when you think about we have to deal better to eliminate disparities and we have to do better with reference to poverty in america. if you look at -- if you want to blame poverty on democrats african-american communities, you have to blame poverty in america, then you have to blame republicans for appalachia. >> it says that she has campaign with president obama at the charlotte convention center. but not long after a new report underscored the lack of enthusiasm among many young african-american voters. what do you think she needs to do to convince young voters and particularly young black voters?

>> you see that happening now as you get into september focusing on.s i think you will hear that as she's moving forward in the debate process.e when you talk about and look at what they are proposing to do as president, you look at her plans with reference to investing in urban and rural america but urban america, creating jobs, better education for our young folks. i know when she was a senator in new york, for example, she was w prime proponent and mover and shaker for public education, the eagle academy for boys to try to make sure they try to get what they need, it's an investment in the future. i look for what she has stood for and proposing as the next president of the united states and you can see how she has built upon the promise that president obama has made over

the last eight years. >> first we have earnie from ohio. good morning, earnie. >> caller: bare with me, i have been on hospice 24/7. donald trump says he wants to make america great but when he builds his buildings he goes and get from méxico green cards and have them build the buildings -- his buildings. the only way you can make america great is to have the american people have good paying jobs. >> let's let the congressman respond to that point. >> again, let's make america

great again. what do you mean by donald trump, because barack obama became the 44th president of the united states, to me that was an undertone that he was utilizing because of that presidency and you're absolutely right. you judge a person by their actions and if you look at his business actions in the past, and people talk about his business judgment and he's been successful. well, you can't do what he has done as a business person, as president of the united states, you can't file bankruptcy when the government -- when you're dealing with the budget as hee has done when businesses in failed because he made bad business decisions that caused him to fail. look at his judgment. look at what he has done over o the course of his lifetime. his businesses are not -- if you can bail them out and give them bankruptcy, that's what he has done. make america great again, great again compare today what?

what period is he saying he should go back? >> let's take a look an ad that he launched against hillary clinton on immigration. >> the syrian refugees flood in, illegal immigrant convicted of committing crimes get to stay collecting social security benefits, skipping the line, ouf border, more of the same and open. donald trump's america, terrorists kept out, the border secure, our family safe.af donald trump for presidency. >> i'm donald trump and i approve this message. >> what's your reaction to that? >> what secretary is proposing is comprehensive immigration reform, but president obama has done it. you committed a crime in this country, et cetera, those people have been deported.mmitte

what we are talking is we have 11 million people who have law abiding, paying taxes, et cetera, is looking at a comprehensive way that individuals what can eastern their citizenship and there will be a price to pay economically and otherwise and standards that have to be lived up to and keeping families together. so you can't put -- and i think he's trying to put fear into this election. he's not going to win this election, ideas were and hillary clinton has ideas, donald trump has known. >> next we have katy. >> good morning. >> you know, people need to understand what donald trump is all about. he has businesses that are overseas, his clothing line ishl overseas, his daughter's

clothing line is overseas and what i have not heard candidates is we cannot bring these jobs back and this is why i don't -- people don't understand we are going to make -- we are going -- donald trump is saying he's going to bring jobs back. most of the manufactured jobs are not coming back but we need to make jobs with our infrastructure, those are the types of jobs we need here now. we have jobs in india, xreans taken their server part of their company to india. and we as a country have to be realistic about things. we are in a global economy now and another comment and then i will get off the line, so many times when things are not going right for the white america, we always blame each individual

group.vi at first it was the irish, then the chinese, then the blacks, now the mexicans, but now it was blacks again and now it's the mexicans, so we as people of the united states need to look at our trend, what we are seeing and how we say these things when our economy is not going back. >> okay, let's let the congressman respond to the point. >> we are in a global economy and therefore there are different kinds of jobs that i have to make sure that we focusx on them. you're exactly right and hillary clinton is exactly right when she talks about infrastructure, transportation and infrastructure. that creates jobs here in america. it's the same when we built the highway structure in america and were building the train system, we need new rail systems in the united states. that creates jobs and opportunity. it is important and that's why hillary clinton unlike donald

trump is saying we are stronger together as a nation when wewe bring everybody together, black, white, hispanic, asian, muslim, jew, christian, all ethnicities, we are all working together. that's what makes -- that's why america is the greatest country it is and we will continue to ba the greatest country because we are stronger together. that's her message and that's what people will rally around and why she would be the 45th president of the united states. >> on our republican line, david coming from new york, am i saying that right, david? >> yes, that's fine, thank you very much. yeah, speaking to mr. meeks here. the biggest thing he built our general motors but other big accomplishment is he has got us almost $20 trillion in debt, i would like to know how do you

propose we get out of that and secondly you're supporting hillary clinton who she claims she was broke when she left office and now 7 and a half s years later she's worth over a $100 million, i would like to know if you know where that money came from? >> i will say this. first of, i don't know -- she's married to the former president of the united states and whether we like it or not, when you look at former presidents of the united states, george h. bush,t george w. bush, they had quite a deal of money before they came in they happened to have had but they made quite a bit of money once they left. there's nothing strange or different about that for the clintons as it is for any other former president of the united states in that regards. so -- and what was the firstf part of the question? do you recall, kimberly? >> i'm sorry, i haven't had enough coffee today. c

we talked about the hillary clinton's enthusiasm among black voters. a new report from the cook report shows that president barack obama's success likely came from black voters ander hillary clinton is going to need the same margin, shows in the chart how the black -- african-american turnout has increased through 2012 whereas white turnout went down. hillary clinton is going to need the coalition, do you think she can get it? >> as she gets in the campaignhi trail and folks focus on the issue and ask her what she will do about being president and not the name calling back and forth, a agenda that will benefit african americans, millennials,

she understands what the issues are, she's the one person when you talk about criminal justicel reform that has been focused on and working with, members of the black caucus to try to make sur so we put forth a strong criminal justice reform. he's talking about building the middle class again, investing if our communities, she has a plan in which to do that and the history to show that that's thee inclination she wants to move to and that's the kind of enthusiasm.. so i think that the young millennials will be listening intently and closely and will be looking at the words and the deeds of mr. trump and secretary clinton and that will drive the enthusiasm that's necessary so that she can be elected the 45th president. i will add to that that if you look at the states thatically historically had always beenic republican, georgia, for

example, the reason georgia is now in play is because voter registration is up in georgia and that can make a difference. north carolina, african americans are going to be -- you look at -- she's up in that state. african american voters are up. virginia, so if you look at some of the key battleground states, you'll see that the enthusiasmle of young folks and millennial folks are higher than the general population around the country because that's where the message is really shown right now and that's going to bes significant as we move on onnovr november 8th. >> okay, up next we have coleen. >> hi, i'm visiting my folks from pennsylvania here, new holland and i'm around relatives and some of them are misinformed because they listen right-wing

conspiracy theories, i think we need to focus and they're dead-set thinking about how -- they blow the half truths out of proportion and like hitler, he said something over and over again. i think we need to be in their own feed and where they get the information and dispel it. hillary shouldn't have to do that all of the time but it takes the democratic party and people, progressives and republicans that are concerned about what would happen if trump, unstable trump would get in there, what would happen to this world, then you try to figure out how they can get in and dispel some of the concerns that my relatives really have.

