summer before he was suspended by fox news. ♪ we will see if i can do this again. good evening. no, good evening. it's a big room, thank you.

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[applause] how are you all doing? you are amazing. thank you for that warm welcome. you left the set in new york, hopped on the train.

>> 6:00 my assistant said we've got to go right now there's a car waiting for us to take us to penn station which is about 33rd or so. i get in the car, press my math did come map and it says you will be there at 6:37 and i said that's a problem. so i said i've got to run, swear to god i get out of the cards ct about 90 degrees in the city and i'm running holding my shirt and a bag of running down seventh avenue. anyone remember folder so cars are coming and i'm stopping and going and running. i made it with like four minutes left. [applause] [cheering] what concerns me is you are running around new york and

there's a lot liberal drivers. >> we have some of the finest here tonight keeping the community safe and we are so thankful. thank you. [applause] and the community college folks jumped at this the first to second when asked. by the way folks come he chose us as his first official stop in the book. [applause] a year ago we sat down and did this at the train station you were so much fun. but i said what is the address of this venue. i haven't even shown you i don't know if you've seen this yet i just took this picture a second

ago. you probably know by now and if you don't then you are on swamp road, total coincidence take a look at that intersection. i came in on the intersection of swamp and liberty. [applause] i said if ever there was more a poetic intersection that is exactly the nation's intersection. the c-span people are telling us to sit down. we are on tv everybody. this is one of those crazy coincidences we've been experiencing. we will get into how the book came about later. so i'm writing this book and thinking i need a good cover. i know why i'm writing the book that i want a good cover that will catch you. so i am looking up pictures and

i happened to type in swamp dc and the picture comes up and it's the capitol building being built on a swamp and i just went back and said this is the right project at the right time. part of the dome isn't even on eight yes and if they literally had to drain the swamp to build the capital but they drain the swamp and left the metaphorical. to make a long story short, this is another one. we have a lot to give to. everybody wave.

i don't know if you follow me on facebook and twitter and social media. we have some of the most engaged fans. they go online and they are just amazing. by the way they are talk radio listeners. [applause] so i wake up yesterday i see one of the first from the day is the most powerful man in the free world saying by the new book. rupert murdoch. no, i'm kidding. then i log on and there's the new book and then i turn on the highest rated cable news program

and their you see it all in the same day. i've never seen a rollout like that. what's it's like to get the president's endorsement absorbed with? >> so that was tuesday. you sleep about three hours when you launch a book. my publisher said let's get some media. so we do this book party and have a couple of cocktails. then i take my closest friends out and the publisher says great news i have an interview set up for here. wyou. we have a 10:00 interview set up for you. it was an hour interview from

ten to 11. i am an hour away from home so i finished the interview, got home at about midnight or so and they hahave me back at like 6:00 in e morning. >> tell me that you were drunk on fox and friends. [laughter] so i get there and i'm literally pushing an envelope you have to be here and here. i make it by a minute, the moratorium being upheld and then some of the healthcare stuff. getting into it pretty heavily and then i get off the set and said what you just said get my new book, it's out today and it gets sent again a minute after i'm off the set. it blows up and peopl flows up e

saying did you see the president just retweeted your tweet? than they have a link to barnes and noble and amazon. the book was inspired by donald trump and i think that he knows that and understands that. to be very clear and what the record stayed there were not many. and coulter was the only one i know other than you in the very early primary process. [applause] [cheering] i've known donald trump for a long time. >> i don't want to interrupt the story but can you talk about knowing him and believe that?

