could fill a whole speech with them. i could go on for months and years. a pregnant woman murdered outside her home as she unloaded the gifts from her baby shower. a young girl, struck in the head with a bullet while driving her family on her 12th birthday. a 61-year-old woman burglarized, raped, murdered, and set on fire in her home. a 70-year-old woman and her 38-year-old daughter viciously stabbed to death by a man who had been arrested for felony arson just eight days prior and was immediately released. just last saturday, a man was struck by a car while crossing the street in new york. and the driver pulled over and robbed him as he lay unconscious, struggling for his life. you probably saw that. last night. he was so badly hurt, he was unconscious and he was robbed by the person that hit him.

the car. all on tape. some of these chilling stories are difficult to hear. but the american people need to hear them, and you have to hear them. especially the politicians in the audience that are going to give us the power to bring our country back and to make our country safe. murder in our country is up 51%. we must never allow ourselves to grow numb to the violence that is tearing apart the fabric of our nation. it's time to have the courage to say what needs to be said and to do what needs to be done to keep america safe. we have never had a time like this. we have never had anything close to what's happening right now. we owe it to the victims, we owe it to our families, and we owe it to our country to do the right thing. in the make america great again movement, we believe that every citizen of every background should be able to walk anywhere in this nation at any hour of the day, without even a thought

of being victimized by violent crime. if we don't have safety, we don't have freedom, we don't have a country. america first must mean safety first. we have to have safety. starting with our new majorities in congress next year, and continuing on to the next republican president, we need an all out effort to defeat violent crime in america and strongly defeat it and be tough and be nasty and be mean if we have to. here is what we must do. [applause] -- to restore public safety. [applause] first we have to give our police back their authority, resources, power, and prestige. [applause] we have to leave our police alone.

every time they do something, they're afraid they're going to be destroyed, their pension is going to be taken away, they'll be fired, they will be put in jail. let them do their job, give them back the respect that they deserve. [applause] our great police know what to do. we have to allow them to do it. we need to return to stop and frisk policies in cities and not shy away from it. [applause] i watched as other politicians recently apologized for stop and frisk, where cities were safe. and they apologized. and those cities are no longer safe. stop and frisk, it works. do it judiciously, but it works and it has worked brilliantly. take the guns away from the

criminals who shouldn't be having guns. let the people that have to have guns, that need to have guns, let them have them, but take them away from the criminals. [applause] if you are a convicted felon and you have a gun, you are off the streets and you know where you go. the mere concept of defunding the police should never again be stated or even heard. it is so ridiculous and so dangerous. likewise, the idea of stripping them of their liability shields. think of that. they're in trouble. go out and hire your own lawyer. we won't protect you. we cannot strip them of their liability shield in any way, shape, or form. we have to stay with our police officers. we are never going to have the great officers that we have had over the years.

our police officers are heroes performing a great service at great personal risk. it's unbelievably dangerous, more dangerous today by far than it has ever been. rare mistakes are made but we cannot allow every isolated policing mistake to be turned into a national crisis and all power taken from the police so people are killed all over the streets of our country. the radical left anti-police narrative is a total lie. let's call it the big lie. have you ever heard that expression before? [applause] the big lie. that's why next year our new majorities in congress should vote to strengthen qualified immunity and other protections for our great police officers. they have to become our heroes. they are mine. but some people don't feel that way.

they have to feel that way if we are going to have a great and safe country. law enforcement, heroes of our time. they do their duty to protect u.s. citizens and protect everybody, whether our country or other countries coming to pay their respects to the united states, which they do less and less because they are afraid to come in. they see all these stories of the lack of safety. we must uphold our duty to protect our police officers because of the radical democrats and because of what they have done, driving record numbers of officers to resign. the new congress should immediately pass emergency funding to hire and retain tens of thousands more police officers across our country, to go the opposite direction. i haven't seen in a long time

and he bills wanting to be passed where they give the police strength. it's always, let's take more away. let's take more away. let's take immunity. let's take everything we can. take their pensions if they speak a little bit too tough. can't do that anymore. our country is going to hell and it is going to hell very fast. it's a very unsafe place. we need the largest increase in the hiring of police officers in american history. that is what this will be. we will get that done. i have no doubt, kevin, we will get that done. steve, we will get that done. to get more police on the streets than ever before, walking every beat and with great respect. there should be a squad car on every corner if that is what it takes to stop the killing. again, i don't want to make this partisan. but every city, every single city, is run by democrats. every single city. where it's in trouble, like the kind of trouble we are talking

about, it's run by democrats and the crazy policies that they put forth. and they can't believe them. and certainly after all this time with the bad results, you would say, gee, it's time to make a change. but i do believe even the majority of the democrats would say, because they don't want to be brutalized, the majority of democrat voters would say exactly what i'm saying is right. third, we need a no holds barred national campaign to dismantle gangs and organized street crime in america. [applause] during my presidency, we sent tens of thousands of ms13 gang members back out of our country. we either would ideally send them out and in some cases there -- they were so bad and so dangerous, we put them in jail because we didn't trust the other countries to hold them. you know other countries very happily send all their criminals now through our open border into

the united states. they are emptying their jails into the united states. we are like a dumping ground. we're not going to allow that to happen. we know where these gangs operate, what streets they control. we even know their names. the police officers know their names. the problem is they're not allowed to do anything about it. and they want to. we need to get in there immediately, go into every drug den, every stash house, every hideaway and round up the dealers and killers and gang members and charge them with any and every crime that we find, and there are a lot of them. drug crimes, sex crimes, all sorts of crimes. vicious, vicious horrible crimes like we have never seen before , certainly not on a scale like this. we are a war zone. to lead this effort, a joint violent crime task force composed of the department of justice and department of homeland security should be tasked with destroying these organizations and the penalties should be very severe. if you look at countries