they're very good, good people and they just can't, you know, they don't hear the stuff.t >> all right. >> i agree with you, that's why i'm here. that's why i think the members of congress and other people of good will running around the country over the next 60-odd days, 58, 59 days getting this message out. when you see someone for, for example, donald trump praisingdi putin and saying basically that he is a stronger leader than president obama, that's unheard of. when you see someone like mr. trump when he's talkingg about the generals, he knows more than the generals, the generals are weak in the united states, that's unheard of and it needs all americans, democrats, republicans and independents to come together.ca we are, indeed, the greatest country that this planet has ever seen and we are great because we've overcome difficulties but we had racial discrimination, women not having equal voices and equal protections and we move toward

and we are becoming and still striving to be a more perfect union.n. we are stronger when we come together and that's what we need to do when we hear anybody trying to depict specially guy like vladimir putin who -- greater than our current president, that's absurd.e she's talking about who she is and where she's from and where she wants to take the country. that's the positive message that we want to hear. i think hillary as we go into the debate season, she moves along, you'll be hearing that from her more and more. >> do you think that the race has deteriorated since theth president came to office? they've gotten better? what do you think particularly after the black lives matter movements and the increasedma focus on rake relations? >> what i think is we talk about it more. i think that's a good thing

because previously, you know, i know when i've traveled certainn places it was to talk about race and so i think that what is happening now is we are talking about it more and that's how we really begin to take it to the next step. that's why i think things will get better because if you sweep something under the rug, you never resolve the problem and people will think as they thought when he was elected that we live in a post war america. i never thought we would be in a post racial america even with the election of barack obama. so are we moving in the rightin direction, are we better than we were when i was a kid, or when my parents were children? absolutely. do we have a lot of work to do, you know, some things that drift back and we have to push back,ri absolutely, but it is good when we can talk about dialogue and be up front about it. i think the black lives matterut

movement is a great movement, it's a movement that forced that conversation and we need to have that conversation. >> earlier this month the black lives matter movement responded to a leaked memo from the dccc staffer that urged democrats not to offer concrete policy positions and limit the numberer of activists they immediate witt and other things. we are disappointed on respond, black communities deserve to be heard, people are dying. l >> my response is when i was growing up, in college, i was probably part of the black lives matter and i look how i handle now and move around, it is best, i think, and i think that the memo was basically how to make sure that there's proper communication. so if you have a smaller crowd,

you'll have a better way of talking and exchanging ideas than if you have a huge crowd and you're shouting at one another. i for example, have decided on a general basis as oppose to having large town hall meetings, i found that we don't get as much done, but when i have smaller meetings and maybe i have more of those smaller meetings, then we have a better dialogue, a better questions back and forth. i'm not misunderstood as much. i understand them better and i think that what that memo was for members, to have the smaller meetings that would be more beneficial than ever and don't try to take, take over thent yot movement, listen to them. that's what we don't know enough, listen to folks, listen to what they have to say. >> next we have roger in our independent line from alabama. good morning, roger. >> yes, mr. meeks, glad to have

you on there, you know, i'm 60 and i've listened to the democrats for all these years. you know, this is the same story you said four years ago, same story you said four years before that, before that, before that. but things have only gotten worse, now you can't say they haven't in the inner cities and stuff everything you try to say you're going to help, look at unemployment and the same story you heard. what you were talking it changed my story so much. you're talking about georgia how it's changing, yeah, the illegal children are more in georgia schools now than the people who were born in the state and the latinos have destroyed my profession which is construction and i'm going out on social security like everybody else because you complain about trump, making shirts inin bangladesh but you make the rules. this is just the world i have to live in, that's the world he has

to live in. he can't make shirts here, so he has to go there. >> let's give the congressman a chance to response. >> trump has had a choice. there are some people you can manufacture here, you can create jobs and opportunity here. if if you want to and he decided that he did not want to. let me just say that in my life, this country is better, it has become better for all of us. you go around the world, it is still the greatest country onte this planet. you look at our economy, it is still the strongest economy in the world. we have to continue to strive to be a more perfect union, that's absolutely yes, but our diversity helps us makes that strength. we have to make sure that we do secure our borders. nobody is saying that we should not do that, but comprehensively we secure borders and come with immigration plan that works for all americans that makes us the

greatest country that this planet has ever seen and we wil continue to do that and we will be successful, only if we do it together.ucuc if we divide ourselves up and that's what you see in other countries, other places, people divide themselves up biest -- by ethniticity. >> congress meeks should get a cluib. the first thing the presidenten should have done there has never been a major failure of a president in this country. look what has happened. he is a disaster as a president and i'm a democrat.

i voted for this president twice, you need to get a clue, you need to understand, you need to actually provide on the position that this president has represented when it comes to anything positive in this country.is he's allowed bangers to get away with the greatest destruction of economic infrastructure in the history of this country. we are literally on the economic which this president has articulated and participated in. >> let's make the record clear, what this president inherent it had worst recession since great depression.. we had an economy that was losing 850,000 jobs a month. we add the automobile industry that was about to go down the tubes, we had people losing their home lefts and right. the first bill this president came up with, he passed thel --l

ledbetter law, a women has equal day's for equal work.t he saved the automobile industry which we have lost thousands of more jobs. what he did is went back when we had enemies across the war, three wars and he made sure that we mended and started working with allies. let's the facts be clear of what the president has done. he has turned this around from the greatest recession, since the great depression and has made a tremendous difference and historians look back, they have to be given the credit to president obama even though you had a hospital congress who try today block him at every step of the way. could have gotten more jobs if it -- he had passed the transportation bill.

>> a little sidetracked because of the last part. in respect to hillary clinton, donald trump, i think that wen- have to ask ourself who is the builder, who has build anything. if hillary clinton is good at one thing she's good at collecting money. if you have enough money you can see her but at tend of the day, we need somebody that's going to build something, you know, buildings get built, things get built, you want people building or you want to reproduce, you know, let's gather everybody else's money, it's just not right. >> let's let the congressman respond. >> donald trump said had built it. so much at the republican convention the only people that he can get him to vowt for him was family because that's all he's ever taken care of. he's never cared about the general population and what

donald trump has done, i think, a bad business when he's made bad decisions he's filed several bankruptcies to try to bail himself out of the bad decisions and to protect, who, only donald trump. so i go by what people have done. hillary clinton, her hole life has been trying to lift and hel somebody and been involved in government. sometimes i give you a track record that one wants to criticize but when i look at from the time she left college and law school to be the first lady, the first state of our arkansas, the united states of america, then a senator who i worked very closely from new york, secretary of state, all of it has been in trying to with the vain of trying to help the best country what it is. her contributions for our country is mar superior than donald trump who only cares

about himself and won't show you tax returns, you will see he cares nothing about a charity or anything else, only donald trump. >> up next we have sarah calling from vernon, new york. good morning, sarah. >> thank you to c-span. sir, i seem to remember a bill that was passed -- >> we are leaving this discussion to return to live coverage now of the values voter summit taking place in washington, d.c. we join it in progress. up next we are expecting remarks from minnesota michelle. [music] >> thank you. >> it truly is a great honor and privilege to introduce the next speaker.