>> maybe ten or 12 years ago he was doing apprentice before celebrity apprentice and one of my friends said you would like trump and i said i don't know him. he said come on come he was producing the apprentice brand, so i go to some cocktail party and it ends up being a party on tv and a fund raiser so we are just kind of hanging out having fun and having drinks. so i met donald, he met my wife and over the years i'd gone to a lot of celebrity apprentice events and started working at fox and interviewing donald on fox and friends in the morning and he knew i came from a financial background so we had a connection and would call to say that was great so i developed a friendship over the years. i wasn't sure if he was going to

run and i was surprised and shocked when he did. when he came down the escalator, every single human being in the newsroom, thousands of people working in the hustle and bustle newsroom, no one could pick pay attention. every eyeball stared at the tv's. you can love him or hate him but he has something that is going to get america's attention, and he did. but here's the thing. throughout the campaign, there were bumps. the video, the audio from the billy bush thing but i stayed with him and i got my television butt kicked on a daily basis. it wasn't easy being pro- trump for a long time. there were probably six months and it wasn't because i was

liberal. anyway, he knew that and watched a lot of tv. after the election he calls me, the phone rings and i put him on the speaker. you know, you were with me from the start. i saw this coming and always had confidence in you for the first time mr. president. he said you know something else when it didn't look so good for me, you were there but here's the point. the reason that was relevant to me, universal about on the campaign trail. you never saw a doubt in his mind. he didn't want to portray that he wanted to confidence straight through.

you know the media business and i've been honest about this as often as i can because it is important to be honest i voted for donald trump never in a million years thought i could possibly weather or the billy bush thing. you know the news media. this is the moment. think about this for one minute if it isn't a donald trump is it going to be held at the clinton

and are you sure you want a supreme court that is going to move far left for probably the next three to four generations. you can despise everything donald trump is about what he's goinbut he'sgoing to keep the se court's center right. [applause] and when kennedy retires we thought it was going to be this month. he may stick around for another year. there will be another conservative and probably a third in the next seven or eight years. think about that. that is a truly conservative supreme court matter for many, many. that will undoubtedly be his legacy without question. >> like a private visit plaques

to the >> i've got the fox questions coming up. it is for me first i called them up and say i have a new show it would be cool if the first day i could launch an interview with the president. no problem, just like that. it went from we are going to do it on friday or monday was the first day of the show but it ended up coinciding with 100 days on saturday of the presidency, so i didn't want it to lose its value. got that the crack of dawn monday morning, interviewed the president, had a great 15 minutes with him.

the interesting thing about that whole event. the white house has their cameras and we have ours as well. it's a whole production so this is going on for a couple hours. the president walks in, sits down, 30 people in the room watching this is the west wing but then he does something no one expected and probably no other president has done or what do. he said he wante if you want toe oval office and i said yes. then he says all you sound people, do you want to go in the oval office?

yes. that's donald trump right there. you can tell your kids you were in the oval office. [applause] then it's pretty early on in his presidency and he and she talked about the meeting i don't know how many of you heard about this but the room meeting he gets up and says he want to go over to the oval and they walk in and even his staff this kind of flummoxed you want us to clean the desk off mr. president? and i said to the sheriff, that is what i take away from him. he really believe that is the people's house. he really believes that. [applause]

one step further. one derivative of that and he believes that he's one of the people. what billionaire do you know it's so friendly with a regular person. it happened yesterday there was a reporter. is that bad to say now? so he's the most powerful man on the planet, a billionaire and if you didn't know if you were sitting next to him and i think except for the hair that he's one of your friends. and i would still take that hair by the way. [applause] what fox has gone through do you

believe that is directly correlated with the opposition to the president, do you feel like it is all hands on deck we have to shut anybody down that have to do with helping this man succeeded to get to the white house? >> you mean the turnover because it was a very different place. i can't even count on one hand the amount of very hydrated hosts a. i was absolutely shocked. i never even heard of it but once it started to unravel and unfold, they did the right thing.

i will tell you leading up to if there was no indication. now, do i think commander this is my personal opinion that there were a lot of satellite losses optiplex that probably have no merit but they were just interested in making this, it's a bad time for all of this happening, let's get through and maybe they wouldn't settle. let me ask about a couple of individuals and if you are not comfortable i won't. >> you can always ask.

she's wildly talented and smart. i have seen her take apart guests they don't know it's coming and they walk right down to the corner and she just takes the legs out including. >> fair enough, okay. she doesn't discriminate based on the ideologies, here's the point. i think she's extremely talented and in the wrong place right n

now. she felt it was their biggest rising star. she would come to friends like mine in the same rogers praises. and then she's going to nbc. >> i do think that the accusations towards roger are what took roger down. she probably had some evidence.

