sen. cruz: what did reagan do? he cut taxes, lifted regulations, the economy exploded. jobs he use that revenue to rebuild the military. we bankrupted the soviet union and we won the cold war. i intend to do the exact same thing with radical islamic terrorism. we are going to a repeal of obama hair -- obamacare. trillionsf new jobs,

in new revenue and we will rebuild this military. applause longer will our military be governed by political correctness. we will have a commander and chief who stands up and says to the world, we will defeat radical islamic terrorists. president willing to a true the words radical islamic terrorists. [applause] and when of the most shameful aspect of the last seven years

is having a president who sends our fighting men and women into combat with rules of engagement so strict they tie their arms we had their backs and it makes it impossible for them to fight and win. wrong, it is immoral and mark my words in january 2017, it will end. [applause] this election will not be decided by the media. not going to be decided by the pundits. it will be decided by the people. the folks at home. if you are in mississippi,

michigan, if you are in idaho or hawaii, if you have not voted please come out today and vote. stand with us. [applause] let me say to the people of the great state of north carolina, one week from today is going to be north carolina's chance to more. --roar. [applause] you want to understand the stakes in this election. raleigh, i wasin asked by a reporter what i thought about donald trump's new practice at rallies of asking everyone to stand up and raise her hand and pledge support to

him. i didn't know what i thought of it at first, but when they asked i that come up my reaction -- said there is something that strikes me profoundly wrong about that. this is a job interview. i am not here asking any of you to pledge your support of me. pledging my support of you. [applause] this is not a reality tv show. this is not a game show.

this is the future of the country. donald, this is not us. candidate is going to make america great again. won't, i won't, bernie sanders well, nobody will. enough toorce strong restore this nation is we the people. [applause] this notion of demanding people stand and raise their hands , we are allegiance familiar with bad. , the kings and queens demand that other subjects. but in america, no man is above

the law. we begin with the proposition that our rights don't come from government, they come from god almighty. [applause] and if we come together and if , thennd together as one the only hand racing that i hope 20, 2017, toanuary raise my right hand, with my left hand on the bible, and pledge to each of you to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states of america. thank you. and god bless you. [applause]

♪ i am a teacher, so the most important thing is education. i am looking at the candidates closely for their programs i in education. i've not been happy in the common core things happening. i would like to see that change around. going to blow for either bernie sanders or hillary clinton. i am interested in seeing what their education plans are. >> i am voting for ted cruz.

he is a constitutional scholar. he is eloquent, and he is sensible. >> bernie sanders spoke to supporters about wall street, the economy and his opponent, hillary clinton. this was held in miami, florida, before michigan and mississippi's primary results are out. ♪ [applause and cheering]

thank you. thank you, miami. applause]d you are a beautiful crowd. you are allowed crowd. [cheering] feeling that you want to see this country move toward

a political revolution. [cheering and applause] erica -- and -- not only for her willingness to put her life on the line to defend our but forin the military, on understanding how important foreign-policy is. and that bad foreign-policy results in the loss of lives of young americans in the military and people abroad. bad foreign-policy and's up

costing us trillions of dollars. , i just camexample back from michigan. i was visited with michigan. all of you know what is going on in flint? michigan, children are being poisoned by drinking water filled with lead. i don't understand how this country has trillions of dollars butpend on the war in iraq we can't take care flint michigan? cheering]and what this campaign is about is

doing something very radical. we are telling the american people the truth. [applause and cheering] sometimes the truth is not necessarily what i wish from the bottom of my heart when i come before you and tell you how great everything is, that there are no problems. what we have to do as a people is have the courage to face the reality of where we are, and have the courage to take on the big money interests whose greed

is destroying our economy. truthstell you several that other candidates will not tell you. as ar one, and i say this former chairman of the senate veterans committee. andbody who has worked hard will continue to work hard to protect the veterans of this country. veterans have put their lives on the line to defend our way of our democraticns form of government. i want to tell you right now, that our democratic form of government is under severe attack as a result of this disastrous citizens united supreme court decision.

[applause] about, if you is want to vote for me, great. if you view disagree and vote against me, that's great. that's called democracy. you get a vote, and she gets a vote, we all get one phot. but what is happening now is we are losing this concept of one person one vote. what we are seeing is billionaires buying elections. what we are seeing as one family, the koch brothers and a , theyer billionaires and a few of their billionaire

friends are prepared to spend $900 million on this election cycle. and their goal is to elect candidates, of course, who will represent the rich and the powerful. a handful of billionaires, handful, spending more money on a campaign in either the democratic or republican party, that is not democracy. that is oligarchy. [cheers and applause] our first fight is to overturn the citizens united decision.

fight is to make sure we have one of the highest voter turnouts in the world, not one of the lowest. our job is to end republican voter suppression. [applause] you have cowardly republican governors who are working overtime trying to make it harder for people to participate in the political process. job is to make it easier, not harder to increase the voter turnout. applause]d next tuesday here in florida, -- let'sw the world

show the world that democracy is alive and well with a huge voter turnout. huge. i am talking about a new --. what the wealthy and powerful one, this is really what they want. not tont young people participate in the political process. they want working-class people to say, nobody in washington cares about me. i'm not going to vote. when you have low voter turnout, then you have billionaires buying elections, and that is what we have got to overturn.

the americano show people is that when we don't allow that trumps of the world to divide us up. together, blacks and white and latinos, gay and , they may have all of the money and all of the power. but we have the people. [cheering and applause]

and when, and this is the lesson of history, when people stand together, there is nothing we cannot accomplish. secretary hillary clinton and i have a number of differences. one of them that deals with campaign finances. what you run for president, sadly, it is have to raise hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, if not even more of that. when i entered this race i'd make a decision. should i do it all candidates do -- this is a very

smart audience. you answered my question before i even asked it. do, is youcandidates establish a super pac. you go after billionaires. you go to mansions and you leave the mansions with millions of dollars. the money comes from the banking industry, wall street. that is one way you raise money. ist hillary clinton has done establish several super pac's. from wall $15 million street. in addition, she has given toeches behind closed doors wall street financial

institutions like goldman sachs. $225,000 for a speech. that is a lot of money for an hour speech. i think that if you get paid -- itind of money you must be a brilliant speech. is such aink it brilliant speech you want to share with the american people. secretary clinton has said she is prepared to release her transcripts if other candidates do. i am prepared to make a dramatic

statement right now. are you ready for this? release all ofo -- iranscripts of speeches all ofared to release the transcripts of the speeches i gave to wall street. here they are. [cheers and applause] bernie.bernie, clintonis how secretary raises some of her money. we do it in a different way. i want to tell you something. this is important at kind of revolutionary.

break political dependence on wall street and the big money interests, the only way we can do it is to have campaigns funded by the middle class and working families. [applause] began this campaign, what we said was something pretty simple but pretty radical. we set the working families, we know that many of you are hurting. what if you want to support a campaign that is going to take on the billionaire class, that is going to transform our country, we need your help. and you know what happens? and this is unbelievable. i never in a million years would have predicted this could have happened. in the last 10 months of our campaign, we have received 5 million individual contributions.

