forward to ahead. stay with us. right now. >> we're going to have. nick watt nectar gan. >> hi, everyone. good afternoon to you. welcome to a special edition of cnn newsroom. i'm pamela brown from our studios in washington. ladies and gentlemen, less than 20. >> and i'm kaitlan collins at a very loud capitol arena. >> one arena here in washington. the president elect, donald trump, is about to speak. >> on stage right now, two of his children, eric trump and

donald trump jr., are both on stage. >> we've seen a flurry of advisers coming out, including steve witkoff, and we are waiting to hear from the vice president elect. and then in moments, it will be trump himself taking the stage to give a speech to his supporters on the eve of his second inauguration here in washington. and when you look at it in its totality, it's really a remarkable moment for the president elect, whose political future was uncertain when he left washington four years ago. now he is back. my colleague jeff zeleny is here with me at the rally. and, jeff, just looking at this moment here as the family is on stage, lara trump, who is the co-chair of the republican national committee, is speaking right now over our shoulder. and we're going to hear from trump in a way that, you know, i don't think he's ever held a rally the day before he was it was inauguration. he certainly did it in 2017. he had events in washington. but it reminds me of what he said so often on the campaign trail, which is that he knows washington so much better this time around, including the levers of the

federal government than he did the first time. >> and that has been so obvious, really, since the moment that he won the election. >> it has infused everything that he has done. i was thinking back to eight years ago, he went on a series of victory rallies throughout the month of november. in 2016, december of 2016, to all the battleground states. he didn't do that this time. why? he was in mar-a-lago setting up his government. his cabinet picks came so much faster this time. everything is different. this time around, it's the campaign was different. of course, susie wiles, who is going to be installed as the first woman to be the white house chief of staff, is responsible for a lot of this guidance. but also president trump. he knows his way around the job. so one adviser was telling me not that long ago, look, when you ever you're going back to a place you worked, you know, your way around and the west wing, as you and i know, is a very small place, but it's such a complicated government. he knows what he wants to do. and this time the congress is with him in such a stronger way than

it was eight years ago. he was still, you know, sort of at odds with his own party. then this is his party. these are his people. but now the burden of governing is also on him, which he knows presidents have to handle whatever come at them. and everything has been planned up until now. tomorrow at noon. that's when a lot of uncertainties also are factored in. >> and as we're sitting here in the room, for those who can't see it, there is a phrase scrolling around the arena that says trump will fix it in all capital letters. and i was looking at that because he is coming into office. you're right. with a very different republican majority in both chambers on capitol hill, and he is coming in with very high expectations from the american people of what he pledged on the campaign trail in terms of inflation and grocery prices, to foreign affairs and the war in ukraine. he's also coming in with a very different team this time around, including the guy that we're about to hear from his vice president elect, jd vance. and i had heard earlier that it is confirmed that mike pence

will be here. he is obviously not invited by the trump team. he's invited by the congressional inaugural committee that plans all of this. and it's remarkable, though, that he and trump will be in the same room for the second time in as many weeks in four years, but also in that same place where four years ago, it seems maybe unthinkable for a lot of the lawmakers now behind trump that he'd ever be in this position again. >> four years of help. it seemed very unlikely, and it seemed unlikely to a lot of trump supporters and advisers as well. but i think this is going to be a metaphor for the next 12 or 24 hours as we see him going back into the rotunda. of course, the site of the bloody insurrection versus, you know, he'll do some pardons versus how much forward looking things he does. and i think throughout the course of his next term, how much forward looking agenda building does he do versus looking backwards and trying to settle scores and things? i think the balance of that is something that will really show how successful this second term may be

forever. >> yeah, we'll see what that looks like. and of course, we are going to be hearing from the president elect himself, talking about what that second term will look like here in a room full of his supporters, and a room where also they will be here tomorrow because the inauguration is being moved inside. so this is where a lot of people will be watching the inauguration as it's happening here in washington. >> all right, caitlin, thank you so much. thanks to you as well, jeff. and as we await trump's speech, i'm joined by my panel. scott jennings is a cnn senior political commentator. also with us is bakari sellers, a cnn political commentator. so just looking ahead, scott, what do you expect to hear from trump on the eve of his second inauguration? >> well, i'm sure he's going to be quite excited to be with his people. >> and, you know, there's a lot of people who are in town who aren't going to get to see him, you know, on the mall like they thought. >> so this is a chance for him to talk directly to those folks, thank them, and talk about how much they mean to him. >> i mean, they're the reason he had this political comeback. >> it's the most important and historic thing that's happened

in modern american politics. and i'm sure he's going to be full of gratitude tomorrow. i expect a very. direct and workmanlike speech from donald trump. i think he's got a real chance to talk to the american people directly. and in non sweeping and non flowery terms about the problems we face and what he can do about it at this moment. i mean, he's obviously going to sign a couple of hundred executive orders tomorrow and they all have a purpose. and so today i think it's enthusiasm and optimism and gratitude. and tomorrow it's we're hitting the ground running and we're getting america back on track. it's going to be restoring confidence. i think in america is the theme of the speech. >> bakari, what would you like to hear from trump? anything. >> i mean, i'd be lying if i'm excited about the moment, but i will tell you this that i think democrats that want him to fail is probably not the best tack to take. >> i think that we should all want we shouldn't go back and harken to the days of 2009, when rush limbaugh and newt