[applause] >> for me personally i did for the better part 200 or 300 300 o'reilly factors i spent a lot of time with that crew and staff. when he took some time off he left. we spent a lot of time. i got a call that day and 12:05 in jeans and a polo shirt and the secretary says mr. murdoch wants to see you now.

so i put on a suit and tie and i ran up to the office. he said down and said here's the deal. our attorneys have said we have to part ways with bill o'reilly. we have an issue at 8:00 at night and it's going to go to primetime. but he said i want you to know you're going to stay at 5:00. i need to maintain the audience into prime time and i want you there. i said okay, great. thank you very much. i called my wife and said okay, so i'm going to do the 5:00 shadow. i'm not sure if i'm on the five anymore but they are going to what originally was good to be 8:00 int8:00 and then they put five@. so there is a press release that comes out but says the host of 5:00 hour and i'm looking at my

name on the 5:00 and see jesse waters. .. every one of your shows, the entire lineup from cavuto to

sean and it kept getting bigger as the night wore on. the tucker edition, you like back? [applause] i can't wait to talk with him about this but because i can imagine and i'm wondering what all of you thought, who in the hell is going to take bill o'reilly's chair and he gets a call did everybody say yes or i don't know about that. did you think that? >> what happened was you saw tucker doing something very unique. i had never seen that before. he was bringing liberals on. college professor some where and of the 7:00 show on "fox news." that's brilliant and aggressive. things could go horribly wrong and the other question i will never forget the first at 7:00

7:00 he comes on the five to do a thing i go tucker wyatt did these liberals come back on your show you destroy them and he said i don't know i will keep doing it until they stop. it's amazing how they'll are going to come in. everyone thinks they're going to do that. any sports fans? is like going into the other teams stadium, the other teams wraps are their uncle. it's insane. you have no shot. you have your own stage and you have cameras and you could play a lot of games and by the way tucker is wildly talented anyway but it's fun to watch. here's one of the little fact door secrets. the fight was going to go at 8:00.

>> they were going to move the five to the o'reilly show. >> bill shine the tim i think he was the one who said i can do an ensemble show at eight. so they said tucker was doing very well. sean probably thought about it and floated the idea but the other thing about the 8:00 of the 9:00 our is they have to be life. there is breaking news throughout the night in a want it life. sean is a very close friend of mine but sean is hard-core opinion so you can pretty much take that at 6:00 and 7:00 and it will last until 10. sean is like i'm not going to come here and stay until nine or 10:00 at night but i'm going to tape at six and it will be good until 10:00 the shot did something interesting because it wasn't long after this that he also came under some attack but he decided to strategically tackle it differently and he

took a little time off than everybody thought we know what happened with bill o'reilly with a little time off. sean won't come back and sean did come back and i think his numbers are stronger than they have ever been. [applause] did anyone happen to see this special today at 5:00? hand up. kyle my assistant said there's this young kid like 17 years old and he's holding a poster that says congratulations eric with a picture of the book. why don't you say hi to the kid on the way into the studio. absolutely and i'll take it one step further so i go out and i meet the kid and i shake his hand and he is so nice. he said i read "the swamp" and i loved it. i put in with mark or congratulations.

will you stand by the window during the show if you have time? he beamed. he was like oh my god that's amazing. just then hannity walks and and i'm hanging out and hannity smacks the kid and the kid is like oh my god sean hannity and sean says what of eke out there? he holds up a poster and he says bolling's book? the point is sean is such a nice guy. the guy was so happy he got a picture with sean. he is just a regular guy. the most successful cable news hosts on air right now. and he's philanthropic. sometimes we celebrate someone's birthday and we sit around having steaks and chicken or whatever, can't tales.

