it was not rightly -- widely read unfortunately. the uniparty has found a way to weaponize these loans. the issue has been put into partisan cracks of this country. it should not be this way. of the 30 million-plus people unable to pay their student loans, more than half of them are either republican or independents. people whose gut instinct is to wag their finger at students, this is not about students. this is about people whose age average is far greater than 40. host: how old are you? caller: i am 54. the average age in our group has got to be mid-40's or so. this is not a young, blue haired, liberal elite issue the media would have us believe it is. this is an american issue. states like georgia, michigan is terrible.

>> we take you to florida, where donald trump will be joining jewish leaders here to mark the one-year anniversary of the october 7 hamas attack on israel. you are watching live coverage on c-span. ♪ well, there's pride in every

american heart and it's time we stand and say that i'm proud to be an american , where at least i know i am free, and i won't forget the men who died who gave that life to me and i proudly stand up next to you and defend her still today because there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the usa and i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i'd gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today 'cause there ain't no doubt i love this land

god bless the usa ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please find your seats. dr. miriam adelson. >> good evening. first, i would like to give big thanks to the blume family and ed russo for organizing this great event tonight to memorize

the terrible things that happened in october 7, an event that brings us together here, a fraternity of two faiths, christian and jewish, to mark the dark anniversary, a year since october 7, 2023, the darkest day of my life, of countless lives. it was a day whose horrors unfolded on the other side of the wall while america slept. but a year on, after israel's war with hamas in gaza, it has become a regional struggle against the genocidal and fanatical islamic republic of iran. we are all wide-awake to its impact on the entire world and

the world is looking again for u.s. leadership. many of you will know hagari, chief idf spokesman. he has appeared on tv regularly to brief the israelis and the americans about what's going on in israel, of these terrible -- this terrible and existential war. he said something remarkable the other day on tv. he is stuck in october 7, 2023. hundreds of sunrises and sunsets he has seen since all felt like they were part of the same horrible, unending day. i understand that we are still

learning new details about how 1200 of our brothers and sisters were kidnapped and tortured and butchered by hamas and by supposedly innocent palestinian civilians that you see in the pictures invaded also israel though they were not part of their army and raped and killed israelis, so these are the innocent people, but despite the profound pain, the heartbreak for the 101 blameless children, women, and men still held hostage in gaza, i am not stuck on this day. i am focused on what october 7 means for jewish history and the

jewish future and the lessons it brings. i am a native born israeli. i was raised to believe that the rebirth of this jewish state marked the beginning of the end of the global antisemitism that has robbed my parents of their families back in poland during the world war ii. as a child, i felt that something bad had happened in europe, but i first learned the facts of the holocaust when i was just 16 and israel put a nazi war criminal, adolf eichmann, on trial, because, before that, our parents didn't talk.

they didn't want to hurt us. they couldn't talk. still, the survivors who testified during eichmann's trial sounded like they had come from an entirely alien reality. one of them even referred to the concentration camp planet off schutz, like he was -- planet auschwitz, like he was on another planet. my late husband -- with my late husband, sheldon, i was proud to sit on the united states holocaust memorial museum and sponsor yad vashem in jerusalem in commemoration of our 6 million martyrs because we believed in the model never again but i lost that belief a year ago, gone forever because

what was never meant to happen again happened again, jews suffered a pogrom. they were helpless and defenseless. they lost their lives and their liberty and their dignity to the bloodthirsty mob whose yells were, in arabic, rather than russian or polish or ukrainian or german. and when israel finally fought back, it discovered all too many people in the west who preferred to condemn it rather than hamas, who accused israel of genocide, who called for israel to be denied weapons of self-defense, who made jews feel

unwelcome on college campuses, who treated israelis as if they were war criminals. these are the kind of people who allow the holocaust happened -- holocaust to happen and they are the kind of people who would allow another october 7 to happen, god forbid. if there is another october 7, it will come with a mushroom cloud. the same iran that armed and funded hamas in gaza, hezbollah and lebanon, and the houthis in yemen is working hard to get nuclear bombs with reach to finish the job of destroying the jewish state. that must not happen. israel must not let it happen.

and israel's friends, most important among them to this great united states, must not let it happen. [applause] i always like to quote a sentence from the bible. brings me to our keynote speaker. had he been in the white house a year ago, i am totally convinced that october 7 --