gingrich came out and prayed for donald. i mean, excuse me, for barack obama to not succeed or be a one term president or fail at the job. i think everybody should want him to do what's in the best interest of the country. the problem is we kind of know who donald trump is. i don't expect anything new, and i think that there's going to be a lot in there for democrats to rally around and say, this is not necessarily the country we want to see. for example, i'm not as much looking to day one as i am to day two. i think that many of the individuals around donald trump, the jason millers of the world, the susie wiles, have chosen a a unique and easy foe for him. and brandon johnson, the mayor of chicago. and when you go in and you begin to round up and do mass deportations, the question is, what individuals are you rounding up that have not committed a crime? you know, those mixed status families, those individuals who are making our supply chains work, watching that play out, i think is going to be extremely interesting. >> so it is it is a fair question, and i will i will note this for our viewers. i

actually years ago under the obama administration, i did a ride along in cook county, a sanctuary city in chicago with actually tom homan was there and others and and i got a firsthand look of how they do this, how they operate. right. and i mean, going out and arresting those who are here illegally with criminal records. it's not like you might. >> there's no objection. i'm sorry, scott, i don't mean to, but there's no objection to that. >> there's no objection to that. but what i'm saying is. >> but that's not that's and that and that is where the rubber meets the road if you just. but my question is, what do you do in mixed status households? so if there's a criminal look correct with living with others who are here illegally with a child who's ten, who was born in the u.s., what do they do? >> but they cannot let truthfully, a anybody who came here illegally by definition is a criminal. they did break our laws. doesn't mean they're violent, but it does mean they're a criminal. b you cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good here, and the good is doing what i think 88% of people in the new york times

poll said they wanted, which was mass deportations of illegal alien criminals out of this country. it's not really controversial what they're proposing to do. it's got widespread bipartisan support, right. >> here is my point, though. >> i just want to finish the point that i was making was it's, you know, trump has set this expectation in tom homan said. there's going to be shock and awe. we're going to have mass deportations. it's actually logistically challenging to to find the person. i mean, when i did the ride along, they arrested the wrong person. it was like the brother of the, you know, it's not but as but but the yeah, go ahead. >> i was going to say and i think this is where this is where this is the policy disagreement that that scott and i will have, you know, not letting the perfect interfere, but the, the what happens is you're going to be mass deporting entire families, children because tom homan has said out of his mouth that the way that you don't break up or separate children from their families is to send them all back. and so you're going to have those issues. but i think what democrats have to do is we have to look in these major cities and look at some of the places where trump is

targeting. and i just hope and pray. i don't think he has the political acumen or the deftness to do it, that brandon johnson doesn't necessarily take the bait, which he will when you start, when you start trying to pick out individual situations. >> what about this? what about this, what homan has said and what i think is true is you're just sending a signal that, well, we're going to continue to allow some of it, some of it's going to be okay. and what he has said and what he campaigned on is that none of it is okay, that we're going to have a legal immigration system, that we're going to know who's coming here. we're going to know why they're coming here. we're not going to continue to send a signal to the world and just get here, and we'll figure it out. you'll probably be fine. that's why we're in the mess we're in right now. that's why millions of people came here over the last four years. and it ends beginning tomorrow. and i will tell you, if these blue cities and blue states and some of these local democrats try to interfere. stop it, not cooperate. i think their citizens, their constituents, are going to punish them politically because people who live in these cities are being hit the hardest. new york, chicago, they want a solution. >> and bakari, as you i mean,

some were democrats actually ended up voting for trump because of the immigration issue and some, you know, and what scott says is, is, you know, amazing in theory, however, in practicality. >> and when we come back and revisit this in 18 months, when you're talking about the supply chains that are no longer running as smoothly, when you're talking about individuals who do those menial jobs that no one else wants to do. when you're talking about in georgia, how they had a problem last time we went through this immigration crisis, because there weren't enough people who were going out and picking the fruits and vegetables and doing these jobs that other americans aren't doing or don't want to do, or they aren't getting paid enough to. do you have a serious issue. and so while this looks good on paper and i'm with you, i mean, yeah, i mean, but that is is the american economy completely and totally underpinned by murderers and rapists. >> that is just they're going after the violent population. they're going after the people who have existing deportation orders. and i don't remember any breakdown in american supply chains under president obama, who correctly deported millions of people. we've done this before, scott. >> i call bs because we just