sean will pick up the whole tab insist on picking up the whole tab and leave a 1000-dollar tip and walk out. he's the nicest guy in the world. >> i will ask you one more fox question and that is ultimately the death of roger ailes. it seemed like i was terribly emotional for those of you that were left. brian kilmeade and certainly sean and you really seemed to be profoundly impacted. which is interesting because in terms of politics show up is not a guy you would think would be aligned with everything they said about roger ailes. show up is not politically a right-winger by any means. >> not even close. >> roger saw something in him and hired him. think about that for a minute. he is not your typical conservative right-wing talking head human being person and shep

had a great relationship. i was at a birthday bbq at roger's house and shep came. shep is and he talks about it and he brought his partner. roger put his arm around both of them and said glad you are here and thanks for being here and he goes on his way. think about rachel maddow. she also is very complimentary of roger ailes so all these bad things that were said about roger is all generated in the media. he was not a bad guy. he had issues, yes and i don't know what happened but in life he gave a lot of money and he was very very religious. everything i know, everything i know for a fact about roger was very positive and very nice and very good. and i know you have heard it and read it and i get people to say this, o'reilly is gone and it's

just a matter of time now. i've heard rush say rogers out and there's a new direction. they are not fair and balanced and people made a big deal about that. where is fox going? are you concerned about it? the ratings are fine right now and it's at the same product that we are accustomed to watching? >> a very interesting question because i don't know if there is an editorial directional change. that's something beyond my pay grade and that's something where mr. murdoch resides. i don't know if they are trying to move into the center. i have never ever been told to tone it down and in fact on the new 5:00 special and more conservative and more vocal than i ever was. contrary to what you will hear and read, no one says this is what we have to do our highlight

this today. these are the talking points for the day. never happened. doesn't happen and certainly no one has ever done that to me. >> so what you are saying is you don't work at "cnn". >> i can't confirm that. [applause] >> oh, come on. you go out for drinks and in you all talk, what a mess they are in. >> they have so many strong pro-trump voices. >> but from an industry insider this would be watching a rival talkshow host across town struggling. not personally but professionally because they've been caught up in bad stuff. now they have just been caught red-handed and finally must feel like the truth has set us free, hallelujah. >> i did a monologue today. is this a wake-up call for the future in media that this trump

arrangement syndrome you have going on just trying to tattoo him with every story you can possibly tell to him with without doing your homework and without backing it up and checking sources. just run with it? people are getting fired. i do think that is what happened the scaramucci. i think the tide is going to change. >> rush said today and i wondered if you feel this. rush said this morning on his program that he really feels that there is the tide turning. he feels suddenly for the first time there's an inkling of a momentum shift in terms of the media relationship in the white house. >> so rush copied my talking points? >> that's between you two. i think that's why trump retweeted my book by the way. >> have you met rush?

like you the momentum shift, the public is now seen there's a party that seems to be offering nothing but republicans are a bunch of killers. it's russia trump, russia trump and the american people they have just had it. it's so transparent now it's not even run anymore. [applause] and i think that's what the story did. it exposed their willingness or their desire or me to paint that picture of trump and the collusion or the obstruction of justice. look at what he's doing with the economy. my monologue today was, so i put the sound bite of when obama were -- said rush is a problem. the 80s once their foreign policy back. it's not a threat anymore. that was four years ago. he must have surely changed his

mind over the last four years and i put up the sound right of october. there's no way anyone in their right mind would think the russians were meddling and it would have any effect. why is russia such a big story when even the head of their party as saying russia is not an issue. it's because they don't care about facts anymore. they're just trying to nail trump. they didn't see them winning and they despise him so much because he is fighting back. they are making a lot of mistakes. at sporting events are in a competition once you start wanting a team so badly you start making mistakes you know you're glossed. they know they have lost. [applause] "msnbc" is at least honest about what they are. i think they are changing.