throughout the world, the ones that don't have a drug problem are those that institute a very quick trial, death penalty sentence for drug dealers. it sounds horrible, doesn't it? but you know what? that is the ones that don't have any problem. it doesn't take 15 years in court. it goes quickly. and you absolutely execute a drug dealer and you will save 500 lives. because they kill on average 500 people. it is terrible to say, but you take a look at every country in this world that doesn't have a problem with drugs. they have a very strong death penalty for the people that sell drugs. if we are going to stop this scorch -- scourge -- [applause] it's time to get brutally tough

on the dealers and traffickers and narco terrorist cartels that are stealing over 200,000 american lives a year. and that's a very low number compared to what the real number is. think of it. 200,000. you don't lose that in wars. you don't lose that in wars. and yes, these drug traffickers should and must receive the death penalty. and i'll tell you, just from dealing with the heads of other countries -- i said to president xi of china, do you have a drug problem? no, no, no. why do you ask such a question? no. he almost didn't know what i was talking about. i said, why do you think? he said, if somebody is selling drugs, they get the quick trial. i said, quick trial? meaning, it goes fast. and they get the death penalty. when i asked him, i said, do you have in any way a drug problem?

they do have a drug problem. they make drugs and ship them into our country. but i had it stopped. that was a drug problem they had. we had it stopped. now it's bigger. fentanyl, they make most of it and they send it through mexico, through the border, and we had it just about stopped. and now the border, as you know, it's just a horrible situation. but you look at singapore, other countries where they have the death penalty, no drug problem whatsoever. and if we did that, in one year, even if it was not strong -- because it's never going to be quite like china, i would say. what do you think, kevin? i don't think so. no matter how tough we get, it won't be quite -- you know what a quick trial is? two hours, not two years, not 20 years. no, we will not have that. but just by the mere fact that you have that, immediately, newt, drug dealing would go down and deaths would go down by at least 50%. five-oh. [applause]

if the radical democrat politicians at the state and local levels refused to protect public safety and instead turned criminals loose to prey upon the innocent, then the federal government will have no choice but to step in, not wait for the governors anymore. i was mandated, wait for the governors, but sometimes i couldn't do that. i was watching too many things happening. minnesota, minneapolis, what would have happened if we didn't send in the national guard. they wouldn't have a city left. but you have to wait for the governors in theory. we shouldn't be doing that anymore. if a governor wants to have vast numbers of people killed and riots and all the problems that we have, we can't wait any longer. we are going to pass legislation where we can immediately go in and help those people that are under siege and they have governors that don't know what they're doing. [applause] under these circumstances, the

federal government has the right to do what they want to do, but we can't do that. we can't give that. it's a duty for us to use every tool, every authority and constitutional power at our disposal to defend the citizens of our country. if we have a weak, foolish, and stupid governor that is allowing the kinds of things that you saw to take place, we have to be able to go in and we need to be able to clean out the mess. and it needs to be cleaned out quickly, strongly. it needs to go fast. just last week, a man tried to stab a sitting member of congress, running for governor of new york. lee's eldon. good man. good person. [applause] and under the new york state policies, the attacker was released within hours on cashless bail. and according to a study reported last week in the wall street journal, a majority of murders in baltimore are

committed by suspects who should rightfully be in prison, but are instead roaming free under democrat rule. almost all democrat rule, amazing, isn't it? the next congress and the next president should crack down on this insanity and crack down very hard and very quickly. the civil liberties of people, the safety of law-abiding americans cannot be violated by weak mayors and cowardly governors or people who just don't know what they're doing.

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becomes when there are radical and racist prosecutors deny citizens the full protection of the law, they need to be investigated by the federal government and the systematic violations of the civil rights has to be taken care of where

there is a true and total breakdown of law and order citizens most basic rights are being violated, the federal government can and should send the national guard to restore order and secure the peace without having to wait the

approval of some governor that thinks it is politically incorrect to call them and. when governors refuse to protect the people we need to bring in what is necessary anyway, we have to go beyond the governor. another 60 people were shot is that even possible there were shot over the region, in afghanistan or 18 months, not

one of our soldiers was killed. they had that number of people shot. in chicago over the weekend, think of it, many died. that many are shot a letter going to die, this is constant in chicago, this cannot go on anymore. every other approach has been considered and tried and they have tried the week approach, they have been trying for years and really trying over the last couple of years and it is not working, just trying to -- time to go in a different direction only one option remains, the next president needs to send the national guard to the most dangerous to neighborhoods in

chicago until safety can be sick -- he was stabbed to death with a metal club. almost cause accurate if liberals think somehow compassionate let them try it. everyone was need to go to shelters, the long terry and appropriate sees, so many of our cities. the people that are in many cases that are crazed, very sick, it is not an option. we have a problem it is a big problem. the the hundreds of thousands of people getting worse all the time that, even at that the

owners of the hotels are unhappy because wealthy people are not staying there anymore, top 10's from being built on at beautiful d.c., the most of the night see people out immediately, secret service -- secret service did a phenomenal job we have five, 6, 8 when you have hundreds of them or even thousands of them, very hard to do, it comes too late, coming in today for the first time since i left washington dc with homeless is anywhere in the

world, you could lick my thick the spaces in the world do not look beautiful now, who will want to come to washington dc and perhaps even more importantly when a foreign leader comes and the meeting is here, it leaves such a bad impression. they go home and say what country has the nine states turned into? you have to see what i saw in, 30 they were littered with paper, the main highway and main roads coming in, the main roads that we all take. imagine, pay close without the tents, then you look at the tents of the home great -- and? perhaps some not like hearing this, the only way you will remove the hundreds of thousands of people, and many -- maybe