[cheers] that is more individual contributions than any candidate in the history of our country. does anybody here know of the average contribution is? i love that. $27. lincoln atse abraham gettysburg, this is a campaign of the people, by the people, and for the people.

applause]d the congresswoman touched on another important difference between secretary clinton and 2002, thereack in was a debate in congress on what turned out to be the most important foreign-policy issue in the modern history of this country. all of you remember president bush and vice president cheney and that crew. they thought it was a good idea to invade iraq.

i listened very carefully to their arguments, and i concluded that they were not telling the truth. i voted against the war. applause]d secretary clinton, who has been in the senate, her the same arguments, she voted for the war. in that war turned out to be the worst foreign-policy disaster in the modern history of this country. it gives me no joy to tell you this. but if you go to my website, bernie sanders.com, read what i said back in 2002 about my fears about what would happen, and what i said was right.

let me touch on another issue, which is obviously important to florida and all states all over this country. this is a sharp audience. you are about 12 seconds ahead of me. member of the u.s. senate committee on the environment, -- the u.s. senate committee i have talked to scientists all over our country, and scientists, -- the debate is over.

climate change is real. climate change is caused by , and climatey change is already causing devastating problems in florida, america, and around the world. and here is what is really scary. if you listen to what the scientists are telling us, they are saying if we do not get our act together in a short. endime, by the e in dead -- of the century, this planet will

be five to 10 degrees fahrenheit warmer. drought, it means more flooding. it means for florida and other coastal communities, it means .ore rising sea levels it means also important to florida but the whole world, increase acidification

of the ocean. we are destroying our oceans. it means more international conflict as people all over the world fight for the limited natural resources. to my mind, this issue is a no-brainer. and if we consider ourselves to be moral people and to consider the needs of future generations, we have got to move aggressively in taking on the fossil fuel industry. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy-efficiency. [cheers and applause]

sen. sanders: we have got to lead the world. we can't do it alone. we have to work with other countries around the world. but we know already what has to be done. we have incredible potential with solar panels. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: incredible potential with wind. iowa is already getting 30%-40% of its electricity from wind. texas -- [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: we can do incredible things with energy efficiency, making our buildings more energy-efficient. we can create a state of the art rail system, which takes trucks off roads. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: virtually every scientist who studies this issue knows what has to be done. we are running into something really amazing and incredible and that is -- this connects the

dots to what i said a moment ago. i want you all to be thinking how is it that there is no republican candidate for president who will come before you and tell you the simple truth of what i have told you? that climate change is real? the answer is -- the answer gets back to a corrupt campaign-finance system. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: here is the truth -- that if a republican came before you and said i've read the literature, we have to do something about it, on that day, the koch brothers and other fossil fuel campaign contributors would say you are not getting any more money.

[applause] sen. sanders: that is what a corrupt campaign-finance system is doing to our country and i say to those republicans who are too cowardly to do the right thing -- [applause] sen. sanders: worry about your kids and your grandchildren and the future of this planet rather than your campaign contributions. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: in this campaign, we are listening to the american people. and what we are hearing from the american people is that workers

cannot make it on eight dollars, nine dollars, $10 an hour. [cheering and applause] you can do the arithmetic as well as i can. multiply $10 an hour by 40 hours a week by 52 weeks a year, he -- you't have enough enough money for a person to live on, let alone a family. i remember i was in nevada. a young woman, early 30's, came up to me and said "i've got a six-year-old daughter. i make $10.45 an hour, i have student loans, i'm scared to death about what will happen to my daughter and me." this is being played out with withiens of people -- millions of people.

that is why in america, we have got to understand the $7.25 minimum wage in this country is a starvation wage. we are going to raise that minimum wage. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: we are going to raise that minimum wage to a living wage, $15 an hour. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: in america, if you work 40 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty. end of discussion. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: this campaign is listening to senior citizens. and what senior citizens and

disabled veterans are telling me is they can't make it on $11,000 or $12,000 a year. this is important because as a nation, we have to understand a nation is judged not by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but how we treat the weakest and most vulnerable among us. [applause] sen. sanders: here in florida, we have many seniors in my state. if you look at the course of -- at the the cost of prescription drugs, of health care, of keeping your house warm or cool, no one can make it on $12,000. what my republican colleagues in

what they want to do , want to do is cut social security benefits. [booing] sen. sanders: what i want to do is increase social security benefits. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: this campaign is listening to young people. [cheers] sen. sanders: and what the young people are telling me is "why does it happen that just because we go to college or graduate school, we are stuck with debt for decades?" [cheers and applause]

sen. sanders: just out of curiosity, how many people here are dealing with student debt? [cheering] sen. sanders: i rest my case. i have talked -- and i'm sure it is similar in this room -- i have talked to people in my own state. a young woman wanted to become a doctor, went to medical school, is practicing primary health care to low income people. exactly the kind of doctors we need. she graduated medical school $300,000 in debt. [booing] sen. sanders: talk to a young dentist in iowa, graduated dental school, $400,000 in debt. talked to a young man in iowa, left college after two years, $60,000 in debt. talked to a guy in nevada --

this is incredible -- he is 55 years old and has been paying off student debt for 25 years. he is more in debt today than when he started. [booing] sen. sanders: here is what this campaign is about is thinking outside of the box, thinking outside of the status quo. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: do not accept the status quo. do not accept crazy reality. it is crazy -- everybody tells young people in this country education is important. everybody says "get all the education you can." everybody says we live in a competitive global economy, we need the best educated workforce possible.

why then are we punishing people for getting an education? [cheers and applause] >> [chanting "bernie!"] sen. sanders: again, what i beg of you and of the american people, take a step back and look at the crazy things that go on in this country. this country today is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. nobody knows it because almost all of the income and wealth is going to the top 1%.