by any stretch of the imagination michelle backman is an accomplished woman. tireless fired for conservative principles and family values, congresswoman backman has been a public service for decades. she represented the great people of minnesota and congress from 2007 to 2015 during which time she also launched her candidacy for the president of the united states. she's a proud mother of five and one of the defenders of pro-life, principles and the political arena to ever exist. however, the thing that i respect most about congresswoman backman ran on principles and not on gender unlike some

candidates today. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, if you will, please join me in welcoming congresswoman michelle bauchman. [cheers and applause] [music] >> hi, everyone. are you loving it today? i'm loving it today. thank you for being here at the family research council values voters summit. we have got a big task on our hands in the next two moant, don't we? and beyond. who is suited up for it? stand up, you're suited up for it. who else is suited up for it? stand up. who else? okay, all right, the rest of you be ashamed, be very ashamed. no, i understand that it's time

for the speeches and i am here for one reason. i told tony perkins that what is important to me is to let the most important voting block in the united states get a message. do you know who that voting block is? it is believers in jesús christ, the believing community across the united states statistically will be the voting block that choses who the next president of the united states is. do you realize that? do you realize the level of power and influence that a mighty god has layed into the hands of those who call on his name? we have a powerful opportunity and one thing that we need to keep in mind is a sense of urgency. people have gone through this whole long process. don't you wish elections were

like six weeks long? i do. three and a half years is kind of a long time but what we recognize is that this year in 2016 really is like no other year we have had before because we have never seen the level of america decline in the way that we have in the last seven and a half years. who agrees with me? [cheers and applause] [laughter] >> okay, good. but who agrees with me that in all likelihood the united states of america may not survive another eight-year dilemma of tail-spin american decline. you see, i believe this, there will be two candidates this fall. every four years there's always

a third-party candidate or fourth-party candidate that comes into play in these elections but if you look at american history it always comes down to two, count them, one, two, candidates and it's going to be one of the one, two candidates. this year is no different. it will either be donald trump or it will be hillary clinton. one of the two. and just like the book teaches us that i have set before you life and death, which will you choose. what is so odd that throughout history, you can begin in genesis, you don't have to go beyond chapters 3 and 4 to see that mankind has given a choice, life and death and what did mankind chose? mankind chose rebellion against holly god and so it's a scarlet

threat of redemption, of a loving god, creator god who says to his creation, i love you so much i want you back, i will be willing to come in the form and likens of you and give my life to pay for your sins so that you can come back to me. that's the story of scripture. we always have the chance to come back to a holy god. life and death, what do we choose? america has made a lot of choices in the recent years that aren't necessarily reflective of his work. those choices have brought about sorrow and sadness and it's entirely preventible because we have been given an owner's manual in the form of the old

testament and the new testament to again make the way where there is no way and bridge that unbridgeable river so that mankind can make the way back to holy god, not by anything we do but all by the grace of a loving god. in this election, we have at stake before us something that's highly unusual that we haven't had before. i am a republican, i don't know if any of you know that but i am a republican and one thing that the opposition party understands very well is that elections are basically a math game. it's a math question, and it comes down to this, which of the two candidates will have more votes at the end of the day. even if you've gone through common core you can probably even understand that. at the end of the day, one will

prevail, which will it be? and if you notice on the republican side, the candidate donald trump has been talking about pretty hard hitting issues, immigration, are we actually going to still be a country and maintain sovereignty and keep our people safe and free from people who do us harm coming across our border. he's been given speeches about that, about american foreign policy. i'm a former litigation attorney, i'm here to certify, this is probably the most reaganest tax plan and we need to build our economy and donald trump has a plan to do that. [applause] >> on every single level if you look at the agenda that donald trump has put forward, it's been one that i as a constitutional conservative, as a believer in jesus christ cannot only easily embrace but readily embrace.

in fact, people have said when you look at donald trump and you look at hillary clinton, there is -- and i look at these parties, there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the candidates. i'm here to tell you, there isn't a dime's worth of similarity between donald trump and hillary clinton. [cheers and applause] >> and i served with hillary clinton, i was on the intelligence committee when the benghazi tragedy came down and i saw how mrs. clinton completely flunked her test as commander in chief. just benghazi alone is sufficient reason to reject her as the next president of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> why? because we had literally hundreds of requests for increase security, she slammed the door, when the brits, canadians, red cross were abandoning benghazi, she kept our people there an not only did

she not fulfill the security requests, she pulled back security supports that we had in place. during the benghazi attack for the 13 hours when she should have been in the situation room for 13 hours, when we had a drone over our head watching the real-time battle unfold, she should have done what every secretary of state in america history did and that's call in a military response to save people who were being massacred on the ground. she did not do that. [cheers and applause] >> she did not make that request. flunked, failure, you cannot be commander in chief and leave americans on an active battlefield. and we know immediately she knew this was a terrorist attack but yet she told the people that she really trust like her daughter that this was a terrorist attack but for the families of the

dead, she told them a lie, that she persisted that it was some fake, phoney internet video because, of course, under no circumstances can we ever insult islam. that's hillary clinton. so you see there's a compare and contrast like you can't believe and if hillary clinton comes in as the president of the united states, her first act will be to ensure her reelection and the way she will do that will be to grant unconstitutional illegal amnesty for millions of people who are in the united states illegally so that she can turn them into voters for her four years later. it isn't that we are antiimmigrant. i'm not, i married the son of an immigrant. probably most of you have very strong immigrant connections, we are not against, we need immigrant, but you must follow

the rule of law. [cheers and applause] that's fundamental. the greatest casualty on the battlefield of barack obama's administration has been the exaltation of lawlessness in the united states. that is barack obama's legacy. think of that. lawlessness in the united states. does anyone for a moment -- for a moment think that hillary clinton will revert to upholding the law if she is president of the united states? it is not going to happen. donald trump will stand as a law and order president and not only will he build up, he is mitted to building up our economy with

the greatest tax plans since ronald reagan, he has committed to building up our military, which i can tell you, it has been so devastating that there were times when i would leave our committee shaking, shaking and fear for our country. i couldn't believe the level of vulnerability. do you realize that in our lifetime we have been privilege today live in the greatest economic power house that the world has ever known, the united states of america. we are privileged in the greatest military power house that the world has ever known, the united states of america. it didn't happen just because we were lucky people on this land, it happened because the people of this nation were not afraid to name a wholly -- holy god as

certainly not the entire nation, i'm not trying to say that, but decidedly this was the nation that chose within our laws to honor god. that redownedded to our benefit, and also in 1948 when the jewish state of israel announced independence it was the united states 11 bhoipts the democrat president harry truman that said to israel and the whole world, we will have your back. that has fostered a tremendous relationship with the united states and the jewish state and

i believe one of the most dangerous events of the obama administration was july of 2015 it was the obama administration to advance the iran agreement which was the greatest fear that israel had. iran is the chief state sponsor of terrorism in the world and our president for some inexplicable reason, we had sanctions in place for about ten years, iran was virtually on its knees, i was getting the briefings about what tough shape iran was in and our president just exactly when we had iran in a situation where we actually could put crimps on nuclear program, did exactly the opposite. he rushed to enrich the

iranians. story came out that very likely the obama administration has given in excess of $33 billion in cash and gold to the chief state sponsor of terrorism in the world and that's according to the u.s. government. what are we choosing life or death? what are we choosing? >> when you put an excess of $33 billion in cash and gold in the hands of the chief sponsor of terrorism in the world who about every other day says death to the united states, death to israel, what do you think they're going to do with that $33 billion? their plan isn't to go and have a package to israel, i think, their plan is not only to foster

terrorism but buy on the black market the critical materials that they will need to get their nuclear program finalized, done. that's what they are doing. they've been sitting there little patrol boats like ants that come by our u.s. destroyers and ships near the gulf and any sane president will say, you do that and you're gone, and they would be done. that's what a sane president would do and that hasn't happened. [applause] >> as i started with my remarks, you see the decision is on our hands because we are the largest voting block in the united states. we can't say that the moral choice was to support neither candidates because you see, one will win. one will win. the book of daniel says the most

high god lifts uch who -- lifts up who he will, blessed be the name of the lord. one thing we need to understand in all of this is that we do have this choice and we have a choice again where i don't even think it's close. i'm not on the payroll of the trump campaign, i'm here on my own volition because i'm a mother to five, a foster mother to 23, now a grandmother, greatest thing ever, but this is the other thing i get, we have been privileged to have a gift. do we as believer identify how privileged in the united states we are, you know, all the hollywood people who say if donald trump wins, i'm out of here -- [cheers and applause]

