only scheme. the point that i rightly make is it is targeted on those communities that are most affected. equally, why i make the point about the 22% number that i make, which the prime minister has highlighted in the context of his speech today. to address the issue of exclusion, the home secretary has the power to exclude a national from outside the european economic area and refuse them entry into the u.k. if the secretary of state has directed the persons exclusion from the u.k. is conducive to the public good. this power is derived from the royal prerogative and is exercised by the home secretary in person. exclusion decisions are not taken lightly or in isolation. secretary makes every decision on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the information available and a wide range of policy and operational factors. these factors include views from , includingrnment

from the good department of communities and local government, and the foreign commonwealth office. the factors also include consideration of any interference with the persons human rights under the european convention on human rights come as subject their article 10 rights to respect the freedom of speech. you have also underlined some of those factors, some of those elements that are part of the policy that we adopt in considering matters of exclusion . but the home secretary uses her power to exclude foreign nationals to protect us from national security threats, to protect us from radicalizing's and hate preachers, and to protect us from people who seek to undermine our core british values. at policy is not targeted any particular community. it is targeted at all those who advocate hatred or violence, regardless of their origins or beliefs. as home secretary has prevented neo-nazis, islamist extremists, and anti-muslim hate creatures

from entering the u.k.. she has excluded more preachers of hate than any other home secretary before her, 103 since 2010. and she will continue to use the exclusionary power against those who seek to do us harm. now the government has a long-standing policy of not routinely commenting on those who are being considered for exclusion, for sound legal reasons, and i will maintain that position this evening. but what i can say is that the u.s. remains our most important bilateral partner. it is in the u.k.'s interest that we engage all presidential candidates, democratic and republican, even though we may disagree profoundly on important issues. where there are clear differences of opinion, the most effective way to influence our american partners is through a frank and open exchange of the fuse. in taking on those arguments. today's robust debate, as i

think, has provided a platform to do just that. i think the minister for letting me in again. the hometer says secretary has a policy position of not commenting on people that are being considered for the exclusion list. dos that mean that he cannot confirm nor deny that donald trump is being considered for that exclusion list? >> as i say, we do not comment on individual matters, but i would say, on the chance that the exchequer has underlined -- the best way to defeat nonsense like this is to engage in robust democratic debate and make it his -- donaldt trump's abuse -- are not welcome. we have also had comments in relation to donald trump's comments with respect to investment in scotland.

that matter it is for the scottish government. the u.k. has never given mr. trump awards or appointments, honorees, or otherwise. mr. trump has threatened to withhold investment in scotland in the wake up call to ban him from the u.k. over the years, mr. trump has made a number of statements about his gale of investment in the u k and his willingness to maintain them. the u.k. is the number one destination for inward investment and the world bank has ranked the u.k. as the sixth easiest place to do business. so any organization making promises on investments in the u.k. should live up to those promises. in conclusion, we will not win extremism byinst demonizing communities and tarring an entire religion because of the actions of a few, and we will not defeat the threats we face by acting in isolation. we will win the fight by working together, standing shoulder to shoulder of people of different faiths and backgrounds, defending our values, and by

showing that division, hatred, and hostility have no place in our society. i think the triumph of today is we have had the debate, it's been seen by many people outside , including the united states, and they have seen parliament added to best. we have had a diverse debate from a diverse parliament. i believe it reinforces the need for the petition committee, a young committee, experimental committee that is going very slowly, building a role here, and this was a subject chosen not by any politicians but by people who initiated and signed that view. i think we are all touched by the accounts by those of the muslim faith about how devastating these threats from donald trump are. i believe all that was said today will enhance the standing of this parliament and will

reinforce our relationship with our great allies in the united states. question is this house has considered petition 11403 and 114907 relating to the exclusion of donald trump from the u.k.. -- the ayes have >> a petition to bar mr. trump received more than 650,000 signatures in the u.k. no official decision came out of the debate. the parliament does not have the authority to ban someone. from have more coverage

the british house of commons with prime minister's questions at 7:00 a.m. on c-span2. announcer: c-span takes on the road to the white house. best access to the candidates at town hall meetings, speeches, rallies, meet and greets. we're taking your comments on facebook, twitter, and my phone. always, every event we cover is on our website, c-span or. republicanthe presidential candidate donald trump spoke at liberty university. mr. trump talked about his desire to build a wall on the u.s.-mexican border and to bar muslims from the country. this is 50 minutes.