throughout our nation, with millions of people, to help make our cities clean, safe, beautiful again open up large parcels of an extended outer reaches of the city the hag -- drug rehab specialists, hard and fat and create thousand thousands of high-quality tents it can be done in one day, some people say the so horrible, what is horrible is what is happening now. now they are intense among my back on track, leave the intensity and get back into siding which is where they want a great thing,. the media will set tents, i want to take care of the people, nothing will be as bad as was happening to them right, you will have a time when no, nobody come to you, chicago,. to build millions of units of how people in luxury hotels that is costing a fortune for the government, and have no medical or rehab professionals available. they are not available. it is fruitless, is like setting up a blue-ribbon committee stuff with seeking socialites, i know them all, to hand over coyotes and caravans, the very tough drug dealers -- drug dealers and human traffickers, they set up blue ribbon committees everyone asks to be on a blue-ribbon committee they will our local committees deal with these challenges, the next congress should pass a reforms, cleaner streets are safer streets and i will happy -- i will be happy to help gameplaying -- campaign. speaking for kevin and stephen all the congressmen and senators in the room, i think we'll have no trouble getting votes for them, cleaning up our cities and cleaning up our country making it safer. by a lot. we must restore the age-old right to self-defense, you must be able to defend ourselves. we have all heard the story of the bodega worker on the nights in new york who was violently assaulted, violent, it was on camera and on tape three different directions come from a man attempting to steal a bag of potato chips, and he stabbed the man in self-defense, after being really roughed up and beat up and punched in the face.

the bodega worker has been charged with murder, after a lot of pressure the charges were dropped. the message sent by jailing this man is if you are attacked you must lie down as an act of sacrifice and allow yourself to be pummeled and beaten to death. reimagining public safety, the vision is sick. the federal government needs to address the right to protect the right to self-defense in every jurisdiction is now under threat . if necessary congress should pass legislation spurring the buy demonstration act, i do not know how they can say no to it, but they will find a way. we should also have concealed carry reciprocity. [applause]

number seven, federal, state, local government should aggressively enforce existing statutes to stop the perverted sexualization of minor children, we have the statute. [applause] a society that refuses to protect its children is a society that will soon will not be able to protect anybody. this is a hallmark of cultural and social decay against which we should fight back very hard and very soon, we do not have time to we used to do this. the sickos that are pushing sexual content in kindergarten, or providing puberty blockers fscoc to young children that have no idea what it puberty blocker is, neither do i by the

way. neither do most of the people in the audience. let's just say it is not good. not just engage in acts of depravity in many cases they are breaking the law and they should be held fully accountable. and by the way, we should not allow men to play in women's sports. [applause] so crazy. it just shows you what these

political geniuses, they have all these concerns. don't say that. it's very controversial. that's not written down anywhere. i just thought this might be a good time. and that gets the biggest hand. it's crazy. it's crazy. i tell the story of the great swimmer, beautiful woman, wonderful woman. she's been swimming for many years. she wants to break the world record. she thought the pool and you want to break it by an eighth of a second. that's like, fast. and she's going to do. it she's getting ready. she looks down, she sees people she's been competing with for years. because they rise to the top and she looks over here and she sees people. but then she looks. they called us. they see somebody with a man's body.

i said, you think it's ok to say that? that's actually the expression i used. bill change that soon, so i need to do a quickly. you know the guy, he was named female athlete of the year. did you know that? it is true. we're not dealing with things that are so easy here. this is a difficult place in the world. you would almost, say is the world going crazy? because 99% of the things i'm saying our common sense. but she looks over and sees our friends down there. lynch looks at the sky and is massive, has a wingspan with a -- with arms that are 30 feet long. and she was seriously injured during the meats, and she didn't break the record, but, broke the -- he broke the record. you know the number was? 38 seconds. she wanted to break up an eighth of a second., broke up by 38 seconds. or the weightlifter.

it was like 218 pounds. that's a lot. i can't lift it. i don't know who can. any of our ex-trump people? they're all trump people. kevin, i don't know about that, kevin. but that's a lot. 218 pounds. and she got over that weight and she was going to break it. they put a half an ounce here, a little tiny ring on top of these big barbells, dumbbells. and she went like this. stood for 11 years. [noise] and her mother and father are screaming, you got it. you got, it darling, i'm so proud. [noise] she couldn't do it. and then, this guy comes a long

who is named alice. he looks at the wait -- weight. world record. world record. he could've put another couple hundred pounds on it. he could've lifted it. it is so disrespectful to women. and they say it's political incorrect. [applause] so horrible. so unfair. it's so unfair. and i'll tell you why, i would be the greatest woman's basketball coach. because i do not like lebron james. i like michael jordan much better. but i would go up to lebron james and say, lebron, did you ever have any desire to be a woman? because but i would like for you to do a star on my team that i'm

building up. i would have the greatest team in history. we'll never lose. nobody will come within 70 points of this team. we have to change that and we have to make it ok to talk about it. you know the young lady i was talking about is afraid to talk about it. she has shunned and canceled when she talks about it. this is crazy. right, kellyanne? i love kellyanne. [applause] finally, to secure our country we need to secure our borders and there's never been anything like what is taking place. [applause] our open borders are a gaping wound, allowing drugs, gangs, child traffickers, human smugglers, and tens and thousands of dangerous criminals to poor in to our country. that is every week. no you have heard, 3 million and

