but they are going to get over it. [laughter] i also want to thank my very beautiful wife, and thank you for mentioning -- can you believe this, she did a book? it's a really good book and she worked hard on it, and it just became number one on the "new york times" list. [applause] that's not an easy thing to do, especially when your name is trump and you are on the "new york times" list. it must be selling like hot a true pleasure to be with you, and amazing pleasure. really a pleasure anywhere in new york without a subpoena for my appearance. anytime i don't get a subpoena i am very happy. [laughter] they have gone after me, mr. mayor, you are peanuts compared to what they've done to me and

you are going to be ok. this will be the first time in the history of this event where they have gone after me, mr. mayor, you are peanuts compared to what they've done to me and you are going to be ok. this will be the first time in the history of this event where jokes will be fact checked and they will be. it is a long tradition, candidates attend this dinner, it's a rule. you've got to go to the dinner, you've got to do it or bad things will happen to you from up there. you cannot do what i just saw on the screen but my opponent feels like she does not have to be here, which is disrespectful. particularly great catholic community. disrespectful. [applause] >> the last democrat not to attend this was walter mondale

and it did not go well for him. he lost 49 states, winning one, minnesota. actually it was not easy for me to get here. i was not going to miss this thing, no matter, but walter mondale, 49-1. expected to do well and it did not work out. it shows you there is a god for those people who are questioning. i understand the real reason she is not here, she is hunting with her running mate, spending a lot of time hunting. weird, weird, weird, you know the word weird? call me weird and jd vance weird. this guy is calling us weird but

it's weird that the democrat candidate is not here tonight. i want to congratulate someone who will make us healthy, rfk junior. he is campaigning, he has complained -- i love you both. doing a great job, make this a healthier place. he has got some wild ideas but most of them are good. the environment, healthy people, healthy food. i would not have missed the dinner for anything in the world. i remember coming here as a young guy. my father freddy was a good guy.

a tough cookie with a big heart. he would take out $100 and put it in 18 can and i think it's beautiful because you don't see it so much. i miss him and we used to come here very religiously. great new york tradition, born 79 years ago, born 79 years ago. there are people we are here for at length, i know many of them, not a pretty picture. the two candidates are supposed to exchange good-natured barbs and i did not like biden much, now i like him quite a bit. i say that she is much worse than him.

he was a much better candidate and when we win, i like her a lot. but right now i cannot stand her, i can't stand her. i never liked people i was competing against. we are doing well, you've got to get out and vote and catholics, you've got to vote for me. remember i'm here and she is not. i could've done that too. helping the poor, educating children, supporting the vulnerable, if you wanted harris to accept you should have told her the funds were going to bailout looters and rioters in minneapolis and she would have been here guaranteed to, she would have been here. guaranteed. she would have been ok, she would have been ok with that.

i know this is not my normal crowd because it just is not. my normal crowd is younger. has a lot more energy. you have certain advantages to, like cash, lots of cash. many of you -- i say the democrat party. chuck does not like that he likes democratic party. i always say the democrat party because it sounds worse. and it's true, he likes democratic. why don't they just change the name. it is democrat. i was shocked when i heard that harris was skipping the dinner. we cannot get enough of her beautiful laugh. she laughs like crazy, we would

recognize it anyplace in this room. i'm leaving big with the catholic vote as i should be, as i should. but i don't think, let harris has given up. she is in michigan receiving communion from gretchen witmer. that is not a pretty sight. but catholics, please do not be too insulted by her absence. if the democrats -- thank you very much appreciate it. if the democrats wanted to have someone not be with us they would have sent joe biden. you know, he is having second thoughts. he wants to come back. if she does any worse, they're going to bring him back. chuck is going to do it, he's

the one that got him out much more so then crazy nancy because i know him, he did it. joe has disappeared from view. the only way he could be seen less as if he had a show on cnn. they've got nothing. fake news, fake. they say the term is no longer in vogue. i want to tell you what the real name is and all the cameras would shut off. with harris skipping the event, joe called, looked at me and said don't. does anybody understand that? i thought it was very good until just now. it was announced that in a moment of clarity joe told barack obama -- only a few

people got that. as rush limbaugh used to say barack hussein obama, remember? he was a piece of work, we miss him. she is not as strong as me, not as strong and obama agreed. other than that i think the democrats are getting along quite well. nobody got that one. the fact is we need new leadership. we have someone in the white house who can barely talk, barely put together two coherent sentences, who seems to have mental -- faculties of a child. a person who has nothing going, no intelligence whatsoever.

but enough about, let harris. i know she is worried because she spends time complaining. i have debated twice this year, wants against biden and wants against david muir of abc. i was amazing 11 times, none for the other side. i don't know what's going to happen three weeks from now. it will be very interesting. to just start, actually isn't it sort of exciting? just exciting what's going on. it is a process. not so pretty, yet sometimes very beautiful. democrats are starting to panic, they are panicking because votes are coming in strong.