[applause] >> well. get those teleprompters out of your, we're going to have some fun. right? no teleprompters. we have a president, we are not talking about that president we are talking about this president, we do not like those teleprompters. it is an honor to be here, especially on martin luther king day. we broke the record last time. the first thing i said to jerry and becky when i got here was, to break the record? they said, yes, you did. quite a bit. we will dedicate that to martin luther king, that great man.

that is a little bit of an achievement, i will tell you . www.c-span.org [applause] mr. trump: it is an honor to be here. it is an amazing story what has gone on with liberty university. when you think of all of the years, a lot was not easy. i have read a lot about it will -- about it. liberty university is like a rocket ship. a really great rocketship. the jury has done. i knew his father a little bit. but i knew him a lot from the standpoint of what he did. to be compared to his father just a little bit -- to be compared to his father is really an honor for me. so i want to thank jerry for saying that.

[applause] we had a debate recently. ?ho watched the debate a very political place, right? it was an amazing evening warming. we did fine, we did well. peoples came out after that, i am not going to go over that. somebody said, why do you always discuss the pool? -- the polls? my competition. he is in seventh place, i am in first place. i said, when you are in first place you discussed goals. -- you discuss paul's.

you discuss polls. it is true. so many things have happened and now they keep coming out and we go up and up and up. we had 32% last week. people are dropping out rapidly. we are at 42%, so you know you are not totally wasting your time. i would take 42% if we had three people, not 14. nbc wall street journal just came out, 33%. cbs and others, 41%. cbs, 35%. gravis, 34%. i am not going to bother you. i will tell you in south carolina we're at already 5%. way, way above anybody else. in iowa, cnn was 34%. the closest is iowa. and, i love iowa. and i am going there right after , this. i am going up to new hampshire. i am going to iowa. because i'm going to win. everybody keeps and, don't say that, say i think i'm going to win. i am going to win iowa.

let's see. we have done great with the evangelicals. the evangelicals have been amazing. the tea party has been amazing. we're doing really well there. we will see what happens. we going to see what happens and i think we can really surprise a lot of people by winning in iowa and then we will clean the table. we're going to go through new hampshire, through south carolina where we were this week, it was amazing. we are going to go through the roof. i think we can do really something special. and, we are going to protect christianity a and i can't say -- and i can say that. i do not have to be politically correct. [applause] mr. trump: we're going to protect it, you know. 2 corinthians. 13. right?

of the lord is, there is liberty. and here it is, liberty college. it is so true. when you think, is that the one? is at the one you like? i think that is the when you like, because i loved it. and, it is so representative of what has taken place. if you look at what is going on throughout the world. if you look at syria, if you are a christian, they are chopping off heads. if you look at the different places, christianity is under siege. i'm a protestant, presbyterian to be exact. i am proud of it. very, very proud of it. we have to protect it because very bad things are happening. i do not know what it is. -- band together,

maybe. other religions, frankly, they are banding together. if you look at this country, it has got to be 70%, some new 5%, some people say even more, the power we have somehow we have to unify. we have to band together. with to do a really large version of what they have done at liberty. liberty university is done that, you have created one of the great universities. anywhere in the country, anywhere in the world. that is what our country has to do around christianity. so, get together folks and let's do it. because we can do it. [applause] mr. trump: no matter where i go, we are having tremendous crowds. act theo dallas, we stadium. mobile alabama, 35,000 people. i understand here you have rooms all over with various equipment to show on the screens. you have a much better location than they do but i will not tell them that. we're just going to cut that off.

but, you have rooms all over with the media equipment and no matter where we go, because i will tell you, this is a movement. it is a movement going on. because we want to take our country back. our country is disappearing. you look at the kind of deals we make. you look at what is happening. our country is going in the wrong election. it has got to be stopped and it has got to be stopped fast. we cannot go another four years. i know maybe hillary will be here and maybe you can play this back. we cannot have another four years of barack obama. we cannot have another four years of hillary clinton. [applause] mr. trump: we just cannot do it. i watched that debate last night with the three of them. one of them is in there, what is he doing? he keeps mentioning my name. he was the mayor of baltimore, his big claim to fame. then he became governor and did a horrible job.