started this conversation by saying that everyone agrees that you should you should deport those individuals. >> now you're saying the fruit is going to rot. >> that's not what. but scott, let's have a little bit of political deafness here for the audience and not be that intellectually dishonest, because i'm not talking about those people we want and you want, and we're going to do it. i'm not talking about those people. i'm talking about the individuals who don't have a driving infraction, but who are in a household with somebody who's going to be deported. i'm talking about those children who are here, who are the children of those individuals who are going to be deported. that imagery. yes. it has a ripple effect. and yes, it's going to have an effect on your tourism. it's going to have an effect on your agricultural system. and so, yeah, i mean, deport all these brown people you want. but at the end of the day, this is going to have a tangible effect. >> they're not brown people. they're illegal immigrants. i'm sorry to reduce this to a racial conversation is you want to talk about being dishonest. it has everything to do with breaking laws or not breaking laws. and are you going to have a chief executive who enforces a law or who doesn't? we haven't had one who wants to enforce the law, and now we do.

and that's what people voted for. >> you tried this. >> and let me ask you this, because trump also made a lot of promises on immigration in his first time in office. and i believe that biden and trump are on track to deport, have the same around the same number of deportations. right. why do you think that is? >> we're in a totally different situation today than we were four years ago. okay. so what how many people came into this country over the last four years? millions upon millions. we are different today than we were four years ago, ten years ago. 20. we have never faced a crisis like this. and it's not just people coming here. it's what happens when they get here. we have illegal immigrants in this country who have committed heinous, violent crimes. that's why the congress is passing the laken riley act. these are terrible stories. and are we going to allow there's no question, scott's are not suggesting that you keep. so they tested it for the entire election. they claimed they claimed the border was fine. >> the irony of this argument is that we go to the violent, illegal individuals who've committed violent crimes. we go to that. and then, you know, i

talk about the economy, right? i talk about family structures and family units. and then it's like, oh, it's not a race issue. like i'm not calling it any of that. >> but what i am saying, you said it was brown people. >> no, i said yeah. no. yes, definitely. if you want to deport as many brown people as you want to, if that, if that provides some semblance of, of, of success in terms of your policy initiatives, then so be it. but that is not necessarily all that we are talking about. this time frame is different. and yes, while some immigrants are committing crimes, you know what else? immigration and immigrants who come to this country, many of them are within the underpinnings and fabric of what we do day in and day out. and if we can't recognize that, if we can't have a humane system to recognize that, then fundamentally we're going to have a problem. >> come here legally and you'll be fine. come here illegally and you won't be. and that has to be the message, the message of the democratic party for the last four years was just come here and do whatever you want, and that ends monday. and if you look at the new york times poll from this weekend, this is not controversial. this is

supported by democrats, republicans, people want action. and i think what you're going to see with the executive orders tomorrow is trump not saying, well, we're going to get to it later. we're going to say, no, we start today. that's what's happening here. >> can i be clear? and i'm not sure democrats have been clear on this point, but i do know that scott has a social media engine behind him. so i want to be clear. when people replay this clip, i want individuals who come in this country to come into this country safely. i know many of them are fleeing harm in their home countries. i want them to come into this country legally, but i also want a humane system by which we send people back to the countries from which they're from. i want a humane immigration system, and i think that we're going to see it play out over the next 8 or 9 months. the inhumanity of the system that donald trump is proposing, if i'm wrong, god bless him. >> does that mean inhumane? inhumane? >> i can tell you. i can tell you that. let me give you a break. >> but there is a question about i'll explain it in the break. a country that isn't going to, you know, says it won't take take anyone back.

we heard mike waltz today. the president's incoming national security visor say they're working with other countries to see. so there are questions. and in terms of, you know, the target, i believe it is 8% of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country do have criminal records. that is, you know, i just want to put that in context for our viewers, since we were talking about that, we are waiting for president-elect trump to take the stage there at the capital one arena. you can see the rally goers waiting, and we will be right back. >> this part changed my life. >> superman. crazy. just that simple little thing over the horse. >> chris wanted to change the world. >> people are literally walking because of him. >> superman, the christopher reeve story february 2nd on cnn what? >> i got a six. i'm not broken. oh, come on, fix. that i gotta fix.

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the white house starting tomorrow, come out and speak before him. and now you can see him there making his way in. i should note there are a lot of people here in the capital one arena. i believe it can seat about 20,000 people, but there's chairs on the floor, so tbd on the numbers. but i can tell you coming in at downtown washington, as we were making our way over here, there was a huge line of the president elect supporters waiting to get into the capital one arena to to see him at this rally. for some of them, this will be the closest they ever get to him during this inauguration, given it has been moved inside and will no longer be happening on the national mall. cnn's jeff zeleny is here with me at the rally. jeff, it is remarkable. i mean, how close he is getting to everyone. obviously, everyone here has gone through security and whatnot, but typically he walks in off stage to come in. he is making a point to walk through all the supporters that are gathered here to listen to him. >> in his final rally before he regains the power of the office, netted out. >> and really, this is the first time many of his

supporters certainly have seen him this close in person. >> but even in this setting since the election, since the election, it's been extraordinarily disciplined in terms of actually a fairly limited schedule and actually establishing his cabinet. >> so here he is after this familiar song, taking the stage once again. >> yeah. lee greenwood playing as he does always to introduce the president elect. he's shaking his hand there. >> a longtime supporter of his who was at the conventions and a lot of his rallies. >> and now introducing him finally, before he steps up to the microphone. and of course, something to listen for in this speech is trump has not made a lot of public appearances since he won the election in november, instead of how it was in his last one. but now here he is about to speak to the supporters gathered here at the capital one arena in a very snowy washington. we're going to listen to those remarks, as we've heard from many of his advisers.

