what to think but we'll challenge those who do. have a great evening, sean hannity is next with donald trump for the exclusive town hall. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: and welcome to hannity and tonight we are in beautiful clive iowa right outside of des moines. we have a massive incredible enthusiastic audience tonight. [cheers and applause]. >> sean: and in a few short moments, well, the very first 2024 presidential caucus will take place right here in iowa. unlike the democratic party. but in just a moment, the leading presidential candidate for the republicans, donald j. trump will be with us for the full hour. by the way, unlike fake news

cnn, it's not my job to sit here and debate the candidate. we're going to ask him about the issues of the day that actually matter to the people that came out here tonight in the rain and thunder and lightning, the voters, and he this will also have their questions as well. nothing is off the table. and as of now, trump is not only beating his republican rivals, but he's also beating president biden. real clear politics average, trump is up in a head to head match-up there. in the most recent harvard harris poll has him up seven points over joe biden. the vast majority including democrats, they're not happy with joe biden. i don't think many americans are happy with joe biden, to say the least. and based on recent polls, voters believe that biden is corrupt, incompetent, creepy, both mentally, physically cognitively unfit to serve. by the way, today was no exception. at the air force academy, biden could not remember the word pilot or fighter pilot.

take a look. >> by the way, i met with -- who are those guys that fly over shortly? you've heard of them haven't you? three of them are women. [cheers and applause]. >> don't screw around guys. >> sean: all right, got much worse from there, by the way, viewer warning, this is kind of hard to watch. following those remarks, well, biden fell flat on his face and took another tumble and fall. take a look. mr. president, thank you for joining us today.

>> sean: now, we all hope the president is okay, but there needs to be a serious discussion in this country about his physical fitness, his mental acumen, his ability to serve. the presidency is the toughest job on earth. it requires, well, a tough, capable leader. and you might recall 2024, when we talked about this in past election years, the american people, they will now have a critical opportunity to right the ship that begins right here in the great state of iowa. [cheers and applause] >> sean: let's give a warm iowa welcome, joining us now for the hour, the 45th president of the united states, current gop presidential candidate front runner, donald trump! [cheers and applause]

>> pres. trump: thank you very much. that's a nice suit. [crowd chanting, trump trump usa! usa! usa! ] >> pres. trump: thank you very much. thank you. >> sean: by the way, they all came out. it was raining cats and dogs today. >> pres. trump: it was a little nasty out but it's iowa, it's a beautiful place when it rains it's beautiful. >> we love you. >> pres. trump: we've really been loved in iowa and i love iowa. we won both times by a lot so we're very happy, very happy. >> sean: you're up in the polls here. i want to start with the current president. did you see the video of when he fell? >> pres. trump: yeah. >> sean: and did you see the video? he actually said, by the way, i

met with, who are those guys who are going to fly over shortly. >> pres. trump: yeah. >> sean: yeah. that's your president. >> pres. trump: not too good. it's sad. it's sad. you know, they're representing, we are all representing the country. you become president and you're sort of not allowed to do that but it's happened, it's happened and it's happened pretty badly. we won't go into it but we all know the ones and they count those acts, you know they never forget. but that was a bad fall. >> sean: i remember the media made so much, you -- i think you were at west point at the time. >> pres. trump: yeah. >> sean: and you were coming counsel a ramp it didn't have a rail, you had dress shoes on like you have now. >> pres. trump: yeah. >> sean: that have very leadershipry soles. >> pres. trump: they look better but you better not walk in rain. >> sean: especially downhill on a ramp. >> pres. trump: what's very interesting, i think i made my best speech, that was my best speech, and i was so proud of it, it was pouring, and i said, this speech was so good, and then i said, how do i get down,

sir, you have to go down the ramp? i said the same one i came up it wags a long ice-skating rink. they said yes, sir. and i had the general next to me, big guy, strong guy. i said, general, and he's wearing combat boots, they don't slip too much. i said general get ready because i may have to grab you here. but i said there's not falling, there's no way. so i go tiby toe down the thing, that was a mistake. because it didn't look so good. i even agree. but i got killed and they never covered that speech. some day in a hundred years they're going to put that speech on. but you can't fall. you just can't fall. no matter what. just can't allow it to happen. and i better not allow, especially after saying this, i better not allow it to happen with me. but things like that do happen. >> sean: so, in past interviews that we've had together and we've had many over the years. >> pres. trump: yeah. >> sean: i have asked you repeatedly about what you think about joe biden's cognitive state. i've asked you about, is he up to the job physically, mentally.

