the city is reserved this room for a large group of illegal aliens coming in from texas that's right. they've reserved many rooms, many rooms, a lot of rooms, too many rooms. but in all seriousness, it's an honor to be here to support the city and the community. it's a great community that i love. i've been here a long time and i love it man, it's going to make a big comeback and i'm going to help it make a comeback. i'm going to win and i'm going to make a comeback for them to turn this thing around really incredible man, a man who was a tremendous politician and actually the fact that he was catholic, was it probably did him in right there. probably nobody knows for sure but it was a great guy, l. smith, great guy. everyone says, happy warrior i've said before >> for i'll say it again. i'll say it again as many times as they have to directly to the

mayor and the governor. if i have the honor to be elected next month, we're going to see what happens. it's happening so fast, but if i have the honor, i look forward to working together to make the city greater than ever before we're going to do that we're going to be we're going to be focused on i work with the government. worked with the mayor democrats. i will work with them. i work with whoever i have to and we will even work very hard to bring back the soil hello, tax deduction. we're going to bring it back. we're going to bring it back we're going to get that thing going. chuck. >> okay i actually thought about not doing jokes tonight. i was going to come out here and said, listen a country is doing very badly. this is not about jokes and then some person said you have to do jokes. he said, i don't want to. there's nothing funny about what's happening to our country and i actually meant that i was going to do that, but they convinced me to say some of the things i said tonight. i don't know if they were funny or not, but a you

think this is easy standing up here in front of half a room that hates my guts and the other half loves me half of us loved me, but maybe it's i think 75% lovely but i actually do. i did think about that our country is doing very badly with respect to it's open borders and inflation crushing things happening in the middle east and ukraine, it's so sad to see what's happening in ukraine while i had a lot of people from their religious people come up to me tonight. >> from ukraine and they're asking me for help. >> so so sad to see so many people have been killed in ukraine. and we're going to get it. we're going to get it settled up. if we went as i'm president elect, i'm gonna get that done. i'm going to do it before we ever get that. we have to get it stopped too much killing, its killing and all of those cities or coming crashing

down those beautiful golden domes are crashing down on their sides. there so sad to see the whole thing is so sad. so we're going to be for all those people, there's so many people came up to the dais religious people from ukraine and i'm going to say, and i told him, don't worry, we're going to get it stopped. it's too bad. it ever started should have never started, wouldn't have started but we're going to have our country respected again, we're going to make sure that it's respected and we're gonna go out and do very good things for ourselves as a country and for the world. these are challenging times for beautiful usa but i'm committed to working with every partner here in new york and all across the nation to build an america that once again is strong and safe and proud and prosperous and free. i'm going to make sure together we can create a future defined by great ambitions and grant achievements at once again inspires the dreams of our

children, brings back the american dream. you don't hear about the american dream anymore. we're going to make it possible for them to have the american dream this is a very religious evening to me. it really is it represents so much my sister was somebody that loved the church and gave to the church. cardinal knew that at a certain priest that she thought was incredible, right? for certain very, very fine man that she thought was incredible having recently myself survived two assassination attempts, they said i have a chart that went down to the right. fortunately, i look, that's my all-time favorite piece of paper. but it went down and i look to the right and i said, you know, was that luck? what was that locker? was that god that i think it was god that did that. i do cardinal have a very fresh appreciation for how blessed we

are by god's providence and his divine mercy. >> i mean, that was something i was not supposed to be here tonight that i can tell you. so with god's help, i know there is nothing that cannot be achieved. we can achieve so much good with this country and get together and unify i want to thank the l. smith foundation for its noble work, and i want to express my tremendous gratitude to the catholic community. it's a great community to community has gotten along with all my life. i tell you when i was what i was president, i was in the oval office that i got a call from the cardinal and he said, we need help. it was during the china virus. i want to be accurate when i describe it and he said we need help. our schools are in devastating shape. they needed much more than 1 billion. i wouldn't even tell you the number, but much more than $1 but i've known the community and i've known that