they thought he did a good job, but he did a horrible job. he was constantly mentioning my name. donald trump, donald trump. i said, why does he have to talk about me? and then the other two, you have a socialist who was here, actually. i say a socialist, but it could've been much worse than it could have -- been much worse than that. have hillary. did anybody watch that debate last night? tremendously high taxes, things will not happen with the military. we need to build our military so big, so strong, so powerful, that nobody, nobody is going to mess with us. we have to do it. [applause] mr. trump: you know, someone recently said our military is the least prepared it has ever been. i get listings of different things. an army base, a naval base,

everything is for sale. it is for sale. we cannot have that. we're going to build it did, build it strong, hopefully never have to use it. we will build it so strong nobody will ever want to mess with that. that is what we have to do. in the end, that is cheaper than the nonsense we're doing now. where nobody respects us. they are laughing at us. we do not know what we're doing. we cannot beat isis. i see it on television. i see it all the time. these generals get up and they are being interviewed on television. i do not want generals to be interviewed. one of the generals just recently, what do you think of the isis threat? he said, they are very tough. can we beat them? he said, well, it is going to take a long time. i do not want that kind of general. i want to a general where we knock the hell out of them. [applause] cheering] nd

mr. trump: and, my generals, by the way, they are not going on television. ok? so the enemy can learn all about. how about president obama recently? we're sending 50 people over there, our finest. why does he say that? they have a target on their back. they're looking for those 50 people right now more than any other people. why does he have to say it? why can't he just do it and not talk about it? right? why can't he do it and not talk about it? [applause] mr. trump: when the war started, i was very opposed to it. i have to tell you. i came out and i was very strong about i was opposed to it. and you know, i used to take a little heat on that. now, i get a lot of credit for. but in 2003-2000 or, i said if you do that you are going to destabilize the middle east. it is going to be a disaster. one of them or the other, is going to get knocked out will stop because we can knock them out pretty easily.

iraq, and nowout iran is taking over the middle east. it is a disaster. and you look at this iran deal, which forever to get done. you look at how bad and one-sided it is, you look at how one-sided this deal is. yesterday i heard, we are getting our hostages back. some people call them prisoners, some people called them hostages. i don't care. so, we're getting them back. heard, and i said wait a minute they are getting , seven back, we're getting for. -- 4. they said five, but the other one they cannot find. i tell you what, that is strange. that is another thing we will be looking into. we're getting for back, they are

back, theyetting 4 are getting seven. they are also getting 14 off of the watch list. these are real bad customers. they are getting all sorts of advantages. unbelievable advantages. they are going to be an immensely wealthy country, an immensely wealthy terror country and they are getting $150 billion. so, when our sailors were captured last week, i said that is one of the saddest things i've seen. those young people on their hands into knees in a begging position with guns behind them and we talk like, it is ok. it is not ok. it is lack of respect. we cannot let that happen to this country. it is lack of respect. we're not going to let it happen to our people. we're going to be strong. we're going to be vigilant. we're going to have powerful and strong borders. look what happened this morning. if you have been reading the news three people have just been , kidnapped in iraq.

the -- becausee they see we pay $150 billion for four people. three people just this morning and this is going to take place for all of them. they should have come back as part of the deal three years ago when they started talking about the deal, not now. [applause] mr. trump: what should have happened, what should have happened is our representatives -- first of all we need people who negotiate properly, not people like john kerry who does not have a clue. but -- [applause] we will have those people, i know those people. we will have those people. but, when you look at what went on, our people, all you had to do is go in and say to the persians, very good negotiators, great negotiators. they are known for it. they are sitting across the table. fellows. and in this case, it is all fellows. i hate to tell this to the women. they are a little bit behind in

that effect. maybe women would be better, they have not figured out yet that women are maybe we better than men but i would get myself in trouble with men. but you say, fellows, we want our prisoners back. will make a better deal. we want our prisoners back. they will say, no. we will say, that is ok. do not worry about it. leave theget up and room. it in 48 hours in one to our business. and we will say, by the way, we will not give you the money. you want to be nice, you do not want to put it in their face. just say, look, we have been mismanaged and mis-run.

we are a poor nation. we do not know what the hell we are doing. is that true or what? [applause] mr. trump: we have been mismanaged. we of $19 trillion in debt. maybe $21 million. we can't give it to you. sorry. you could've said it, you could have gotten the prisoners out years ago for nothing. without giving them these people. who, by the way, deserve to have been in prison. these were serious. and the interpol people? forget about it. these are bad dudes. these are bad people. so they made this incredible deal. but everybody makes good deals with the united states, because the world is smart and they use

their smart people and they use their most cunning, streetwise people and they know what they are doing. we have people who do not know what they are doing. we want to be politically correct and it is just not working. we want to be politically correct and it is just not working. one of the reasons people are showing up for me and the polls are showing up for me -- it is not that i went to an ivy league school and all of that stuff, smart guy. i even had an uncle who was a professor at m.i.t. for decades. a brilliant guy, dr. john trump. we can all be politically correct, but it takes to much time. it takes too much time. and a lot of it is just wrong. i will give you an example. you go into a department store, right? when was the last time you saw merry christmas? you do not see it anymore. they want to be politically correct. if i am president, you are going to see merry christmas in department stores, believe me. believe me.