4 million, the head of homeland security the other day saying our border is secure. you see the democrats are all , about disinformation. some people say misinformation. i like this information slightly better, but they mean the same thing. they will say something, and you're supposed to believe it. like russia. oh, trump is an agent of russia. if they kept saying, it i might even start believing at one day. what they do is they say the stuff. it's happening now at the january 6th committee. they say stuff and they think you are going to believe it. it's serious. it's horrible. he said our borders are secure. and actually, you know, the wonders of tivo, i turned it back to hear it again because i couldn't believe it. and he did say that. he thought our borders are secure. i believe we will take in 15 million people, not 4 million people. and we have no idea who is coming in, but i do know, they're emptying their gels. -- jails.

they are get, last, week we had 141. most people don't know, there are many more countries than that. last week, we had 141 countries represented by people who came into our country illegally. we don't know who they, are where they're from, we know nothing about them. they say that i have a lot of things right, they say trump called it all right, everything i have said has turned out to be true. many of these people that are coming in will cause trouble for our country the likes of which, you have no idea, terrorism and other things they are sending people into our countries it will cause problems for us to for decades to come. and problems like perhaps you have never even seen before at that level. when we regain the majority we need to use the pursestrings to prohibit even one dime from being spent to implement biden's open borders agenda. we have to have it stoped and

force him to deport illegal aliens he is now refusing to deport. you know he won't do this. we do need a way to a certain extent. the guys can do a fantastic job. and they can stop things from happening. but it's going to be very hard for them to change. they will not do it. i think it would be easier. i think we'd be doing them a favor politically. we're actually helping them politically. but they're not going to do it. so, we do have to do a great job in 2024 and i think we will do. it's interesting. when i campaigned in 16, the border was a big deal and i talked about a constantly. and i won. then in 2020 i cannot talk about the border, i did such a good job there is nothing to talk about. i said, i can't talk about it. i complained. i said, i did to get a job. -- too good a job. that's like obsolescence. you know, windshield wiper, i have been driving too many cars

lately. i used, to know. for those of you who, it lasts for one year and then it doesn't work anymore. you can see. you need another one. they could make the wiper good for 100 years. but they want planned obsolescence, the same thing is happening, the exact same thing is happening. we have to be able to close up those borders and we need to be able to send many of the people back. many of those people need to be sent back. there are a lot of bad ones and we have to send them back. so i don't know how kevin is going to handle that. i don't know how the senate is going to handle that, steve you are going to have to help, and all of the people are going to have to help. but you still need somebody in the white house. it will not get done. you need help. i think that help will be forthcoming and i think that it will be a lot sooner than people think. republicans should be laying the groundwork for this today, and

we need to stand, and fight, and demand that real border security, real border security, strong border security be included in the spending bill this september. now, i went to mexico and i said you have to give us 28,000 soldiers to protect our border. and the president, who i really like is a socialist, but that is ok i like him a lot, he likes, me i like him, can you believe this? i got along with him great. but he left, i suggested, i said no you had to do. and he sent the representative to do, it and everybody in the state department laughed at me, they all said they are not going to do this. i said here is what you do, give me a list of your ten top things. i said this to all of the people. ice, border patrol, everybody, and the state department. give me a list of the top ten things you need from mexico, and i will get them all. they said no way, no, sir. and there was a woman in the state department who is really a good woman. she was there 25 years. she dealt with mexico pretty much exclusively.

she is like's, or they will never do this, we have been asking this for many years, decades. i say how much do you want to bet? and she said you can do it, i asked for all of the things that remain in mexico. little things like remain-in-mexico. people think it is easy, it was not easy to get. but we had all the different things we needed. i asked for 28,000 soldiers, and then we had eight other things that were equally as obnoxious to ask for. and i said what do you think? she said you're wasting your time. i said that is ok. so the head man came in, the top representative of the country came, and i asked for these ten things. and he was laughing. of course we wouldn't do that. we're not going to do that. we are going to give you soldiers to protect your border? i said yeah you have to do that. they are pouring through mexico. we want 28,000 soldiers. that is the exact number we need. we will not do that under any circumstance. i said all right, but i am going to send this piece of paper, and on monday morning, this was a thursday evening, on monday

morning there will be tariffs imposed of 25% on every single item sold from mexico into our country. it goes into effect on monday morning at 8:00 and that means, as you know, over the years not with me, but over the years they have stole 32% of our automobile business. think of it. they manufactured 32. they took 32% out of our country, i've said all of those cars, everything that you sell into this country, 25%. he said i would like to come back in five minutes. he came back in five minutes. he said president, we would be honored to give you all ten of those things. and we got all ten. we got all ten. we got everything. we got 28,000 soldiers free of charge. no cost. and they did a fantastic job.

it is one of the things that was doing the construction of the wall. it is one of the ways that we have the best numbers in recorded history. but mexico was great. but you have to be able to ask people for things. and the woman at the state department said i had never seen anything like it. i cannot believe it. and she was a good woman, but just one of those things. and the republican president must immediately implement every aspect of the trump agenda that achieved the most secure border in history, including remain-in-mexico, safe third agreement, you know what that is? asylum restrictions and rapid deportation. i got all of these things. and they gave them up. they gave them up. they gave them all up. think of it, remain-in-mexico, you cannot come into the country. you have to remain in mexico until we check you out. if you are not a murderer, a criminal, if there is some reason why you can legally, then we take you win.