you have been very reluctant to go there. i'm not reluctant. to me -- would everyone agree with me this guy's cognitively not there? i doubt he knows what day of the week it is today. that's how bad i think it's gotten for him. why are you reluctant to call that out? >> pres. trump: well, i don't know if i'm supposed to say this. i actually called sean and i asked sean not to joke about it. >> sean: i was joking about it. >> pres. trump: because he used to joke about it. and i said honestly, i don't think it looks good for you or for anybody for you to joke about it because it's a serious problem. >> sean: i was talking about sippy cup and warm milky at night and bedtime stories, yeah. >> pres. trump: i said i don't think it's good for anybody. it's not appropriate. you can speak about it if you want, but i don't think you should joke about it. and you really didn't after that. >> sean: well, now i realize how serious it is. especially, and we'll get into foreign policy and, you know, with china, russia and iran forming, i'm calling it, a new

axis of evil, i'm very, very concerned that he's advocated our role on the world's stage. >> pres. trump: i do say this, i think it's the most serious time and the most dangerous time, right now, in the history of our country. we have nuclear weapons on lots of different areas. we have russia, we have north korea, we have iran is soon going to have one that should have never happened. i had that set up. we would have made that deal within a week after the election and they would have never had a nuclear weapon but nobody picked it up because i terminated the iran nuclear deal. but this is the most dangerous time in the history of our country because of the power of the weaponry. and we have somebody that doesn't understand what's happening. and it's a very dangerous thing, it's a very bad thing. i mean, some really bad things, if you would see, and i got to see it, if you would see the power of what we're talking about, this isn't army tanks going back and forth shooting at each other, this is something that's a whole different place. this is annihilation of the

world literally, the power is so horrible. and i was actually working on something with putin where we start getting rid of nuclear weapons, it's just too powerful. all of a sudden people are talking about nuclear weapons all the time. i wouldn't let people talk about it. i had somebody come down from mit, i was talking about that. my uncle was a great professor for many years at mit and hi somebody come down and i said what would you say like during the debate about nuclear weapons. he looked at me, he said, sir, don't talk about them. i said why? he said there's nothing you can say. it's so powerful. it's so extraordinary. the best thing you can do is not talk about them. now they're talking about them all the time, that's all they talk about. in fact, i guess putin announced the other day he's moving nuclear weapons to belarus. so this is a very dangerous time for our country but it's a very dangerous time for the whole world. >> sean: you end your rally speeches now with music in the

background and you start with we are a nation in decline. this is a very different america than what it was when you left it as president two and a half years ago. >> pres. trump: yeah. >> sean: i can point to the border, i can look at laws all over the country, defund, dismantle no bail laws given up energy independence importing oil from venezuela and opec. who would have believed that. we now see two-thirds of the country living paycheck to paycheck. you see some people now cashing in their retirement to make ends meet. others are putting bear necessities on credit cards. i will a mention this in iowa, because i have, you know, a radio show at # 20 stations, farmers call me the cost of fertilizer's three times what it used to be the cost of seed is twice what it used to be and if you can get the parts to repair your equipment it's four times what it used to be. i've never seen it this bad or this -- the decline, this precip

tough. >> pres. trump: so we were energy independent, think of the it, three years ago. [cheers and applause] >> pres. trump: and what people, what people don't know is that we have, i call it liquid gold, because it's gold, it's better than gold. we have liquid gold under our feet more than any other nation, more than saudi arabia, more than russia. we're energy independent within six months we would have been energy dominate and we would sell it to europe and other places, and we would have made so much money doing it. because it's such a big world, such a big business all encompassing and that's what started the inflation, the energy, we started drilling and all of a sudden gasoline's going up to five, $6 a gallon in a car, for a car, and horrible things were happening. and it happened. but we were going to pay off debt. we were going to reduce taxes further. we gave you the biggest tax cut in the history of our country. bigger than the ronald reagan tax cuts. and the biggest -- and you know, i think more importantly, sean,

they gave you the biggest regulation cuts that's why we had more jobs than ever before, we never had anything close, and we did all of that, and then to end that, we were going to pay off debt, we were going to get the debt -- because the money is so big. it's so massive. you look at saudi arabia, the money they have, no nation's ever had anything like it. and we have more than they have. we were going to pay off debt. we were going to get the energy prices down, we were going to get interest rates down. it was like, we had something going that -- and within six months, we would have been dominate because we would have taken over europe, we would have literally been supplying the energy to europe and we would have made a fortune, we would have paid down the debt, we would have cut the taxes, it was going to be so beautiful. >> sean: let me focus on the issues that i think are bread and butter issues that impact everybody. i want to know if you get elected president how fast you're going to be able to fix our borders, bring us back to energy independence, how quickly you might be able to work to change the school system, bring back law and order and safety