we one. >> we one. >> thank you very much, everybody. what a good feeling. we like winning, don't we? yeah. we're going to make our country a greater than ever before. hello washington. and hello america. we're all over america. i'm thrilled to be back with so many friends, supporters and true american patriots on the eve of taking back our country. that's what we're going to do. take back our country. tomorrow at noon, the curtain closes on four long years of american decline, and we begin a brand new day of

american strength and prosperity, dignity and pride. bringing it all back once and for all. we're going to end the reign of a failed and corrupt political establishment in washington. a failed administration. we're not going to take it anymore. we're going to stop the invasion of our borders. we're going to reclaim our wealth. we're going to unlock the liquid gold that's right under our feet. liquid gold. we're going to bring back law and order to our cities. we're going to restore patriotism to our schools, get radical left woke ideologies the hell out of our military and out of our

government. and we are going to make america great again. i want to thank the tens of thousands of incredible men and women who have come from all over the nation to take part in this very special moment. and i just heard and watching some of the coverage that there are rallies like this taking place all over the country. people are happy, people are happy. it's been a long time. none of this would have been possible without you and the millions of hardworking citizens who have joined our cause, you know, right over there just noticed a group of beautiful ladies, beautiful women from north carolina, from north carolina, right here to.

i don't know how the hell they they've been to 167 rallies. you believe it? you think their husbands are happy about that? i don't know, but they look beautiful. they're incredible people, and they love our country. thank you very much. and up here, i see we have front row joes all over the place. uncle sam, mr. wall, oh boy, oh boy. but we've been through so much together. and for the next four years, i will fight for you every single day. we're going to be fighting for you. this is the greatest political movement in american history. and 75 days ago, we achieved the most epic political victory our country has ever seen. that's what they say. we won the popular vote for the first time of any republican in many, many years. we swept all seven swing states by big

numbers. we won pennsylvania, we won georgia, we won north carolina, we won michigan. we won wisconsin. we won arizona. we won nevada. we won them all by historic margins. and we won the great state of florida by 13 points. nobody's done that ever. and a record that will never be broken. all 50 states shifted toward the republican party, the first time that that's ever happened. all 50 states. we won the largest number of african-american voters in republican party history. we won more hispanic american votes than any republican has ever gotten before by a lot. and we won latino men and women. and

on top of that, youth, men, women, urban, suburban, rural and people from everywhere in between are joining us in record numbers. we've never had anything like this too big to rig. that's what i used to say. too big to rig. we made it too big. oh, and they tried. they tried. it was too big. around 902, they just said, let's get the hell out of here. this isn't working. they were swamped to put it nicely, we also took back the u.s. senate. we had some great people running and the house republicans won their largest popular vote majority in presidential year since 1928. we had a lot of people voting. so the senate, the house republicans, we got all three of them a little bit close on those two senates in great shape. house republicans,

actually, they both have great leaders. they both have great people heading. john thune is fantastic. and if you look at mike johnson, he is he's got a pretty tight majority. but actually it's very tight. but it's very good because we vote unified. we're really voting unified. and so it doesn't make much difference in the election of 2024, which will be the most consequential election in american history. we not only want a mandate, but we built a new american majority that will lead our country to unparalleled success for generations to come. that's what we want to do. and someday, in 30 years from now, 40 years from now, 50 years from now, some of these young people are going to say, i remember donald trump. he did a good job. he set us on his way. he set us. he told us he gave us a path. our new

administration will inherit disasters at home and abroad, and an economy plagued by inflation and high interest rates, a catastrophic border crisis. nobody can believe they let people in. they have an open border policy. do you think that makes sense? open borders. anybody wants to jails, prisons, mental institutions, gangs being emptied right through that ugly open border, a government that cannot care for its citizens in a time of emergency. look at what's happening in los angeles. look at what's happening in north carolina. they've treated him so badly in a planet on the brink of world war iii. it's not going to happen. that's not going to happen. but starting tomorrow, i will act with historic speed and strength and fix every single crisis facing our country. we have to do it. we're not going to have a country with. before even taking

office, you are already seeing results that nobody expected to see. everyone is calling it the i don't want to say this, it's too braggadocious, but we'll say it anyway. the trump effect. it's you. you're the effect. since the election, the stock market has surged and small business optimism has soared. a record 41 points to a 39 year high. bitcoin has shattered one record high after another. the major investment company, known as damac, the properties has announced that it will be investing between 20 and $40 billion in the united states, and softbank and great company has pledged between 100 and $200 billion. these are all investments that are only being made because of the fact that we won the election. we're going to create jobs for hundreds of thousands,