other than, that your remain-in-mexico, back to where you came from. the country you came from. and that is it. and it was hard to, get but i got it pretty quickly. in about ten minutes. and they couldn't believe it. that is it, we had a great border. and we have people remaining in the united states. come back for your trial in four years, nobody ever comes back. only the really stupid people come back. i think it is about 1% that come back. it is the craziest thing i have ever seen. we should pass a law and acting these reforms permanently, they have to be permanent, under our administration. we built hundreds of miles of border wall. hundreds. in fact, we completely finished our original wall plan, completely done, we were so proud of it. despite two and a half years of democrat inspired lawsuits, i won them all. and some people came to me and said we need more wall. so what do you need?

you need it in other areas. it wasn't originally planned. so let's, go and we will see if we can get it done. then we had the catastrophe of the election. we had almost finished, it was a catastrophe that election. a disgrace to our country. but three weeks would have been done. it would have been completed, all of the additional wall. as you, know they didn't want to build the wall. they didn't want to build the wall. that is when i started to think that maybe they really do want these borders open so everybody can invade our country. the border was the best and safest in u.s. recorded history. and they have turned it into the worst in the history of our country. but probably the worst in the history of the world. that includes third world coie -- third world country would have millions, and millions of people. i don't care how desolate, how poor, they wouldn't have millions and millions of people pouring into their country. there has never been a border like this in history. what they are doing to this

country, they are poisoning this country, they are poisoning our country. and remember what i said, we are going to pay big price over the years to come to repair the damage joe biden has done. it is also going to be necessary to fund the largest ever increase in the number of new ice officers. you know how tough they are? these are tough patriots. i know some of the people in these roads here. and i can tell you none of you want that, not even the governor. hello, governor. none of you want that job. they walk into a nest of ms-13. ms-13 doesn't like guns as much as knives. they like to hurt people and take a long time to do it. and the gun is too quick. and they will take, they took 2 16-year-old girls walking home from school and they cut their skin off. and they are, they both died. they did it with knives. and the ice officers would run into a nest of ms 13. the meanest of all getting members. the hells angels are the nicest

people in the world by comparison. they are really nice, they are high society. and the cut, and they cut. and these people will go into a nest, and they will run in, and their fist start going. they always win. they are tough, they love our country, they totally are disrespected by foolish democrats that have no idea. we have taken thousands of them, thousands and thousands of these gang members. we have taken them and brought them back to their countries. we were having a hard time because when i first came, and i think an important story, they said sir you can't take them out because the other countries, hundreds, guatemala, el salvador, and many others. they won't allow us to land our planes in their airports. i said what do you mean? the three countries in particular, and mexico. but three countries would not allow them. i said what do you mean they they would not?

and they said they won't allow us. so we will fly with a plane full of essentially prisoners, gang members, and they would have planes on the runway. they wouldn't except busted -- buses through the border. they wouldn't do anything. i said in other words, they some them here because the country send them here, these are very streetwise people these leaders. whether they are presidents, prime ministers, or dictators, many of them are dictators. some of them are all three actually, the ones that really have it. so what happens is, they say that they wouldn't take them back. that's not a good situation. under president obama, they were stymied, they wouldn't do anything. the country wouldn't take them back. i said, how much money do we pay those three countries? sir, we pay them $750 million dollars. it's a lot of money. i said, for what? economic development, sir. in other words, economic development to the head of the country. for home, we have $750 million, inform them that were stopping payments immediately.

and we stop payment up the three countries of $750 million, and then what happened as i got a phone call the next morning from all three almost at the same time. separate calls. serve, they had stopped payment from the money that you are united states very graciously census every month. i said, that's right. you'll never see that money again because you're not letting us bring them back. they said, sir, we would be honored to have them back. please send them immediately. i'll never forget it. all these guys are sitting around. they've been doing this stuff for a long time. right, kellyanne? you are in the room. when they said we would be honored to have them back. there would be nothing more that we would like to have back then ms 13 gang members. but please, when will the money start? we had great success.

we sent tens of thousands of these people back. since biden has effectively suspended all immigration enforcement including horrible, vicious criminals, he suspended everything. these vicious criminals. there is no police saying of visas and overstay's whatsoever. part of the reason we need to use this dramatic increase in i.c.e. officers is to ensure the prompt removal of anyone who overstayed their visa. and in particular, it's very hard, when you have 15 million people pour into a country, many of these are very good people. it's very hard to say we're going to remove 15 million people. there is a thing called humanity. there's things we need to think about. but we can get rid of all of the bad ones and the police know almost immediately who the bad ones are. and that we can do and that we can do fast and easy. at the same time, we should

implement a bond system and a financial penalty so that anybody that comes to our country on a temporary views and -- visa and fails to depart suffer significant financial consequences and we take the money away from the country. we charged the country $25,000 each for each person that comes in a legally. [applause] and i had got going and then we all of a sudden got hit with the virus. i was all said to do that, i was looking forward to it and then they said there's this terrible thing happening in china. a lot of dead people lying in the streets. there is something going on. i closed it up long before nancy pelosi wanted it. or any of these people including fauci. i used to listen to fauci and whatever he said, i did the opposite. i came out very good. but we closed it up and then we had to close it up to europe or we would've had a much worse situation.