the schools i knew, i know so many people that we're educated into catholic school system and they are great and they just speak with it, with love much more so then almost any system that i've seen and he said, sir, we have a big problem. we need a number of billions of dollars. oh, we're going to have to close down the new york school system. the whole system in new york and i said, give me 15 minutes. i think i can find it and we gave him billions of dollars and you know what? he stayed open and they thrived and to this day, i hear you did just about the best job. there is an education every time he sees visas, thank you very much. i said i know what you're talking about, but we worked together. we were a good partnership. we got that money and about 15 minutes, billions and it was put to very good use. but i just want to thank everybody. that's especially evening it's very

serious evening. i think we have some serious problems in the world, but they're going to get solved and we're going to make america great again. and thank you very much and god bless you all. thank you. thank you >> watching the former president and republican nominee, donald trump addressing the al smith dinner. it's a charity event that gives the presidential candidates a chance to do some comedy in the middle of a heated and bitter political year, donald trump did get a lot of laughs. he also got some boos and he used the stage to call kamala harris disrespectful for skipping the dinner. and then he cursed from the stage. he praised conspiracy theorist robert f. kennedy, who has endorsed him. he tried to flip the word weird against democrats and he made a transgender joke about chuck schumer, who was sitting right next to him. he joked about doug emhoff's and fidelity in his first marriage. he winked at the assassination attempts against him and much, much more

good thing we've got our roundtable here to break it down brian stelter. what did you make of this performance? >> i no, don't ask me first i thought it was funny. i thought he actually got a few great jokes in that the best moment was we talked about the assassination attempts and made light of what he's experienced because i think he's experiencing real trauma, real ptsd as a result of the shootings, but he's still able to have a light moment in this room and he took good vantage of the fact that kamala harris wasn't there, which is really disappointing, is that he kept whole thing exactly. that she they're usually supposed to be in the same room, which it is frustrating though that he will not pronounce her name correctly. it's not difficult and he goes out of his way to insult her in a way that i think is racially touched you know the fact that she's not there. >> bomani it's smart move. not so smart. we're going she put out this video in it and actually they brought in like a real comedian to do the bit with her but she could have

done exactly what trump did and roast him and rover the stage? >> yes. but let us stop at imagine the moment where there's dude make jokes about your husbands infidelity. >> but this first wife and you're just sitting there like, oh man, that was a wary i have to say, if you were watching there, jim gaffigan, who was on right before trump, made a joke about grab them by. >> there was with melania trump sitting right there. said it's not amused the audacity of trump to decide like he would face of getting recognized. gay will come up at that point. you're like not like we don't lead a joke out. he i don't feel like i'm the person who could tell this, but it is difficult for me to listen to him joke right now because nothing feels funny. i could understand like if i would if i were kamala harris to signal, i would want to give is no, i really don't feel like sitting around and joking with him let's do it right now because i don't think he presents a lot to joke about at this point. >> i also think that that event, it used to be a good natured, humored way to kind of take some levity into the campaign season but i don't think it's like that anymore.

and that would really be from the 2016 event with hillary clinton, where donald trump changed the whole tone of that event by attacking hillary clinton in that particular killer event. so i feel like he's the one that kind of change the tone of that to begin with. and then it's a catholic event where kamala harris is running very distinctly on returning the rights of road of people. and this is a group that really, really loves that those rights were taken from women in the country. so it feels like, you know what she only started her campaign in july. he's been running for president since he was inaugurated in 2017. so he can take a break to make some jokes. she's working really. >> she probably didn't think it mattered. i mean, most evangelicals, white christian church goers voted for donald trump 59%, biden 40 or 59% trump biden 40% in 2020. to your point, she's probably we are looking at this demographic and thinking based on my policy positions are likely not going to vote for me anyway, it's more expedient for me to be in wisconsin, a state where she may or may not win for trump. i think it's important because a