even millions of americans. today, i spoke with tim cook of apple. he said they're going to make a massive investment in the united states because of our big election win and as of today, tiktok is back. so, you know, i did a little tiktok thing. we have a guy, tiktok jack. he's a young kid, like 21 years old, and we hired this guy and i went on tiktok, can you believe what i'll do to win an election? and we went on tiktok. and republicans have never won the young vote, the youth vote. they win a lot of votes, but they never won the youth vote. we won the youth vote by 36 points. so i like tiktok. >> i like it. i like it. >> i had a slightly good experience, wouldn't you say

romney lost it by 40 points? not so long ago. we won it by 36 points. that's a very big spread. but i said, we need to save tiktok because we're talking about a tremendous who in this audience goes with tiktok? many. yeah, very popular. and frankly, we have no choice. we have to save it a lot of jobs. we don't want to give our business to china. we don't want to give our business to other people. and i said, you know, tiktok without my approval, meaning the president's approval, because congress gave the president the right to make a deal, do whatever he wants, and they did that a long time ago when they had a different president. they didn't know that i was going to be the president, i guess. so i said very simply, a joint venture. so if tiktok is

worth nothing, zero without an approval, you know, if you don't approve, they're out of business. they're worth nothing. if you do approve, they're worth like $1 trillion. they're worth some crazy number. so i said, i'll approve, but let the united states of america own 50% of tiktok i'm approving on behalf of the united states, so they'll have a partner, the united states, and they'll have a lot of bidders. and the united states will do what we call a joint venture. and there's no risk. we're not putting up any money. all we're doing is giving them the approval, without which they don't have anything. so, i don't know, it sounds like that works. what do you think? good. think so. so whether you like tiktok or not, we're going to make a lot of money. perhaps most beautiful of all, this week we achieved an epic cease fire agreement as a first step toward lasting peace in the middle east. and this

agreement could only have happened as a result of our historic victory in november. that was some victory. was that that greatest? i don't even know which was greater 2016 or this one. i think this one. look, honest abe lincoln, we have honest abe, we have uncle sam, you know, uncle sam shook my hand about two months ago. he's got the strongest grip i've ever. you are a strong. you are a strong man. i said, what the hell was that? but i'm glad to report that the first hostages have just been released. and who knows what's going to happen i know that biden is saying that they made the deal. well, you know. i mean, that deal should have been, first of all, it would

have never happened if i were president. would it never happened? there was not even a thought of it. iran was broke. they had no money for hezbollah. they had no money for hamas. they had no money. they were broke, totally broke. and they would have never done anything. but they did it. you know, it's i like to think back to the past. i said, if only the election weren't rigged, all the things that would have happened, that would have been so good. but it was, we're not going to let that happen again. i want to thank my friend steve witkoff, who i think is here. i know he made a beautiful speech. i heard he made a great speech, but he's an amazing guy. i said, i got to get myself a negotiator. we have to get a good negotiator. a lot of guys are knowledgeable, but they can't negotiate. they don't have the personality or whatever. and steve does. and steve's a great negotiator, very successful guy. but he's our new special envoy to the middle east for helping reach this great breakthrough. and really

couldn't have been done without steve. where is steve witkoff? is he around here someplace? because he was so great. there he is. hello, steve. thank you. steve. thank you. steve. what a job. our incoming administration has achieved all of this in the middle east in less than three months, without being president, we've achieved more without being. president than they've achieved in four years with being president. but just imagine all of the good things that we will accomplish together. with four more years in the white house, and we're going to do a lot of things. you're going to see something tomorrow. you're going to see executive orders that are going to make you extremely happy. lots of them, lots of them. we have to set our country on the proper course. by the time the sun

sets tomorrow evening, the invasion of our borders will have come to a halt. and all the illegal border trespassers. will, in some form or another, be on their way back home. think of it. we've allowed millions and millions of people into our country through open borders. no checks, no vetting, no anything. millions and millions of people. and lots of those people are murderers. 52% of them killed more than one person. other than that, they're quite fine. they're nice people. these are rough people. remember i used to say, these people are rough, and they would say, no, no, these are illegal immigrants. they're very safe. i said, they're not safe. look at what's happened with venezuela, where they're sending these gangs in and they're taking over apartment complexes in colorado and then cutting off the fingers of a man who had the nerve and

desire to call the police. he said, you want to call the police, bob? guess what? you have no fingers. these are rough people, and they're getting the hell out of our country. they're out. the border security measures. i will outline in my inaugural address tomorrow will be the most aggressive, sweeping effort to restore our borders the world has ever seen. you know, we had the best, safest border in the history of our country. you remember that with the great chart that i put up, i don't even know if they have that chart now. maybe they do. these guys are good. maybe they do. who the hell i don't know. i didn't tell him i was going to do this, i didn't tell. but we have some very good people. but i didn't say, but we had a chart and i looked to my right, and then i said, oh, that was that hurt. what the hell was that? i still have that throbbing feeling in my ear. oh, there it is. look at it. these people are amazing. i didn't tell them i was doing