it's pretty amazing some of the things we've done our pretty amazing. the national guard can be used to help find and remove criminals, illegal aliens from our country. we have to use national guard. we really do. we need to get ice back. these people are incredible on the border patrol. the whole group. they're phenomenal people. and they love the country. they can have an easy job. they don't have to do anything. they want to do their job. it is incredible. sometimes, i wonder, i see things where they just want to be allowed to do their job. they don't want to be told to stand away and leave us alone and let everybody, they feel horrible. they see the country is being destroyed. these are great people. border patrol, ice and our police, of course, all of our law enforcement. furthermore, we should significantly increased jail time for repeat immigration violators to make clear that if you flout our immigration laws,

you're looking a very hard time and substantial time. this used to be called cakes law. named afterkaite who was a incredible and beautiful young woman who was gunned down in san francisco while standing with her father on a peer. do you remember that? how can you forget it? and the prime of her life, with five prior deportations, he just kept coming back in. and he shot her, standing with her father. daddy, daddy. something happened. daddy, that was her last words. what's a horrible story that was. we went to get kate's lob pass, i didn't but i know a lot of , people were working very hard and i believe that the radical left democrats just wouldn't hear about it. they wouldn't do anything about it. it's hard to believe. but we need to get a law that is even tougher than kates law. and i think everybody will go for it now. the one good thing about what

has happened. they've performed so badly that we will be able to get the job done and an even stronger and faster manner than had we not witnessed this carnage that's going on in our country right now. that's a good thing. [applause] and we've also seen too many instances of illegal aliens who crossed our borders with a history of sex crimes and sexual offenses. numbers that nobody's ever seen before. don't forget. when we clog up the port of these people were not coming. we have the lowest numbers in 42 years on sex traffickers. the human traffickers, mostly women, by the way. second, children. last, men. last is man. but mostly women. and we had the best numbers that we've had in many decades because we have a border stopped up. we had a lot of people, including as i told you, 28,000 mexican soldiers. and they were allowed to be

tougher. our soldiers look at somebody i don't say good morning ma'am, how are you, they want to throw them out of the military. the mexican soldiers are a little tougher than that. but they're ultimately not tougher. because we have the greatest military in the world. we got rid of isis. 100%. great people. great soldiers. greatest in the world. they need to be allowed to do their job. just this month, we all heard the horrifying story of an illegal, charged with raping a ten-year-old child. to keep such predators out of our country, we need to pass a dramatic sentencing enhancement to those caught breaking our immigration laws so that anyone with a record of sex crimes will not set foot on our soil. and if they do, they will be out of your quickly or they will be in one of our prisons, which is also very likely. these are just some of the critical reforms we should race to implement. we need to get it done as soon as we possibly can.

our country and the lies of our -- lives of our people are at stake and we do not have a moment to waste. our country is in a condition on crime that we've never seen before, not even something that anybody in this audience would think is possible. and when you look at the violence of the crime. dumping a young man and a garbage can and setting him on fire. i dealt with the mother of that young man. and so many other things. you could go on for days and days. the damage that has been caused. i have focused on public safety. there is much more to the america first agenda, as you all know very well. looking into the future. i look forward to laying out many more details in the weeks and months to come. it's just the beginning, but it is also, and we can say this to brooke. it's also a policy. you can say conservative, you can say whatever you want. it's really a policy of common sense and it's a policy of law

and order. hello. [applause] thank you. we have to do so much. we have to rescue our schools from the marxist teachers unions. we need to completely demolish the corrupt education bureaucracy and liberate our children. we need to protect, this is the craziest thing to have to say this because who would never think that when you would need to say this? we need to protect parents rights. can you imagine? you are up here. i'm a politician. i don't like to consider myself, i'm a politician, i guess. i ran for president. i won. and i want to second time. did much better the second time. did a lot better.

[applause] very corrupt. i always say i ran the first time and i won. i ran a second time and i did much better. we got millions and millions. and you know what? that is going to be a story for a long time. we may just have to do it again. we have to straighten out. we have to straighten out our country. we had it there. [applause] we actually did it twice, we didn't, when we handed over a stock market that was higher than it was pre-covid. nobody can even believe it. we actually did it twice. so it is a very sad thing. all of the things i'm talking about would have been done. we would have to get political correctness and left-wing race and gender theory out of our military so that america can once again fight and win wars. we have to be thinking about

winning. we have to abolish all covid mandates and lockdowns and rehire every person who was fired from the military with an apology to them, and give them their pay that they have been looking for. [applause] and it is a great shame of the pentagon brass that they have not spoken out and defense of their own service members. they have to speak out to drain the swamp and root out the deep state we have to make it much easier to fire robe democrats -- rogue bureaucrats who are undermining democracy. or at minimum they just want to keep their jobs, hold on to their jobs. congress should pass historic reforms empowering the president ensure that any bureaucrat who

is corrupt incompetent, or unnecessary for the job can be told you are fired, get out. you are fired. they have to do it. i keep saying washington will be entirely different place., three , our current appeals process as an example for these rogue bureaucrats that have three stages which take on average five yards per stage. in other words, to fire someone who is doing a bad job if the government wins, we'll take 15 years under our current system. think of that. 15 years, almost all politicians will be long gone before that process even ends. in addition, we need a great national effort to bring back our supply chains, bring back our factories, which we did a lot of, by the way. we made great trade deals. got rid of nafta, the worst trade deal ever made.

usmca, is the best if you know , canada and mexico want to renegotiate the deal. i said to biden don't do it, and don't give up the tariffs on china. we want to bring back our jobs, and secure manufacturing independence. we need to rapidly maximize domestic oil and gas production to restore energy independence and bring the price of gasoline back down. to a number that nobody even believes anymore. we had it down to $1.87. can you imagine? to build on my historically successful trade policies that brought back millions of jobs and billions of dollars, we need to strengthen our trade laws, give the president more tools to combat unfair trade. make section 301 more usable and do not take the , tariff power away from the president. if you do, it is the greatest gift to china and other countries that you could ever do. for the senators, don't allow it to happen. it is before you. if you do that, you are not a great american.

