democratic governors as >> now back to iowa. live coverage here on c-span. ♪ mr. trump: thank you, what a nice introduction that is. how can you do better than jerry? jerry: they wanted me in the blue chair. i do not know why. trump: thank you, everybody. nice to be here. i appreciate it. i have already talked

about how your campaign is self-funded. sacrificed so much to run. the press is so vicious for the family of any candidate, for the scrutiny, it is unbearable, my wife believes, anyhow. what motivated you to run for president of the united states when you could have just stepped wendy's eaten a lot of cheeseburgers like you did on the plane last night. i rode with him on the plane last night and i expected, i'm a country boy from virginia. it will be champagne and caviar to he broke out wendy's cheeseburgers and fries. [applause] you to step out and take the risk and sacrifice so much? it is so sad when i see what is happening with our country.

when i see our leaders, if we want to call them leaders. they are not leading and not leading properly. when i look at what is going on with jobs and trade deals and with this horrible iran deal where we pay $150 billion for absolutely nothing and we get nothing from it other than you are going to end up with nuclear proliferation all over the place. backnally get our hostages when they get our money. i put guns to their heads, put them in a baking position. so many things like this. i looked at sergeant bergdahl, they get five killers back they wanted for nine years. that, somebody said, donald trump is angry and the people are with him angry. i am supposed to say, i am not angry. i get up to the stage and during otherst debate i won, the

debate i skipped because i was not treated properly. [applause] by the way, they got lousy ratings. which i knew would happen. they would have broken the record. but we have to remember, when you are not treated properly, you have to do what you have to do and that goes for the country. if we are not treated properly, like the way we are treated by iran and many other nations, we have to worry about our country. the nicest part of other debate situation was that we raised $6 million in one hour for the veterans. one hour. [applause] that was a great thing. i see all the hats, make america great again. we want to make america great again. what we want to do. it's very simple. >> how many times do you see a presidential candidate giving -- insteadin debt of

of getting it? that's a great example. that group -- of that group would, on the stage now, called partners and patriots. applause]d >> where are they. mr. trump: oh, they are over here. fantastic. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: so maybe tell us a yourselves.bout we vetted for the vets. tell them what you do. >> we train service dogs for the veterans, to help them live

their daily lives. one that you met, todd landon, who needs a dog, had 21 surgeries. serving our country and fighting for us. with $100,000 you can do a lot, right? >> yes, sir. mr. trump: use it well. say hello to todd. >> there's a beautiful rottweiler right here, but secret service was not too excited about ringing him up on stage. but he is gentle, i promise. at i do not know why there was fear. we are facing a crisis in this country with isis. all of the experts tell us that isis will most definitely refugees coming to this country. isis has more landmass than any terrorist organization in

history. they are beheading christians. tell us how you would handle that problem, and tell us how quickly you would be able to fix it. mr. trump: who would have thought this would happen? with therong guy military, i would say the most militaristic of all, and i want to build our military, jerry, so strong, so powerful that nobody is going to mess with it. but i said to reuters and others 2003, the war is the wrong thing. we will be stabilize the middle east if you take out one of the two, iraq or iran. what a mess has been created. and when we got out of it, with obama, the way he got out of it, and announcing the specific date we leave -- i can't believe that

and they go to- town we live. i cannot use the term comedy of errors because there is nothing funny. what has gone on is so sad. now we have helped create this massive migration. you look at what is going on in germany. it is a total mess. they are having riots. roof.is through the everybody. have you been to brussels? it is so beautiful. everything. it is like an armed camp now. create a safe zone. we all have hearts. create a safe something rate with got to get the gulf states, who are tremendously rich, who spending mucht money, and they are not taking anybody. we are protecting them. let them fund it. we are funding everything. is $19 trillion.

we get them to fund it, and we create a big safe zone in syria or a number of save zones and people stop. they have done this migration through germany. we all have hearts. see.nk it is sad to when you see that line, that massive migration, you see so men, right?strong the first time i noticed it was early on. at first you say, it's a little unusual. it just seems to me -- and you men.at it -- young, strong we are going to take them into the country. we have already started. thousands and thousands. isis? is this a trojan horse. we are not going to take any if i am there. and anyone who comes and, sadly, i'm telling you, they will have to go back. they have to go. there is no way, jerry.