[booing] sen. sanders: don't tell me that we cannot make public colleges and universities tuition-free. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: now, my opponents say this is a radical and crazy idea. tell that to the people in germany and scandinavia already doing it. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: they are smart enough to know because they want the best intellectual capabilities of their people to become developed. what we want to do in this country is to tell every kid in america -- i come from a family

did not have much money. my parents never went to college. i want every kid in america, and -- in the fourth and sixth grade, i want the boys and girls and their parents and teachers to know that if their kids to their school work well, yes, they will get a college education. [applause] sen. sanders: and for those people who are crushed with student debt -- met a young man not so long ago. this guy was paying 53% of his income on student debt. i want to give all those people the opportunity to refinance that debt at the lowest interest rate they can find. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: now the wall

street journal and "the washington post" and establishment, they say, bernie, you are santa claus. all this free stuff. you want to provide free tuition at public colleges, you want to lower student debt. how are you going to pay for it? all of you know as a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on wall street, this country was plunged into the worst economic downturn since the great depression. and you know what happened? congress bailed them out. [booing] sen. sanders: hillary clinton, a senator, helped to bail them out. [booing] sen. sanders: now, what i think is that right now we should

impose a tax on wall street speculation. [applause] and if we do that, we race all of the money we need to -- for free tuition. [applause] sen. sanders: this is thinking outside of what the establishment once you to think. if this country can bailout croaks on wall street, why not -- why can't wall street help the working families of this country? [cheering and applause] and here is the simple truth. today, a college degree in many respects is the equivalent of what a high school degree was 50

or 60 years ago. 50 years ago, you had a high school degree, you are in pretty good shape. respects, you need a college degree. i believe that when we talk about public education today, it is not good enough to talk about first grade through 12th grade. it has to be public colleges and universities. [cheering] sen. sanders: this campaign is talking to women. and listening to women. [cheering and applause] sen. sanders: and this is what women are saying. how does it happen that i work in an office or a factory and i end up making on average $.79 on

the dollar compared to men? that is wrong. [booing] sen. sanders: and i know that every man in this arena will stand with the women in the fight for pay equity. [cheering and applause] there is no: rational economic reason why women are paid significantly less than men. it is sexism good together we are going to end it. [cheering and applause] -- it is sexism. together we are going to end it. [cheering and applause] sen. sanders: one thing this , but here isoing

an issue the media is not concerned about. millions of young couples are here at our want you to think about this. again, thinking outside of the status quo and outside the box. studiesychologist who human development knows the most important years of the human beings life are 034, right? -- are zero through four. right? [cheering and applause] sen. sanders: that is how we are shaped through emotional development. what we have is millions of young couples, mom and dad goes to work and they cannot find quality child care. [booing] sen. sanders: you have god knows how many kids, you know what

they are doing today? watching television programs. [applause] sen. sanders: this is unfair to those parents of the children. it is more unfair to those did i -- those kids believe -- those kids. i believe in the wealthiest country we have the resources to have well-trained, well educated, well paid educators taking care of our children. [cheering and applause] sen. sanders: this campaign is listening to our brothers and sisters in the african-american community. [cheering and applause]

sen. sanders: what they are saying and i agree with, i want you to think about this again, because we've got to overcome the status quo thinking. how does it happen that in this great country we have more people in jail than any other country? [booing] sen. sanders: china is four times our size. china is a communist authoritarian country that does not tolerate dissent very well. we've got more people in jail than china. disproportionately african-american, latino and native american. [booing] sen. sanders: today, and it is important that everybody understands it, because it is a

national disgrace. an african-american male baby born today, if we do not change this, stands a one in four chance of ending up in jail. [booing] america,ers: today in we have youth unemployment which is off the charts. kidsf african-american between 17 and 20 who graduated high school are unemployed or underemployed. if you think there is not a connection between that outrageous number and people in jail, you would be wrong. -- we are going to do [applause] [cheering and applause] we are going to

invest for our young people in jobs and education, not jails and incarceration. [cheering and applause] sen. sanders: the african-american community and latino community and all of us are tired of seeing videos of unarmed people being killed by police officers. [cheering and applause] sen. sanders: i am a former mayor. i have worked with police officers. a vast majority of police ,fficers are hard-working honest and trying to do a very difficult job. [cheering and applause] when a policebut officer breaks the law like any

other public official, he must be held accountable. [cheering and applause] sen. sanders: it is unacceptable that local police departments around our country are heavily militarized and look like occupying armies. we have got to demilitarize local the -- local police departments. [cheering and applause] we have got to make police departments part of the community, not an oppressive force in the community. [cheering and applause] we have got to make police departments look like the diversity of the

community they are serving. [cheering and applause] in my state and i know in florida, there is a very serious problem with opiate addiction, with hair and hair went-- with addiction and other forms of substance abuse. we have got to understand that is a health issue, not a criminal issue. [cheering and applause] sen. sanders: we have got to learn and understand that by and large the so-called war on drugs has been a failure. [cheering and applause] over the last 30

years, millions of americans have received police records for processing marijuana -- for possessing marijuana. [booing] sen. sanders: now you can argue about pluses and minuses of marijuana, but right now in the -- under the federal control substance act, marijuana is listed as a schedule one drug, right next to heroine. [booing] sen. sanders: i trust that every person in this room knows that heroine is a killer drug. causing devastating problems in my state and all over this country. whatever you think about marijuana, marijuana is not heroine.

