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president donald trump, who is set to make rare remarks in a visit to the justice department after weeks of upheaval at the agency that once pursued two hi >> plus, on the clock and running out of options, a republican bill to keep the government funded, opening rifts within the democratic party over what to do next. the senate has only a matter of hours to figure out a path forward, and it is. take two for nasa and space x. you're looking at live pictures here, as they are hoping to bring butch wilmore and suni williams back to solid ground. finally, after their eight day mission to the international space station turned into a much, much, much, much longer stay. we're following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. >> we are standing by as president donald trump is set to

speak shortly at the department of justice. these are live images of the stage that he is set to make those remarks from, and what the white house is calling a law and order speech. >> this rare political address will take place inside a storied building that pursued criminal investigations and prosecutions against trump after his first term. it's also been shaken by firings, resignations and dropped cases since he returned to the white house just today. pam bondi, trump's hand-picked attorney general, vowing to go after those who she says weaponized our government. we have a team of correspondents and analysts covering this high stakes moment for us. evan perez is here with us in studio. let's begin, though, with paula reid, who is there live at the justice department. paula set the stage for what we're expecting to hear from the president. >> yeah, it's a full house here in the great hall at main justice in a short time. trump will take the stage behind me. the signs on the stage say

fighting fentanyl. and there's some evidence, some props that say, quote, dea evidence up there on the stage. unclear, though, if he's going to talk about fentanyl while it is unusual for a sitting president to address the justice department, it's not unheard of. i was here about ten years ago when president obama made a speech in this hall. but what makes trump's address so significant is that for much of the past decade, trump has been under criminal federal investigation and has made no secret of the anger and bitterness he has towards this institution. now, the white house has said that today's speech will focus on restoring law and order to america, specifically ending what they describe as the weaponization of the justice department and no longer pursuing people because of their political leanings. now, i cannot let that talking point pass without pointing out the fact that since trump took office, the justice department has targeted law firms that have represented his adversaries. they have started investigations

into prosecutors who prosecuted the january 6th cases while pardoning those who participated in it. and prioritized investigations into threats against his top advisor, elon musk. so it does appear that political leanings are factoring in to at least some decisions here at the justice department. what we're watching for today is the extent to which trump stays on message. we know when he feels passionately about something, he tends to go off script, be that a negative comment from a political opponent or, you know, the subject of windmills, he will just go off script and go on and on. and we know that there are a few things that he feels more passionately about than how he believes he has been treated by the justice department over the past several years. so watching very closely to see what his message is to this packed house. brianna. >> paula reid, thank you so much for bringing us up to speed on what we can expect to hear. let's bring in cnn's senior justice correspondent, evan perez. evan, this type of political address at doj is exceedingly rare. how do you

think it's going to be received? >> well, it's going to be received very, very well in that in that room, because the white house has already packed the room with some of the president's supporters, some family members who have an interest in, in, for example, the fentanyl crisis. they have lost family members to the fentanyl crisis. or to their family members have been victims of criminals who were illegal immigrants. right. and so that's part of the theme of what we expect the president to to speak about there. so we expect, you know, again, normally in these speeches, i've been there for for a number of these speeches and it's typically filled with career people from the justice department. that's not what we're seeing right there at this moment. you know, the president and the white house has has kind of packed the audience with people who are going to be receptive to his to his message. but one of the things that i think, if you look at that, that scene right there, what we're about to see is really a vanquishing moment by

president trump, right? i mean, you know, the old the old adage, you know, you come at the king, you better not miss. right? that's from the wire. and that's really what this is about. you know, the justice department went after donald trump and they missed. they he got elected. and those cases have gone away. and he is there again emphasizing his vanquishing moment where he has won and he is there to emphasize, you know, essentially that, you know, i came out ahead and it's now my way or the highway. and so that's one of the things that you've seen at the in that building, a number of people, dozens of people have been have been pushed out, either fired or resigned because they've been reassigned. and it's not over. they are now investigating people who who investigated donald trump and also who investigated those january 6th cases, which of course, is something that he is very, very much still upset about. >> yeah, this is going to be a significant.

