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oh, that's. oh, that's so much easier. let me start reading, luke. that's all i need to do is read you a speech. oh, look. welcome to mar a lago. congratulate relations. i don't know. i don't think we better do this right now. not with this group. they give it for biden, but is he? get past the first page? well, it does help, though, because today i gave a press conference with the prime minister of japan. nice guy, tough guy, tough, tough, tough, but really a nice guy. and it was sort of amazing. the press, you do have some press back there. is that press, caroline, how's caroline doing? is she doing a good job. she she is doing a great job. good. well, for the press, for the media, i just want to tell you that these are senators and some of the funders are outside. they didn't get in, actually, which is amazing. what happens when you win, you forget them. isn't that terrible? but now we have some great funders and they were upstairs and they're having a meeting of

their own. just they feel so good about this win that they actually got together, said, what are all you guys doing? they just people that gave money to the campaign and they're here just to have fun together. as about 30 of them. and i said, come outside and see the people you got elected. and some of them are tremendous, really successful people. weathertech company privately owned. that only makes us product here, doesn't want to go to other places to make the product. it's a great product. david and so many other people and i said, come down and some of you have probably said hello to him, but i guess they're up eating by this time. but i just want to say that it's been amazing. it's been an amazing period of time. we've had some fantastic races. we have some people in this room who won races that were very difficult to win. tim and we have a hug. where's my friend from? where's bernie? that was a tough race. i'll tell you, bernie, they weren't giving you a big shot.

and i went up with bernie. i wasn't up on a friday night just before the primary. and i said this is the worst weather i've ever seen. it was the windiest i have ever seen. the teleprompters blew up the stage, actually got before i even started. and it was a wind like a tropical wind in ohio. and it was brutal. right. i remember that. and i said, well, we're all by ourselves up here with about 50,000 people, but i said, you're going to win that race. and he won the race. and he did great. he did a great job. and david was great. how about that? from that was i don't know where is david thursday, but david it was great, which was with me for a long time. but you know, that was a tough race. that was an incredible i thought you know, maybe i don't want to say it, but that might have been the toughest of all. you know, when you have a father that was there for 26 years and a son that's been there for 24 years or whatever it is, that's

not easy. and you did it and you did it under a lot of pressure, too. you were under a lot of pressure. he was actually in the field in butler when he pennsylvania when we had that terrible incident and and i saved his life because i said david, come on up. no, you know what, david? stay there for a little while. and and then i said, let me see the chart. i looked over to the right. if he were to come up, he would have been maybe not here. so i saved your life by saying, don't come up. i said, come up later, david. we'll have you later. that was a good wasn't that a good moment? he looks back. he says that was a good moment. but i just want to thank everybody you've been incredible. you've done incredibly. they've lost their minds. the the democrats have lost their minds and they've lost their confidence. every little confidence they are different people and they look foolish today. they tried to break into the department of education just because we want to go and check

the books. and maxine waters is a lunatic. and, you know, they're they're all lunatics, frankly. they're so it's so sad to see. they should be happy. they shouldn't be sad. you know, it's a funny thing. i went to a golf course that i own and i was very angry at bankers. this was prior to being president, prior even thinking about running for president and it's i always gone crazy because i couldn't get onto the course. one palos verdes is in california and beautiful right on the pacific. every hole in the pacific at my ed is i don't use it because you can't get on the course but my ed is if i ever have to use it, i have the ocean pebble beach only has the bay and i said, i'm dying to use that. ed but you don't need it. so i get there with this group of big bankers and very important people, and i'm so angry. i'm just like, fear is because i can't get on the course and i'm screaming, i can never get on this course.

drives me crazy. and after about 20 minutes of that, my caddie comes over to me. it's a seven year old guy, really nice guy, very smart. sir, may i speak to you? yes, yes. what do you want? he said, sir, other courses are all empty. you're packed. you have the best course in california. you're packed. it's always packed, sir. you can't get on the course. and he used an expression. you should be happy. you shouldn't be sad. and i felt like such a jerk. because he was right. because he was right. and anyway, but we are happy as a group because we had we had a tremendous we had a tremendous run. and, you know, we could have won a couple of more of that. i felt we were going to win. we won big in michigan and michigan, almost won. i don't know why he didn't win. he might be the one we're talking to michael and some of the others. he may be the one to run again. but i think i don't know. he seems to be. he did very well. i thought he won.

i thought we won wisconsin, actually. i thought we could have meaning the senator, because i won wisconsin by a lot. we won every race by a lot. we won every race by a lot. and i thought we carried some some people tim did so incredibly well. but and it sort of everyone did well. i mean, they worked hard. we we took in some great congressional people. we had a couple of issues that were tough issues, but they were they were good issues. they were great issues, actually. and i think they ceased to be much of a problem. but we did the right thing. you know what i'm talking about in particular, certain issue we did the right thing, but we've been together has been amazing unity. the only thing i was a little worried i was asked to do the prayer breakfast and they said, oh, it's two prayer breakfast. i said, why is it to because they're not getting along. and i'm talking about unity. so i had to do to prepare. i said, wait a minute. right? i did the political prayer breakfast with the senators and

the congressional and the congressman and then i said, so you mean i have to do it? they used to have it together, but i understand they'll join. they'll be in good shape for next year. they're going to do one read. and they said, well, you can do it by skype. i said, i don't want to do it by skype. so i did one and i ran to the other one, which is about 5 minutes away. and i did the other one and i said, what? what's going on? well, there's a lack of unity. i said, let's get unified. and everybody's agreed. next year we'll do one prayer breakfast not to and put it together and and i don't know which feature was better. they were very different, i can tell you. one was in front of political people. the other was in front of our people. right? the people. and we had seven or 8000 people at that one. that was a big one. now i heard that you didn't do it because i wasn't in office and i wasn't in washington. and when they had the prayer breakfast in the big one, the hilton, which which is a, you know, very big room, you weren't