[cheering and applause] sen. sanders: and that is why i have legislation that would take marijuana out of the federal -- [cheering and applause] now under our former government, we have federal, state and local government. whether or not marijuana becomes legal -- it should not become a federal crime. [cheering and applause] this campaign is listening to our brothers and sisters in the latino community. [cheering and applause]

sen. sanders: i want to tell you if i might a very brief story. in 2008, i went to a town some of you may know here in florida, called immokalee, florida. a small town. the reason i went there, because i had learned that undocumented workers were being incredibly exploited. it is one of the towns where tomatoes used by mcdonald's and burger king are grown. i went there. ironically enough, this is 2008, on the day i arrived some extorting is that some contractor there was being charged with slavery. you know that? i cannot believe what i was

reading. 2008, people are charged with slavery, holding people in in voluntary services -- servitude. [booing] is --anders: what we did, i got up too early in the morning. when the tomato people go to work at 5:30 in the morning. i saw what these workers -- it was not a pleasant sight. they were underpaid, they were exploited. the housing they lived in was gross. their working conditions were unacceptable. what we did is we held a hearing and washington, dc, with the community -- the committee with late senator ted kennedy. [cheering and applause] sen. sanders: he worked with me

to hold that hearing. to make a long story short, with the help of the great organizers and the workers themselves, we significantly improved living conditions and wages. [cheering and applause] sen. sanders: and what i have learned since going around the country speaking to the latino community is people are frightened and tired of living in the shadows. they are tired and fearful about maybe a relative of theirs being deported. me andey are asking which i agree, is we need comprehensive immigration reform. [cheering and applause] and a path toward

citizenship. [cheering and applause] sen. sanders: let me also say this. people in this country, they have honest riches of opinion on a lot of issues. immigration reform. i respect that. people have differences of opinion. in the year of 2016, bigotry and hatred is not acceptable. [cheering] sen. sanders: it is the on comprehension that people like donald trump and others are thinking -- [booing] sen. sanders: are talking about sweeping up millions of people and deporting them. not going to happen. never will happen.

never should happen. [cheering and applause] [chanting senator sanders: if congress does not do its job and pass immigration reform, i will use all the powers of the presidency to protect those people. our job together is to unite families, not to divide families.

senator sanders: now, there is another issue i want to talk to everybody about and that is, you know, you have republicans running all over this country talking about family values. and it's important that everybody in this room, in this state and in this country understand what republicans mean by family values. you know, i think i'm going to invite people up here to give my speech. because you always are eight seconds ahead of me.

here's what i was going to say. what i was going to say is when republicans talk about family values, everybody needs to know what they're really saying is that no woman in this arena, in this state, in this country should have the right to control her own body. disagree. what republicans are saying is ey warrant to defund planned parenthood. i want to extend it. what republicans are saying is that our gay brothers and sisters should not have the right to get married. i disagree.

senator sanders: when you talk about hypocrisy -- i know i don't shock anybody that by suggesting in politics there's a bit of hypocrisy. but this issue takes the cake in this sense. you have republicans running around the country. they say government is awful, it is terrible. we're going to get the government off your back, we're going to cut social security, medicare, medicaid, education, we're going to end the e.p.a. hate the government, except -- except when a woman has a very personal choice to make, then they love the government. cheers and applause] they want local government and the state depofment to make that decision for every woman in america.

that is hypocrisy. let me mention to you that i am criticized every day for one thing or another. mostly it's about thinking too big. thinking that this country can actually address the major crises that we face. i have apparently more confidence in the american people than many others. crowd chanting "bernie"] senator sanders: it turns out that all over the

industrialized world, whether it's the united kingdom, france, germany, holland, scandinavia, canada, all over the industrialized world, health care is guaranteed to ll people. and on rdable care act, the committee that helped write it has done away with many things. we've done away with the obscenity of pre-existing conditions. we have provided health insurance to 17 million more americans. and we have done away with discrimination against women who are paying higher prices for premiums because they're women. but today 29 million americans

have no health insurance and many of you are underinsured with high deductibles and high co-payments. all right. and in america, we are being ripped off bigtime by the drug companies. some of the worst vultures in america. and they charge us by far the highest prices in the world for medicine. in fact, you want to talk about crazy, it's crazy. today one out of five americans cannot afford to fill the prescriptions their doctors are writing. meanwhile, the top three drug companies made $45 billion in profits last year.

that's crazy. and on top of all of that, we spend far more per person on health care than do the people of any other country. three times. almost three times what the british spend, 50% more than the french, far more than the canadians. now, i have been criticized for something so let me say it as straightforwardly as i possibly can so my critics understand where i am coming from. i believe that health care is a .ight of all people and that is why i believe we

should move towards a medicare or all health care programs. now, one of the criticisms or attacks made against our campaign is people say well, bernie is a nice guy, he combs his hair ever so beautifully. occasionally the suit that he wears actually fits him. but despite all of those attributes, he just cannot defeat a republican in a eneral election. this is a brilliant audience. got to tell you that.

so let me tell you, let me tell you what some in the media may not know and that is in almost ll of the national polls, we beat donald trump. and we beat him in almost always, not always, almost always do better than secretary clinton against him. and it's not only national polls, it is statewide polls, battleground polls. to give you an example, one of many, a poll just came out the other day in michigan, a battleground state. secretary clinton did very well. she was beating him by 16

points. we were beating them by 22 oints. in new hampshire, another battleground poll we were beating them by 19 points. but it's not just polls. polls go up and down. but i'll tell you why together if trump is their nominee why we will defeat him. and that is because the american people do not want a president who insults mexicans and latin americans. the american people do not want

a president who insults slims, one of the largest -- the american people do not want a president who insults women. who insults african-americans. remember, please when you think about trump, please do not forget that this was a guy who this of the leaders in so-called bertha effort, remember that? and that was an intentional effort to try to delegitimatize the president of the united states because he was black. there's a funny thing, a funny thing.

president obama's father was born in kenya, my father was orn in poland. but nobody has asked me for my birth certificate. maybe it has something to do with the color of my skin. don't know. we will defeat mr. trump because the american people together, ming -- the divisiveness american people know that community helping each other,

supporting each other, trump's selfishness. [cheers and applause] senator sanders: and most importantly, based on the religious teachings of every major religion on earth, christianity, judaism, islam, buddhism, whatever, the american people understand that love trumps hatred. cheers and applause] [crowd chanting "bernie"]

senator sanders: now, a week from today the people of lorida can play a profoundly important role in transforming our country and helping to lead this nation towards a political evolution. we have already in this campaign won eight state aucuses and primaries. and we always do well when the high and we do poorly when the voter turnout

is low. a week from today. let's stand up for a political revolution. -- let us be ed prepared to tell the billionaire class they cannot have it all. come out and vote next tuesday! thank you! [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016]