and security to this country, and every town and every city? because i think people need that fentanyl to pursue happiness. how quickly can you shift gears and move this country? >> pres. trump: i think very quickly. let me just say, so i heard desantis say oh, i get eight years, he gets four. you don't need four and you don't need eight. you need six months. within six months [cheers and applause] >> pres. trump: within six months this can be done. other than -- we don't need eight years and frankly i wouldn't vote for him because you said you need eight years, you need six months. we're going to drill, get our energy down, when the energy comes down other things come down and we're going to take care of things. we're going to immediately close up the border. we had the greatest border, we had the safest border in the history of our country. now we have the worst border in the history of the world. and i say this during rallies, we love our rallies. but i say this, there's never

been a third world country that allowed people to pour in. they would stand there with sticks and stones if they had to. what's happening to our country. but in terms of doing it, you don't need eight years and you don't need four years. we can have a lot of it done, because these guys are amazing, the oil guys. they will be -- in fact i had it so low that we had to raise it or they would have all been out of business. we had so much oil we didn't know what to do with it. we bought a lot for the strategic national reserves that he then took, to keep the prices down before an election. you know, we had the strategic national reserves almost full. and then biden came along and took it to keep prices down. it's called artificially down. and the thing is almost empty now and that's meant for times of war not meant to keep the price down for an automobile, it's meant for war, for real problems. and we had it 75, think of it, 75 million barrels and i bought it for peanuts. and congress, i had to fight

congress and the pricing was so crazy and so good and we needed a place because we had so much. we started filling up. this guy comes along and takes it for automobiles, for people, so before the election, so the price could come down. now it's totally empty. it's the emptyest i think it's been in 50 years. >> sean: down 48%. >> pres. trump: and so sad and the price is still high. >> sean: i don't think gas went over $3 a gallon i don't think when when you were president as an average. >> pres. trump: we had it down to $1.87. we had a period of time when it was lower than that. but the energy companies, the oil companies weren't going to last. i said wait a minute i love it in one way but in another way they're all going to go bust. we have to get it up a little bit but we had it down to $1.87. but we had a period of time where it was much lower than that. it was too low, actually. that's a good problem, by the way. it's a much better problem than

$6.07 and eight and nine. >> sean: so we have this, i call it a new axis of evil, china aligned with russia aligned wind iran. let's start with china. here you have a chinese spy balloon, no consequences, here you have just this week a chinese simulator that takes out all of our warships in the pacific in the china sea. >> pres. trump: very sophisticated. >> sean: you have a confrontation with a fighter jet of china with our fighter jet, they come within four hundred feet or whatever it was. joe biden's defense secretary wants to meet with their defense secretary and they basically gave joe biden the middle finger and said no. and you see that there's a growing cold war with china, who's aligned with two other hostile regimes and i've got to believe that's not a good situation for america right now because, you know, putin seems to have no qualms about taking down a drone out of the sky, no consequences for him, no consequences for china.

what would you do? >> pres. trump: so we had a great thing with china, until covid came in, then i didn't even want to deal with them. but i had a great relationship with president xi i was charging tariffs, because they were dumping steele nobody's ever seen anything like it before destroying our steele mills and steele plants and i put a 50% tariff and all of a sudden our steele industry was doing good. i did it for washing machines, i did it for dryers. i did it for a lot of things because they were destroying a lot of our businesses. but we were taking in hundreds of billions of dollars, and we were in iowa, i gave the farmers $28 billion, you know that, 28 billion. [cheers and applause] >> pres. trump: and in one of my moments i said, there's no way i lose iowa. i gave the farmers $28 billion from china. i took $28 billion, i asked sonny perdue, the secretary of agriculture and a very good guy, i said sonny, how badly have our farmers been hurt by what china