i have got the top law enforcement people. i have read their statements. the top people say there is absolutely no way you can tell where these people come from. they have no papers, there is no background, no background checks . it's like starting off with a person from zero. they have no idea. we cannot afford this as a country. we cannot afford this from an economic or perhaps, most important, from a security standpoint. we cannot do it. and you saw sheriff joe from arizona -- right? he endorsed me. and when sheriff joe endorses you, you are the strongest, i will tell you -- the whole immigration thing, how that worked out. we will have a really strong border. we will have a wall. people will come in, but they will come in legally. we got the endorsement. and sarah palin and this gentleman, one of the greats,

and my boy, he is a great shooter, they go hunting together. sarah is going to be on "the today show," actually. she will be on monday, so that is exciting. jerry: willy robinson, a great guy. to mention that. back in the late 1970's, my father was criticized because he saw a candidate who was able to pull voters from across the aisle, across the other political party, he saw a drawdate who was able to people who had never voted across ethnic lines, ronald reagan. in the was criticized because ronald reagan was a hollywood actor and he had been divorced and remarried and my father was a pastor, and jimmy carter was a sunday school teacher. a lot of folks said, how can you

support -- and all you had to do was look at it. render untous said, caesar the things that are caesar's. that means be a good citizen. you choose who is most qualified to run the country. when you have a sick child, you choose the doctor who is most qualified, not necessarily the one that shares your faith. what he told everybody. people listened. jimmy carter was a great sunday school teacher, but look how he did as president. republicans who say -- the republicans in washington have betrayed them. they make promises. they make promises on social issues, they have been doing it for decades. they never seem to come through. i think you are the first candidate since ronald reagan to bring in new voters, bringing

them across the aisle, bringing -- [cheers and applause] but we have got to get the republicans who made the promises to start honoring the promises. what are your thoughts on that? mr. trump: i spoke at liberty and it's an amazing place. what jerry and becky have done is absolutely incredible, taking over from their father. it is so beautiful and breaking the record was important. do you know who's record high broke? my record from four years ago. but you know the interesting every single candidate goes to liberty university. everybody. because it is an amazing place. it is a packed house. these are fantastic young people. i guess some people are not young, but amazing people. was such an honor for me because he sees everything, and it was such an honor

for me. he looked and said one thing about me that i like better than everybody else. he said i most resemble his of my ideas, my attitude, my way, and that to me was the greatest implement. ok? i thought that was better than anybody else's complement. t. anybody else's complimen jerry: it's true. my father gave away so many scholarships, he almost bankrupted the school. my mom would not let him have the family checkbook. when i heard all of those stories about how you privately held people, it really did remind me of that. and so -- we have so many people out of the labor force now. haveyou count the ones to

given up, it is probably over 20%. how quickly do you think you could get those folks back to work and get those jobs back from china or wherever they have gone? just did theey polls, cnn and others did. they do the polls. i love these polls. because i am in first place. if i was not in first place, we would not be talking -- it's funny. i watch these candidates. they spend millions of dollars polling. i don't spend a lot of money. i get it from these guys. they do polls. aey say, is he a nice guy, wonderful guy, a terrible guy, is he tall, is he short? the spend all of this money on polling, jerry. candidates, hundreds of thousands of dollars in a month. what are they doing polling for? it's true. save your money.

theyinteresting because did a poll, a big bowl, and on the economy i came out so much higher, triple and quadruple, like down at six and five and i met 67. is with 15, 16, 17 people in the race. we have to bring back our jobs. by the way in the polls -- number one on security, number one isis, number one in almost every category. the only thing i was not number one on? or senility. can you believe it -- personality. can you believe it? they said i am not a nice person. i'm a nicer person than all of them. i will tell you what just happened. i read this -- it said "voter violation." ted cruz issued a statement, put it in people's houses. ." it looks like a government voter violation.