♪ >> first lady michelle obama will attend the funeral of former first lady nancy reagan on friday at the ronald reagan presidential lie rather -- library in simi valley, california. mrs. reagan died over the weekend. she was 94. we'll have live coverage at 2:00 p.m. eastern here on

c-span. republican presidential candidate marco rubio held a rally in montho vidro, florida. voters go to the polls next tuesday which is senator rubio's home state. from c-span's road to the white house, this is 35 minutes. [cheers and applause] marco: i traveled parts of this country campaigning for president but tonight, this weather, this is why people live in florida right here. huh? so here we are. it always comes down to florida, doesn't it? and it will again this year, not once but twice.

not once but twice we'll have to decide the presidency here. but it starts a week from tonight. actually, it's already started because people are already voting. and in this election, it's not just a choice between candidates, we are deciding the definition of what it means to be a conservative in the 21st century. and we are deciding our identity as a nation and as a people. now, let's remember why america is so special. it wasn't because of a single person it. it was because this nation was founded at its very beginning on a very powerful truth. that our rights do not come from the government. our rights do not come from our leaders, our rights do not come from our law. our rights come from our creator. ur rights come from god. we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by our creator with certain

inalienable rights, among thement the pursuit of happiness and it's on that powerful principle the nation founded and prospered. for over two centuries, each generation did what they needed to do to ensure this nation was even better for their kids than it was for them. now we've reached that crossroads again because after eight years of barack obama and two decades of failure in washington, everything that makes us special in america is in danger. it is the reason why in the year 2009 and 2010 i was just a private citizen after serving in the florida legislature for eight years and i chose to run for the united states senate against incredible odds. my opponent was the sitting governor of florida. his name was charly crist. and he was beating me by 60 or 70 points in the polls. and the entire republican

establishment in washington, d.c. supported him. i had no idea how i'd raise the money to succeed and everything i knew about politics told me i would lose. but i understood then barack obama had just been in office for a few months and i understood that if we didn't have a senator that would go up there and stand up to the obama agenda and offer a clear alternative, things would only get worse. so i chose to run against those odds. and florida believed in me. and before even it went to the primary, charlie crist this done what he should have done a long time ago, he left the republican party and we defeated him. [cheers and applause] senator rubio: and in my time i have stood up to the obama alternative and despite the fact harry reid basically shut down the united states senate four out of the last five years we got things done like we said

we would. i and jeff miller and the congressman from florida, we passed the v.a. accountability act which means today senior executives at the v.a. who are not doing a good job can be fired for the first time ever. earlier this year i passed a law, bipartisan, by the way, that imposed sanctions on hezbollah, a terrible terrorist group that targets israel and hates america. and everyone running for president says they're against obamacare, i'm the only one running for president that's ever done anything about it. you see, i red the -- i led the effort and got rid of the obamacare bailout fund that was going to bail out private insurance companies and we wiped that out. i have stood up to the obama agenda. and i have offered a clear alternative. but i've learned over the last five years that while a member of congress can help shape the agenda, only a president can

set the agenda. and our next president must be someone that is willing to undo all of the damage barack obama has done and craft a new course for america's future and that's what i will do if you give me the chance to be the next resident of the united states. i have run on a very simple platform and that is this, we are going to return to the principles that made america's greatness possible. when i'm president of the united states for the first time in eight years, you're going to have a president that actually follows the constitution of the united states of america. the next president of the united states will appoint at least two to three justices, one already because of the passing of justice scalia. the balance of the court and constitution is at stake.

when i'm president of the united states, we are going to appoint justices to the supreme court that understand the constitution is supposed to be applied according to its original meaning. not whatever you want it to mean which is what these liberal judges are doing now. when i'm president of the united states, for the first time in eight years you will have a president that defends your first amendment right to live out the teachings of your faith and every aspect of your life. for the first time in eight years, you will have a president that protects your second amendment right to defend yourself and your family. i served for 8 1/2 years in the florida legislature. i was the speaker of the house for two years. i'm proud of my service there as well. we cut property taxes. we balanced our budgets. we brought vocational training back to our high schools

without the federal government, without common core. we fixed problems in our time there and from it i learned the best solutions come at the state level and not the federal level and that's when why when i'm president we will follow the 10th amendment and we are returning power to the states nce again. we will follow the constitution of the united states when i'm president. and i will prove it on my first day in office. when i take the oath of office and swear to protect and defend and uphold the constitution, and like barack obama, i will mean it, and after i take the oath of office, i'm going straight to the oval office and i'm going to repeal every single one of barack obama's unconstitutional executive rders. america is exceptional because of free enterprise. it works. look at all these businesses here. look at the small businesses you own and run and work for. why do they exist?

not because of government. today they exist despite government. for government is crushing entrepreneurship, getting in our way. socialism doesn't work. it never has worked. big government stands in the way of the little guy, the people trying to start a business and grow. when i'm president of the united states, you will have a president that knows free enterprise works, not because i inherited millions of dollars. i did not. there's nothing wrong with it but i did not. my mother was a maid, my father was a bartender and they had jobs because free enterprise works. because someone created a job and with that job they were able to raise our family. free enterprise works because it's the only economic system in the world where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poorer. you can lift everybody up. and you don't have to tear anyone down. and i have a plan. i don't just give speeches

about free enterprise. i have a plan to reinvigorate it. i ask you to goo tower website at marcorubio.com and we have a real plan to fix the tax code. we have a real plan to roll back regulations. we have a real plan to save social security and medicare. we have a real plan to balance our budget. we have a real plan to fully utilize all our energy resources and we have a real plan to repeal and replace bamacare once and for all. when i'm president of the united states, you will have a real commander in chief for the first time in eight years. our current commander in chief is a weak one. the frontrunner in this race doesn't even know what the nuclear triad is, he thinks it's a rock band. our next commander in chief better be ready to lead from day number one. i say this to you with full confidence.

i may not have lived as some of the people running but no one running has more experience on foreign policy or national ecurity than i do. i serve a state that has an incredible presence of both veterans and the military. here in florida, especially here in northeast florida, we understand what a critical part of our country our military is and today in a world that is growing increasingly dangerous, barack obama with the help of some republicans, by the way, are gutting the u.s. military. the world is crazy today. you have a sociopath, a lunatic in north korea with nuclear weapons. the chinese government is trying to take over the south china sea. you have vladimir putin sewing instability in the middle east. iran is about to receive $100 billion of sanctions relief because of barack obama's deal with the ayatollah.