>> you're going to hear from a hollywood person who is awesome, john will be out here in just a minute. he's just the opposite. he's so fantastic. that's what hollywood says, well, t easy for them to say that because you see they love socialism. they love centralized planners. they've got an entire world to choose from of socialist nations and central planners. what i ask you is this, where do we go, those of us who love constitutional republics, last time i looked, i think we are it. where are we supposed to go? so if hillary, what's our luck? i think we know what's going to happen in the department of justice, the department of injustice, we have never before seen the level of polittization

and we had fbi director and layed out a complete case that hillary clinton should be in orange and he didn't do it and more evidence that's so blatant and be brought up and recommended for charges and actually in time doing jail. we can't get justice now out of our fbi, we can't get justice out of the department of justice, i say to you churches, i say to you nonprofits, i say to you small business owners, what we have seen is a vindictiveness, our constitution guarantyies rule of law. that's not what has happened under the administration.

we will see a heightened level, i believe, of vindication coming out of a hillary clinton white house where i believe there will be prosecutions for churches. >> -- nonprofits or anybody that opposes the hillary agenda. open your eyes. you see, because we have been given this magnificent gift of liberty here in the united states. we have taken it for granted thinking it's always the way it will be and the 7 and a half years with barack obama is merely an an aberration. these aren't quickly rectified situation. when you have a president that doubles the debt in his tenure that's not strictly rectify.

when you enrich sponsor of terrorism, that's not quickly reck te -- rectified and what we need to understand, is we didn't just do this on our own, we stand on the shoulders of a great cloud of witnesses, a previous generation who saved and sacrificed the pilgrims, the american revolutionary war veterans from every war going forward, our veterans whom we say we are given the magnificent gift because what they gave to us, because of the businesses that our forefathers built up, we have been the beacon and blessing for the world and don't think for a moment that that will be our lot going forward. you see, history teaches us that when great nations fall, they fall fast and they fall hard and

quite often they are no more. don't think we are any different. we need to wake up, we need to grasp this opportunity that's in front of us. it is a magnificent opportunity, to those who have come before and thanks and appreciation for what they did for us, even more importantly is our need to maintain the social and moral contract that we have with generations yet unborn so that this shining city will forever stay on the hill. you can do that, that's what the church can do. that's what the faith-believing community can do. we can be that element that does the work that has to be done in the next 60 days, so there is a future, there is a hope and there is a choice.

god bless you and thank you for letting me share this time. i love you all, thank you. [music] >> thank you, michelle. wonderful. aren't you glad she's on our side. folks to reiterate much of what you've heard, and i say this to value voters and hundreds of thousands that are watching us, there's just more of us when there are of them in terms of voting, we need to vote as i said earlier, the last election turned about 335,000 votes in four swing states and made all the difference in the world.

if just a slight tick up among eligible evangelical christian voters would go to the poll and vote. don't led -- let the med icon vince you that the race is over. you have a voice, it's your right. more than your right it's your duty, it's your duty. all right, ladies and gentlemen, coming now the man with longest chairman of the convention, after the 2016 republican primary season, i think he should be nominated for the nobel peace prize. ladies and gentlemen, would you welcome rnc chairman reince

priebus. [music] [applause] >> well, hello and thank you, everybody. it's an honor to be here. it's inspiring to be with all of you today, so many patriots this afternoon that want to change the course that we are on in this country and a failed presidency and take back our country for freedom and american values. i want to thank -- i want to thank like so many people up here, not just all of the sponsors up here but one person in particular who has been very good to me and that's tony perkins. he has been a good friend. so many folks that you hear from, you would love to know that we get together often and share stories, so many folks

that you're going to hear from, but we hold each other accountable. i'm also here as a teammate. i'm here to honor god every day that i can, every ounce of energy that i have, ultimately i want to make proud of our party but it really starts with god being the salt and light in the things that we say and the actions that we take. you are all on that front line to fight for the soul of our nation, and my privilege to be with you all today. so many people have said it already, we are here right now 60 days out from election day. we are actually poised in spite of what the media wants to tell you, we are poised to win back the white house. preserve our majorities in the house and the senate and ensure

that we protect the supreme court from liberals, activists, judges. [cheers and applause] >> just a few weeks ago the media was writing off donald trump but now he's closed the gap with hillary clinton. it's a neck and neck race and make no mistake, donald trump is ready to win. [cheers and applause] >> and momentum is on his side, the electorate is on his side. it's a changed electorate. you actually saw it on both sides of the aisle. no one here thinks that hillary clinton is the change candidate. it's donald trump and the republican party and all of you that are listening to the grassroots voices from across this country. he's brought millions of new voters into the gop who are concerned about their country. [applause] >> 14 and a half million votes, the most any republican has ever

won in the history of republican primaries. he knows that americans have had enough, enough of a government which plays by its own rules, enough of a president that talks down to the american people about their guns and their religion, enough of a democrat nominee who lives above the law and thinks holding public office is get-rich-quick strategy. the democratic party running hillary clinton, you know, even though it wasn't that long ago, it's not even the democrat party of 1992, '96 or 2000, this is a party adapting bernie sanders' wish list of socialist policies. donald trump is standing to make sure that that doesn't happen. he's fighting for middle-class families who love america and want to see prosperity come back to our country.

he's calling radical islamic terror for what it is and he's committed to punishing terrorists wherever they may be found, christians, jews and other religious minorities are getting slaughtered across the middle east and donald trump is going to stand up for them and other persecuted people suffering under isis' reign of terror. [cheers and applause] >> he's going to restore the special relationship and friendship between the united states and israel which president obama has damaged. [cheers and applause] >> he understands that a strong american-israeli relationship is an asset to our national security, not a liability and make no mistake, donald trump and mike pence understand that

religious liberty is a corner stone of freedom that our nation has held dear for as long as we have been around and he, donald trump, and mike pence will defend that principle at all levels. [cheers and applause] >> people of faith don't leave their religion in the church pews, we live it out wherever we are. the left is launching an assault on our culture and wants to strip god out of the public square. our nation's religious heritage has helped make us what we are today. no american with religious convictions will have to bow at the attar of secularism if donald trump is president. [applause] >> and if you need any more motivation of why we need to elect donald trump, let me give you two words, supreme court.

[cheers and applause] i'm sure -- i'm sure everyone here has mourned the loss of justice scalia who was a great jurist and even better man, he was a great friend to the constitution and our conservative movement, the best way to honor his legacy is to make sure a like-minded person fills his seat on the supreme court. hillary clinton -- how many people think hillary clinton is going to be that person? hillary clinton is going to appoint if she gets her chance as many left-wing justices as she can to the supreme court and federal courts across this country. a clinton supreme court will be infringed -- entrenched for a generation. we are not talking about the next four years, we are talking about the next 40. her justices will treat the constitution as a suggestion at

best and a door mat at worst. any business owner of fate or any teacher in a faith-based school can find themselves in court just like hobby lobby did. it's not fantasy merely for exercising their rights in the same way americans have done for centuries. she despised it, the second amendment rights and wants to overturn to supreme court's decision which reaffirmed the simple right of americans to have a firearm in their own home. and she's an extremist. she's an extremist and her support for late term abortion, planned parenthood are working overtime to bankroll her campaign and we have to stop her. [applause]