they are trying to see the landscape out a little bit. "cnn" seems to be anti-trump. they were centrist for a long time. let's pick apart everything he does and bring up some negative stuff. seems to work. the numbers are up as well. "msnbc" who you would think would be the most anti-trump than anyone on the right has now hired hugh hewitt, greta van susteren and nicole wallace. those are three, not conservatives but three republicans which i never thought they would do. my point is i think they are still figuring out where they are. every now and again chris matthews falls and hits his head and says something that surprises me. >> lately, yale. i don't know what to make of

him. do you know what i mean? one tuesday in the middle of the month they might say trump might be onto something. >> at one point he said something like trump he came president tonight when he did something. i care remember what the event was but that was for chris matthews when he became president. >> he probably got reprimanded. we are here, why not. let me get to some questions from the audience. do you miss greg gutfeld and the five? [applause] >> i definitely miss the five. so here's the thing. i was there from, so take it back six years glenn beck said to roger ailes, i'm leaving at 5:00 and i'm doing my own thing. roger said okay, fine at the end

of the summer, right? he said no at the end of the week. roger ailes had an issue not unlike what murdoch had so roger was sitting and he will tell you this story. he's trying to figure out what to do with a couple of his presidents or whomever. he said okay i want five people. bolling in the middle. he used to be a broadway producer and he will tell you if you put together the five the way you put together a broadway production. i want someone who is like the girl next door and someone who is very attractive and smart. and we will put, can we find a foster works character for the liberal?

>> foster brooks? >> it was supposed to be july 11 until the end of the summer and when they got to labor day they were going to launch a big void show. within a week or so we were beating the numbers. and the desk, this is a true story. it was wasn't glenn beck sold studio. if you remember he had chalked boards around the place and once in a while he would ring some stuff out and a table to put some stuff on. it was this old ikea table. then there were four chairs. huckabee had the studio audience so they took the huckabee church and the studio audience and rot glenn beck's old ikea table and that was going to be the set for the rest of the summer. it's still the set. it never went away. we moved into this new shiny

$30 million studio months ago and it's a new table and new chairs the exact same thing. >> rob went away for a while and then came back. did you all miss him personally? >> you talk about the way roger put it together. he put together this cache of political friends. it was like that. and if you extract somebody like that all of a sudden, it works fine. you travel and during elections you will go to the primaries. we became a family so when you remove someone from the family there is a void there. you feel the void. warren and geraldo, they did.

bob went away and when he came back i will be honest it felt like it was two years. we had grown as a group because we had gone through some really heavy political storms and i think bob came back and expected to be the old lobban joking and playing around and we are all like, lob. >> so the tone isn't where you would on. >> it was a little bit awkward at times. >> i've spoken -- spoken to bob a couple of times. >> he got a complaint and they let him go. >> i must have missed that. geraldo has threatened to throw a punch at you. and i think he basically said something like you got one, go ahead, do your best.

>> i said what you wait for the break. this will only take a second. [laughter] [applause] by the way i don't care how mad i am i'm never going to threaten you. he will take me in a hot second. >> let me explain exactly what happened. the conversation was going back and forth about trump and the wall and inflation. he's so mad about the wall and trump's immigration stance and he said trump is trying to sensationalize everything. aye coming from a guy who is made out career out of -- everything. he got so mad. it really was kind of a low blow but he's like if you were my friend i would punch you in the mouth. whatever, geraldo. he is the perfect example of a liberal who has a personal relationship with the president

and is having a very difficult time being committed to the movement when he knows that the guy is a good guy. i see him struggle that way. he likes him. >> i think he's a good political adversaries because they are on opposite side of the spectrum. but i think geraldo has flip-flopped on trump a couple of times. trump knows everyone who was there and he knows those who didn't. he's up in the morning president trump. we have a bit on the show we do. we have a twitter alert. it's a show and i don't have to did do anything anymore. about 6:16 he will tweeted off we go. [laughter] it's amazing. >> india think he doesn't know that? watch this, i'm going to tweet

this. mr. president, not going to do it. 40,000 talkshow hosts, he tweeted. get it up on the screen. you know my other favorite thing? i love that "fox and friends" watches the corner of the white house waiting for the light to come on. the president is up. they know he is watching them so they are kind of doing a show for him. it's very funny. i just think it's funny. he does watch it though. i don't say it disparagingly. he's watching right now. [laughter] i'm sorry mr. president. when i write a book that i also have a tweet? [laughter] i could use the help. have to send the kids to school.