and i will sit strongly. we need to establish a commission to hold china accountable for unleashing the virus upon the world and the damage they have caused. and we need to restore my administrations initiatives to target and eliminate chinese espionage which joe biden outrageously abolished. you know that, they were prohibited from coming in, all of a sudden they were all over the place. it is crazy what is going on. we should once again require able bodies single adults to go to, work or train for a job in order to receive welfare, and other benefits. you have got to work. and we should require proof of citizenship to receive the child, we have got to do this, to get the child tax credit to stop subsidizing illegal immigration. we are bringing illegal immigrants into our country because we are paying them. in california, the governor wants to pay for their

education, their medical, they want to give them more than our vets. they want to give them better benefits that our vets. and citizens. we need a bold range of election integrity reforms from beginning, unsecure and remember this, the unsecured job boxes are a disaster. a disaster. you know, if you get $5,600 plus $1, they put you in jail. you cannot give anymore than that. they put you in jail. zuckerberg gave $417 million dollars. so what is happening? just an amazing thing. and we want to ensure universal voter i.d. but our goal, our goal should be same-day voting with only paper ballots. it should be just like france. same day voting. we have plenty of capacity. same day voting.

with only paper ballots. that is it. the military, if it is based far away only can vote. and people that are legitimately ill can vote by mail in. but that is a very small category. same day voting france has had , an election, 55 million people. they voted at 11:00 it was over. there was no dispute, no nothing. it was all paper. everything was paper. same day, they voted in one day, it started early in the morning it when throughout the day. we have plenty of capacity. 55 million, it is bigger than the states, 55 million. same devoting all paper. you're not going to have any more problems. we need to break the chokehold of silicon valley and restore free speech in america. these are the choices that america must confront on the road ahead. right now, these next few years, our country will decide whether we are going to allow a corrupt

and radical ruling class to snuff out the torture of liberty, or whether we will resist the forces of decay and raise the torch higher and prouder than ever to enlighten and inspire the entire world. we can do that. together we are standing up against, thank you, i think? together we are standing up against some of the most menacing forces and vicious opponents have ever seen or can -- confronted. a friend of mine told me that i was the most persecuted person in the history of our country. then i started thinking about it. and i said you know what? he may very well be right. he may be right. think about it, we had a russia, russia, russia scam that was covered religiously by a lot of media.

and a lot of media back then. it was covered religiously, even though the media knew it was fake. they knew it was fake. that turned out to be a conducted fairytale made up by crooked hillary clinton, the democrats, it's lease ball writer named christopher steele, and a coordinated effort with, of all places, russia. they dealt with russia on the russia, russia, russia hoax. then i have the impeachment hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two, and the mueller investigation resulting after two years in a verdict of there was no collusion. who has been through anything like this, seriously? certainly no politician, and definitely no president. all of this while i was doing so much as president, including creating the most secure border in american history. recording the largest tax and regulatory cuts in the history of our country. biggest tax cut ever, bigger

than the reagan cuts, bigger than anyone. and regulatory, just of equal importance. $1.87 a gallon gasoline, we are at 5, 6, 7 you're going way up. no inflation, low interest rates, record growth and real wages, rebuilding our entire military. we rebuild the military, 85 billion of it to the taliban. can you believe that? historic abraham accords bringing peace to the middle , east, it was incredible. and much, much, much more. now we have the january 6th unselect committee of political hacks and thugs. and think of this. these are hacks and thugs, these are the same people that we have been dealing with for four years. same people. and it is the very people who perpetrated the lies that i was an agent of russia, like adam shifty shift and others, who , were standing before the same microphone, same thing they get out and they say our country's suffering so badly because, and

he knows the whole thing is a hoax. i said this the other day, he knew russia, russia was a hoax. him, hillary clinton, the dnc, the democrats. and he stood pompously before microphones, his head as you know i feel the shaped like a watermelon. he is quite an unattractive man. they will get me in trouble for that. they will say is an attractive, -- unattractive, that is a honorable thing to say. but he says slightly worse about me. he knows it is a hoax. he goes, not a stupid person, and evil person, a sick person in my opinion. but he goes before these same microphones and he said, president donald trump's son, don junior, we'll go to prison for what he has done with russia. what kind of a man would say that my son, but yourself in my

son's position, that he is going to prison on something he doesn't even know about and that adam schiff knows it is a hoax and a fairytale and was made up. and the new york times, they admit now that it was a totally made-up hoax. is saying my son's coat to prison and he knows it is a hoax. we'll kind of a human being can do that? only a sick, evil, very bad human being. and now i have the same people there, the same people, other than, who is the worse. and kinzinger, these people are just, but the same basic people are now going on, and it's so unfair when you see would happened to blm. when you see would happen to antifa, when you see what happened to all of the killing, all of the killings that took place all over the country, and

then you see what they're doing to people that in some cases didn't even enter the building. and you see cases they're being tortured and handled so horribly. when you see kamala harris getting people out on bail that burned down buildings and killed people. and getting them out on bail. and you can't even get these people out on bail. but it's sad thing. and something will have to happen. because people will not take it much longer. there's two sets of justice and we don't have to go into, it but nobody has ever seen what is happening today. they're doing the exact same thing with january 6th as they did with all these previous assault on our country. so, where does it stop? where does it end? it probably doesn't stop. because despite great outside dangers, our biggest threat, in this country, remains the sick, sinister, and evil people from within. these are evil, crazy, she

-- nancy pelosi, she impeached me twice only because she had . enough votes. and the democrats to stick together, even, they're afraid not to. she impeached me twice. but the republicans stuck together also. i'm honored that they did. think of how sick that is. i got impeached over a phone call. congratulations on your win. truck gets impeached. this is just a crazy time. never forget everything this corrupt establishment is doing to me is all about deserving the power, they want to damage you in any form, but they really want to damage me so i can no longer go back to work for you. and i don't think that's going to happen. [applause]

thank you. >> four more years. >> thank you very much. it's very nice. now, it's a very sad thing. who else could've taken this? think of it. nixon went through not even want -- one impeachment. and i think he always regretted that he didn't fight. but people, it's been a very interesting period of time. and to me, a very successful man came up to me and said, could i ask you a question? one of the most successful. yeah, what? how do you take it? how do you get up in the morning? i say, do i have a choice?