>> now, we know that during her tenure the state department became a revolving door for democrat lobbyist and insiders. she lied to the victims of the benghazi video that an internet video was behind the desk and she's been lying to the american people how about she recklessly mishandled our nation's most secrets and endangered our national security. .. conservative justices whose judicial compass is the constitution. who is going to protect our rights that are out of the

crosshairs, at the crosshairs of these liberal secularists. he's taking a conservative position on more than just the supreme court. he's going to work with our republican congress to restore accountable government and be a champion for traditional values. the republican party is standing up for your church and your children. over the summer the platform committee once again clearly reaffirmed what we believe in. we had 112 delegates drafting a document that takes into account republican voices from every state and every territory. compare that to the democrats who have handpicked 15 people huddling behind closed doors, not on television for you to watch, writing the platform. because they know their agenda is far too extreme in the

american people actually read it. and if you liked the 20 will platform, which people thought was one of the most conservative platforms we have ever had, well, you are really going to like the tony 60 platform. thanks two delegates like tony perkins. [applause] we've been able to uphold conservative principles which are country needs. protecting the life of the unborn, standing up for traditional marriage, declaring the importance of the two-parent family for the health and happiness of our children, defending our citizens constitutionally protected rights to worship according to their conscience, whether it's in their churches, their homes and yes, even their businesses. making sure chaplains can do their jobs on military bases. [applause] i want you to know that our party to stand up for these

freedoms which the obama administration now has spent years trampling. if hillary clinton is president, you know she's going to do the same thing. they are is no way an individual who has this little regard of protecting our rights to get near the white house. the book of romans urges us to a bore what is evil and hold fast to what is good. and i want you to know i take that call seriously -- abhor. we wanted him to build our inner cities which have languished under decades of democratic rule. we want to make sure every child has a good education. the democrats want schools controlled by teachers unions and want to go our kids heads with left wing propaganda. republicans believe in the right of every child to get a good education, regardless of what zip code the living. we want school choice.

we know -- [applause] we know that the classroom is not an assembly line. and kids shouldn't be brainwashed by liberals when they go to school. we want to honor the fact that all men and women are made in the image of god, and stop the global trade in human trafficking. our party wants to do good and seek justice for all americans because we believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. that's why we spent the last four years building a nationwide ground game and have over 1000 paid staffers in battleground states right now bigger than we've ever had ever in the history of the rnc. [applause] that's why we started our republican leadership initiative to train the next generation of

republican leaders who want to make a difference in their communities, no matter where they call home. and that's why we hired a new staff to restart a dialogue with communities we have not seen in a long time, and held listening sessions with businesses and community leaders around the country to find out their concerns and priorities for all voters in every community. we have we committed our part to being the party of the open door. because we want everyone to experience the blessings of liberty, a declaration of independence makes it clear all men are endowed with god-given rights, and it's our duty to preserve those promises for the next generation. if we don't do this, who will? at the end of the day the stakes couldn't be higher in the selection. we have a choice to make. either big government keeps holding the reins of power, or

we take back the freedoms which have made america the greatest nation on earth. the founders, our founders of this country, knew how important the values of people, the people in this room, those values, we share, we share the values of the american experiment in democracy. the people in this room share those values. john adams said our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. george washington said it is substantially true that a virtue or for royalty is a necessary spring of popular government. we don't believe what we believe just for the heck of it. we believe in the laws of god, because they are true and they

are necessary for a free and thriving american republic, a moral people is one of the wellsprings of liberty. one of my favorite passages, and i may have shared this with you in years past, one of my favorite chapters in the bible is isaiah chapter six. i'm sort of fascinated with this chapter. and i'm going to paraphrase a little bit but i think you understand where i'm going. the year king sided die is when isaiah looked up and he saw god on the throne. remember that passage. he was so powerful and so amazing that he fell to the ground just by the sight of it. and he heard a voice and the voice from god said whom shall i send? and without knowing the nation, out of obedience, isaiah said here am i, send me.

we have such an enormous opportunity in front of us. we are in a battle for freedom in this country. he believed that? we are in a battle of freedom. the same battle that founded this country. it's the same battle at james madison reaffirmed in the bill of rights producing battle the founder our party in 1854. and who we are today. it's a battle for freedom. i don't know. at any event, i'm sure that that year but i'm sure a lot of you have been to the world war ii memorial. anybody? it's a start i like to do because it brings it all together. i went there with my son. like a lot of memorials you get out of it what you're willing to put into. you know what i mean. you go there and you see all those quotes from now that's a nice now and all these incredible euros from that time. you walk up to this place on the

wall, those thousands and thousands of golden stars. and i was there with my little guy, and you start to figure it out. that for every one of those golden stars, 100 little guys didn't come home to mom and dad. and you parents out there know that obviously you never, you can never put yourself it is you can't ever know what that's like, to put yourself in issues of a parent that goes through something like that. i'm not suggesting that. but you know that little moment sometimes when you think about your kids, when yo you are olde, when they were little and you wonder what it would be like if jack didn't come home to mom and dad. you get that moment and it just kind of hits you. then you look in front of those golden stars in gold on the black granite and it says here we mark the price of freedom. we are in a battle for freedom

in this country. we have a choice to make in this election. this is our moment to seize the opportunity before us. let's lock arms together and do what we can together to help elect donald trump, president of the united states, and take back our country. let's do it together. thank you. god bless you, and let's make america great together. god bless. thank you, everybody. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, we are going to donald trump coming out in just a few moments, but just before, just before we do we have a really nice surprise for

you that i think you are all going to like. so i need to -- the hotel staff if they would set up a couple chose to come on. hurry, hurry. jon voight, would you mind hurrying out the? michele bachman, keep up. keep up, keep up your and right over there. no, no, no. down, down. convoy, yours goes back just a little bit. never mind. it was fine. just leave it alone. hey, folks, help me thank the help. awesome. [applause] >> volunteers, you know. you can't boston around. just grateful for their help. without further ado let me welcome back to the stage family research council president,

president of frc action, tony perkins. [applause] >> thank you very much. isn't the hotel staff great? we have a really unexpected, unscheduled treat for you. this coming sunday marks the 15th anniversary of 9/11. and i think it's appropriate that as we gather here 15 years later that we reflect on that because america in many ways is at greater risk today than it was 15 years ago. i think we need to ponder that as we approach this election. so i think if i ask most of you in here, you could remember where you were on 9/11. andrei sakharov was and what i was doing. well, to local talk about this and put this election into perspective, i passed america's mayor rudy giuliani to join us

-- i've asked. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> thank you. >> mayor, i want to thank you for being here. >> thank you for having a. >> you've been here to the values voter summit before i want to thank you for being here again. but i want to thank you for keeping the focus on national security and on america's interest in terms of protecting herself. you know all the bit about that. >> unfortnuately, i do, from being mayor for eight years and then having the terrible attack. remember, i became mayor virtually a year after the first attack on the world trade center.

people think of it as 2001. well, we were attacked in new york in 1993 again islamic radical terrorists. and i had been investigating, prosecuting and studying islamic radical terrorism since i was in the ford administration in the 1970s. so for me this is a lifetime effort. and i think i probably know as those anyone what's at stake because i saw what they can do. and how committed they are to their evil and horrible ideas. >> so when you look back 15 years, in your judgment, is the threat greater today, hasn't lessened, are we better prepared? how important he is national security when we look at this election in november? >> well, you know, it's very important and is probably more important than we realize

because we always i think americans as any normal, we always think of jobs and become as the most important issue. and, of course, it is. people have to support themselves and have to feed themselves and take you care ofe family. that national security is really important. largely because of the way in which this administration in washington has deteriorated our national security. if you asked me that question nine years ago or 10 years ago, let's say on the fifth or sixth, the seventh anniversary of september 11 i would say our national security have somewhat improved. we were doing a better job at airports. we were doing a better job in terms of exchanging intelligence, not only between and among our federal agencies but with the international community. and there are countries that we are not even further with that we have good intelligence relationships with. it's a different relationship. but since president obama and

hillary clinton, and i don't mean to be political, but it is a political issue, our national security has really deteriorated and i for our country is in more danger today than it was on september 11. >> we have seen that in recent terrorist attacks in california, iand florida. i want to talk for just a moment about the role that mayors have been forcibly. before i do that i know you were from nearby want to ask you about your shoes. >> i wear these shoes, someone recommended them to me, for the forefront israel september 112 remind me of what september 11 is all about. and also to remind me it's the one thing that makes me, two things really lift my spirits when i think about that day because all the rest of the day was horrible. and one of them was the american flag being put up by the four firefighters who looked just like the four marines at iwo jima. and for me that was so, it was

like after seven or eight hours of hearing about all my firefighters being found dead and police officers and to my best friends, michael judge was the chaplain of the fire department who was my spiritual advisor. i can't tell you, i was at the bedside of 22 firefighters when they were dying with father judge. father judge taught me how to deal with the death. the first person i was informed died at the world trade center was father judge. so it was a terrible, terrible group of memories that comes back. there are two minutes the comeback that lift my spirits. one is the american flag. so some of that i was talking to, wife of a firefighter suggested i should get a pair of shoes. i always wear the flag that i should get a pair of shoes to remind me, and socks, around september 11. because it will lift my spirits and i won't get depressed. so this is my prozac.