and radical islamic jihaddists are spreading all over the world. isis has affiliates in over a dozen countries now. and in the face of all of this danger, he's gutting our military because of these defense cuts that i voted against and fought against. because of these defense cuts we will soon have the smallest army since the end of world war ii. we will soon have the smallest navy we've had in a hundred years and we're on the verge of having the smallest air force in our entire history. the average age of an airplane in the air force is now 27 years old. it means the pilots are younger than the planes. this cannot continue. when i'm president -- and here's what's so sad about it. it's unfair to our men and women in uniform. we're still asking them to go into harm's way but we're asking them to go in harm's way with less equipment, less training, and less people alongside them. we're still asking them to go

in harm's way while their paycheck and benefits are being cut. we have veterans facing -- we have service men and women facing foreclosure, facing real economic hardship and they're halfway around the world getting shot at. and it makes no sense. these defense cuts, this defense spending is not the source, is not the reason for our national debt. and that's why when i'm president of the united states, we will undertake a reagan style rebuilding of the united states military. [crowd chanting "marco"] sen. rubio: we are going to have a real war on terror. the one we have now is fake. barack obama is releasing terrorists from guantanamo now on a weekly basis. 33% of them rejoin the battlefield against us. this has to stop. we don't want war.

we want peace. but to achieve peace, you must sometimes defeat the enemies of peace. radical islamic jihadists like isis are enemies of peace. when i am president, the best intelligence agencies in the world will find them. the finest military in the world will destroy them. when we captured them alive, they will not have the right to remain silent. they are not coming to a courtroom in the united states. they are not coming to a jail in america. they are going to guantanamo. [applause and cheers] mr. rubio: we are going to stand with our allies when i am president. this president has betrayed our allies like israel. he treats the ayatollah of iran

with more respect than he gives the prime minister of israel. it is an outrage. the front runner in this race, donald trump, was asked if he would take sides between israel and the palestinians. and he said he would not. i want you to know when i am president, we are taking sides. we will be on israel's side. [applause] sen. rubio: i will prove it, as i have already in my time in the senate. i will prove it on my first day in office. because after i am done repealing obama's unconstitutional executive orders, the next thing i'm going to do is cancel barack obama's deal with the ayatollah of iran. [applause] sen. rubio: when i am president, we are going to take care of our veterans again. in florida, one out of the four calls that come into our offices are veterans. veterans struggling with the v.a., veterans being treated as if the v.a. is doing them a favor instead of the other way around. my brother is a veteran. he lives in jacksonville, florida. he was in the army. he was the seventh special forces green beret. one day, he jump out of an airplane and knocked out his front teeth. every few years, he has to have a dental claim filled.

it is always a hassle. always a hassle. they asked him to prove it happened in the army. and he says it is the only time i jumped out of a plane. there is no accountability at the v.a. even though i passed a law that gives the president power to fire people that do not do their job, there is no accountability. two weeks ago, "usa today" had a headline that said calls to the v.a. suicide hotline were going to voicemail. no one was fired for that. three days ago, it was reported a veteran committed suicide and the day after he died they called him back. he had left a message on the voicemail. still no has been fired. this is an outrage. there are good people at the v.a., and we thank them for what they do. but there are people at the v.a. not doing their job. when i am president, if you are not serving our veterans, you will lose your job at the v.a. you will be fired.

[applause] sen. rubio: i want to ask all of our veterans to raise their hands so we can thank you for your service. god bless you. god bless our veterans. [applause] sen. rubio: i want our veterans to know this. when i am president of the united states, if you are happy at the v.a., you keep going to the v.a. but when i am president, our veterans will be able to take their v.a. benefits to any hospital or any doctor they want to see. many of our veterans do not stop serving us when they come home. you go to any fire department in america, and a police station in america, any sheriffs department in america, and you will find a disproportionate number of veterans.

i was reminded of this a week ago. a week ago sunday, i was in virginia. the news was about three police officers that had been shot. this is happening far too often in america. one of those three officers died. she was a marine reservist, a veteran on her first day on the job. and so i think it is always appropriate to take a moment to thank our firefighters, police officers, sheriff's deputies for everything they do for us. [applause] >> thank you marco! sen. rubio: when i am president, you will have a president that will never be ashamed to defend the traditional values that shaped our nation. you see, you can't have a strong country without strong people. can't have strong people without strong values. you cannot have strong values without strong families. the job of having strong families belongs to us. the most important job i will ever have is to be a husband to my wife and a father to my children. [applause]

sen. rubio: but we should never have government policies that hurt families. we have a tax code that punishes marriage. that will end when i am president. we have safety net programs that have become a way of life. a safety net and welfare was not supposed to be a way of life. that was to help people with a hand up and not a handout. we will change that. [applause] sen. rubio: we have safety net programs that discourage marriage. and we have a president and justice department that is not defending our faith community from discrimination. that will change. we cannot have strong people without strong values. you will not have strong values without a strong community to support the family. we will support the family. we will support the faith community. and you will have a president who will never be ashamed of our traditional values and afraid to say that all human life is worthy of the protection of our laws.

[applause] sen. rubio: as you can see, we have a lot of work to do because barack obama has done a lot of damage to america. we can't change this country. we can't embrace a better future if hillary clinton is elected president of the united states. [boos] rubio: to begin with, she would follow all of the obama agenda. if we lose this election to hillary clinton, obamacare is permanent. all those unconstitutional executive orders are permanent. the next supreme justice will be a liberal. if we lose this election, the consequences are generational. we cannot afford to nominate someone who is not a conservative who can win. i know that i can win.