it is a social thing. they are not allowed to do it. they are investigating him now. he is putting in houses "voter violation." i never heard of anything like this. it is so dishonest. it is so dishonest. then he took an ad about me and he said i'm in favor of obamacare. my whole campaign is against obamacare. and the only way i can fight it is i have a much bigger platform than anybody else. what he does not say is that he filled out a financial disclosure form, personal financial disclosure form, and on the form -- he wants to pretend he is robin hood. he is going to protect everyone from wall street. he forgot to mention he borrowed a lot of money at almost no interest. almost nothing -- from goldman sachs and citibank. he forgot to put the to do banks on there. forgot to mention it. and of course the bigger problem

is he was born in canada. people say that he cannot even be running. to me, that is a problem. candidate, itthe is possible that he can't even run, according to a lot of people. i see so much dishonesty and politics, jerry. i have never seen anything like it. it is so dishonest. first of all, the guys in the back, the press, among the most dishonest people i have met in my life. [audience jeering] mr. trump: no, no, they are so dishonest. they will have a story, they can take something that is good and make it look bad. the great thing is -- i am talking 75% to 80%. there are 20% of them that are good. the people we are dealing with -- you are right. thank you. look at those people. back in the corner. is that beautiful?

jerry, every room we go to is packed. whether is a stadium, mobile alabama, the mavericks arena in dallas, 20,000 people, 21,000 people. oklahoma, 20,000 people twice. go, i wish you had some bigger arenas here. i have to tell you. we have capacity crowds. what i have found is people are really smart, jerry. they get it. they really get it. voters, therump trump person is most loyal. by far. [cheers and applause] say this: i should not in front of jerry, because i have to really behave in front of jerry. but they say donald trump can do practically anything and they are still voting for him, they

are still going to caucus for him. i am very happy about it. 69% and then just about with him, i think i get into the 90's. i think other people are at 9% and 12%. hired to were you. you are going to make a decision soon, monday. -- i adore you. you were going to make a decision soon, monday. we are going to make america great again, i promise. donald, i have, gotten to know some of your -- >> i love you, donald! mr. trump: i love you, too. jerry, it may be a guy, but i love them. gotten to know some of your family members and employees. how loyal your

employees are to you and that is not the case when the boss is a thai rent and i just wish he would say a word or two about your family. to, butp: i would love maybe first your family -- becky, mrs. falwell is here. she is just an amazing person, such a big influence on jerry. becky, could you and the family come up please? bring those beautiful children and spouses -- come on up. come on up. .his is becky in the family stage can hold us, right? if it doesn't, we have a big story. >> that is our son trey, this is his wife, this is leslie.

they just got married and trump vineyard last october -- and we paid full price, thank you. i tell you what. i said i will give you a deal. he said, i want to pay full price. i said, nobody has ever said that to me before. he insisted on it. i'm not used to that. >> so he charged us double. in this is our daughter caroline. >> thank you. mr. trump: thank you, hon. wayy: all of us married above ourselves, and so did you. would, i lovel, i to. i brought with me -- they wanted to be here so badly, my wife -- come on up, honey. she has been so supportive.

i tell you what. we talk about pollsters, right? she said, you know if you run you will win? i said what do you mean? said, if you run, you will win. the people respect you and love you. and if you do not run, you will never get an honest whole. you, but she is to me, that won't work. nobody believes your going to run unless you actually stand up .nd announce i said, what if i stand up and announce it goes badly? you willif you run, win. and almost from the date we announced, we have been in first place, jerry. here is my best pollster. thank you, honey. hello, i will. he will be unbelievable. the best dealmaker.

mr. trump: thank you, baby. that's some nice. thank you, honey. i have somebody that nobody knows -- ivanka. and her husband jarret. ivanka is about eight and a half months pregnant and the doctors said it would be much better if you did not make the trip -- he is very tough by the way. and he is a great young man, went to harvard, very smart, doing a fantastic job in business. has done an amazing job. just incredible. nka, i said, don't make the trip. politically, wouldn't it be great if she had her baby in iowa? that would guarantee me victory, wouldn't it? say something, honey? hi, i will.