[applause] mr. trump: you are going to see it. you're going to see a lot of things. but that is one example. you go shopping today, you do not see it anymore. you hardly see anything. you see walls. he did read. you see walls painted red. you say, that is great. wonderful. we're going to be saying merry christmas again. i have friends who are not christians, they like to say merry christmas. they love it. everybody loves it. but we have taken it out of our vocabulary. >> i love you! mr. trump: i love you too. thank you. you never know that is. sometimes, you never know who is shouting. you know, it is interesting when i go to the rallies. yesterday, 16 thousand or 17,000 people. i go home and say to my wife, darling, how do you like this? she said, that's good how many people were there? they focus on my face, they never show the crowds. so she said, how many are there.

she would say, how many people were there, darling? and i would say, the place is packed i had to have 15,000 or 18,000 people. in one case, we sent away 7000. they could not get into the -- theyll stop i said, could not get into the arena. i said, you didn't see that? and she said, no. they focus on your face. the cameras are in a fixed position. i figured if they are fixed they could not move. except, every time there was a protester those cameras were like a pretzel. they would turn around and -- [laughter] -- trump but, mr. trump: but, i love the protesters. we don't have any, honestly. i love the protesters because of the cameras rep and that corner, they would not talk about the protesters they would say, wow, that place is packed. because it is a movement.

but i have to say the press is very very dishonest. now, not all of them. but most of them. very dishonest. very, very dishonest. and actually, i have never seen anything. i have seen financial press and they play games. but, you know, the numbers are numbers. but this political press is brutal. now, 25% are good. 2% are great. that is not acceptable. do you agree? i call it the camera trick, which they do not show. you are not getting a real picture of the silent majority, senior had something to do. but i think i'm going to up the little because it is no longer so silent. it has become a noisy majority. people want to see greatness for our country. they want to see things happen. they want to see things happen.

and, they are not seeing it. these politicians are all talk, no action, they do not get it done. when i say we're going to build a wall, they say, but you cannot build a wall. and i say what you talking about? china. china. think about it. china. [applause] trump: think about it. 2000 years ago, china don't great wall of china. this is a serious wall. and, they did not have caterpillar tractors or komatsus. and we have to stop that because it is coming out of japan now. they say, you cannot build a wall and i say, not only can i build it and they are saying, you cannot build a wall, can you? they built a wall, 13,000 miles on. this is a serious wall. aen we hear, you can't build wall. i say, not only i can build it, the guys on the state say you cannot hold a wall. but they do not know anything.

they don't know how to fix the infrastructure. our bridges are kremlin. -- our bridges are crumbling. our roads are crumbling. we spent $5 million in the middle east, and our country is going to hell. we have got to bring it back. we have got to knock the hell out of isis. by the way -- by the way -- [applause] by the way, i did not want to go to iraq, but i did not want to get out the way we got out. because what happened, and i have said this for years. i probably said this last time i was here, years ago. take the oil. take the oil. keep the oil. you know, in the old days, to the victors go the spoils. we go there, we lose thousands and thousands of unbelievable people. with wounded warriors who i love all over the place. look at iraq, but we get? nothing. and i ran now take several iraq. i read made a great deal with one hundred 50 billion. two weeks he came to me, that -- two weeks ago it came to me,

that deal is nothing. they made the really greatest deal, they took over iraq. they have been fighting for iraq forever. under different names. but they have been fighting. but they were the same militarily. they fight and fight and fight. they go 10 feet right, 10 feet left, left, rest. then saddam hussein would drop gas, people would say it was unfair and to stop. the whole thing. this went on forever. and it would of gone on forever. but we decapitated one. now, so what did we give iran? we give them $150 billion. they don't have to develop weapons anymore, they can buy them they have so much money. how about this? we see something wrong or we think something is wrong, so we have to wait 24 days before we go in. but before the 24 days start, there is a whole procedure. so who knows how long it could take. it could be six months.