[applause] >> and the second one was the construction workers. about four or 5:00 in the afternoon that day when the fires were burning at like 4000 degrees fahrenheit and we were still pulling people out, still saving people. that ended sometime that night, unfortunately and tragically. but a group of maybe 1000 construction workers just walked down the street. they were walking toward us. i walked up to the guy who was the head, big giant guy. what you doing? what he did with he said i thought you could use as. i said why quick he said because we can lift big things. and darn it, they couldn't lift big things. they would write in the pile with the firefighters and i'm telling you can't win without masks. you can't go in. they would've knocked me right over the ages went right in and they were pulling people out. that sort of brought my spirit back. it was like -- [applause]

>> that is the american spirit. is on greatest display when american is at greatest risk. we've seen it recently in louisiana with the flooding. after every natural or even man-made designer we see the best of americans who pulled together to help their neighbors. they don't worry about union laws. they don't worry about government bureaucrats. they just jump in and help. >> right. i would say that preemptively isn't that where we are today in america? we need to jump in because america is in crisis. >> tony, first of all, i hope everything is going well. all my best wishes on what happened to you. you suffered greatly. i know just the strength and spirit to get through it, but still, god bless you. [applause] >> here's what i believe and i'll try to supply. this comes from 35 years of

experience with radical islamic terrorism. we are best off when we are on offense, not when we are on defense. and waiting for them to attack us. right now we are basically on defense trying to figure out where are they going to attack us next. is it going to be in orlando? isn't going to be in san bernardino? isn't going to be in dallas, new york, chicago, that, harris? would be the priest who got his head cut off the backup sparse coverage. i know it's just one life but there's a great significance to be dragging a priest off the altar and chopping his head off. >> that was a the first, and yore absolutely right. we have housing crisis breached the sanctity of a church. and yet he got scant coverage as you mentioned. >> we are talking about going back 1000 years to think of things like, the air of

barbarism. and, of course, he's not the only one whose head was chopped off but it sort of symbolic of how far, how far they will go and what they would do. if you give them room to maneuver. on the other hand, if you are pushing them back, pushing the back into their little caves, it's a little bit harder to plan attacks when you're defending your life that it is when you've got plenty of time to sit there with your computer, and these people now, here's what i said is more dangerous. al-qaeda was a certain kind of group. they were run by really great warriors, horrible people, i don't mean to say they were good people but they were great warriors. they want the afghan war against the soviets and they drove the soviets out of afghanistan. we always thought for good reasons. it really for bad reasons. they want to make it a muslim state. an islamic state. but they were not sophisticated in the internet, the use of

social media. the group now, whether it's isis or the 22 related groups are much more sophisticated in the use of social media. much more able to self activate as we've seen people in the united states and al-qaeda ever could have done. largely because they have a lot of recruits from france from germany, from germany and from the united states. they understand us better. that's why it's more dangerous. we don't understand them as well as we understood al-qaeda. because under the obama-clinton administration, our intelligence has dropped dramatically. when we had all those trips and iran, i'm stuck on an iraq. wished it had been in iran. when we had been in iraq -- >> we don't send troops there. just money. [laughter] >> 33 billion.

that gets turned right into giving us an allies and getting ready to destroy israel. >> when we have so many troops, eating a great deal of intelligence, when you have a lot of troops in a country like in iraq, i can afghanistan from you get a lot of intelligence. we are not getting that intelligence, plus rather than capturing people because obama did want to fill up guantánamo, the use of drones to kill them. okay. some of them had to do that way. i always prefer capturing. but i'm an investigator and a former prosecutor. i don't want to get their information. i also can't figure out for the life of me was more humane, waterboarding or killing someone with a drone? at least if you're going to waterboarding i get a choice. i can tell you the information. i can talk my way out of it. if you're going to get waterboarded. and i'm not proposing waterboarding so let's not have,

but just you think for yourself what's the moral difference between dropping a bomb on a man's head who's a terrorist, or grabbing the name thing and an italian if you don't tell me about all the other terrorist, i'm going to waterboarded you. at least in the second situation he gets a chance to save his life to do something good for society. [applause] >> as you said that the intelligence value. mayor, i want to go back, mayor, to the issue of the municipalities. being a mayor. 15 years ago, i know your background associate with law enforcement and i know that you cleaned up new york and you are very strong in the law enforcement arena. spent 10 years and long for this site understand the world. 15 years ago our law enforcement was not as advanced and equipped as it is today when it comes to dealing with terrorism. however, it's still, i want to put this in the form of a question.

our local enforcement enforce to do with an issue because our federal government has not. is that a viable solution going forward? >> with a president who can say the word radical islamic terrorists, and, therefore, can point the country in the direction that we had to go rather than the confusion that we have today, when we call the attack and fort hood workplace violence, with a president who can do that and can get the justice department and department of homeland security kind of like on the same page, my belief has been and i preach this all over, that the fbi and the justice department has to use the local police as their eyes and ears. because they knew threat is coming from within our community to you and i could pick it up by intercepting e-mails, even hillary clinton's e-mails.

i had to get it in. [laughter] do you know where you're going to get information? you will get the information from the local police. yes a lot of been trained in your, los angeles very well trained. there's a whole course on precursors of terrorism that they go through. the things to look for, things to watch for your what the fbi has to use them as their eyes and ears and that relationship has to be made closer. for that you need the right leadership. you need to write leadership that is explained that we are in a war, and that this is an important priority. it's not just another thing which is the way it's treated by the president when he kind of acts very nonchalant about many of these attacks. so you've got basically 14, 15,000 fbi agents, 800,000 sworn local police officers, including

big ones like nypd, chicago, los angeles. so 800,000 should be the eyes and ears of the fbi. i believe donald trump can accomplish that. [applause] >> when you look at how this administration has dealt with radical islam come effective in going back and rewriting policies under the department of justice so that even the terminology of radical islam cannot be used, how far has not filtered down to the local -- >> i'll give you a practical example of how dangerous that is. in san bernardino before the attack, the two people who committed the attack were observed in their garage late at night doing things to that their neighbors over suspicious. of course, they were both arab looking, and some of the neighbors said they didn't turn to me because they felt maybe they were being prejudiced.