was doing they were killing our farmers right, just killing them? he said about $28 billion. i said that's okay. and i had $28 billion worth of checks written out to all of the farmers of our country and i said there's no way i'm going to lose this state and there's no way i'm losing nebraska and some other ones. but i've had more people thanking me for that. but think of it, i took $28 billion from china and gave it to our farmers. nobody else would do that. nobody else. [cheers and applause] >> sean: vladimir putin, you have said repeatedly in interviews that if you were president he never would have went into ukraine. >> pres. trump: would have never. >> sean: how do you say that? and you also have said if you're president you could end this very quickly. >> pres. trump: yeah. >> sean: how? how? >> pres. trump: if i'm president -- by the way, this is a much worse position than before it started. before it started it was easy he wasn't going to do it and hi conversation. and it was always the apple of his eye i could see that. i said you're not going do it

and if you do it we're going to have problems like never before. he understood. i said things he said you don't mean that i said i mean it a hundred percent. and he didn't totally believe me but he believed me ten percent and that's all help to do. he knew there would be a problem. >> sean: you're implying something here. you basically said i'd obliterate you is that what you said? >> pres. trump: i said things that were very bad, very nasty. [cheers and applause] >> pres. trump: and you know honestly -- he said you don't mean that. had to do with moscow. he said you don't mean that. i said i do. i'll never talk about it again but i do. he said you don't mean it, you don't mean it. and we then went on to other subjects. i don't think he believed me but he believed me 10%. that's all he had to believe me. 5% would have been good enough. hi the same conversation with president xi about taiwan, president xi of china. i said president don't do it with taiwan, don't even think about doing it with taiwan.

he was never going to do it and now he's circling, circling, ships are circling, planes flying over top, 28 bombers last week went right over the middle of it, a lot of stuff going on. and a lot of this has to do also with the fact that we were so incompetent in the way we left afghanistan. it was so -- i think it was the most embarrassing and most incompetent moment in the history of our country. and i think both of them looked at that and they said wow, this is not the same country that we know. we rebuilt our military, i rebuilt the military, new jets, new everything, we had everything. and they gave away $85 billion worth of the best equipment in the world. nobody can even believe it. the biggest seller of equipment, they're the biggest -- right after us, afghanistan. can you imagine? afghanistan is one of the biggest arms merchants in the world. because they don't need 700,000 guns and rifles, 70,000 armor

plated trucks and trucks and different things. but millions of dollars for some of them. 700,000 arms, think of it, rifles. 70,000 trucks. there's not a used car lot in all of iowa or in all of the country probably that has more than 500. these people had 70,000. and some of these are, you know, big heavy armor plated stuff for the roadside bombs. sol mainy, you know, sol meny was not good, that situation was taken care of, and al-baghdadi was not good and that situation was taken care of. but we did a lot. you know, our military is great. a lot of things going on with our military with the woke and all this nonsense, they're not learning to fight and protect us from some very bad people. they want to go woke. they want to go woke. that's all they talk about now. i see letters that are being sent. it's horrible. i mean it's a serious -- that

would end immediately. [cheers and applause] >> pres. trump: when you look at what we did, we rebuilt our military, we added space force, everyone said, oh, space force what is that all about. when they came in biden wanted to end it he said what is this a game. it's going to turn out to be one of the most important -- hasn't happened since air force 78 years ago and it's unbelievable now. china and russia were taking over space and now we're leading in space because of space force. very important. >> sean: we have to take a break, more with former president donald trump we'll ask him about the growing gop field, the weaponization of our justice system and so much more. ey in beautiful clive iowa outside of des moines, thank you for being with us, our town hall and questions from the audience straight ahead. ♪ [cheers and applause] we know patients are more than their disease. that's why, at novo nordisk, we've spent a hundred years developing treatments to help unlock humanity's full potential. these are the greats:

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i'm chad pergram on capitol hill. the senate is poised tonight to align with the house and approve a bipartisan deal to suspend the debt ceiling through 2025. it's an accord negotiated by president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. the plan also reduces some forms of federal spending. the senate needs 60 yeas to approve the plan a coalition of senators from both parties are expected to lend their support to the bill later tonight. the measure then goes to the president to sign. this comes just before the federal government was scheduled to run out of cash on monday. that's because the government would lack authority to borrow more. lawmakers worried about a potential market shock had congress failed to act. this is the first big debt ceiling debate since 2011. this is a fox news alert, i'm chad pergram on capitol hill. now back to hannity. ♪ >> sean: all right, we are back