but one thing is even better. in certain locations, it is called self-inspection. they have the right to self-inspect. so we call upon we say, listen, we hear you are building a nuclear weapon. and they say, oh no you do not have to worry. we will self-inspect. we say, thank you very much we appreciate it now we feel much better. [laughter] mr. trump: these are the deals we make. sergeant bergdahl? anyone ever hear of sergeant bergdahl? we get sergeant bergdahl, a dirty rotten traitor. six people died going after sergeant bergdahl. we get bergdahl, they get five of the great killers that they have wanted for the last nine years. so we get bergdahl, a traitor, and we knew he was a traitor before the deal because the colonel werethe

talking to the people he was with. so we knew he was a traitor. who would make deals like this? who does this? obama. [applause] mr. trump: i did not want to say it because it was a little bit rough, but he says it. but no, obama is a disaster. take a look at our trade deals. we're going to lose $500 billion, trade deficits of with china. with japan, $100 billion. we're talking about one year. country, andve a then they say, well, trump does not believe in fair trade. byember, they do not play the rules. but how do you lose those kinds of numbers? i love china, by the way.

i have tremendous deals with china. i own a building in san francisco through china. i own condos through china. i do business with china. in fact, my daughter is here. ivanka. ivanka. ever hear of ivanka? stand up. ivanka deals with china all the time. i have thousands of deals with china, mexico, hispanic people. that there leaders are two cunning for our leaders. look at what they are doing. not only on the border. nabisco, from chicago, folks. no more areas. nabisco is moving from chicago into mexico.

oreos.ore i am going to say, stop this. we're losing our manufacturing jobs. i go to very good colleges and i see students and they are borrowed up to the neck. everything. the biggest album is, they theye biggest problem is, study, they graduate, they do well. a get good marks. they are really wonderful, they're proud of themselves. they come out, they cannot get a job. we have got to create jobs. we have got to bring back the jobs from china and japan and all of these countries that are ripping us off. [applause] mr. trump: and we're going to do that. just like i say. who is going to build the wall folks? you tell me. who is going to build the wall? mexico. everybody knows.

they say, you cannot build a wall. i say it is so easy, you have no , idea. and the reason is easy, for me, i just build a 92-story building. when you build buildings, building a wall is like, give me some prefabricated plank. ding! but i have got to make the wall . i have got to make it beautiful. why? because someday they are going to name the wall trump wall. people can still come in, but they will come in legally. they will go through a process. [applause] mr. trump: they will go through a process. one of the people i am running against, i won't use names because we do not want to insult anybody. and these are such nice, religious people. i love it. christians. am i allowed to say bad in this room? but the other day for the first time i heard it, one of the folks said, we're going to build a wall.

i was like, what's going on? i just heard him say he was going to build a wall. nobody has said that before. so, they are all coming my way. they're all coming my way. the only problem is they don't know where to begin. they wouldn't know where to begin. see that wall over there? if you got up there, you'd be really scared coming down. we can do it for the right price. i don't know if you saw "saturday night live," where they said, the wall, but just so you understand, the reason they're going to pay and the reason it's easy for a businessman to understand this, very easy. mexico is making a fortune on the united states. now, china, i love them. they're great. i'm not holing it against china. they are the largest bank in the world, a chinese bank. a tenant of mine. i don't hold that against them. mexico, i don't hold it against

mexico. if they can get it away with it, if their politicians can do it, i hold it against our very stupid leadership in this country. i don't hold it against these other countries. i mean if they can get away with it, let them do it. i want to get away with things. i could go into story after story after story and i used to use the word incompetence. but it's not strong enough. you know? and then i use the other work, you know the word am talking about, right? and then they say, he's plain spoken. i am not plainspoken. i wrote "the art of the deal" and many best sellers. who has read "the art of the deal,"? everybody. i always say a deep, deep second to the bible. the bible is the best. the bible blows it away, nothing like the bible. but "the art of the deal," in fact, there's a few of them over there. but "the art of the deal" was the best-selling business book.