chuck schumer is here looking very glum. doesn't he? he looks glum. but look on the bright side considering how woke your party has become if she loses you still have a chance to become the first woman president. and do you mind if i do that? he goes do what you've got to do. he is a pro, he's a pro. he's a good man, i hate to say it. don't use it against me. this dinner and set me back what i said i've known him for a long time. there is a group of white dudes for harris, have you seen this? are you here? i'm not worried about them because their wives and wives

lovers are voting for me. every one of those people. as you may have seen harris did an interview on fox, it went so poorly for her that democrats have been forced to install another 100 drop boxes throughout the state. and the upside is she sees the benefit of deportation. she is vicious, she wants to deport people including brett baer of fox. the major issue is childcare and she put forward a concept of a plan. the only advice i have in the event that she wins is not to let her husband anywhere near the nannies. just keep him away.

that's a nasty one, that's a nasty one. they told me last time i did this i was running against crooked hillary -- i mean hillary. i was running against crooked hillary and i thought it was a roast. i had the meanest guy you've ever seen right stuff up in the room was angry. i went overboard, that was terrible and i knew i was in trouble because even my own side was angry, they said it's too much. but i did it anyway. campaigning can take a toll on a family and family life although i hear harris and her husband carve out beautiful alone time

for an intimate dinner, just doug, her and the teleprompter that she uses quite well. she would not have liked this if she was told no teleprompter. they've never had a teleprompter in the history of this dinner i told to the gardener and then a teleprompter. must be a very important comedian. they gave you one but not me. how about that one? i'm supposed to tell a few self-deprecating jokes so here it goes. nope, i've got nothing. i've got nothing. there is nothing to say. i guess i just do not see the point in taking shots at myself when other people have been

shooting at me for a long time. they say about presidents that andrew jackson was a president who was the most mean. his wife died of heart ache, heartbroken at the way they treated him and second was abraham lincoln but he was in charge of the civil war. injured jackson up until me, now they say it is not even close. never been a president treated so badly and people are not happy but i was treated rough. i don't mind it, it is just part of the game. i would like to thank our mc, jim gaffigan. he has been playing two malls on saturday night live in that will be a very short guy hope, but it was fun while it lasted.

let's see how that lasts. it better be quick. i'm not going to say anymore but unfortunately the governor is not here. but don't worry, he'll say that he was. i used to think democrats were crazy for saying men have per iods, but then i met two walls. it is so bad now that the other day i was watching the view and i thought they need to bring rosie o'donnell back. that show is bad, those people are bad. i want to tell you, i would like to say ratings are important. it does not do very well. i see all the usual suspects.

i like to poke fun at eric but i want to be nice because i know what it's like to be persecuted by the doj for speaking out against open borders. we were persecuted, i was persecuted and so were you. dietary restrictions are well known but i've never met a person who liked turkey so much. something about him with turkey, i just found that out today. i have not been in new york very much. another former mayor with us, easily the worst in our history. and -- i can tell you. i'm surprised that they were able to make it, he was a terrible mayor. he was a terrible mayor.

he did a horrible -- he did a horrible job. that is not comity, that is fact. but he does not have to worry about criminals, they owe him big. he let them get away with a lot of stuff. i had better wrap up because mayor adams said i needed to make this quick. the sea reserved this room for a large group of illegal aliens from texas. they have reserved many rooms, and a lot of rooms, too many rooms. it's an honor to be here to support the city and community, a great community that i love. it is going to make a big comeback and i will help it. i'm going to win and make a comeback, turn this thing around. i want to pay tribute to a man

who is a tremendous politician and the fact that he was catholic did him in, nobody knows for sure. but he was a great guy, al smith. i've said before, i'll say again, if i have the honor to be elected next month, we're going to see what happens. it's happening so fast. but if i have the honor, i look forward to working together to make this city greater than ever before. we're going to do that. we're going to be focused on the work with the governor, i will work with the mayor, democrats, i will work with them and whoever i i have to and bring back the salt tax deduction. we're going to bring it back. we're going to get that thing going. i actually thought about not doing jokes tonight. i was going to come out here and

say, listen, our country is doing very badly. this is not about jokes. then some person said you have to do jokes. i said, i don't want to. there's nothing funny about what's happening to our country. i actually meant that but they convinced me to say some of the things i said tonight. i don't know if they were funnier or not but you think this is easy standing up here in front of half a room that hates my guts and the other half loves me? half of us love me -- well, maybe it's about 75% love me. but i actually, i did think about that. our country is doing very badly with respect to its open borders and inflation, things happening in the middle east and ukraine, it's so sad to see what's happening in ukraine. wow, i've had a lot of religious people come up to me tonight

from ukraine asking me for help. so sad to see so many people have been killed in ukraine and we're going to get it settled up if we win, as i'm president-elect i'm going to get that done. too much killing. it's killing and all of those cities are crashing down. those beautiful golden domes are crashing down. so sad to see, the whole thing is so sad. so many people came up and i said we're going to get it stopped. should have never started. it wouldn't have ever started. but we're going to have our country respected again. we're going to do very good things for ourselves as a country and for the world. these are challenging times for our beautiful u.s.a. but i'm