>> the retribution continues. >> the retribution continues. and with these remarks i think. evan perez, thank you so much. and let's talk now with john dean. he's a former white house counsel for president nixon. he's also a cnn contributor. john, what are you looking for as we await these remarks? what are you expecting? >> i'm also a former department of justice associate deputy attorney general. so i know that hall well. i know the venue. and i think what trump is there is to make clear it's his department of justice now. there are about 100,000 employees in the department. they're career people. there are about 4000 political appointees. i think he's going to try to go much deeper in politicizing this department of justice. whether he'll say that or imply that in his remarks today, i don't know. but i think he's looking upon this as a as evan suggested, a victory lap john, there was a

comment from attorney general pam bondi, who said that she would be investigating those who weaponized the government to go after someone because of their political affiliation. >> that was earlier today. i do wonder what you interpret from that. what does that mean from a practical standpoint? >> i can't begin to imagine what she's thinking about because the department has never been weaponized. while that theme has been pushed by republicans and pushed by the president when he was the subject of a very legitimate investigation, very legitimate indictments. he took that to be a weaponization against him. it's just not true. they followed the facts. the facts led to a grand jury. the grand jury indicted, and he was able to escape the consequence by getting elected. and in essence, putting those cases to bed. he

didn't win the cases, but he was able to dispose of them based on a policy that the department of justice does not mess with sitting presidents, which is probably the only way it could be, since he's the head of the article two branch of government, and the department is part of that branch as well. >> john, i wonder what you think. we've seen the trump administration targeting groups of people who, you know, when caricatured. i think sometimes they don't get sympathy from americans, whether it's federal workers or in the case of these law firms watching big washington, d.c. law firms. right. a couple of which he has targeted. but it's really something that people should pay attention to. what are you thinking about? the message that how this administration is approaching that particular thing. what are you thinking about? the message it sends. >> i suspect he will stay away

from a lot of the pending cases, that there's some 100 cases that have been filed against the president and his administration and the department of justice in their effort to fire people or people to politicize the government, to just use the the chainsaw that musk has been wielding in a very unthoughtful way. and the courts are ruling against him just in case after case after case. the judges are also speaking pretty harshly about the evidence and the presentation of the government's case. unusually. thin representation for the department of justice. in these cases, assistance to the attorney general staff assistants are showing up rather than the normal trial. attorneys from the department. i heard evan say that the career people really weren't in the hall today. i think trump probably fears the career people being in

the hall today. so that's that speaks in itself that they had to treat it like a campaign event and stack the hall with a receptive audience, because i'm not sure how warm the reception would be by the career people in the department. so i, i think it's an interesting session. i think he will try to address some of the litigation that he, in a very loose way. i don't think directly because he's losing and he should lose because it is what he is doing is absolutely lawless. he has no basis to do these things to attack law firms. and the judges are being very clear in their understanding and statement of what the law really is. >> john dean, thank you so much for the analysis. >> thank you. >> so the senate's top democrat is now facing harsh criticism from members of his own party after choosing to help avert a government shutdown. some

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running. senate minority leader chuck schumer has said that he's a yes, a decision that has left many in his party fuming. several other democrats have already come out against it, saying that it hands president trump and elon musk a blank check to decimate the government. but the pressure right now is on because the midnight deadline is just hours away. cnn's lauren fox is watching all of this unfold live for us on capitol hill. are you getting any indication, lauren, on where some of these key democrats might land? >> yeah. >> i mean, we are watching. >> as things develop on the senate floor right now. i want to walk you through procedurally what we're seeing. first of all, we had expected that there was going to be a procedural vote right after that second vote. this was a three vote series. the last vote in this series was going to be that key cloture vote. but right now, what we are seeing instead is senator rand paul speaking for what we expect will be at least