and obama didn't read it. , kerry didn't read it. but we can't do things with our country that will be so good. but i have always used that word, he incompetent. but i don't care anymore. i am not funded right these guys from wall street. you call them puppets, it is true. i'm self-financing my own campaign. i'm not taking funds. is that nice? [applause] mr. trump: so we can do what's good for the country. in other words, we are going to do what's good for the country. and i tell people all the time, and use ford as an example, you could use nabisco and other companies. i could use 100 companies. by the way, you know a lot of corporate inversion is going on, going to mexico. companies leaving the u.s. because taxes are too high. they're leaving, it's called

corporate inversion. it's a disaster. they're leaving for lower taxes or because they can't bring their $2.5 trillion back into the country. they can't do it. but take ford, i use this as an example. it could be anybody. it could be any company that goes into other countries. but take ford. $2.5 million. they are closing other things. they've taken a lot of stuff out of michigan. they're closing other things. they're going to build this massive thing, heard $2.5 billion for one place, they're going to make cars, trucks and parts. me aresident of ford wrote nice letter telling me it is a good ring, but it is not. but he wrote me a nice letter. good company, run very well, good product. i love ford, i love chevrolet, i love all of our products. we want to buy u.s.a., right? but they wrote me, and i said, here is the story. let's say a stiff like jeb bush is president. no, he is actually good. let's say jeb bush is president.

ok. low-energy person, but ok. let's say jeb becomes president. jeb is fun. they'll go to him he has $128 million he got from doe no, sir, special interests, everybody. lobbyists. so ford will hire one of the lobbyists, they'll -- look, i know this game better than anybody. i've been plying this game for a long time. i changed sides. i was total establishment. now i'm like the worst thing that ever happened to the establishment because i understand the game. f market applause]. mr. trump: so now they go to, let's say jeb, they say, mr. president, this is a bad thing. i agree it's bad, i agree it's bad. we can't allow this to happen. he'll get a call from lobbyists or special interests. mr. president, they gave you $5 million. you can't not make this deal. did they? another one will call, mr. president, they gave you $2 million, you've got to take care of ford.

so, ok, i'll do it. we lose the jobs, we lose all the different things. with me, they're going to call. hillary, just as bad, even worse. hillary, they'll call, they're going to call hillary and they're going to say, madam president, by the way, i want to see a woman president soon but not her. she's a disaster. she's a disaster. she's a disaster. [cheers and applause] mr. trump and just think of the : corruption and the scandal. we don't want to go through it. you don't want to go through it. we want to see winning. they want to see win, win, win. i always joke, i say, we want to see win, win, win, constant winning, and you'll say if i'm president, you'll say, please, mr. president, we're winning too much, we can't stand it anymore, can't we have a loss? and i'll say, no, we're going to keep winning, winning, winning, we're going to make america great again. and you'll say ok, mr. president. ok.

[applause] mr. trump but they'll call : hillary with ford, right? they'll call hillary. and they'll say, madam president. she'll do the same thing. because her donors gave her a lot of money and they need money for the next election. by the way, the only time politicians really work right is when they're sort of like retiring. like the gentleman over there, the congressman. he's a young guy. he retired of his own volition because he knows what's going on in washington, which i have great respect for. some of them retire and get a little tougher. with ford, you take a look. they call them, now it's president trump. ok, president trump. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: so they call president trump and say, mr. president. you have to do this. ford has been great and wonderful. what are they building in mexico for? they're going to build. remember this, cars, trucks, and parts, they're going to sell them across the border, no tax. you say, we're all smart people,

how does that help us? we close plants and we open new plants in mexico and they sell -- there is no tax: no tax. . so they're going to say, no, no, no. we're going for it. i'll say if you go forward, that's fine. but for every car, truck, and whatever else you're building, you are going to pay a 35% tax every time it crosses the border. we have to. or we're not going to have a country left. everyone is ripping us. everyone is ripping us. now, i don't want to do that because i'm a free trader, i want free trade. but we've got to be smart here, folks. we've lost seven, eight, some people say 10 million jobs, we've lost 50,000 manufacturing plants, we're getting killed. and the quality of our jobs is terrible. you saw that in the last report. they have this phony number, 5.2%. everybody that quits looking for a job is considered statistically a person that has a job.