so they were being affected by the tyranny of political correctness, that this topic is reporting things we otherwise would report. major nadal in the army gets promoted to major while he was writing, it was being reported, jihadists creeds and communicate with terrorists overseas. and we promoted him to major. i'm sorry, i don't think that happens unless there's a kind of political correctness that has been pushed on people. i know many people that are afraid to say islamic extremist terrorism. we've got to get freed of that. we need like a declaration of independence from political correctness. >> fine with that. [applause] >> and i could if i had the time tell you the terrorist attacks that were stopped because in one

case a police officer who did cq arab gentlemen surveilling a subway suspiciously. and by turning them in he stopped the bombing of that subway and possibly several others. so this is a very, very important. what the leader says is very important when i was in the justice department you couldn't use the word monkey. deana who got the taken out? mario biaggi and the italian civil rights league. mario biagio i put in prison. the italian civil rights league was founded by joseph columbo, the head of a mafia crime family. and i was an italian american, and my view was every group has good people and bad people. people. catholics, protestant, jews, muslims, italians, whatever. and all the good people should be on one side and we should all be against the percentage of fat people, which is roughly the

same for all of us, on the other side. and i would like to see that happen in the islamic come in the islamic world. i would like to see it happen in a more dramatic way. [applause] >> more pronounced. mayor, i think i can speak for many, many americans in reflecting back 15 years ago to the attack of 9/11, and thank you for your leadership, thank you for being, dinner, that title america's mayor. because of the leadership and the confidence that you instilled at a time of crisis that let people know we can get through that. and i say tha that for this numr one, two thank you. but number two, you could easily just enjoy retirement. you don't need to be out here speaking at events like this and taking the rest of the media saying nice things about you.

[laughter] >> i would be so uncomfortable if they did. [laughter] i would feel, i worked for ronald reagan and president reagan taught me something. he said, i read the "new york times" editorials, and then i do the opposite. [laughter] [applause] >> having said that, this was my question. why are you spending your time out on the campaign trail with donald trump? >> two reasons. first for my country. [applause] i believe, i believe that, i believe that if this country is turned over to hillary clinton we will end up being a european social democracy. and i believe israel will be in grave jeopardy. and i believe that islamic terrorism will continue to keep us on defense.

what she said the other night ruling out putting troops on the ground before she even got her sense out, that is such a sign of weakness. the thing we most often from this president is no boots on the ground, no boots on the ground, no boots on the ground, at. at least lead to possibly open to finding your enemy. so i'm doing it for my country and for my children to and doing it because donald trump has been my friend for 28 or 29 years. i am absolutely disgusted at the way which the press is covering it. this is a very -- [applause] this is a very good man. this is a very honest man. this is an enormously accomplished man who happens to be a tremendous executive, which is what you need in a president. and it reminds me of what ronald reagan went through. in my view, ronald reagan was the greatest president of the

second half of the 20th century. [applause] since i know him as a personal friend, i can see those qualities in him. i don't want america to see them. thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen, mayor rudy giuliani. [applause] ♪ a not ♪ ♪ ♪ >> did the mayor mentioned about issues by any chance? okay. a little hectic back there and i wasn't able to focus on it, but what a wonderful story. before we bring out mr. trump, it would be fitting for us just to take a moment to remember

phyllis schlafly who -- [applause] >> yes, indeed. went to be with the lord this week, and is now in heaven. truly one of the pioneers of our movement. if it wasn't for phyllis schlafly that might not be a values voter summit. honestly that's so important she is to arm movement. and even until the lord calderón she was right on the frontlines of the battle. i think would be fitting if we take a moment of silence to remember phyllis schlafly and to pray for her family. [silence] >> thank you ladies and gentlemen. now coming to introduce the republican presidential nominee

is an academy award-winning actor jon voight who also is very good at moving furniture. [laughter] [applause] he has been a popular actor in hollywood for decades now, having been nominated four times for the oscar, 10 times for the golden globe award, having won the four times in addition to his oscar. and yet he has remained true to his core convictions and outspoken in his support for conservative values. we are honored to have him come down to share his heart and to introduce donald trump after him. ladies and gentlemen, is welcome jon voight. [applause] ♪ ♪

[laughter] >> they took my job. i'm so honored to be standing in front of all of you spiritual people. who understand the meaning of god, the meaning of love, the meaning of righteousness. and i don't have to wonder whether you understand the meaning of right and wrong. ipad two great gifts -- i have had two great gifts given to me in my life. one was that i was able to meet the recently made saint, mother teresa. [applause]

>> how that occurred i can get into another time, if anyone wants hi to ask me about after s event, i will be glad to tell the story but for now, suffice it to say that i found myself standing in front of the great saint, and she blessed me. the second gift was being asked to portray pope john paul ii in a wonderful miniseries, and in researching the role i was overwhelmed to find that he had selected me to play him. something. i'm bringing these, you know, these saints to everyone's consciousness because having these experiences together with living only as long as i have,

i've come to know what good is and what bad is. and i know i can distinguish who donald trump is and who hillary clinton is. i feel there's a dark cloud over the country now. we are all witness to hillary clinton's lies and corruption. we are witness to president obama covering every false move that she makes, and making them appear right. and we are witness to our so-called football heroes that are supposed to set examples to our young children that mock our national anthem. my heart aches watching donald

trump day after day pouring his heart out telling the american people what he wants to do to save the nation. how can anyone doubt his sincerity? i can only feel if god allows truth to be said and heard, that we will see donald trump the next president of this great america. [applause] and he will lift the dark cloud that hovers over us now, and so it is with the greatest honor and greatest respect that i introduce to you now the next president of the united states, donald trump.

♪ ♪ ♪ >> thank you very much. jon, a great actor. isn't a great person? he is such a great person. and he's really been with me a long time in a lot of different ways. he's been incredible. i just want to thank jon and i hope he makes another movie but quickly because i love his movies. in particular, i wanted to thank our host tony perkins for his years of leadership, and we know all about that.

[applause] and we will express our support for tony as he deals with the aftermath of the terrible floods in louisiana where two weeks ago i spent some time and i saw some incredible, incredible people. thank you. amazing. amazing. one of the greatest privileges of my journey as a type i spent with the evangelical community and the support they gave me in those primaries was absolutely incredible. i have to tell you. all across the nation, a lot of people said i wonder though what it the evangelicals. i got the evangelicals. i'm going to make it up to you, too. you watch. there are no more decent devoted or selfless people that our christian brothers and sisters here in the united states.

true, so true. i've witnessed that incredible generosity all across this land. gotten to know so many people. i saw during my trip to louisiana where christian volunteers raced to help their fellow citizens in need. franklin graham is an example. he brought the most incredible people and equipment to louisiana. [applause] and he didn't want anything for it. he's a great man. it's that spirit of giving that we will need to rebuild louisiana and to rebuild this country which is in serious, serious trouble. [applause] yet our media culture often mocks and the means people of faith and you understand that. all that time i hear from concerned parents how much

harder it is for a christian family to raise their children in today's media environment. it is right, isn't it? it is right. not even close. your values of love, charity and faith built this nation. [applause] so how can it be that our media treats people of faith so poorly? one of the reasons is that our politicians have really abandoned you to a large extent. and hillary clinton, you can forget about her. so let me say this right up front. at trump administration, our christian heritage will be cherished, protected, defended

like you've never seen before. [applause] believe me. i believe it. you believe it and you know what. and you know what. and that includes religious liberty. remember, remember. i easily had a chance to visit a church in detroit. great faith ministries international your stand up if you're a member. that's great. that was an amazing experience. [applause] and the bishop, what a great guy. in my remarks i spoke about how african-american church, and this is all across the country, for centuries have been the conscience of our nation. they are unbreakable faith and

spirit overcame some of the most difficult periods in our history, leading us all to a better future. very true. amazing. this was such an amazing experience your this is the power of faith. it's the power to heal. it's the power to unite. it's the power to make all of us live better lives, all of us. [applause] our nation today is divided. nobody likes to say it, but we are living in a very, very divided nation. it will be our faith in god come in his teachings, in each other that will lead us back to unity. [applause] each of us here today has to

multiply and bring our country together, united in common purpose and in common values. so let's talk today about some of the things, it is a great things, that we can do together to create the american future for everybody. not just a certain group of people but for everybody. the first thing we have to do is give our churches their back. it's been taken away the. [applause] the johnson amendments has blocked our pastors and ministers, and others, from speaking their minds from their own pulpits. if you want to talk about christianity, if they want to preach, if they want to talk about politics, they are unable to do so. if you want to do it, they take

a tremendous risk that they lose their tax exempt status. all religious leaders should be able to freely express their thoughts and feelings on religious matters, and i will repeal the johnson amendments. [applause] if i am elected your president. i promise you. [applause] so important. thank you. so important. and i must tell you from the heart, this started a building of mine in manhattan. i had 50 pastors in a big conference room. and we actually had 50 pastors, to rabbis, a couple of priests. we were all talking and we were there for two hours. and at the end, it was a lovefest.