eric wants to know if you eric are running for the senate in 2020 in new jersey? >> yes and no. that story started naming a month ago. the star-ledger ran a full page in the weekend edition. about the show on what's going on and my relationship with trump. he said what you going to do later? he ended it right there and printed it. "politico", reporter "politico" caught it and wow. "politico" has a tendency to sit down and do an interview and then they will just rip it up and turned into something. our pr department watches out for us and somehow they got by and she's doing an interview with me and it went from let's talk about the show to you get the point of view on the senate

run. what i said was when the lights were gone on my television i would love to run for elected office. she said where? and i said i'm not going to say where. it could be 1820 -- 18, 20 but i would almost rather primary nonconservative establishment type republican because i can't stand a couple of our senators who get their on conservatism and turned into one of these. [applause] they dive right into the swamp and you can't get them out. >> do you want to name names? >> no. it's not hard to figure out. >> no, it isn't. technically south of new jersey.

>> i wouldn't mind replacing a booker with a bolling over their new jersey or a bob with a bolling. that's bob menendez. >> i can't imagine a republican. >> didn't he use to get excited about the idea of chris christie? wasn't there a time and by the way you know the president. what the hell happened there? back i went from being one of biggest stars of politics to a close adviser to present to seeming like he can't get an invite to a tea party on the white house lawn. >> if you go all the way back he was well-regarded as the next republican president. he had a shot but he turned it down and within a year or so

he's patting president obama on the back. he ruined his political career that day. there was a chance to revive with trump but the bridgegate was so bad. when you run for president they dissect your whole life and people realize there are a lot of things that he's. lucky to be where he is right now. >> this is what i imagine, he said chris i love you but you are an albatross. i've got enough problems. i don't need you. >> by the way doesn't help that chris christie persecuted jared kushner's father. it makes for some awkward dinner conversation. hey dad can i talk to you? pass the gravy. when will they start to investigate real obstruction and crime like loretta -- loretta

lynch and hillary clinton? [applause] >> i don't know if they ever will. so we get a special counsel. we get robert mueller and he hires more clinton donors to work in his office. he must spend a heck of a lot of money. i don't mean to make you the president's spokesman that you seem to know him well enough. can you tell me, is he thinking to himself, just turn me loose on these guys but i'm going to fire them all and people are restraining him? or he is saying to himself if i do that, that would make us look worse. >> his advisers tell him, there's going to be nothing

anyway. i think this will end up being a positive for trump anyway. he spent $100 billion investigating. they leak everything about this guy. they are going to spend a lot of money and time and at the end they will give him the all clear and it will be a positive. >> like you said, i hope there are tapes. >> we all knew there were tapes. that was just hilarious to me. i hope there are tapes. that's like one guy ripping another guy, don't screw with me, a you. i hope there are tapes. we know. we know what he was doing and he finally tweets, no tapes. no tapes. was that even a real?

he is so good at messing with people. >> you really is. the media doesn't know what to do with him. the fbi director can't figure it out. you are in the business. what is this doing to "cnn"? poor jim acosta is going to have a stroke. have you seen him? i just adore and i don't know puts the president or who it is that said you can run the audio at these press briefings but no video. is there anything worse? >> finally they figured out you try to do it the right way and the news media's reporting a completely wrong. i will ask a thousand questions about russia and in the meantime the economy put up an economic indicator that is really good, consumer confidence is up and no one ask questions. poor sean spicer, no one wants to hear him and he spent 45

minutes on russia. he was like two can play this game. you can do the sketches. it was amazing. 2017 and we are doing sketches of spicer talking. "cnn" is going to be, they are going to be whittled down to wolf blitzer and the flip book soon. remember the airplane, the malaysian air flight that was lost and they had the simulator? they have spicer simulated in the press briefing room. it is a riot and brit hume. what a classy way to slap them around. the other night when he said anybody that is worth a dam this business to call up the white house and get the information you need. these press briefings are for nobody's. he didn't say it that way.