that. that's fantastic. yeah, it's all over the place. i love that that is the most beautiful piece of paper i've ever seen in my life. but if you look at that chart and you look at the red arrow on the bottom, that's the single lowest we ever had in history, at least. recorded history of illegals pouring into our country. we had done a great job. and then they took over and look what happened. it's like an elon musk rocket ship going up. that reminds me of elon. his rocket ships. look at that. look at the difference. and it just continued and continued. and we're taking in people that shouldn't be here. they come in from prisons, from jails. they shouldn't be here. mental institutions. i used to mention and the press would always excoriate me. i'd say the late, great hannibal lecter

came into our country today. silence of the lambs. everybody see that movie? a lovely movie. and when people went to the voter booth, they said, we don't want hannibal lecter in our country. the press would say, why is he bringing up hannibal lecter? that was a fictitious character. actually, they're not so fictitious. we have people in our country that are probably worse that we allowed in, but we will quickly reestablish control of our sovereign territory and borders. we will expel every single illegal alien gang member and migrant criminal operating on american soil, and remove the savage gang. tren de aragua from the united states. here's a little video for you to see about this gang. go ahead open borders, deadly consequences. >> border crisis, record high crossings are putting a strain on cities across america. >> it is a full blown invasion by armed venezuelan gang members storming an apartment complex in aurora, colorado. >> when people talk about migrant crime, this is what

they're talking about. >> san antonio, texas just one of the latest cities to have apartment complexes taken over by members of the venezuelan gang. >> biden and harris had created a program to bring them in under humanitarian parole. >> i am in favor of saying that we're not going to treat people who are undocumented across the border as criminals. >> more than 13,000 illegal immigrants convicted of murder have been released into the united states. >> my 20 year old daughter, kayla hamilton, was murdered in her own room. kayla's murderer was apprehended by border patrol, crossing illegally into the u.s. >> kayla's murderer had been improperly released into the united states, abolish ice. >> yeah, we need to probably think about starting from scratch. >> more than a dozen people suspected of being tren de aragua gang members right here in san antonio. >> the gang members had been terrorizing the apartment complex. >> new details in the murder of laken riley, the illegal immigrant suspect who cops say committed the heinous murder is a venezuelan national who was paroled and released into the country by the biden administration. >> they'd all been properly

vetted. >> that probably wouldn't have happened. >> two men, investigators say, are in the country illegally from venezuela, are charged with capital murder in the death of joselyn nungarrayi martinez. >> rangel wrapped his arms around jocelyn's neck, took off her pants and climbed on top of her, later strangled joselyn to death and then tied up her hands and feet, court documents suggest a group of men arrested for beating and robbing a dallas woman last month are members of a venezuelan street gang. >> the men threatened to cut off her fingers if she did not cooperate. >> manuel hernandez hernandez was booked by colleyville police just two days earlier and released the day before the robbery. >> a peruvian gang leader, who is wanted for 23 murders, he was arrested by border patrol near roma, texas, then released into america. >> that's what we allowed in. and they're nice people compared to some of them. they're nicer than others. these are really

vicious people. gang members and many, many people from prisons and crime all over the world is down. you know why? because they got their criminals into the united states of america. you look at venezuela, they've emptied their prisons into our country, many other places the same. i would have done the same if i headed up any of the countries i know. most of those guys are smart. they're leaders. they are smart, streetwise people. as soon as i heard they were going to have open borders, i said, you do that. every prison all over the world is going to be emptied out into our country. they come in from the congo. the congo is big on emptying their prisons. the only thing good about it is they make our criminals look like really nice people. these people are vicious people all over the world. not just south america, all over the world. they come from mental institutions and from jails and prisons. with our actions tomorrow, my administration will deliver justice for every family whose

loved one has been stolen from them by migrant crime, including laken riley rachel moran, jocelyn nungaray, kayla hamilton and every other precious american soul that we have lost to these animals. their memories will live in their hearts forever, in our hearts forever. and we will never, ever forget them. and their contribution. i told their mothers who are devastated, their parents, their fathers, they're devastated. they'll never be the same. they'll never be the same. but i said, your daughter has made a major contribution. your son has made a major contribution. there are hundreds and even thousands of victims of this horrible atrocity. and you add those numbers to the numbers of crime that we already going through the roof. and it's something that you wouldn't even believe. do you remember i did the debate and i had david muir from abc saying,