with donald j. trump outside of beautiful des moines iowa for the hour. we will be taking questions from the audience. and tonight, as the '24 race heats up president trump and other republican candidates now crisscrossing the state and of course the former president has a commanding lead both in iowa and nationally. the gop field, though, is growing. last week florida governor ron desantis threw his hat into the ring and soon we expect that former vice-president mike pence will be in, anti trump zealot chris christie will join in can anybody close the gap. i guess we're up to nine people. >> pres. trump: that's a good thing, isn't it? i think pretty good. i don't think it matters. i don't know why people are doing it. they're at one percent. some are at zero. i hear chris christie's coming in. he's at -- he was at 6% in new

jersey, which is -- i love new jersey. but 6% approval rating in new jersey. what's the purpose? and he's polling at zero. and others are, i call him aida hutchinson, i don't call him asa. i gave him a name for some reason. this guy nobody knows who the hell he is. never good. and, you know, it's fine but i don't understand what they're doing. now maybe there's something wrong, but when you're at 1% or less, 1%, it says 1% with an arrow pointing left. there's one guy who's at zero with an arrow pointing left that means he's at less than zero. it is what it is. i really go after the one who's second and i think the one who's second has gone down so much and so rapidly that i don't think he's going to be second that much longer i think he's going to be third or fourth. he had a very bad day today, he got very angry at the press. you're not allowed to get angry

at the press. [laughter] >> pres. trump: at the fake news he got angry. >> sean: so you probably became in history the most investigated president of all time. >> pres. trump: times 10. but if my poll numbers went down, it would all end. every time my poll goes up i say this is a problem. but we had a poll today that showed i was 44 points above number 2, and beating biden, and beating biden by 11 points, being biden by 11 points and beating biden by 15 and 16 points in some of them. and he's not doing well against biden. >> sean: let me ask you, because we are --. >> pres. trump: we can't take a chance in this election. >> sean: i think a lot of people agree with that. i don't think things have turned so badly so quickly. the third issue is there's a special counsel that's appointed and news broke yesterday there might be a tape recording, quote, where you acknowledged that you understood that these

were classified documents. >> pres. trump: yeah. >> sean: first of all, do you know who this call may be with? do you know anything about it. >> pres. trump: i don't know anything about it. all i know is this, everything we did was right. we have the presidential records act which i abided by a hundred percent. biden has 1,850 boxes with a lot of classified stuff that he's not supposed to have in his case. i have the right to declassify as president. he's got 1850 boxes he doesn't want anyone to see. he had seven or eight boxes in chinatown in washington, dc where nobody even speaks english in chinatown. chinatown is very -- it's in favor of china and he has boxes in chinatown. they took those boxes and sent them to boston to his lawyer so his lawyer can look through them and do things you're probably not supposed to do. no, this is about election interference. and, in fact, i have to tell you, dershowitz and a couple very good guys wrote an article today, the tobacco king, you

know the tobacco king, he did great job on the tobacco companies. they wrote an article today that this is a disgrace that they're even looking at this stuff. there was nothing done wrong, nothing whatsoever. now look at the boxes with biden where they're in his garage, all over the floor, sitting under his corvette with the grease and everything else on a garage door you could cut with a scissor and no secret service. i have secret service all over the place. mar-a-lago is a fort. literally. she built that as a southern white house. but when you look at it, and it's another -- it's a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time. it's a hoax. and it has to do [cheers and applause] >> pres. trump: it has to do, more than anything else, with trying to interfere with the election. and, let me tell you, doj actually took -- you tack about bragg, the da of new york, never thought i would be dealing with a guy like this. you talk about bragg. the doj in washington put his

top guy into the da 's office which is local, which is city state but they put the top guy in the justice department into that office to make sure trump gets in trouble. can you believe it? it's never, ever happened before. and then hillary clinton's lawyer, from i guess it's paul wise, left paul wise to work in the prosecutor's office because he hates trump and he wants to get trump. and then nobody wanteded to do anything because they say, you know, trump didn't do anything wrong, including bragg originally said trump didn't do anything wrong then he persist me for what he said was not wrong. but they took this guy and they put him in there and he left the firm and he went in -- it's a big, you know, pomerantz, mark pomerantz, and he left to become a prosecutor. he was a democrat lawyer and now he's trying to prosecute me. and then what happened is they wouldn't do what he wanted to do because it was too bad even for them. so this guy left and he writes a book during the process.