we all agreed. it was like a lovefest. and i said to them, we were high up in the building on fifth avenue, and i said to them, i'd love your support. and i know when i can get support. i'm quite sophisticated. and i know they wanted to give me their total support, 100%, just like ahead in the primaries. and i said i really would like to support, and he didn't really know what i was talking about. as i said, what's going on? they said we can do that because we would be violating the laws, and i said what's the punishment? welcome we could lose our tax-exempt status which, of course, is massive penalty. i said tell me about this. and we sat down and we talked about it when did it happen? 1954 or so. lyndon johnson was having problems. our foci. i actually -- you have to gain

respect what is it to do. can you imagine that this guy single-handedly, he was having problems with churches and there was a church in houston that was giving him a hard time. maybe for very good reason. and he put in an amendment that basically stopped our great pastors, ministers and others from talking under the penalty of losing their tax exempt status. so we were looking down ont on o the sidewalk and the people walking on the sidewalk. and i said, so folks, what you are telling it is those people walking way, way down there on the sidewalk have really more power than you do because they are allowed to express their feelings and thoughts openly and without penalty. and one of the pastors who i knew very well, and these are powerful people, these are strong people with magnificent voices and just, and magnificent hearts, much more important to

me. they looked at me and they said that's actually write, they have more power than we do. we are not about to express. and that's what i said, we have to start thinking about this. i thought about it, and we had a large group of pastors and i said i have thought about it. if i become president we're going to knock out the john sununu. we are going to do that. it's not going to be hard. not going to be hard. [applause] when you think from the standpoint of political, you have more than name. let's see men are 50%, women 50%. you are much more than 50% added together. i believe that's one of the reasons why you haven't seen christianity and other religions within the united states going like a rocket ship, like a pulse been going in the last four weeks, our rocketship. [applause] i really believe that. because you are great people. the people that you rely on on

sunday at all during the week, they've been stopped from talking and speaking by a law. we are going to get rid of the law. we are going to get rid of it so fast. i'm so proud to say on this, i don't want to take credit, but you had 50 people in the first meeting and many more in the second. i'm so proud, i was just telling this to tony, to say that was my idea. i figure it's the only way i'd get into heaven, so this is going to be -- the only way. [applause] so we will get rid of this, and we're going to let your great people speak, and you will see something happen that's going to be very, very good. okay? so important. i hope, which means you have to get out and vote on november 8. you cannot, you didn't vote four years ago that you didn't vote. you didn't. well, you did. a few of you did.

believe me, i know. i look at the stats. you didn't vote. but this time he really, this is your last chance. this is it. we will never had this opportunity again to help you can get everyone of your friends to just get up, your family and friends and get out and vote, okay? november 8. [applause] >> thank you. and if you we're going to win by a lot. that's not even going to be a close election and if you don't, could be a very unhappy novemb november 8. we are also going to repeal and replace disastrous obamacare. [cheers and applause] which gives the government control over the lives of everyday citizens, at the numbers are been disappeared your premiums are going up by 50, 60, 70%. the deductible is so i you never get to use it unless you're

going to live a very long and very complex bad period, very, very long. it is a disaster. it's a disaster. everybody knows it, and it's going to die at its own weight anyway but we are going to get rid of it and replace it with some great, great alternative. much better health care at a much lower price. [applause] hillary clinton wants to have completely government run health care, which would be a disaster for the liberties and freedoms of all americans. that's what she's aiming at the that's what obama wanted. he didn't quite get there but he got this and you see a bad this is. one of the biggest issues in this race is going to be the issue of school choice. [applause] and i can't possibly emphasize this enough. millions of poor and disadvantaged students are trapped in failing schools.

the education crisis afflicts all communities, but none more so than the african-american community. none. the democratic party has run the inner cities of america for 50, 60, 70 years, some cases over a hundred years. over a hundred years. their policies and their politics, and to particular the politics of people like hillary clinton, have produced only poverty, joblessness and rising crime. when she was running for the senate in new york state i'm she said she's going to produce jobs, jobs, jobs in upstate new york. it's a disaster. she's going to produce jobs. big thing. jobs, we are going to bring back jobs. it's been a catastrophe. we've lost tens of thousands of jobs. she never did a thing. it was all talk and no action. just like what she's doing right now, all talk and no action.

talk and talk, and nothing will happen to the only bad will happen. but you just have to ask the people in upstate new york, she won because of them, and she produced absolutely nothing. jobs left. today it's one of the worst, one of the most depressing places in this country. just remember that when you hear her talking about jobs. i know jobs. she doesn't know jobs, that i can tell you. [applause] i have outlined a new civil rights agenda for our time. the right to a safe community, a great education and a secure job your and i say to african-americans parents, i say the hispanic american parents, and i said with great respect. out in your cities are a disaster. crying, no jobs, education is

the worst. in many cases almost worldwide bad. in many cases actually worldwide bad. i say with respect, what do you have to lose? it can't get any worse. it can't get any worse. you just don't come, i'm going to fix the problem. you will have safety. you will have good education. we are going to get jobs because we're going to bring our jobs back. mexico is taking our jobs. summon other places are taking our jobs. what china is doing to us is horrible. what do you have to lose? i'm going to fix it. i'm going to fix it. [applause] school choice is at the center of the civil rights agenda. and my goal is to provide every single inner-city child in america that is trapped in a failing government schools the freedom to attend the school of their choice.

competition to the schools will get the better and better and better. [applause] and that means a private school, a religious school, a charter school or a magnet school. school choice also means that parents can home school their children. [cheers and applause] 100%. hillary clinton opposes school choice because she has controlled totally, totally like a puppet by special interest. our policies will force millions of african-american and hispanic children to remain stuck in failed government schools leading to higher unemployment and more poverty. the poverty levels in this country nobody will believe. nobody will believe. my plan will break the government monopoly and make

schools compete to provide the best services for our children, including every african-american and hispanic child in this country. every single one of them. [applause] this proposal begins with a $20 billion block grant from the federal government to states to pursue school choice programs. however, -- that's good, right? however because 90% of education spending is at the state level, i will campaign to get the states to we allocate another $110 billion other education budgets to school choice programs. [applause] if we do this, that would mean $12,000 in school choice funds for every disadvantaged student in america. what a difference this is going

to make. that money will follow the student to the public, private or religious school that is best for them and their family. .. . >>. [applause] this means a lot to me. because it means i can turn

things around again. common core, but were going to change it. [applause] i will fight for every child in this country. who deserves better futures. the african-americancommunity has heard my message , that i am going to make communities safe again and i'm going to bring back jobs and i'm going to bring back great educations. don't be surprised, remember this, november 8. don't be surprised because we have been given a lot of support over the past three or four weeks. on november 8, i get more african-americans and hispanic votes than anyone thought possible about a month ago. and you see what's going on. people are starting to hear about this and they're saying while. wow. they're liking it.