the democrats know that i will win. hillary clinton attacks me more than any other republican because she does not want to run against me. but i cannot wait to run against hillary clinton. [applause] sen. rubio: because hillary clinton is unqualified to be president of the united states. she put classified information on her private server. and for that, she is now under f.b.i. investigation. hillary clinton is disqualified from being commander-in-chief because she lied to the families of the victims of benghazi. anyone who lies to the families of americans who have lost their lives in the service of our country can never be the commander in chief of the united states of america! [applause] sen. rubio: this country desperately needs to return to the principles of our conservative movement. we must stop and remind

ourselves of what conservativism truly is. with the passing of nancy reagan two days ago, it was a moment to pause to remember what happened 36 years ago with the election of ronald reagan. ronald reagan defined conservativism for an entire generation. it is not a coincidence there are so many people my age who are conservatives leading this country. look at how many up-and-coming conservative leaders there are in america. who is the up-and-coming young liberal leader? bernie sanders. [laughter] sen. rubio: because ronald reagan defined conservativism. conservativism was about adhering to the constitution, which limited the power of the federal government. not because we don't care, but because we do care. because we understand more often than not, when the federal government gets involved in things is not supposed to be involved in, it makes it worse. not better. conservativism is about free enterprise, a free economy where

people are rewarded on their merit, work, skill. not on their connections. not on the family name. not on their access to power or ability to influence government. conservativism is about a strong national defense because history has taught us weakness is the enemy of peace. weakness invites war and miscalculation. strength is the best way to achieve peace. conservativism is about traditional values that have served mankind for thousands of years. that is what conservativism is about. it has never been about anger. conservativism has never been about fear. you have a right to be angry. government has failed you. your parties have failed you. your leaders have failed you. the media has failed you. our universities and colleges have failed us. except for the university of florida. [laughter] [applause] sen. rubio: i had to drop that in. friendly territory, i hope.

go, gators. that's right. hey, i need everybody's vote. i cannot lose any votes. you know how i feel. all of our institutions have failed us. and people are frustrated. you can use that anger to motivate you to take action. but don't let anger define us. we have never been an angry people. we have always been an optimistic people, realistic about our challenges, but optimistic about our future. do not let the circumstances we face divide us against each other, for we are all still american, even if we disagree about certain things. we share a common destiny. we cannot have a great nation if we leave anyone behind. but we must return to these principles of conservativism, and we must apply them to the challenges of our time. conservativism is about the principles i outlined.

it is also about real ideas. it is not enough to stand up here and say we are going to make america great again. you deserve to know how. you deserve to know how you are going to do that. [applause] sen. rubio: because if you don't know the how, how do you hold anyone accountable? how do you really know what you are getting? how do you really know where we will wind up? we have to nominate and elect a conservative that can unite this party. i told you how important it is that we defeat hillary clinton. we are not going to defeat her if we nominate someone that over 60% of our party rejects and 1/3 of our party refuses to vote for. if we are not together, though we cannot win. can unite this party.

it is not just about you 19 the party could we have to grow it. we have to take our conservativism to people not voting for us now and convince them conservativism is right for them. i know i can do that because i have done it my whole life. i will take conservativism to people who struggle to live paycheck to paycheck. i can do that because i grew up paycheck to paycheck, because i have lived paycheck to paycheck. i will take conservativism to young americans struggling under student loan debt, because i had over $100,000 in student loans not long ago. i remember what it was like to pay sallie mae $1000 a month. i never met her. she took a lot of my money. we need to take the conservative message to young families raising their children. i can do that because my wife and i are raising our four children in the 21st century, and we know how hard it has become to instill in them the values they teach in our church instead of the values they try to ram down our throat in the popular culture. we will take our values and win.

i know we will win because last saturday, i traveled to the island of puerto rico. a place that does not vote for republicans often. i did not go there is a moderate nor as a liberal. i went there as a conservative talking about balanced budget, limited government, free enterprise, and the constitution. on sunday, over 70% of people on the island of puerto rico voted for me, and i won that primary. [applause] sen. rubio: because our nation knows we have gone too far and it is time to turn around, and we will.

i want you to know i am passionate about this issue personally america is not just the country i was born in. america is the country that changed the history of my family. my parents were not born in america. my parents understood america with special because they knew what life is like outside of america. my parents knew what it was like to live in a society that says it does not matter how hard you work, how good you are, if your parents were not the right people, you would only be allowed to go so far. i just described to you the human condition for almost all of history. almost every person that has ever lived has lived in a society that trapped them in the circumstances of their birth. in 1956, my parents came here. they had nothing. my father lost his mother when he was nine, so he never finished school. he worked from the time he was nine years old. my mother did not have it much easier. she was one of seven girls raised in rural cuba by a disabled father. and they struggled. when they came here in 1956, they had no money. they barely knew anyone, barely had any education, and barely

knew english. the first words my father learned an english word "i am looking for a job." life was hard. a few years ago, i wrote a book and started interviewing my mom to write about their history. she told me something i had never heard before. she said we first got to america, we were very discouraged. it was so hard. we could not find work. we worked really hard. we had to share an apartment with her sister and her family. they wonder if they made a mistake and even about going back to cuba at one point. you cannot imagine how glad i am they did not. but i want you to know they stuck it out. they persevered. do you know that less than 10 years after my parents came here under those conditions, my father by then was just a bartender on miami beach. and they bought their first home in a safe and stable neighborhood. [applause] sen. rubio: they never became

rich and they never became famous. but my parents became incredibly successful people because working as a bartender and a maid, they raised a family. they retired with dignity. and most important of all, they lived to see all four of their children live a life better than their own. that story would not have been possible in any nation on earth except here. and that story is not just my story. that story is our story. here in this country, we are all but a generation or two removed from a story not unlike that one. whether they came here from another country or not, we are all a generation or two removed from someone who made your future the purpose of their lives. it is what your grandparents did for your parents. or maybe it is your father that worked two jobs so you could have a better future. maybe it was your mother who gave up on her dreams so you could live yours.

maybe i'm describing you now. maybe you are the bartender and maid working hard jobs and have been discouraged but willing to do what it takes so your kids can have the life you always wanted. this is who we are. this is what makes america special. that is the american dream it changed my life, years, and the world. that american dream separates us from every other society in the history of mankind. it is not dead, but it is in a lot of trouble. we must either save it now, or we will have to explain to our children why we were the generation that lost it. all the things that made america special were not automatic. our great country did not happen on its own. for over two centuries, each generation before us confronted great challenges and solved big problems. each generation did what they needed to do to ensure their children inherited a better life

and country. the time has come for our generation to do our part. the moment has arrived for us to do what americans before us did. the time has come for us to do for our children when our parents did for us. when i am president, this generation will do its part! [applause] sen. rubio: when i am president, we will confront our challenges. we will solve our problems. we will deal with what needs to be dealt with. i know times are tough. do not let anyone take advantage of that to full you would to voting for something that is not true. two -- to fool you into voting for something that is not