they tell me what he did is criminal. they tell me. now let's see what happens. but he's in a lot of trouble. so here's a prosecutor left and he wrote a book during a prosecution. but i've been going through this for seven years. russia, russia, russia, all of it, the mueller report, which was no collusion after 2.5 years, there was no collusion with russia. i was the worst thing -- putin would say, you know, they say you like me. he said you are the worst guy that we've ever had to deal with. i'm the one that stopped the pipeline, the big pipeline going up to germany. i stopped it. when biden came in, it's called nord stream 2. when nord stream 2, nobody ever heard of it until i came along. i said you're allowing russia to build a pipeline through europe? i stopped it, it was stopped dead. and then the election came about and biden came in, one of the first things he did was allow russia to complete the pipeline. i had it stopped. and then they say, i'll tell you

what, they're a party of disinformation. they'll say trump is soft on russia. i'm the hardest on russia that there's ever been. the sanctions we did, everything else. and i got along with putin, and i got along with putin. >> sean: let me follow up. >> pres. trump: and by the way, the hardest on china by -- i took in hundreds of billions of dollars from china and as i said no other president ever took in $0.10. and you know what? china respected us and president xi respected your president and he didn't want to have any more tariffs and he didn't want to have any more sanctions but he respected us and now he doesn't respect -- they don't even return phone calls. >> sean: abortion now is back as a real campaign issue. >> pres. trump: yeah. >> sean: and then issues i didn't think when i started my radio career in 1987 i'd be talking a lot about, but education, kids, gender identity classes. >> yeah, yeah. >> sean: crt. i never thought we would really have this deep debate bet whether or not biological men

could be laying in women's sports. >> pres. trump: so crazy. >> sean: on all of these issues, what is the best way that you see to settle? >> pres. trump: well i did something that nobody thought was possible. i got rid of roe v wade. and by doing that, by doing that it put pro lifers in a very strong negotiating position. now they're negotiating different things. you know, i happen to be of the ronald reagan school in terms of exemptions where you have the life of the mother, rape. >> sean: rape, incest, mother's life. >> pres. trump: so you have that. and i think for me that works very well, and probably 80, 85%. don't forget we have to win elections. i did something nobody could do t i also made them the radicals because they are able and willing to kill babies in the ninth month, they're willing to kill babies, that's radical. pro life isn't radical they made pro life radical the other side. pro life isn't radical, what's radical is killing a baby in the

7th month 8th month 9th month or even after the baby's born and, you know, unfortunately a lot of politicians and you saw in the midterms i think it was a big factor that didn't really know how to talk about what we did with roe v wade and what we did with pro life. they didn't know how to talk about it and it energized the democrats and they used that, i mean they used that as a commercial. you wouldn't believe it. but especially when you didn't have the exceptions. when you didn't have the exceptions, they went after the people like viciously the ads, and those people did not -- generally speaking, they didn't do very well in terms of election. but when you have the exceptions and you go through the whole, the whole gamut, it's something that's an incredible thing. but one thing it really did, though, sean is it gave people that are pro life a great power to negotiate. we had no power to negotiate because you had roe v wade sitting in there where you could

do anything, where the other side could do anything. they can't do that right now. so we're in a great position to negotiate something really, really good. and most people, i think, really respect what we did. now, i will say, every once the a while i watch somebody say i did more for abortion, on abortion and abortion rights and pro life, i did more than trump. well, only stupid people would say that because everyone said there was no way that roe v wade was going to disappear. but because -- because it was very unfair. the other thing people wanted to bring it back to the states. i consider that less important but nevertheless a lot of people wanted to bring it back. this brings it back to the states. >> sean: more with donald trump and we'll hear from our iowa audience as we continue from the great state of iowa.in please stadiy with us. >> pres. trump: thank you. en she's been looking for. sotyktu is the first-of-its-kind, once-daily pill for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis for the chance at clear or almost clear skin.

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♪ >> sean: all right, welcome back to hannity. hello iowa, thank you for being here [cheers and applause] >> sean: now according to a recent harvard harris poll, the majority of americans now believe, quote, joe biden was involved with his son in what is an illegal influence peddling scheme and yet, as far as we know despite a mountain of evidence, the fbi has had the laptop since december of 2019, the fbi and doj refuse to investigate, quote, the big guy, who hunter complained he had to give half his income to, and, on

the other hand, there is no shortage of witch hunts against donald trump which we were talking about in the last segment. now the 45th president of the united states is back with us for reaction to all of that. this goes to the heart of jim jordan's investigation is the fbi politicized, is the doj weaponized. james comer's committee looking into whether or not the biden family, in fact -- we know that joe lied when he said in a debate with you, and said it to other press people, when he said i've never talked to my son about his foreign business dealings. we have photographic evidence, we have dates and times of meetings. we now have, according to james comer, routing plans to different llcs and monies going to nine separate biden family members and they're looking for one particular document where $5 million was exchanged for an act that they claim that joe biden may have committed in exchange for this deal. yet, how come nothing happens to them? >> pres. trump: well, this era