larger percent of catholics don't vote. they're infrequent voters. so if he can turn out for 5% of those voters and some of those swing states that may make a difference for him in november, but shermichael, this was not an event for evangelical christians as event for catholics biden won the calf vote in 2020 and trump won the catholic vote in 2016. >> so it is an immensely important population, especially in states like pennsylvania huge catholic population, ethnic catholic population, who respond to cultural catholic things like talking about catholic schools that isn't enormous, i am catholic is, it is a very, very deep part of our culture is our catholic schools. they're causing under budgetary issues and a lot are closing. this was a perfect time. she could have a lot of smooth things and no one would have noticed that she may have gone, but people noticed that she wasn't there. >> i'm an old ai want these traditions to continue. i want our institutions to thrive and yet i find myself agreeing that there's nothing funny right now. i mean, i thought he had some great one liners. the line about he was talking. now i'm

going to forget them all of course, on live tv, eric adams joke was very funny. >> yeah, there were a couple really good at our politics isn't it rose each other? i want them to be able to be in the same room and find common glad, i think these point, it does strike me that the harris campaign is sort of tacitly saying hey, this this ain't normal trump is not normal. and i'm not going to sit here and kiki with him. >> the last thing i would want if i were commonly held harris in trump managed to win this election. is that you got a budget video with me after the fact kiki ended up with donald trump when we have no idea what this man has kept below, if he winds up when it is again, i don't want to i would not want to be the person to moralize in that way, the internet does not ever, ever forget. >> i feel like we keep normalizing him right? so if you go to this event and you do this good nature back-and-forth thing. you're normalizing him well, how much of that is a part of the calculation didn't realize how abnormal so you guys were saying he was so no, no, no, no, no.

>> but we got a whole different can for your down, like backpedaling now know you're going him in 2016, i firmly believe myself and i think a lot of the people how bad could it really be eight years later the guardrails back then, you believe the guardrails would hold that trump was able to be self-aware tonight, he had self-deprecating jokes. he made a comment about okay. time for me to make jokes about myself. okay. i have nothing to say that, you know, i ask you that that's an acknowledgment of how oh, yeah. >> but did he horn impressed, you know, was he self-aware or did he have one good writer that got a bunch of excellent jokes in there because the man was not there's one good writer. we were talking about that there's one person there was joked you went that was a good joke. that was a good joke. whoever wrote those jokes did a great job. but is he self-aware? know no matter what? >> did you can you read it off the teleprompter fact that matters. if i'm if i'm advising the vice president, i'm looking at this moment. i don't know if i necessarily agree about the laughter factor of it. i'm looking at how close this race is as a strategist, looking at the data, i'm thinking madam vice president,

it makes no sense for you to be in new york when you can be in front of an arena with thousands of voters trying to energized today. >> very catholic tons of catholics and pennsylvania and it is the largest swing state, not negating that right now. >> i know if i'm advising the vice says i wouldn't be as a catholic. this wasn't a big thing, but this was shared all over social you for catholics. gretchen whitmer be having like our dorito as a eucharist talking about the chips. >> okay, guys i'm telling you i'm telling what catholics were sharing social media. >> you could sit there and say it wasn't intended. that's what people took it as i agree with you then for that from a few weeks ago to all of a sudden shirt skipping the big catholic event for politics, the biggest one and i long history of democrats continuing to slip at the catholic vote. it isn't currently a strategy. i think it was smart for trump to be there. i absolutely agree. i think it was smart for her to be somewhere else just looking at the numbers. >> i wonder. i mean, the the

gettable catholics for kamala harris or do they really are they really looking at the al smith dinner and saying, oh, my god, she's not there. they're thinking not just thinking as she liked people like me? >> that's a big question for commonly, does she actually like people like me, considering like to take amid what may take a pennsylvania voter who heard obama say they claim to their guns and are bibles who had hillary clinton feel like they were very far away at joe biden was counties abortion is the pivot issue. >> know those counties it's not it's been what it's the catholic schools. >> it is being good on the economy. it is understanding family economics, stuff like that, and also being relatable to working class issues and not putting them zach basically the same issues that everybody cultural part of it that >> i've been in pennsylvania all week and we look at the billboards most of the trump billboards are just saying trump. the higher the harris billboards are about policy. she supports raising the minimum wage. she supports abortion rights. so there's this argument going on within