what's happening is the press briefings are making these social media stars. people who other than this white house did you ever really no other than four or five white house correspondents? now we have jim acosta. they are making stars so of course they will be louder and more vocal. >> did you see this video clip i put up on youtube of me with spicer. >> brit hume made the point. if you are a big network you get access. >> you are on some sort of media that is well received and while watched, it becomes oxygen. people need, some people need to be on or they think they are done. with these press briefings were

all these reporters have their hair and makeup done before press briefing and a hand goes up and you get called. you attack sean spicer, you get all these networks. they love that. what they are doing is holding airtime out of these reporters and they are going crazy. it's driving them nuts. [applause] interesting question how the viewers knowing you mentioned this about sean's program. how do they know when it's alive or a-gram or a recorded program on fox? >> i will give you insight it sometimes sean does his show from home and you can't tell. he is a studio built in his house that is identical to his studio. scenic here's how you know. watch sean's show. every single guest is on remote. if he is not in the studio he's at home.

>> we are actually a hologram in sean's living room right now. >> here's another one that i'm a college student studying political science at temple university but i was wondering if you could explain where you see the difference between trump draining the swamp from power-hungry politicians and replacing them with a billionaire businessman as if they aren't up riddled with corruption and backroom deals. there is a ringer in the house. so i have had this book for a few days now and a very common question is trump promised to drain the swamp but he brings these goldman sachs people to work for him and i say no, look as an investor you want the most successful smart is incapable people running the company or do you want someone who has been around for a long time who

doesn't know what he's doing? he want these successful people running. trump brought in the most successful people. we have rex tillerson. rex tillerson was a ceo of exxon , worth $400 million. i want to rex tillerson there. i don't want hillary clinton, i want rex tillerson there. we have steve mnuchin. we have the very best of the best. love them or hate them, a very bright guy. trump bring these people in and he makes all these deals raising trade deals deals that are better for america. the country starts a turnaround in the economy is turning around. what he has done and very quietly he will never tell you this but he's building up political currency. he's got a political bank account it's going like this not

with "cnn" and not with mainstream media but with people who matter, the voters. it's building up and it's building up. at some point he says now it's time to really drain the swamp. get rid of people left and right who were swamp dwellers on both sides of the aisle, republicans and democrats. if you are part of that big crony corrupt, government gets bigger and bigger every year you are moving out. you can't make your department better, cheaper and stronger you are done. that is a lot of political capital, a lot. [applause] >> by the way would you read there have a billionaire oil executive board james sanders who bankrupted a college? isn't that amazing? on saturday or sunday before the

book comes out we find out the socialist who is for against income inequality and everyone he wants everyone to get a bigger piece of the pie is under federal investigation for corruption. you are the reason why the book was written. people like bernie sanders are the reason. coming off. >> she telling us how we should live and give more of our money to the government and then he's under federal investigation for corruption. free college for everybody and he's -- the poetry of that, anyway and i'm sorry. kristin says hey eric "fox news" who we are major influences along the way?