[applause] would have never happened. ok you did not let me finish the sentence. that october 7 would not have happened. hamas would not have dared. hezbollah would not have dared. the houthis would not have dared. and, yes, the ayatollah of iran would never have dared, because

they understand when they are faced with real courage. a strong leader who will make their lives hell if they get out of line. [applause] they laughed at un resolutions and a statement condemning both sides of the conflict. as long as they are not called out for what they are, evil, they know they will never suffer consequences, and this man has no problem with calling them out. he knows that the enemies of israel are the enemies of the united states and the freeuse tf

civilization. he knows how to talk past, but more importantly how to talk -- talk tough but more importantly, when the time for talk is over, to fight for what is right. [applause] he is donald j. trump, the best president america ever had. and the best president america will have again, god willing, come january. please join me in welcoming our friend in there brother -- friend and our brother, president trump. [applause]

mr. trump: wow. that was something, huh? thank you very much. thank you. very special woman, i have to say. she is very, very special and her husband is -- i mean, this was one tough cookie. he loved israel. you talk about special and that was a special man, wasn't he? thank you, mirium, for all the exceptional commitment you have given to the safety and security and prosperity of the united states and israel. before we begin, i would like to tell you that there's a very violent hurricane that's coming down the line and it's a category five, which is something i had never heard of

actually coming onto land but it looks like it's going to and right smack in the middle of florida. it is heading there quickly. i have to tell you i called mi rium. i think i'm the only person who flew down to florida tonight because i did not have a chance. i said maybe i should stay back and, you know, heading into a hurricane. it made no difference. no, you have to be here. i said, ok, when you say that, i'm going to be there 100%. [applause] i was watching the airplane traffic and it was all going that way. i would not have missed this regardless. it's a special time and a special day. this is the day we have to do it. you don't have to postpone it for a week.

i'm looking forward to coming back and maybe seeing all of these seats filled up the next time. that's what i want. that's what we want. so we are praying for florida and we hope everyone is safe and we are praying for north carolina and all of the different places. you look at georgia and alabama and tennessee and south carolina and florida. it's amazing. this is been an amazing period of time but the response has been very weak, unbelievably weak. no one has ever seen such a weak response so we have to get a strong response and now we have another one coming at it looks like it's going to be a whopper. i also want to thank the rabbi for doing such a great job. i appreciate it. your son, i appreciate that. we have a lot of very, very powerful people here tonight, great people. senator rick scott, big fan of mirium and of israel.

members of congress. in minutes, mario diaz. thank you. maria salazar. guy reschenthaler, david cuts , congressman lee eldon. he's helping us win new york. we are going to see if we can do it. ambassador david freeman -- david friedman. what a job he did. robin bernstein. how are you? good job you did as the ambassador. thank you very much. he raised a lot of money for our campaign. we appreciate it. he counseled general -- and i think you all know. where are you? what a good job you have done. where are you? thank you very much. what a beautiful job. thank you.

and florida house members danny perez and randy fine. where is randy fine? he's been out there. thank you, randy. great job. state senator iliana garcia. thank you. ed russo, environmental specialist. whenever i have a problem, i call ed russo and he solved the problem. we appreciate it. and somebody who has been a great defender of ours on television, on fox and elsewhere but particularly on fox, elizabeth. where's elizabeth? she has been so great. thank you. and one of the greatest business people in the country, in the united states, and i think actually beyond, and she's been a fan and i have been a fan of hers but she has been a friend for a long time. you look well. we are here this evening in

solemn remembrance of one of the darkest hours in all of human history. when year ago today every civilized person was filled with shock and horror and grief at the news of an evil so absolute that nobody has seen anything like it. it can fairly be described. you cannot describe it. october 7 was not just the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. it was not just the worst terror attack since 9/11. it was an attack on humanity itself. it was a hideous, incredible cruelty. it was chilling saturday, demonic delight in the destruction. ofhuman life it seemed as if. the gates of hell had sprung open and unleashed their horrors onto the world and that's exactly what happened. what a moment in time, what a moment and horrible history, horrible history. today, we mourn more than

1200 victims of the october 7 attacks, whose memory we honor with 1200 beautiful, individual candles, and we honor them with grace and with gratitude for their lives and their families, whether families have gone through, and maybe we will have a moment of silence, please. thank you very much. to every family that lost a loved one -- i know so many of them -- when that terrible day -- on that terrible day, including several here tonight, we are here with you and make this sacred vow, very simple vow, a value have heard many times and sometimes it's honored and sometimes it's not, but this will be honored. never again. never again.

[applause] the monsters who perpetrated those murders also took over 250 hostages, men, women and children, including 12 americans. in so doing, they inflicted the most unspeakable torture not only on their captives but also their families who were forced to live day after day in excruciating agony and pain, not knowing whether their loved ones were dead or alive. can you think of anything worse? tonight, we send our love to every innocent soul who remains in hamas captivity. we just are not going to stand for it. we are not going to take it. we are not going to take it any longer. we pray that through the darkness they know that we have not forgotten them, that we have not forsaken them. we will never forsake them and we will never abandon them and with god's help they will come safely home and it will be soon.

we hope it will be very soon. very, very soon. [applause] and we hope they are safe. nobody knows. i was talking to somebody today and the family has no idea. they think their boy is safe, beautiful boy, beautiful young guy, in american -- an american. he went over there to pray and then -- and they have never seen him again. they think he is alive. can you even imagine? let me also say to the people of israel who have endured a long year of anger and slander and war, our hearts are united with you as we are very united with you. the bond between the united states and israel is strong and enduring. if and when they say -- they say when i am president. i never say that.