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tariffs and what it meant for their wallets. and a lot of this survey also picked up on how people were feeling about the future, about the future of inflation. those numbers, those fears around what inflation would do in the next year to even five years grew. i also want to throw to this sound bite right now from u.s. treasury secretary, former u.s. treasury secretary larry summers, who talked about what consumers are feeling right now. take a listen. >> they're completely right. >> this is like being in the back of a car where the driver is weaving wildly. you're scared about what's going to come next, and they're absolutely right. given what this could mean for higher prices, given what this could mean for reduced investment, given that what this could mean in terms of retaliation from other

countries. >> and this consumer sentiment survey just picked up the first few days and weeks of this month when we looked at february survey, we got initial readings that showed a 5% drop in consumer sentiment. by the end of the month, it had doubled to 10%. so, brianna, we'll have to keep a close eye on this where this number ultimately ends up. but double digit declines in sentiment for u.s. consumers as this trade war rages on, brianna. >> and we could get a look at retail spending next week, right? >> yeah, and that will be critical because it will show exactly how much consumers are willing to spend. we saw in january, retail sales dropped by 0.9%. that was really stunning. that was not what economists were expecting. that just showed already weakening consumer spending, which is critical to u.s. gdp. the atlanta fed in their gdp model, suggests that for for the first time since

2022, we could see a contraction so negative gdp for this first quarter will ultimately have to see how that pans out. but some indicators that consumers are starting to weaken in spending. and that is obviously very important for the u.s. economy. brianna. >> yeah. certainly is. vanessa, thank you so much for that. boris. >> some harrowing accounts today from passengers who had to quickly evacuate an american airlines plane that caught fire after touching down in denver. watch this. >> the minute. >> we landed, it was like smoke started filling the cabin. >> and people. >> started kind of screaming and pushing and jumping up and yelling. >> there's flames. >> out, out. >> of. >> the window where i was looking out, started bubbling like. >> melting is really weird and everybody's kind of pushing to get out of the plane. >> that passenger says she was among those who had to climb out on the wing of the plane yesterday. look at that. 178

people were on this flight. it was destined to go from colorado springs to dallas fort worth when it wound up getting diverted to denver after the pilots reported engine vibrations. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean. pete. engine vibrations. what can you tell us? it's a. >> bit of a mystery. >> but anytime. >> you. >> have something like that in a flight like this, you essentially want to get it on the ground. and that's exactly what this flight crew did. the dramatic video that keeps coming out will be so key to investigators as they try to figure out what started this fire on the ground of american airlines flight 1006. and as they look into the response and the evacuation here, the fire on the right side of the airplane, you can see some of the white smoke there as passengers are there on the ramp at denver international airport. but many passengers evacuated and streamed out of emergency overwing exits on the left side of the plane and then essentially waited helplessly on the left side of the airplane as that fire raged. let's reset

here, because this is pretty interesting. this flight took off from colorado springs about 515 mountain daylight time last night. that's about 715 on the east coast when passengers say about 20 minutes into the flight, the pilots informed them that there were engine vibrations that they needed to divert to the denver international airport. the faa tells us that this fire started as the plane was taxiing in after landing. the landing itself was successful. and i want you to hear now the air traffic control audio from liveatc.net, in which the pilots initially described these vibrations with a fair amount of calm. listen. >> after 10,006. >> this are. >> 1006 just to verify, not an emergency. still correct. >> now we just have a high engine vibration so we are cruising slower than normal for american 10,006. >> the good news now in the latest from american airlines 12 people were injured on this flight or had to be hospitalized