>> i had the most amazing parents in the world. my father worked so, so hard just to put clothes on our backs. he was amazing and my mom he was very aggressive. she was always like keep working but her last two words on this planet and i would never forget at her bedside. her words were never quit. and then she passed. i will never, ever forget that. so you get knocked down and you get back up and you get knocked down again. you remember, good example is when they moved to 9:00 and i'm staying at 5:00. i have never met her in my life. i have seen her on tv a couple of times and she did some interviews with me but i don't really know them. so whole new format.

a center seat on the five is pretty darned good in this show is giving me a bigger voice for conservatism. i go to church every single day of the week in new york that i go to saint patrick's cathedral every day that i can and i go to mass every sunday. i think there's a plan. it's turned out very well. [applause] >> how can trump supporters best help trump get more help from republican legislators? >> that's a good question. newer publicans he said. >> do you believe and primary candidates? c you would doit. >> oh yeah. there are two i can think of right now.

they say they are conservative and they are anything but conservative. >> can you give us a region? >> south. >> south of here. how do you think we can sell the victimization of conservatives on college campuses and i would ask you what you dare try to walk onto college campus and talk about your book right now? >> yes, yeah. [applause] i have an 18-year-old the knees going to be 19 next month and he decided he wants to go to the university of colorado. a very liberal school. the state is liberal and the school is liberal. he gets there. he was a freshman this past year so he's there for the election. he joins a fraternity and he said dad look at this picture. it's five fraternity brothers holding up trump's sign. did you get any push back? none.

i visit them three or four times and i walked around people would come up. i love you guys. i'm one of the only conservatives around. i walked 10 more feet, i'm a conservative and i really love you. another 20 minutes, i'm the only conservative in colorado. there are a lot of conservatives out there but they are shy or in heirs to say it. but you have to do is stand up. my son held up the trump's sign at what is supposed to be one of the most liberal colleges in the country and they got no pushback. you just have to own it. the president of that college e-mailed me and said my faculty is very liberal but i'm conservative. it was great. >> will you go to a college campus? have you been asked? will you make plans to go? when?

>> i think rutgers or across the river from us condoleezza rice canceled a commencement speech. she didn't want her to be about that so she just left. and ann coulter. i don't know when you say, yeah all right. >> when you are involved in a speaking gig and that's what ann does, you were asked to go to those colleges anywhere in that room. i am top to bottom and doing hits for sean or whatever. >> the show was terrific. it's a terrific format. the contents of that for people who haven't seen it, you bring in people every day, you bring in people with unique perspectives on certain items of the day. the show comes up and like i

said that night at 7:00 or 8:00 that night they call us touche tell us what the show is going to be. two rotating guest every single day, we want people to feel comfortable about five people at 5:00. i said okay so the first, we launched the show in one week to launch a brand-new concept. okay, let's try it. the first day we come up on the show and mind you when the camera comes up on the five u.s. five people sitting around a table and it feels like, talking to us for dinner. we come up and the camera comes up and it's a day or two specials are so-and-so. let's get into it. what do you think? it didn't feel right to me.

i said to the executive producers, we have to change this. it's not going to work. what do you mean? this is too cold. the five was different. you had a seat at the table on five so a week i pushed back. our ratings were swamping. i said give me one day. okay, what you want to do? the next day was a monday we come up on the show. i go did you see what happened today? the story happened here. what do you think of back? she comes than and she gives us where she is. it's a different political leaning but we have this thing and we talk about it. what do you think? we talk about it for four or five minutes. people have a couple of sound bytes in middle of it and then we go hey we have some specials here and here and there we have a discussion.

if we didn't make the show about eric and kat people would say i don't want that. we went from here to here to hear and the chemistry developed and we developed a relationship with the audience. we are seven weeks and. that takes time but we are on the right track. >> i have to tell you -- [applause] having gotten to know you over the last couple of years and interacting with you privately and personally as we set up these conversations we have had it does my heart well to know when i tune in and watch your show not only do i like the programming but hosting it is a generally decent human being. you strike me as a very decent and kind guy. [applause] >> i can only hope that everyone feels that way because i am and

that means the world to me. >> eric bolling ladies and gentlemen. [applause] [applause] >> can i just tell you guys, it's amazing. this warms my heart. it almost brings a tier two my eye. you guys are just awesome. thank you for coming out. [applause] >> there you go. there you go. [applause] >> i want to hang down here and meet some of you all if you are willing to hang on. eric is going to take over. give me a couple of minutes. i want to come back and say hi if you're willing to hang out. can we shake a couple of hands over your?

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