it's a phony number. your probable real number is like 22%, 23%. in fact, if you look at crowds like this, if we were at 5%, 5.2%, nobody would be there. although they might be there because the military is so badly run with this president. i mean, you know, probably they are therefore a reason. but basically, you wouldn't have the kind of crowds and the kind of poll numbers that we have. so i'll tell ford the following. look. got to move your plant back. they'll call me, have a few people call me, doesn't matter, they didn't give me any money. they do not own me. jerry was right. they don't own me. self-funding. they do not own me. i'll say, look, mr. president of ford, i'm sorry, you've got to build here or we're charging you a tax. i'll say, think about it overnight, he'll call me back the next day, i guarantee you, 100%, he'll say, mr. president,

we have decided to build a plant in the united states. ok, that's what will happen. [applause] mr. trump: that is what will happen. it has to happen. it has to happen. free trade is good but we have to be smart about it. or we're not going to have a country left. so when this started, and i call it a journey, on june 16, the escalator, has everyone seen the famous escalator? i was coming down to reporters, it was like the academy awards, i'd never seen so many cameras in my life. jerry said something smart. jerry said, it's very hard for somebody to run for president. very hard for somebody that's very successful, i've heard this all my life, to go into politics, especially if you're going to run for president. you're exposing so much. you're doing deals and deals, plus you don't do this. who would have known i was going to do this. i love doing debates, i never debated before. the politicians and do it all the time. they're all talk no action.

on top of them most of -- on top of that, most of them are not even good debaters. you'd think they could debate properly. right to? it is amazing. some of the things they say is just incredible. but we're coming down the escalator and i said to my wife, ok. we have to do it. i've just seen so many stupid things. i say we have to do it. we've got to go and we've got to do it. and she said if you want to do it, i'm with you 100%. she's been so supportive. and i got on, thank you, i got on the escalator and we're going down, i'm waving, and i'm saying wow, and i went up and started talking about illegal immigration. and boy, did i take it. for two weeks, rush limbaugh said the most he's ever seen a human being take. but i did not give up, because you can never give up. when i speak about success, a to speakople ask me

about success, i love speaking about it because i can help people. one of the things is, you've got to love what you do but you can never, this applies to so many young, incredible people in this room, you can never, ever give up. you can never give up. if you give up, you're not going to make it. i've seen people over the years, i went to wharton and i know people that have been phenomenal students. brilliant. they did not have that drive. they did not have that iveness.-it they didn't make it over guys that are not as good, not as smart but they had the drive. so you've really got to never, ever quit or give up. so i said. so important. i figured i'd get out of politics for at least two sentences. but it's so true. just don't quit. and for you, always, always go into a field you love. you've got to love it. if you don't love it, you're not going tore successful. even if people say, oh, you should, you've got to love it. if you don't love what you do, you're never going to be successful.

>> you make me proud to be an american. mr. trump: well. that's beautiful. i make you proud to be an american. stand up. thank you. that is a very nice. but we mean that. we mean it. very nice. so, i took a lot of incoming as rush said, he's a great guy, tremendous incoming. and i stuck. and i even doubled down. and then all of a sudden you had tremendous stats coming out which were terrible but tremendous numbers. and you saw the kind of crime cake in san francisco. the woman a in los angeles who was raped, sodomized and killed by an illegal immigrant you saw the kind of horror going on, not only in terms of border, not only in terms of coming in, not only in terms of drugs pouring across drugs which are yoing go rr are going to ruin the fabric of our country, coming across the border but in terms of the

sheer volume. and then people started to say, you know, trump is right. , if i did say this not talk about illegal immigration and my opening remarks, i don't think you'd be talking about it today and it's one of the most important things anybody is talking about. one of the most important things. so when it started out, i started talking about the different things. common core, very bad. you got to educate your children locally. ok? very bad. [applause] mr. trump: second amendment, very good. we've got to have the right to protect ourselves. very good. when we have people, the whole gun situation is under siege, now they're talking about we want to give less bullets, take bullets away, they are talking about, you can't let it happen. by the way in paris, which has probably the toughest gun laws in the world, and france, had

bullets been going the other way you wouldn't have had 130 people killed and plenty more to follow who were so badly injured. [applause] mr. trump: in california, recently, two weeks ago, where you had the 14 people killed and others to follow because of the tremendous injuries, but then you had the 14 by these two radicalized people. where the people that were killed gave them wedding parties. they held wedding parties. they knew them, they were friends. they went in and killed 4 people. if we had a couple of guys like him or him or definitely him with the white hat on, with a gun strapped and the bullets could go the other way, you would not have had the same. you would have had problems, you wouldn't have had it to the same extent at all. we need the second amendment, don't let anybody take it away. if i get elected, it's totally protected. totally protected. [applause]