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bondi is at the podium. right now. the president is set to speak very soon. and with the white house, is calling a law and order speech. so we'll be bringing those remarks to you as soon as they begin. >> meantime, we have some startling new numbers in the measles outbreak. we're just three months into the year, and already the united states has surpassed its total number of cases of measles for all of 2024. >> here's the breakdown. there have already been 320 measles cases since january. just compare that to the 285 for all of last year. the majority of cases so far linked to a multi-state outbreak in texas, new mexico and now oklahoma. cnn medical correspondent meg tirrell is with us now with more on this. where do we stand on this measles outbreak? >> well. it's unfortunately. >> still growing. we expect that. these cases that we already know about are probably a significant undercount. and the health departments in these states, particularly texas, where this is the biggest and

growing the most, expect that it will continue to grow. so if you look at the trajectory that we've had really just since the end of january, as you noted, cases in 2025, just halfway through the month of march, have surpassed the number that we saw in 2024 or in 2023. so for the year, we're now up to 320 cases this year, compared with 285 last year and 59 in 2023. and this really is centered in texas, where with today's. >> update, we want to go straight to the department of justice, where president trump is set to make remarks in just moments. he has just taken to the podium. let's listen in. >> it's a true honor to be with you today. this very stirring. this is a storied hall. if there ever was one. based on the crowd, i think we broke the all time record. but as we begin a proud new chapter in the chronicles of american justice, this really is something we're turning the page on. four long years of corruption,

weaponization, and surrender to violent criminals. and we're restoring fair, equal and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law. and you're the people that are doing it very, very proud of all of you. under the trump administration, the doj and the fbi will once again become the premier crime fighting agencies on the face of the earth. people ask me, what am i going to do about law enforcement all the time? the fake news back there, they're asking me that all the time. what am i going to do and when are you going to do it? and i answer them by saying, i've already done most of it. by appointing the people that i've appointed. they're sitting right here. they've done most of it. i don't do it. they do it right. pam, i think, oh, you are so tough. they just don't know yet. let me begin by by congratulating the incredible people who will lead these historic reforms. and we start

with somebody that you just saw, pam bondi. she's extraordinary. and i've known her very well for a long time. i watched her for a long time in florida, for years in florida, and highly experienced. she seems so young, but she's highly experienced that i can tell you she was a phenomenal attorney general in florida, and she's going to do a really amazing job. also, our new director of the fbi, kash patel kash, right. a man that i'm very proud of, i've known him and amel for a long time under a tremendous pressure. i saw these guys under some of the most corrupt judges. i've. it's not even imaginable how corrupt they were. and these guys never wilted. they never they were no blanche and principal associate

deputy attorney emil bove. and thank you both very much. great, great people. a great people. the chief of staff who's so tnk you, chad. our next administrator of the dea, terry cole. terry. thank you terry. good luck. you're going to do great. senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights. boy, i've been watching him on television last couple of weeks. he is really a tough one and he's a great one. leo terrell, you watch how good he's going to be. he's going to be so good. thank you. leo. great guy. assistant attorney general of the antitrust division who's got an incredible reputation. she'll do very, very well. gail slater thank you gail. good luck. great job. and

we're joined by many, many great friends and terrific friends. and i won't be able to too many to name, but some that i just see very quickly. general flynn, thank you for being here. here's a man who went through hell, by the way, and he shouldn't have. it was he's a patriot. he went through hell. we're all so pleased to be joined by senator chuck grassley and house majority whip. was. hi, chuck house majority whip tom emmer. tom, great job you're doing. representative guy reschenthaler one of the toughest names to say, but i got it. i got it perfectly. i think. and state attorney general ken paxton, thank you very much. thank you very much. somebody who was with us early on. and she's really become a big star

and very popular. brenna bird thank you. brenna, thank you very much. steve marshall alan wilson, james arthur meyer. chris carr. dave. sunday, marty jackley, as well as white house deputy chief of staff stephen miller. what a man. stephen is. become a big star, right? ammo steve miller steve has been something very special for generations. the federal department of justice was one of america's most revered institutions. the men and women of the doj brought down the mafia, hunted down the killers, kingpins and spies, tracked down terrorists and traitors, and tore down corrupt political machines all across america. this department commanded the respect and admiration of the entire world. and with pam and kash and all of the people i