if and when i am president of the united states, it will once again be stronger and closer than it ever was before. we have to win this election. if we don't win this election, there will be tremendous consequences for everything. [applause] you know, i say that november 5 will be the most important day in the history of our country. i think it will also be the most important day in the history of israel, if you want to know the truth. i believe that. i think you believe that too. [applause] thank you. over the past year, there's been an effort by some to deny the horrors of october 7, just as some unbelievably deny the holocaust itself, and you have that and you have people that actually say, oh, october 7, it never happened. where do these people come from? and i don't believe it. they want others to believe it. they don't believe it. that's why it is so important to

remember and state clearly what happened on that terrible day. the only way we can keep our vow is never again, and it really is to also say never, ever forget. we can never forget. the horrible legacy of what has taken place, the survivors, the families of the dead, and jews all over the world. hamas raped, tortured and maimed innocent civilians in the most barbaric ways imaginable. no one can believe what they saw and it's there for those to see if you want to see it. it's a terrible thing. i have seen. they parrot glided into a music festival of life and beauty. from the skies they came and massacred young people who came for joy and happiness and peace. they were loving young people, wonderful young people, beautiful people.

one young woman whose friend had been killed was seen begging on her knees for her life. she was begging, please. her last words were, don't kill me, please don't kill me, before the terrorist shot her dead in the face. elsewhere, a child and an adult were bound together with metal wire and burned alive. a baby was shot through the heart while still in the mother's womb, waiting to be born and shot. today, we reaffirm for the entire world to hear there can be no acceptance, no excuse and no understanding of this kind of evil. it's the evil like nobody has ever seen before. nothing can justify it. nothing can rationalize it. and any person who sympathizes with it, with these terrible atrocities, has a sickness in their soul into darkness in their heart. and these are people that could never be our allies or our friends. almost as shocking as october 7

itself is the outbreak of anti-semitism that we have all seen in its wake. i never thought i was going to see this, never, ever. this is so incredible to be witnessing. who would have thought? we thought this was very, very rare if i'd putrid -- very, very rareified, putrid air. we never thought we would see that in this country. and a lot of it has to do with the leadership in this country. this attack -- yeah. that's true. we need leadership. thank you. thank you. [applause] thank you. it's very sad to see. i never thought i would see it. this attack should have rallied the entire world in support of the jewish people and the jewish homeland. instead, an ancient scorch of anti-jewish hatred -- and this is something we thought that was

left to hundreds and thousands of years ago. i mean, this is something we never thought could happen. the anti-jewish hatred has returned even here in america, in our streets, our media and our college campuses and within the ranks of the democratic party in particular. not in the republican party. i will tell you that. it's not in the republican party. [applause] and i say that the republican party has not been infected by this horrible disease, and hopefully it won't be. >> these candles, photos and empty chairs tell us why anti-semitism should be stopped. bigotry has no place in the

u.s., no place. members of the holocaust were directly impacted. many lost their lives. one escaped from a concentration camp to die at the hands of the same eight, can you imagine? can you imagine hamas terrorists murdering them at 91 years old for the same reason the nazis put him in a camp. he because he was a jew.

hatred and disruption, it cannot go on. it will only get worse. the october 7 attack would never have happened if i was president . the past two years have proven weakness begets violence and there is a lot of hatred, a lot of hatred on a certain side. what is needed is unwavering leadership. we were powerful and respected like this country has not been respected in many decade just four years ago.

[applause] >> hamas has been degraded and hezbollah has been dealt crippling blows with strength and leadership, the dawn of a harmonious middle east is in our reach. we have to get it into the end zone and if it is not the united states it is not going to happen, it is not going to happen. we need to get back to a wonderful, beautiful way of life. you have to be able to do it. you have to finish quickly. i will not allow the jewish

state to be threatened, i will not allow another holocaust or a jihad and i will support israel's right to win its war on terror and it has to win it fast. it has to happen. thank you. and i want to thank mr. steve, a great entrepreneur, a major contributor, i think it is very generous.

i will protect your communities, schools, place of worship, we're going to remove the jew haters. the jew haters do nothing to help our country, they will only destroy our country. we will solve the problem if you look at two days ago starting all over again, the level of violence was as bad as last summer. they will not have died in vain, they cannot have died in vain.

we cannot let that happen. their sacrifice will give way to a stronger state of israel and we will have achieved the dream of generations. we are going to turn this and you can never say a total positive but were going to turn this into something where they can be proud, they can say we sacrificed our lives for something very special, but there has to be unity, peace, strength. we need so many qualities. we need every single quality. we will have peace in the middle east, strength, resilience, i will be with you all the way. thank you very much, god bless you and god bless america.

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of the hamas attack on israel lawmakers have supported the israeli people. today we must continue to stand with our ally and their rig t defend themselves. today we remember and honor lives lost and pray for safe return upon just. senator peter of vermont said the massacre will be remembered for cruelty a dravity. this conflict has brought death d struction. it is clear how necessary a cease-fire remains. tonight on c-span we bring you the one year anniversary of

hamas. congress investigates, examines the joint committee follong wave of violence by the kkk. pennsylvania's seventh district and minnesota's second district tonight on c-span. we are funded by these television companies and more including buckeye broadband. ♪ >> buckeye broadband support c-span along with