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kasie hunt tomorrow at five eastern the weave you might call it throw insults against the wall and see what sticks the gop nominee gave a lengthy interview for the pbd podcast and it was while something and it included a trump throwback, a race-baiting attack about kamala harris's racial identity black men really likely, and i think black women do too. >> but they have a woman who's black hello you. would say she's indian, but she is black. but you really a lot of people didn't know, which is true but i learned about it just a couple of months ago maybe, you know, the fact that she's black or that she's ended the fact that she thought i thought she was indian until a couple of things changed. >> i mean, a lot of people

because if you follow baseball, sam also you sometimes have to respect people they sandwich, right? so i thought maybe she was doing a semi source at the other way i sam is changing was it's wild, but i mean are we really doing this again i don't think he remembers what he already tried and they got off of and then was like, oh yeah, we'll get back to this one. i mean, look, logically speaking, there's not many places where you'd become more popular by being black like the argument that she's not black, almost feels like it's counterproductive to the aims of what it is that he's going for, but they've decided that this is the way they're going about this substantive issues are not going to get anywhere for them. they have figured this out. this is about vibes. they think this vibe words. i would think by now they had somebody tell him this one doesn't play because when they tried to an early that was the universal thing is like this one isn't playing. i just think you forgot. >> i think he doesn't care. i mean, it's like the haitian immigrants. he just says it because that's what he wants to but trump again, we keep

talking about this because he keeps bringing it up. he is struggling with the kamala harris of it. all. he actually joke tonight at the al smith dinner that now he likes joe biden and he says that because this is what he said on truth, social kamala should be investigated and forced off the campaign and joe biden allowed to take him back because the rightful place. he got 14 million primary votes she got none that's fine. i mean, she did that's funny. i mean, that is fawning where maybe its president by we in the i mean, i think everyone for the most part sort of believed that trump was likely going to win. >> the reality is kamala harris is a formidable candidate i mean, you have to bring your a game. she's younger, she's excited that democratic base. she's raised a lot of money. so i certainly get the frustration but look, there's a host of issues where donald trump leads on abby. we've talked about it for months, now it's the economy and immigration. my advice to him would be to stick to those things if you want to maintain your lead. november you know,

better, you know, he's not going to, you know i don't know cry in that same post that you just quoted out, but he also said cbs should be forced off the air. >> the license should be revoked, 60 minutes should be kicked off. i mean election hundred games. this until it's not i mean, that what you're talking about he could try to do. we know that he has a history of trying to punish media companies yeah. for doing journalism that he does not like. >> but we look at it and obama spy on a journalist, ryan. it's an old, it's an all caps and anybody it was wild so people sometimes dismiss it, even though it's very serious. brian didn't obama administration is perfect, but no, i don't think that i do not believe that donald trump did what joe what brock obama administration, but reality winner behind bars for leaking to the intercept. every administration is guilty of some of this, okay? trump, if that's not the same thing,

donald trump has threatened every major media company in the united states fox right? okay. all right let's call it what you say. i think brian's point is trump is saying he wants to take an entire news organization off the air because he doesn't like the an interview that they conducted i'm like the edits and she just like in the real-world, acknowledged that's bad, i would say that donald trump should get a diary instead of truth social, that's my opinion. that we are now times you didn't get a dire i just have to point out, you didn't answer my question no, because i don't think it's a serious thing. >> it's what we talked last time, literal versus versus figurative. i don't think i don't think anyone really thinks he's going to take cbs off the air. >> i mean, what about the rest of the beauty is not going to i don't high appointing an fcc chair who will do it. >> but what about the