introduced, and far more big numbers and all of you sitting back there, i recognize so many of you. but with you leading the way, it will soon be the most admired and most respected of all. you're going to be more respected. and i really believe that this. there's also a lot of things to solve, a lot of problems to solve, but that's going to put you in the upper tier and maybe the top tier. and i believe that's going to happen. i'm so proud of the people in this room. but first, we must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls. unfortunately, in recent years, a corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the american government obliterated the trust and goodwill built up over generations. they weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to try and thwart the will of the american people. you remember the 51 intelligence agents that said, as an example, that hunter biden's laptop from hell came

from russia when they knew it came right from his bedroom, they knew that it was a big lie, and they knew it so well. they spied on my campaign, launched one hoax and disinformation operation after another broke the law on a colossal scale, persecuted my family, staff and supporters, raided my home mar-a-lago and did everything within their power to prevent me from becoming the president of the united states. with the help of radicals like marc elias, mark pomerantz. and these are people that nobody's ever seen anything like it. and so many others. but these are people that are bad people, really bad people. they tried to turn america into a corrupt communist and third world country. but in the end, the thugs failed. and the truth one freedom, one justice, one democracy one and

above all, the american people, one there could be no more heinous betrayal of american values than to use the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked. and that's what they were doing at a level that's never been seen before. and it's exactly what you saw with joe biden, merrick garland and their cronies to do the building of the last four years. they ripped what they've ripped down is. incalculable. but what you're going to build up is likewise something that will be breaking all sorts of records. they set loose violent criminals while targeting patriotic parents at school board meetings. they drop charges against antifa and hamas supporters while labeling traditional catholics as domestic terrorists. the catholics, we did very well with the catholic vote, so i want to thank them for that. they

imported. they really did. we did record numbers. i would say, what's with the catholics? they're really after the catholics. so i don't know. we're after a lot of people. maybe they didn't even know why they imported illegal alien murderers, drug dealers and child predators from all over the world to come into our country while putting elderly christians and pro-life activists on trial for singing hymns and for saying prayers. they went to jail for that. our predecessors turned this department of justice into the department of injustice. but i stand before you today to declare that those days are over, and they are never going to come back. they're never coming back so now, as the chief law enforcement officer in our country, i will insist upon and demand full and complete

accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred. the american people have given us a mandate, a mandate like few people thought possible. we won every single swing state. we won the popular vote by millions and millions of people. we won districts 2750. think of that 2750 districts compared to 505. so we won it at levels that have, i don't believe, ever seen before. that's the one where you see the map of the united states, and it's all red. red for republican, not for communist, red for republican. they would like it to turn red for communist. but it didn't work out that way. the american people have given us a mandate and really a far reach, just a far reaching investigation is what they are demanding into the corruption of our system. and that's exactly, i'm sure, what pam and cash and everyone else

mentioned here and not mentioned is going to be doing. we will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government. we will expose and very much expose their egregious crimes and severe misconduct of which was levels you've never seen anything like it. it's going to be legendary. it's going to also be legendary for the people that are able to seek it out and bring justice. we will restore the scales of justice in america, and we will ensure that such abuses never happen again in our country. and that's why on day one, i signed an executive order banning all government censorship and directing the removal of every bureaucrat who conspired to attack free speech and many other things and values in america. my administration stripped the security clearances of the disgraced intelligence agents who lied about hunter biden's laptop from hell. we

revoked the clearances of deranged jack smith, alvin bragg, letitia james and the crooked law firms that aided their partisan prosecutions. and i went through it. these are state and city courts, and the corruption is unbelievable. we also terminated the clearances of the biden crime family and joe biden himself. he didn't deserve it. in fact, he was essentially found guilty. but they said he was incompetent. and therefore, let's not find him guilty. i guess nobody knows what that ruling was, but i didn't want any part of it. i think i would have rather been found guilty than what they found with him. they said he didn't know what the hell he was doing and therefore he's let him go. i said, you know, i'd rather be convicted, pam. i think then that that was not good. i said, please convict me. don't say that. i pardoned hundreds of political prisoners who had been grossly mistreated.