no, no crime has gone down. i said, no, no, it's gone through the roof. crime has gone through the roof. david. no, no crime has gone down. i said, it's gone through the roof. and then he goes, uh, i disagree with that. the next day they announced that crime was up like 40%. this guy is the whole thing is. so it's so bad, you can't even imagine how anybody could be for these things of, you know, think of it open borders, prisons and mental institutions. men playing in women's sports, transgender for everyone. transgender. and very soon we'll begin the largest deportation operation in american history. large and even, even larger than president dwight eisenhower, who has the record right now. and we're going to end the biden war on american energy and unleash our energy resources to quickly defeat inflation and achieve the

lowest cost of energy and electricity on earth. and we're going to be using our emergency powers to allow countries and entrepreneurs and people with a lot of money to build big plants, ie plants. we need double the energy that we already have, and it's going to end up being more than that. and we're going to slash we're going to slash the regulations, environmental regulations that are really put in there in order to stop progress in this country. we're going to also slash something else. the waste in our bloated federal bureaucracy. we will create the new department of government efficiency, headed by a gentleman named elon musk, who's here someplace. i don't know where the hell he is. he's here someplace.

come here. elon, did you see his rocket yesterday? it was captured r and x is with him. x. come on. >> let's say a couple of words. okay. >> thank you, thank you, thank you, mr. president. um, sorry. little x just followed me on the stage here. he's he's a very enthusiastic supporter. >> as you can see. woo! yeah. >> so we're looking we're looking forward to making a lot of changes. >> and you know the this this victory is, is the start really. uh, they're the what matters going forward is to actually make significant changes. have those cement

those changes and and. set the foundation for america to be strong for for a century, for centuries, forever. so and make america great again. yeah so, um. yeah. so anyway, we're going to we're going to do great things here. um, thank you. thank you. >> thank you elon. >> you know, i always say we have to be protective of our geniuses because we don't have too many. but that one is a good one. now, i watched his rocket come down about three

months ago, and i thought it was crashing. i was talking to somebody on the phone, by the way, same thing happened yesterday. he came down and it was captured so beautifully. it came down. it's tumbling. it's a mess. it's going down. i say, oh, look at that thing. that's a disaster. and then it gets like a couple of miles away from earth, and all of a sudden the engines start going on, the things start, and then i see it coming in and landing in the gantry, and i'm watching it. i'm saying, oh, it's going to crash. oh, but those engines came out and they blew the fire all over the place. and all of a sudden those two big arms came and hugged it like you would hug your little baby. and that sucker landed it. nobody's been able to do that but him. and he's he's a great guy and we have him and vivek and some great peopcalled costs. and he'e credibility to do it, too. and we'are really amazing. but he wt

out to pennsylvania after that. he landed that rocket nobody had ever seen. by the way, china can't do it. russia can't do it or come close. it'll be ten years before they can do it. and the u.s. can't do it except for him. and it's pretty amazing. but he he did that. and then he journeyed to pennsylvania where he spent like a month and a half campaigning for me in pennsylvania. and he's a popular guy, and he was very effective. and he knows those computers better than anybody. all those computers, those vote counting computers. and we ended up winning pennsylvania, like in a landslide. so it was pretty good. it was pretty good. so thank you to elon and his son's name, who's cute as a button. his son's name is x. he's the only guy who could get away with the name x, but his son is a great guy. one thing we know his son is smart. if you believe in the racehorse theory, he's got a nice, smart

son. but thank you very much to elon and everybody. we've had so much help. every radical and foolish executive order of the biden administration will be tt of fun watching television tomorrow somebody said yesterday, sir, don't sign so many in one day. let's do it over a period of weeks. i said, like hell, we're going to do it over weeks. we're going to sign them at the beginning. you know that old story. let's do it later. then it never gets done. no, we're doing them tomorrow and we'll have plenty to sign in the future. don't worry about it. it's not going to stop, but we're going to stop the destructive and divisive

diversity, equity and inclusion mandates all across the government and private sector and return our country to the merit system. you know, the supreme court ruled that the united states is allowed to go by the merit system, which is what made us great in the first place. that was a big, big ruling that a lot of people don't even know about. but it was a big, tremendous ruling. and you're focusing on character, competence and qualifications in all hiring decisions. now you're allowed to go by competence and ability and genius. you don't have to hire somebody to send up one of his rocket ships that doesn't know anything about what's happening. as the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the overclassification of government documents. and in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining

records relating to the assassinations of president john f kennedy, his brother robert kennedy, as well as doctor martin luther king jr., and other topics of great public interest. it's all going to be released. uncle sam. and i will direct our military to begin construction of the great iron dome missile defense shield, which will all be made in the usa. and we will get wokeness the hell out of our military immediately and make it like it used to be. take a look at this. number i got your name.