with janet jackson like he's asking, you, don't want a real question. >> no. you're you're answering his question with a question. >> what he's saying is, is it not is it not crazy that he can just say racist things make up things about cats and dogs, say whatever he wants longer and it doesn't matter he has been around. what about jack? jack is a racist. yes. the same question, but that's not the question why isn't the question so to the because of you, because donald trump is running for president, right? janet jackson's not running for president. all these other people you're mentioning donald trump is the one running for president, and we need to take this man and the things he says seriously, and the things he's saying, i'm going to take people off the air that i don't agree with. i'm going to go after my political enemies. i'm going to do these terrible things and we have to take things that you're doing. don't go to jail hillary clinton go to jail because he promised he would never

all of us. this is what stage, this is what he's done to the country. >> i mean, if anything, this show, it gets a little bit of a microcosm of the country, but i just have to say ryan you know, that there is a lot of reporting of trump, both attempting and succeeding to direct his government to go after his political enemies he's, you know, that that is true, right? >> which political enemies that he got arrested he tried, he lived what you wish getting adam schiff arrested once he gets back in the i'm not i didn't do schiff. i got him arrested. but you also don't want hillary going to jail and she did it. i don't put words in my mouth he got her arrested is a quote, obviously. yeah. i said that he attempted to use the government against his political enemies. that's, that is true. and so the idea that he says things and then doesn't try to do them is not borne out by fabs. he says things and then often tries to do them, two things. >> one, the blow vacating. i think that people sit there and say, all right normal feel like i don't care. trump's annoying. i but i like his

policies and that's fine. the second thing is that a lot of presence much for the political enemies using the government, trump did not get any i mean, does the truth obama use the irs against his political enemies that did happen. but he did so comfortable in the guardrails around again the lanny opponent. >> how do you feel so confident in what he was president already? >> and he didn't want to i want to get some other things in, but again, ryan, please brock obama was either you have you have no evidence of barack obama directly you i ask the irs to go after any political enemies. they just how he to, you have no evidence of brock obama was involved in that. >> you have to acknowledge that they did though. but i don't i don't have it on the irs to go as administration that striation debts false, but we're going to move on. we're going to move on because i want to i want to play the other things that donald trump said and other people that he went after it was there was more, there was more listen.

>> i think he's angry. he pretends not to be, but i think he's an angry guys, nasty guy. edge and now he is angry about a lot of things. van jones total sleazebag. hey, thank this one. this one. that one, that one? >> no one he didn't think was donald trump. >> i think zelenskyy is one of the greatest salesman i've ever seen. every time he comes in when you get $100 who else got that kind of money in history, there's never been that doesn't mean i don't want to help them because i feel very badly for those people. but he should never have let that war start that lowers a loser i'll talk about blaming the victim or someone in that interview. >> it's a loser and it's not zelenskyy. >> i mean, look, a lot of people, whether you want to agree with it or not, and i have my differences with the former president and on whether or not we should support ukraine. but a lot of americans

look at how much money we've allocated to ukraine and a lot of people wonder why are we spending so much money on this conflict that and i get that but the main part which is that he has had zelenskyy should not have let the war start. >> zelenskyy didn't start the war who i agree that putin obviously started the war at that point. is that a lot of people look at how much money we spent on this conflict, and they're asking themselves, my roads are crumbling, my schools suck. we just had major disasters across the country. fema doesn't have enough money. >> i don't live now, but for a lot of living in that country, by the way, americans, not that horrible. >> brian. >> very good out of new york in new york city, right? >> brian. >> roads or not? i loved my family bri schools don't suck. i just i just maybe you for tyre married, maybe your fortunate enough to put your kids and darn good schools, but they're not like school. lot