we removed the senior fbi officials who misdirected resources to send swat teams after grandmothers and j six hostages. and it was a great honor for me to fire. i will tell you this a great honor to fire james comey, a great, great honor. that was nothing. there was no better day. a lot of people said, oh, that's too bad you did that. and they said, that's going to be. and you know what? they a year later they said that actually saved the administration because the level of corrupt things that we learned after that turned out to be that they were doing, in fact, really bad things. he was a terrible person, did terrible things and persecuted people and all in the guise of being an angel. but he wasn't an angel. we created a brand new doj task force and anti-christian bias, and under director patel, we're getting the fbi agents out of the headquarters in washington, d.c. and back on the streets in

pursuit of dangerous criminals where they belong and where they want to be. and, you know, you have that big fbi building, and it's a very big building. and they were going to build an fbi headquarters three hours away in maryland, a liberal state. but that has no bearing on what i'm about to say. but we're going to stop it. i'm not going to let that happen. we're going to build another big fbi building right where it is, which would have been the right place, because the fbi and the doj have to be near each other. you can't every that's one thing i did learn from this persecution. the fbi and the doj worked together. now in my case, they worked together for bad purposes. but they do. they were always together. so how can you have one that's three hours away? but one thing i said to cash, well, we're going to get a great building built. it's going to be a magnificent building. he said, sir, we don't need that kind of room. i said, what do you mean? he said, i'm just going to take an old department of commerce building that's about 25% the size, and that's what i need. we're going to have the best staff that

you've ever seen, and that's what i need. it's in a nice location, but i don't need that big building. why don't you just sell the site to somebody and we're going to be very happy. and they they want to have far fewer people, but we also want to have them in dc. and if for no other reason, we like having law enforcement walking the streets of our capital, because when the bad guys are out there and they see there's an fbi agent, that's the ultimate in law enforcement, and they're not going to be acting so bad. we're cleaning up our city. we're cleaning up this great capital, and we're not going to have crime, and we're not going to stand for crime, and we're going to take the graffiti down, and we're already taking the tents down, and we're working with the administration. and if the administration can't do the job, we're going to take, we're going to have to take it back and run it through the federal government. but we hope the administration is going to be able. so far, they've been doing very well. the mayor's been doing a good job. we said there are tents galore right opposite the state department.

they have to come down. and they took them down right away. and so, so far, so good. but we want to have a capitol that can be the talk of the world. when prime minister modi of india, when the president of france and all of these people, the head of prime minister of united kingdom, they all came to see me over the last week and a half. and when they come in, i like to i had i had the route run. i didn't want to have them see tents. i didn't want to have them see graffiti. i didn't want to have them see broken barriers and potholes in the roads. and we had it looking beautiful. and we're going to do that for the city, and we're going to have a crime free capital. when people come here, they're not going to be mugged or shot or raped. they're going to have a crime free capital again, and it's going to be cleaner and better and safer than it ever was. and it's not going to take us too long. there's a new phenomenon that is taking place with these

violent, vicious lawyers that we have all over. they play the ref. you know what playing the ref is like the great bobby knight basketball coach. he'd scream and scream at the ref. he'd scream. i watched, by the way, i love bobby knight because he endorsed me. and having having bobby knight's endorsement in indiana was an extremely good thing. a friend of mine said i was running in indiana at the time. this was early on 2016, and i was doing great, but friend came up and said, do you know bobby knight? i said, no, i don't, but i hear he was a tough cookie. he said, not only tough, he was beyond tough, but he's the most popular guy you can imagine. it turned out he wanted to endorse me. he called me about two years before he said, sir, i'd like to endorse you. i said, is this really bobby? and i said, it's me. i could tell it was bobby knight. he had been known for throwing the chair across the court and slapping a player. can't do things like that. right. and the man that came in fired him. he was a new administrator for the college. that that guy didn't last very