committed to working with every partner here in new york and all across the nation to build an america that once again is strong and safe and proud and prosperous and free. we're going to make sure. together we can create a future defined by great ambitions and grand achievements that once again inspires the dreams of our children, brings back the american dream. you don't hear about the american dream anymore. we're going to make it possible for them to have the american dream. this is a very religious evening to me, it really is. it represents so much. my sister was somebody that loved the church and gave to the church. the cardinal knew that. had a certain priest she felt was incredible, certain very fine man that she thought was incredible. having recently, myself, survived two assassination attempts, i have a chart that

went down to the right. that's my all-time favorite piece of paper. i looked to the right and i said, you know, was that luck? or was that god that did that? and i think it was god that did that, i do. but i have a very fresh appreciation for how blessed we are by god's providence and divine mercy. i was not supposed to be here tonight, that i can tell you. so with god's help, i know there is nothing that cannot be achieved. we can achieve so much good with this country and get together and unify. i want to thank the alfred smith foundation for its noble work and express my tremendous gratitude to the catholic community. it's a great community, a community i've gotten along with all my life. when i was president, i was in the oval office and i got a call from the cardinal and he said we

need help. it was during the china virus, i want to be accurate when i describe it. and he said we need help, our schools are in devastating shape. they needed much more than a billion. i won't tell you the number but much more than $1 billion but i've known the community and i've known the schools. i know so many people educated in the catholic school system and they are great and they just speak with it with love much more so than almost any system i've seen. and he said we have a big problem, we need a number of billions of dollars or we're going to have to close down the new york school system and i said give me 15 minutes, i think we can find it and we gave him billions of dollars and they stayed open and they thrived and to this day i hear you did just

about the best job in education and that was always an honor and every time he sees me he said thank you very much. we worked together, we were a good partnership. we got that money in about 15 minutes, billions. it was put to very good use. i just want to thank everybody. this is a special evening. it's a very serious evening, i think. we have some serious problems in the world but they're going to get solved and we're going to make america great again and thank you so much and god bless you all. thank you very much. [applause] >> here's a look at a lot of campaign 2024 coverage. at 230 p.m. eastern, democratic presidential nominee vice

president kamala harris speaks at a rally in grand rapids. then former president donald trump holds a roundtable discussion with voters in auburn hills at 5 p.m. eastern. later, tammy baldwin faces off against eric huff to eat in the race for the wisconsin senate seat. you can also watch online at c-span.org and are free c-span now app. >> do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> watch the conclusion of our ican history tv series, congress investigates, exploring major investigations by the u.s. house and senate in our country's history. authors and historians will

discuss it, and we will discuss the impact and legacy of key congressional hearings. tonight, 1990 four tobacco industry ceos testified before the house that they didn't believe that nicotine was addictive and two years later they found themselves under federal investigation for potentially lying under oath. that's tonight at 10 p.m. eaern on c-span. >> maria cantwell faced off against republican challenger roald garcia in a debate to represent washington in the u.s. senate. hosted by cairo tv in seattle, they debated several major issues, including violent crime, abortion, and immigration. the nonpartisan cook political report with a new walter rates the race as solid democrat. this is a ksps pbs election ♪

>> we are welcoming both candidates the stage. thank you at home for joining us. i am your moderator and today with the help of great questions from you, we will be addressing the biggest issues facing our state. you are in for a spirited debate. let's meet the candidates. first, the incumbent, maria cantwell has held public office for 30 years. she has worked in the private tech sector in washington. her challenger, republican dr. roll garcia. dr. garcia, originally from cuba, has worked as a physician for 26 years and it is the medical director at ashburn hospital. dr. garcia has not yet held elected office, but has years of community service. both candidates have agreed to rules for this debate. no opening statements, but there will be time at the end for closing statements and at home

you will hear pre-questions directly from washingtonians. i will also ask questions formulated with help from the league of lit wit -- league of women voters, a nonpartisan group who neither endorses nor opposes political parties. each candidate will have 90 seconds to answer each question. candidates may call for a rebuttal once during the debate. my primary role is to ensure the questions are answered and asked follow-up clarifying questions as needed in 30 seconds will be given to respond to those. dr. garcia was the winner of the coin toss before the debate and opted to go second. senator cantwell will go first and we will alternate from their area let's get started with a basic but important question. why do you believe you are the best candidate to represent the people of washington in the u.s. senate? senator cantwell, you first. sen. cantwell: thank you for the question, thank you to dr. garcia, thank you to the league of women voters.

i'm here to what ask the washingtonians that i know and love so much for the ability to continue to fight for us. i went to washington not to argue with my colleagues or get on to cable tv at night, but get things done. we passed three major bills. the inflation reduction act, which helped to put a cap on prescription drug prices for out of pocket for seniors with insulin at $35, it got us a negotiated rate that is helping us save money, like when you buy at costco and you get a discount. we deserve to get that discount in the medicare budget. we passed an infrastructure bill that helped us build the west seattle bridge and is getting light rail to show miss county and has done so many other things. we also passed the chips in science act, bringing the supply chain home, increasing jobs here in the state of washington, driving down costs. that is so important. i want to continue that work,