true. i know times are tough. but i want you to believe, as reagan did, that americans can do anything. my grandfather was a huge influence on my life. he lived with us until he passed away. i would sit for hours on the porch of our home as he smoked one of his three daily cigars. he lived to be 84 by the way. my grandfather told me this story once per he was born in 1899. when he was born, there were not even airplanes in the sky. kind of weird to think about that. if there was something in the sky flying, it was a u.f.o., not a plane. on a summer evening in 1969 my grandfather, who was born before there were airplanes in the sky, watched on a small black and white television as an american stepped foot on the moon. do you know what he said to himself that he told me years later? he shook his head and said, my goodness, americans can do anything. they can put a man on the moon. they can do anything. [applause]

sen. rubio: americans can do anything. we can solve these problems. we can fix what ails us. we can confront our challenges. we can leave a better future. if you elect me president, we will. but i need your vote. early voting is open. vote now so you can spend the next six days finding other people to vote for me. [applause] sen. rubio: if you listen to the media, they will tell you "he is an underdog." i say i have been an underdog my whole life. we are a state of underdogs, a nation of underdogs. and i will fight as long and hard as i have to, to ensure hillary clinton is not president and a conservative is in the white house in 2016. [applause] sen. rubio: i need your help. i believe with all my heart the winner of the florida primary next tuesday will be the nominee of the republican party. so you are given an incredible task. you are given an incredible task a week from now. and i need your help. i need your vote. as difficult as things may seem,

i want you to know what history will say about us if we do what needs to be done. it will say that we, this generation of americans, lived in the early years of this new century, in a very difficult time. our economy was changing. we were competing with more countries than ever. many of the jobs we once relied on were being replaced by machines or sent to another country. a college degree was no longer enough, and often too expensive. the world was more dangerous. jihadists were spreading. it was a very difficult time. but like the americans that came before us, we faced a choice. we almost got it wrong. after eight years of barack obama and a crazy election, we almost got it wrong.

but then remembered who we were and what america was. then we remembered americans could do anything. like the generations before us, we rose up and confronted our challenge. we rose up and solve our problems. we rose up and embraced our opportunities. we did what needed to be done. when our work was done, we left our children as the freest and most prosperous americans that ever lived because we did what needed to be done. the american dream did not just survive. it reached more people and changed more lives than ever before. because we did what needed to be done, the 21st century was better than the 20th century. it was a new american century. this is the exciting future that awaits us. this is the future with can craft for ourselves and our children. but we have to do it now. we still have time to get it

right, but we do not have forever. we must do it now and we must do it in 2016. i want to thank all of you for coming and waiting for me. i apologize if after the events i rush off. i have one more thing to do today if my voice does not leave me. i have been struggling with it all week. thank you, sir. i appreciate it. he says he is behind me all the way. [applause] senator rubio: i want you to know you believed in me wants. i'm asking you to believe again. we can win this election and we will. i need your help next tuesday because we are going to win florida in the primary, in november, and we are going to turn this country around and we are going to leave for our children what americans always leave for their children. the single greatest nation in the history of all mankind! thank you and god bless you. god bless all of you.

thank you. [applause] [no audio] announcer: on today's washington journal, we will talk about u.s. trade policy into the presidential race. republican jc watts of oklahoma talks about the gop a and 2016 campaign. washington journalists live tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. -- at 7:00

a.m. in eastern. you can join become her station on facebook and twitter. announcer: join us this thursday for live coverage of the dinner for d.c., canadian prime minister just intrude no. announcer: donald trump spoke to supporters in jupiter, florida, following his victories. florida voters go to the polls next tuesday. following his remarks, mr. trump took a few questions from reporters. [cheers and applause]

mr. trump: well, thank you very much everyone. this was an amazing evening and i don't think i have ever had so many horrible, horrible things said about me in one week. $38 million worth of horrible lies. but that's ok. it shows you how brilliant the public is because they knew they were lies. and it was just amazing to watch. and to get these kind of numbers where they call them immediately is just something very special. so, i want to thank the public and the people of michigan. i want to thank the people of mississippi. and it is such a great honor. and, it is also really wonderful to have you at trump national golf club. it is a jack nickless signature course. jack nicklaus signature

course. we have a lot of our members here. [applause] mr. trump: we love our members. jack is a special man and he did a special job. and we love jack. we have another special member. stand up. paul. you originally come from ohio, right? wow. paul o'neill. of the yankees. hey paul, he you come from ohio? you endorse me? i love you. that is a great endorsement from ohio. [cheers] mr. trump: thank you. oh, he is great. he looks like he could go out there right now. i just wanted to tell you that it was an interesting week and amazing week. i want to congratulate a lot of people including the candidates. this is not easy stuff when you are doing this. i must tell you it is very important as a republican that our senators and congressmen get reelected and we put a good group of people together, that we keep the people that are

there. we have some terrific people. not all of them are on my side but we have some terrific people. it is very important. and if we are going to be effective, very important. one of the things i'm most happy about is the turnout has been massive for every week. whether it is south carolina or any place, it started with new hampshire and it really -- iowa. no matter where you go, it is records. i think it is actually the single biggest story in politics today. it is what is happening at the booth. a tremendous amount of people are coming out to vote. some states are getting -- one has 102% increase over four years ago. it is amazing. 102%. on average you are talking about probably millions and millions

of people, whereas the democrats are down 30-35% from what they were. they are down from what they were. we are up by 50% and even more than that. you are talking about millions of people. i actually think it is the biggest story and politics today. i hope the republicans will embrace it. we have democrats coming over. very important, we have independents coming over. they haven't done that probably ever. with all of these people coming over we're going to have something special. if i win and i get to go against hillary, polls are showing that i beat her. when you take advantage, we will take many people away from the democrats and many people away that normally go democrat as independents. and we are seeing that. we are seeing that. we had people come over here who have never voted republican or thought about it and they came and voted republican. i will tell you another group of people i have seen.

i will be signing autographs after his speech and we will be talking to people. i've had many people say -- it was a beautiful thing to hear, "mr. trump, i'm 67-years-old. i'm 67-years-old. i have never ever voted before. i've never come close to voting before. this is the first time i will ever vote." and that is so amazing. , that is so amazing. [applause] mr. trump: they do it with such spirit. so, it is really great. i want to thank the special interests and lobbyists. [laughter] [applause] mr. trump: they obviously did something to drive these numbers. but i want to congratulate them because to raise that much money that quickly is a pretty good feat. many of them are my frds