being protected. and it's a one-sided system. it's an very unfair system. but they're being protected the. look at the time biden said about the billion dollars to get rid of the prosecutor. can you imagine if i said that? a billion dollars to get rid of the prosecutor. you talk about tape, that's on tape. that's so illegal what he said. it's america's money we're not going to give you a billion dollars unless you get rid of the prosecutor that was prosecuting his son and his son's company even though his son didn't know anything he was on the board of the energy company. the whole thing is crazy and it's so bad because it makes them look so bad. we talk about borders, we talk about elections, but you can add our justice system. if it's corrupt, if there's any perception of being corrupt, and when you look at all this crumb nal, like the laptop has so much stuff on it, it's so bad, it's so evil and yet they don't want to do anything.

it even affected impeachment because impeachment hoax one and two if they read the lap ton and had the laptop should not have proceeded because i was right and it should not have proceeded. a lot of people said that. but there's a dual system of government, there's a dual system of -- you talk about law and order. you can't have law and order in a country where you have such corruption. and the corruption is -- and they fight so hard not to give the papers. with me they make up papers. they fight so hard not to give a document. now how bad can this document be? it's very dangerous, i think it's a third point but very dangerous for our country. >> sean: comer said he has the document. >> pres. trump: by the way he's doing a great job and jim jordan, they're doing a fantastic job [cheers and applause]. >> sean: let me ask you one question i have e asked you this question before. and it comes up a lot, people know i've interviewed you all

these years i've known you almost 30 years. and people ask me, and say to him, why does he have to fight so hard, why doesn't he pick his fights a little more, why does he have to call people names. and the only reason i think this is an important question is because these -- i think everyone here tonight is likely voting for you, right? [cheers and applause]. >> sean: however, it's going to come down to those people that maybe are in the middle a little more, and the argument that they make to me is, if he would just tone it down a hair, stop a little of the name calling -- hang on. i said it's their question. leave me alone. -- that it might help you with swing voters that are need educate for you to get over the finish line. it's already hard enough electoral vote-wise for a republican to win. what do you say to them? >> pres. trump: okay you ready? and i say this to everybody.

i won an election that was unprecedented. we beat somebody that supposedly had it made and, you know, probably did things in that election, too, they were shocked. but i came into office and from the day i got in, i was under siege by people that have been in washington for many years, put in there by many different presidents, in most cases people that were against me. like they spied on my campaign. they did all sorts of things. i was under investigation and under siege and so were my people. and if i wasn't tough, i wouldn't be here right now, i guaranty you that. if i didn't fight back i wouldn't be here. what they did is so bad, and they've been caught. now, so far nothing's happened to them of consequence. we had an attorney general, bill barr, who didn't have the courage to fight. he just didn't have the courage. he was a nice man but he didn't have the courage. he lost his courage when they said they wanted to impeach him. they said they were going to impeach bill barr they didn't even know why, he didn't do anything wrong. but he didn't have the courage.

we need courage in this country or we're going to lose our country. >> sean: all right. i'll tell you what, you can stand up if you want or sit down, whatever you prefer. hi, sir, what's your name? >> mark edwards. >> sean: mic is it? >> mike. >> sean: hi, mike. you have a question for president trump. >> i do. >> pres. trump: i think i'm going to like this question. look at that shirt. >> i'm going to say yes. >> pres. trump: thank you. >> sean: he's making money off of your name. >> pres. trump: i'm not going to sue him. >> my question is, from the time that you left office until now and, in fact, in my case it happened very quickly, i am a veteran, i use the va. i was getting in to see a doctor two, three weeks. from the time you left, and this is within a month, the next time was eight months. >> pres. trump: i know. they let the system break. are you talking about the va? >> i am. >> pres. trump: so we had a 92% approval rating, nobody's ever