>> i got your name. you are not that. you are not die. you will learn what not have to cry. >> happy pride month and actually, let's declare it somewhere. >> and you are watching president elect donald trump and his rally here. his final rally before he is sworn in as president of the united states and regains the powers that he had four years ago. tomorrow at noon in washington. he's currently showing a video to his supporters here at the capital one arena. and i'm here live. we've been watching the pre-show here, and jeff zeleny is with me and jeff. one of the first things that trump reacted to was tiktok, and he came out earlier and said he was going to be signing an executive order tomorrow. of the many that he's just previewed there on what this is going to look like. and he said, we saved tiktok. it was essentially arguing how they used it as a campaign tool. and i should note, the ceo of tiktok is somewhere backstage, as we heard shou chew is going to be here. >> and that is one example of many where he is simply changed his position. five years ago, he had an entirely different position on tiktok. he said,

look, it helped him in the election. and so he stepped in. there are likely millions of young people he took credit for young voters delivering him a victory, a little bit wrong on the fact that the margin in which he won the youth vote by he did not. but setting that aside, what he didn't say is it's actually a quite controversial move. there are senate republicans, tom cotton, chief among them, who believe this is wrong. so we are already seeing the beginning signs of schisms in the new trump era. but i think seeing elon musk take the stage just a few moments ago, that was also very extraordinary. >> and it's jason miller said earlier, they're still finalizing that executive order. it would be one of many. i want to go back to the president elect. speaking live. >> best first day, the biggest first week and the most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in american history. to implement this historic agenda, i have

assembled an all star cabinet of patriots and visionaries and reformers who will fight for america, and together we will win, win win for america. to restore the spirit of american armed forces, i have appointed pete hegseth as our next secretary of defense. >> where's pete? >> where's pete? pete's here someplace. where is he? good job. pete. they like you pete. thanks for they like him to bring back integrity to our intelligence community. tulsi gabbard will be our next director of national intelligence.

to make america healthy again. we will have robert f kennedy jr. as secretary of health and human services. to end the weaponization of our government and restore the impartial rule of law. oh, this is so important. she's so incredible. pam bondi will be an outstanding attorney general. she's going to do an incredible job. she will do an incredible job. and she's working with another person who's going to be unbelievable at the fbi. kash patel and tomorrow, everybody in this very large arena will be very happy with my decision on the j. six hostages. very

happy. i think you'll be very, very happy. i would say about 99.9% in this beautiful arena. and by the way, i want to thank the owners of this arena. they are great. they're up here someplace in one of those beautiful boxes, and their team is doing very well. and ovechkin is a great player. right. but i want to thank ted and all of the owners for allowing this to take place. it was it was really great. and thank you. it's a hell of a operation. great place. fantastic arena. thank you ted, thank you everybody at homeland security. we will have a tough leader in kristi noem and we will have an outstanding secretary of transportation in sean duffy. congressman sean

duffy. great people. and we're going to win so much that governor burgum of the interior, you know, governor burgum one of the best governors in the country. he's in charge of department of the interior and the hottest man anywhere in the world for energy. when i announced him, people couldn't believe it. you didn't hear of him. but if you're in the energy business, he's considered the absolute best. mr. chris wright of the energy department. he's going to head up the energy department. he's the hottest guy in there. is anybody in the energy business? they said, i can't believe you got chris wright. and a man named marco rubio is going to be our great future secretary of state. and howard lutnick a tremendous success on wall street is going to be our secretary of commerce. they have to go

through these drills, but they're going to and i have to i want to thank the republican senators. they've been doing great. and john thune has been doing a great job in moving the process along quickly. we're going to have a lot of them hopefully approved very quickly. and a very special woman. linda mcmahon, is going to be our future secretary of education, which we're going to be giving back to the states. let the state run. education. i said to linda, i said, linda, i'm making you the secretary of education. but if you do a great job, you will put yourself out of a job because you're going to be sending it back to the states. and she's fantastic. and her staff, which has been largely hired, is fantastic. and all of the other leaders will come to me and they're going to say, do you remember i used to do this for fun, but it's really not fun. it's stacked because

we have to do some of the best stuff, right? but they're going to come and say to me, sir, sir, we're winning too much, sir, we can't take it anymore. we have to stop winning. sir, we can't do it. we're not used to winning in our country, and each one of them is going to say every single one. sir, please, please. you're destroying our country. we're winning too much. our country isn't prepared for this. they're not used to winning, sir. and i'll say no. no, linda and everybody, we're not going to stop winning. the people of our country want us to keep on winning. and we're going to go win like never, ever before. and that's what we're going to do. we're going to be doing it. uncle sam, uncle sam is having a heart attack down here. look at him. uncle sam is going wild and they think, i pay for these people. i have no idea who he is. all i know is he does. and there's abe lincoln. thank.

thank you, honest abe. i have no idea. i swear, i have no idea who the hell he is, but he looks like abe. he's probably a little bit shorter. in all fairness, abe was 66. he's a little bit shorter. he's about a foot shorter. other than that, he's perfect. thank you. abe. in addition to the most talented cabinet ever assembled. and we think we're hearing things like that, we will be supported in our mission by countless wonderful american patriots. first, let me thank my incredible family, and i want to thank in particular, somebody that headed up the republican party, along with mike. the two of them, lara trump, who you saw before, who produced those two beautiful children, lara trump is unbelievable. she was the chairman of the republican party, and nobody ever said, oh gee, it's a family member. they actually sa