trump we have to do : something and these are the things i talked about. we have to do something about super p.a.c.s. super p.a.c.s are now running the country. they're running our politicians and our politicians aren't doing what's right for all of us. we've got to get rid of the super p.a.c.s. we want to have an idea of who's doing and what's being put up and who is doing it, got to get rid of the super p.a.c.s. really, really, really bad. so then, with paris, pretty much the start of paris, all of a sudden paris happens and my poll numbers went way up and i didn't know what happened? and i said, why? it and then cnn did a big poll and a big study and they said, trump is number one by far on the military. by far on protection. by far on the border. by far on isis. because they see me, because of my very strong stance on illegal immigration, it's an offshoot, i won't let the syrians that we

have no idea who they are, they want to come into our country, they may be isis, it may be the great trojan horse of all time. who knows. we cannot take a chance. i want to build a safe zone, some place in syria, but what's happening in germany is a disaster. what's happening in brussels, you look, what's happening all over europe. europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed. what's going on with the crime and the problems. and it could be some sinister plot. you look at these migration you look at the lines and you look at the tremendous amount of young, strong men in those lines. and you say, what's going on? now, obama wants to take in thousands and thousands of people. we can't do it folks. we can't do it. we don't know anything about the people. we're going to do a free zone and a safe zone, we're going to do something where we have to get the gulf states, they have nothing but money, got to get them to fund it, got to get them

to put up the money. don't forget, without us, they wouldn't be there very long. we protect them. with the military, by the way, we're protecting countries that are behemoths. we're protecting countries that are so rich so powerful so incredible, south korea, we protect south korea. i have many friends that have buildings in south korea, but we're protecting south korea with 28,000 soldiers in the line. between the maniac and south korea. we're protecting them. they pay us peanuts. we protect germany. we protect japan. we protect countries that nobody even knows about. we protect saudi arabia. before the oil price went down, saudi arabia was making $1 billion a day. we protect them. they pay us like practically nothing compared to the cost. they've got to pay up. they've got to pay up. everybody has to pay up. we can't do this anymore. we've got to run it like a business but with heart. we're going to create great

health care, get rid of obamacare, going to terminate it. [applause] mr. trump: we're going to repeal it and replace it. and now you see the signs, the stock market is starting to go down, a lot of bad things. i've been saying this. we're riding a big, fat juicy bubble. we are giving out loans for nothing. we're giving out -- you know, you look at what's happening with our money. you look at what's happening with the federal reserve. so we're riding a bubble. it could be really ugly. but right now you're starting to see at least the beginning signs of it because the stock market, which was the only indicator that things were good is starting to go down. what's happening is, with paris, i took a different turn. now i'm back and really back to security and security for our country and great, great military. we're going to build that military. great, great military. and people are loving it and people need it and they don't have confidence in the politicians and they don't have confidence essentially in the other candidates. when you're leading by the kind

of numbers i'm leading by, they don't have confidence in the other candidates. because they understand politicians. we've been dealing with politicians for the last so many years, we're so tired of dealing with these people, they're no good for what we have. [applause] mr. trump: so we're going to do things that can be done. we're going to fix our military. we're going to take care of our vets who are the greatest people, most incredible people. they're treated horribly. i mean, our vets, our vets are treated worse than illegal immigrants in many cases. you see what's going on. our vets are not being treated properly. we're spending tremendous amounts of money. the corruption in the v.a. administration and the veterans administration is beyond belief. we're going to fix the situation so our vets are taken care of the way they should be taken care of.

applause] mr. trump: we're going to do all of these things and we're going to create security. we're going to have great security. so in a nutshell, number one, it's an honor to be here again. it's an honor in terms of martin luther king to have broken the record. we are dedicating the record to the late, great, martin luther king. ok? but it's an honor. a three weeks ago i would not have said this, but i think i can say it now. because i've seen so many people, we have such amazing people, sharp, smart, energetic, they're amazing. i was saying make america great again. i think we can say now, we're going to get things come, going to get apple start building thingsamn computers and

in this country and stead of and other countries. i honestly think i can say, and i've said it for the last two weeks and i mean it 100% or i wouldn't say it, we're going to make america great again, greater than ever before. and we can do that. and we're going to win and we're going to win a lot. i want to thank you. i want to thank jerry and becky and everybody. we love you all. you're a special school a special university. and amazing people. thank you, everybody. thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you. [cheers and applause] tags here is a look at ahead at the republican primary and caucus. we're just two weeks away from the iowa caucus, the first presidential contest of the year. south carolina holds its republican primary on february 20. the nevada republican caucuses on february 23. followed the candidates and primary and caucus events on

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