do i have a choice? and we take it. but i think the people respect it. i really do. i see that now more than ever. [applause] and the problem we have it's the fake news media is corrupt and complacent. if they weren't, we would have a much quicker heel. because in its own way, there -- they are the police. they are the police of honesty. when people don't trust them, their approval rating is now lower than congress, which is saying something. sorry congresspeople. it has been that way for a long time. when i first, friend it was very high and i'm very honored to say that i have revealed something that people just didn't know. it's never been like it is now. it's never been like it is now. if i renounce my beliefs, if i agreed to stay silent, if i stayed at home and just took it easy, the persecution of donald

trump would stop immediately full stop. but that is not what i will do, i can't do that. a much simpler life. i have to save our country. i can't do that because i love our country and i can't do that because i love the people of our country. i can't do that. i wouldn't do it. and people don't want me to do it. thank you very much. [applause] and i am not doing this for me because i had a very luxurious life. i do very simple life. i had everything. people say, you're sure you want to do this? but there is an expression. the best day of your life is the day before you run for president. did you ever hear that expression? and i laughed. i said, that may be true. but i'm doing it for america and it's my honor to do it, it's my great honor to do it.

because if i don't, our nation is doomed to become another venezuela or soviet union. that's where we're headed. we will become a very large scale version of cuba. all is lost and there is no hope, no matter how big or powerful the corrupt radicals we are fighting against maybe, no matter how menacing they appear, we must never forget, this nation does not belong to them, this nation belongs to you, the american people. [applause] we are at the legacy of generations of american patriots, who gave their sweats, blood, and tears, and even their very lives to build this country into a free and virtuous republic, unlike anything the world has ever known. our american ancestors stood their ground on bunker hill. they starved and suffered at valley forge. and they seized victory at yorktown. so many great, credible,

dangerous, brilliant events. they ventured out and conquered an untamed wilderness. they settled the great plains, cross the rockies, and kept pushing westward. they raised families that built a bustling city, founded thriving industries, rescued freedom, and they planted our flag on the face of the moon. need of what we have done. these courageous men and women gave everything they had to make america into the greatest nation in all of history. but now we are a nation in decline. we are a failing nation. we are a nation that has the highest inflation in 49 years and where the stock market just finished the worst first half of the year since 1872.

we are a nation that has the highest energy cost in history. we are no longer energy independent or energy dominant as we work just to short years ago. we are a nation begging venezuela and many others for oil. please, please, help us, joe biden says. we have more liquid gold under our feet than any other nation in the world. we are a nation consumed by the radical left green new deal yet everyone knows the green new deal will lead to the destruction of our country. we are a nation surrendered in afghanistan. and we are a nation that allowed russia to devastate a country,

killing hundreds of thousands of people and it will only get worse. it would never ever have happened if i was your commander in chief. what have never happened. it did not for four years. [applause] and china, with taiwan's. we are a nation that has weaponized law enforcement like never before against opposing political party. nothing has happened like what is happening now. we are a nation that no longer has of free and fair press. think news is all you get and they are the true enemy of the people. we are a nation where free speech is no longer allowed, crime is rampant, the economy has been collapsing, more people died in covid of -- of covid in.

we are allowing iran to build a massive nuclear weapon which they are being allowed to do right now as we speak. they were dying to make a deal, they would have made a deal with us right after the election and it would have been a good deal. china is being allowed to use the trillions of dollars it has taken from us to build a military the likes of which possibly the world has never seen. this also would never have happened with us, the level of speed with which they are going is a very dangerous thing. two years ago we had iran, china, russia and north korea in check. they were not going to do anything against us and everyone knows it especially those leaders and perhaps most importantly, we are a nation

that is no longer respected around the world. we are a nation that has become a joke. we are a nation that is hostile to liberty and freedom. we are a nation whose economy is floundering. whose stores are not stocked, deliveries are not coming and educational system is ranked at the bottom of every list. but we are not going to let this continue. two years ago we had the greatest -- there has never been anything like it. gracelyn -- greatness like no one had ever seen. we were out laughing china at levels they never -- outlapping china at levels they never saw. they were not even close because

we were out to distancing something they never thought could happen. soon we will have greatness again. with all my heart and soul i believe the american people will reject a fates of decline and ultimately a fates of defeats. i believe we will come together and choose revival, recovery, resurgence and a nation that is more exceptional than it ever was before. [applause] america's story is far from over and we are just adding ready for an incredible comeback, a comeback we have no choice but to make. we won't have a country if we don't make it. through strength we will restore safety, through hard work, we

will rebuild our prosperity, through courage we will reclaim our liberty. through left we will repair unity, through success we will rediscover our pride and through unyielding determination to gather, we will make america stronger, safer, greater and more boreas then -- glorious than ever before. thank you so much, it has been a great honor. thank you. ♪

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about congressional efforts to assist the u.s. computer chip industry and later, look at the house january 6 investigation with committee member jamie raskin. "washington journal" starts now. ♪ host: good morning, it's wednesday, july 27, 2022. donald trump was back in washington, d.c. to deliver his first speech since leaving the white house. he touched on the election 2020, the midterms, and that 2024 presidential race. in the wake of that appearance we want to hear from republicans only in the first hour about where you stand on the former president running again. do you think you should be that you you know many