we are here for the next two days. i am here to support my father. sidehappy to stand by his and watch him make deals that no one else could get done. i have no doubt he will make america great again. please come out and caucus for my father. he will over deliver. thank you. thank you, honey. thank you everybody. one last question. what type of qualities are you looking for in your running mate? i never liked talking about a running mate into we get the deal done. we have to get the deal done. so many people say, do you have

anybody in mind. we started off with 17. they are dropping like flies. you know that. beenampshire has unbelievable for us. we are leading by tremendous numbers. i will give you somewhat of an answer. this is actually a very important question. have a -- ready -- you lousy record. 16 years and you have not picked a winner. winner this time, ok? i'm going to win. i'm going to win. 16 years. you've got to get it done, get it done right. we are going to win. and leaving against hillary in the polls. this -- a tell you friend of mine who is a very political guy said, the one person she does not want to run is trump, and chuck todd

is a very nice guy. they go, oh, yes, we want to run against trump. i said, chuck, you don't understand. when they say they want to run against you, they do not want to run against you area do you understand that? we are going to win. we had a series of egg setbacks. we should have won four years ago. how that one was lost -- we had a failed president. were not going to blame anybody. it did not work out. john mccain had a tough time. we certainly should have won four years ago. did not work.n, i backed romney, did not work. this time i said, let's do it ourselves and do it. so, really, 16 years is too long.

and one thing i have to say before we get to that -- >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: you better. these are tough sounding guys. i will tell you -- really important. we have to get right. we have to get it right. they want to move iowa to the back of the pack. you know that. -- i give you my word. i am president, i control it, you are staying right where you are. so is new hampshire. and jerry, it is such an amazing tradition. even the caucus -- it is complicated, but you really have to got to have somebody out and do this. it's such a great system. i do not know if i would want to have every state like that. but it's in amazing tradition. if i win, it is staying right where it is.

they are not moving you guys to the back of the pack. just remember that. as far as a vice president is concerned, it's a very simple test. he was going to be the best president if something should happen. that is ultimately what it is all about. that being said, you want to pick someone who can help you. you want to pick someone may be a state you have to win. there is a big story that trump is winning with hispanics -- a big story -- and i'm not surprised because i'm going to bring back jobs. it's actually a big story. i'm supposed to be doing phenomenally with people who are here illegally -- legally. ready soon we will have you legal starting to vote if we do not get tough and smart. but we want somebody who can be a great president always, but

also someone who can get us to the goal so you do not have another four years of losses. and there are great people out there. greaticans have some people out there. i think we will have tremendous success areas one of the stories written was that -- if trump wins -- first all if trump-hillary -- if she gets there. i don't know if she's going to get there with this e-mail stuff. issue she going to get there? i don't know. it will be the largest voter turnout in the history of the united states. and you know that, the debate i participated -- 24 million, 25 million people. show in thelargest history of cnn. i think if i was not an -- insulted and we went through

normal channels, i think that would have been larger than the 25 million people in the first debate. i think that would have surpassed it. they said it and they said it very strongly. new yorkpt of winning state is impossible for any of the people i am dealing with. in possible. it's i do something -- they don't even campaign there. i think we have a chance to win new york. they like me in new york. by the way, if we win new york, you talk about a lot of delegates. right? but if we win new york, we are talking about a lot. win virginia, we are going to win michigan. i'm always talking about the car business being stripped out of michigan. we did well in ohio. i like john kasich very much. i am beating him by a lot. he is the serving governor. we are going to win florida.

i am 38% against 16 people. i think a lot of state that are you lookthought of -- at some of the states they don't even talk about the state as a republican. thatnk we can win states aren't even thought of in the normal route and you're going to have yourself a victory, folks. and i tell you what. i am not going to disappear like the last group did. i kept thinking, where is he? why isn't he on television? doing jay leno and letterman and the shows? every night you see obama is on television, television, television. and i call in sick, he has to do jay leno. he has to do with david letterman. i don't know. they took a vacation the last month of the campaign. it's not going to happen with trump, folks. we are going to win.

[cheers and applause] you know, i have never done anything like this before, i have never gotten involved with national politics. trillion if we hit 24 in debt, we may be beyond the point of no return. i believe if the next president is not the right president there will be maybe up to four supreme court justice appointees that would change this country forever. all of the values we hold dear will be gone. i honestly believe this man who has turned companies around in the private sector can do it for this country, and that is what i am here -- that is why i am here -- mr. trump: thank you. jerry: that is why i am so honored to be invited to join you up here. we could lose our country if we

don't choose a man who is electable. he is the only one who is electable in my opinion. you, jerry.hank thank you, everybody. thank you very much. thank you so much. thank you, jerry. thank you becky and the family. thank you, everybody. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] mr. trump: thank you, folks. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] ♪

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