come close. i think the highest was 51 and it was many years ago. we had a 92% with the va and i did two things that were really -- we had great people at the top. we had a lot of great people. we talk about the bad ones but we had a lot of great people that did a fantastic job when you goat a 92% rating and i really appreciate that you say it. what happened with the va is they had a lot of very bad people in the va, very sick people that were beating up and hurting our people. and you couldn't do anything about it. and i got through congress an act where we can fire those people. we got rid of 7000 really bad people. but the other thing of equal importance, maybe more important, if you had to wait, like you said, you had to wait, under my system, if you had to wait more than a day, as you know, you would go to a private hospital or you would go to a private doctor and they would take care of you. and people weren't dying. you know, people were dying waiting on line. they were waiting for six months. they became terminally ill for something where a simple procedure or a simple

prescription could have taken care of it, and if they had to wait for more than 24 hours i gave them the right to go to a private doctor we paid the bill, we negotiated with them, had certain set prices because otherwise it wouldn't be good. and we had the highest rating. that's why the veterans love trump. we did a great job. so nice that you say it. thank you. >> sean: thank you mike. appreciate it. sir what's your name. >> my name's tony retired lieutenant colonel volunteer for several senior organizations to include aarp, full disclosure. >> pres. trump: great. >> high inflation, we have a medicare system that is severely lacking funding, running out of funding, we have a trust fund in social security that's going broke. across iowa serious concerns for seniors. what's your envision, what can you do? how can we solve these problems and get them done? >> pres. trump: so inflation is a killer of countries. if you look back, 200 years, you

can look back to empires where inflation came, the empires dissolved, they were all gone. inflation is a cancer to a country. we are going to stop inflation. we still have way high inflation. the highest in 52 years. and they're saying oh we're doing better because it's down to five percent. five percent is a lot. but we were heading up and we could head up right now with what's going on, we could end up very, very much higher. bur we're going to drill and bring energy way down, when energy comes down other things come down. that's what caused the inflation in the first place. we bring energy down and then we'll bring interest rates down, because interest rates people can't buy homes can't borrow money, they can't do anything now. right now our economy is a total mess. and we'll stop it. and when we stop inflation and when we get interest rates down and when we do all of the things that we have to do, including, again, i rebuilt our military, but we have to rebuild it again, you know our military has no

ammunition. we have no ammunition. we've given much of it, almost all of it, but we've given much of it to ukraine. we want to help people but i want to stop the war. i don't want that war to continue. and i'll stop that war, mark my words [cheers and applause] >> pres. trump: i'll stop that war in 24 hours. but we're in a position -- [cheers and applause]. >> sean: mr. president, let me ask, serious question, how do you stop that war in 24 hours? >> pres. trump: i know both and frankly zelenskyy was very good, because, you know, he was part of the phone call and he said he didn't say anything wrong. he could have gone and grandstand and say i felt threatened, he didn't. i get along with him, i get along with putin. it would have been much easier to stop it before it started, putin would have never done this, would have been much easier right now it's a mess now they're hitting kyiv and hitting all sorts of things that weren't supposed to be hit. the country is being decimated. the deaths are way worse.

when they say nine apartment buildings got knocked down and two people got hurt. no, no. hundreds of people died. the numbers are much different than what you're being told. i will get them into a room and they will -- and i know an exact way. number one, you tell one, you're not going to get anything unless you make a deal. you tell the other one, they're going to get a lot unless you make a deal and you just sit them and you have to make a determination. and within, i'm telling you, within 24 hours that whole thing will be settled. it will be settled. and you need the power of the oval office. you do. you can't just walk in and say i'm going to settle the deal. you need the power of the presidency. it was a war that should have never, ever started. it's a horrible war, it's a vicious, vicious -- i saw today missiles are going into cities, in this case kyiv, and you see the school children going to school and missiles are following them. the whole thing is horrible. i will have that settled in 24 hours. people say oh, you can't.

it's just like -- when i hear desanctimonious come and say we need eight years. again, if he needs eight years don't vote for him. this country will be hopping in six months. and a lot of it's going to do with energy. it will be hopping. >> sean: all right. >> pres. trump: in six months. and less than six months, but it will be back. >> sean: thank you iowa for being here. [cheers and applause]

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of you all over the country, that's all the time we have this evening. thank you for joining us. we hope you had a good time. from the great state of iowa. tomorrow night we are taping more of the president taking questions. have a great night.thanks for joining us. more coming up tomorrow night. >>. [applause] >> i am rachel campos and this is a special edition of the ingraham angle from new york city.we speak exclusively to 2 pro-life activists who were brutally beaten after praying outside of planned parenthood and any moment the senate will vote on the debt ceiling bill. we will bring you all the details as is happening from capitol hill. but first. as the 2024 campaign kicks into high gear on the gop side there's a burning question that remains. what e