long. they were like 14 and zero, and they fired coach knight. that was not good. but he had a little chip on his shoulder. but he loved trump. and he came in and he he said, i'd love to endorse you. he said, have you ever run? please call me. so he said, do you know bobby knight? i said, well, i don't know him, but he called me a couple of years ago. it was an amazing phenomenon. i took his number and on each side of my desk in new york, i had stacks of paper like nice and neat, but about two feet high each. and i said, you know, i wrote his number down and i put it here two years ago, and i said, let me see if i can find it. it was almost like a miracle. had other miracles that happened to my ear is still throbbing. that was a miracle. that was a miracle also, wasn't it? that was a miracle. also, how. >> were you? >> thank you, thank you. leo. >> thank you. >> thank you. i'm. that was a

miracle. anyway. okay, that's that's very nice. thank you. but. so he said bobby knight. so i said, you know, i put his name down and i wrote it down. it's in one of these stacks. let me. i lift it up. it have to be 2 or 3000 pages in each stack. i lifted it up. the first one had no idea, and there was his name on a little card. bobby knight with his number. it was like, incredible. i tell that story all the time, and i called him and dialed the number. he said, i've been waiting for you to call. and he went out and he made a speech for me in a packed arena in indiana. and it was over. it was over. he was he was a tough guy. he actually went a little far, you know, if you were, if you remember, he made a great speech because he was actually a motivational type guy, to put it mildly. but he left the stage. and then i'm talking and he walks back onto

the stage. i said, oh, this is trouble. why is he coming back? he was a big guy, too. why is he coming back? he said, may i say a few more words? i said, yeah, go ahead, bobby, stay a few more. it's a little different. and he said, let me tell you something about this guy. trump. this guy, if he has to, will use the nuclear weapons that we have, he will use the he has no fear he's going to use. and that's the kind of guy. and he walked off the stage, i said, i think i'm i think i'm in big trouble. pam. that was not good. but it worked out okay. in the meantime, in the meantime, we won the state in a landslide, and it was great. and it was just an amazing period of time. but but this is the most amazing period of time. i think this is more amazing. what's what's taking place is more amazing. i think it's more consequential. and if we do the job, you know, one of the big media outlets said what we did was the most consequential election in the last 129 years. well, if we do the job that we're all capable

of doing, i think it's going to be it's going to prove to be that and and then some. and that's what we want to do. we have a real big shot at making this country so great, so great. what happened to our country was so sad. what they've done in four years to our country, with the borders, with afghanistan, the embarrassing, most embarrassing period of time allowing the russian situation. it was never going to happen with ukraine allowing october 7th to happen would have never happened, because under me, iran was totally broke. they had no money. they weren't given any money to hamas or hezbollah, who totally broke. but allowing inflation. look at what inflation has done to people been so devastating. and now you see that, by the way, the price of eggs is down 35% in the last week and a half. we're doing a good job. brooke is doing a good job. brooke rollins and everybody and inflation is down. interest rates are down. gasoline has come down, down to a level that we haven't seen in

a long time. all things that we wanted to do, because then everything else is going to be coming down. we want it to come down. we want bacon to come down and groceries, a term i used to use. it's sort of an old fashioned term, but i used to use it on the on the campaign trail. those last 90 perfect beautiful days. we just hit it. wiles. great job, suzy. a big magazine just named her the most powerful woman in the world. and that's okay with me. she is the most powerful woman if you think about it. john. right. the most powerful woman in the world. but she's great. and we had a great 90 days. it was a perfect 90 days. and it was a great result. but we want to put that result to good use by doing. >> i'm kasie hunt, welcome to the arena. on this friday. >> we have. >> been following breaking news. president trump making a rare visit to the. department of justice there. if you've heard, he'