getting a lot of people. and you didn't want to be associated with an empty room because you're political people. i don't blame you. but we're going to we had a big packed day. they couldn't even. get into the room. it was sort of a great a great morning. and next year, i know they're going to do it together. but we're going to we just have great unity and the media, which i let in for a little while, but they can hear anything i have to say. i'm an open book. they can say any, they can have anything. we had a great news conference today with the press, the the prime minister, japan. they wanted to buy u.s. steel. i said, i can't let you buy it. i can't i cannot. you no other company you want to buy it? it's okay. but u.s. steel was one of the greatest companies in the world for 17 years. it was the number one company in the world. like 80 years ago was a long time ago during the a certain heyday. i think we're in the heyday now. you want to know the truth? i think we're soon going to be in the heyday. we're going to be hotter than any period of time.

and i told them two weeks ago, they came in to see me. the people from u.s. steel, with some japanese representatives. and i said, i can't let you have u.s. steel. you cannot buy it. we love japan. we're not allowed i'm just not going to let you buy it. it's u.s. steel. this is one of the great companies of the world. and, you know, and that was real stuff. that was that was steel. that was guys. and we're going to take that steel. and they're building buildings today. we have google and facebook, and that's fine, too. but it's a little bit different. and they become dear, dear friends. you know, i say that it's amazing how they've become. they spent $500 million on lock boxes. and the last one, they're sitting on the stage with me. that was that was a who's who of the world sitting on the stage. it's very different. the first one, i didn't have a lot of support, but i had a lot of people support. but, you know, we did great. then we had the second one where

we did much better. we got ten or 12 million more votes and we did phenomenally in the second one. but then we said, look, we did great, but a lot of bad things happened. very scary, terrible things. terrible, terrible things. and look what happened to our country because of it. but then i said, we got to do it again, but we're going to make it too big to big. and if anybody here thinks they didn't try, they tried like you wouldn't believe. but it was just too big to rig. they walked away. 902 in the evening, they knew it was over. it was there was nothing they could have done. and that's what we had. we had an election that was too big to rig and it was such an honor. we won every swing. say we had seven. and remember, john, they were talking about, well, maybe trump could win three or four. we won all of them and we won by a lot. wasn't close. none of them. we had a lot of good things. no tax on tips that helped me in nevada quite a bit. i hope we're going to be able to get that. okay, we got to try and get it. very important. some of the things that are very

important, i think, is the the one year deduction. you know what? you can do something. and when you i know we have a lot of people haven't been talking about that. i can tell you the first one that was so so big where they go out and they invest and they're allowed to do the one year deduction that that really revved up. and i've had so many people say, could you do that again? could people were doing jobs that they didn't even want to do, build building or creating jobs or building jobs? and tommy, you know about that, that one year deduction was such a big deal. so i hope you guys can start thinking about that and putting it in the bill. but we had a great meeting the other day and yesterday in the oval office with about 22 house members, and they were from all sides, super conservative and slightly on the progressive side. i use progressive, which is tonight. i want to be nice people as we get a lot of cameras rolling back that i want to be nice. but they were very different and i said, you know, i heard them. i listened for a little while.

and then i said, you know, why don't we just balance the budget? why don't we cut certain things and balance the budget? don't touch social security, don't touch medicare, medicaid, just leave them alone. now, there are people that are illegally in there because we have a lot of illegal immigrants that have found their way in and we just can't do that. you just can't do it. but just let's see if we can balance the budget. and they started then they started screaming and shouting. and within about an hour it was amazing what they they found 750 billion in the green new scam. and commonly referred to as the green new deal conceived of and dedicated by a young lady who never studied the environment, who knows nothing about the environment, who is a semi poor student, not a good student who's not particularly smart but has some magic. i actually said i watched her campaigning when she campaigned the first time in queens because

queens is my church. actually. i grew up in queens and she was running against a friend of yours, joe, right. you know, joe and joe is going to be the next speaker, right? he was going to be the next speaker. wasn't going to be nancy pelosi, who's probably one of the most dishonest. and she became a rich person. she never was anything. she was a politician. and she's worth now 100 million, $125 million. how about the one where she sold her stock a couple of months ago in a company that announced everything? she had the company for years and then she sold the stock. and the following day they announced that that company is under major investigation and the stock crashed. nothing happens. nothing happens. they're crooks. so she was running aoc, aoc plus three, but she was running. and i watched her run and i said, oh, she's pretty good. she got a spark and i called joe, who i don't know, too much. i said, are you running against her?

yeah, but are you not debating her? no. she got no chance. and he's been in there for like 25, 26 years. unlike tim scott, who absolutely destroys his opponents all the time. you really do, too. and by the way, he was the greatest surrogate. he was our greatest surrogate. i'd said to him he was brutal. he was very nice. you know, when he ran, he was nice for himself. he was nice. he was such a gentleman. but unfortunately, that doesn't get elected all the time. and i said, how do you think tim would be as a surrogate? and i watched him the first time and he destroyed everybody. then he won again. and he said to me, i never and i thought it was beautiful, actually, because it's like the opposite of me. he said, i've never been able to speak well about myself because i don't like bragging. and i said, this isn't that nice, wouldn't it? and i said, somebody like that. and it's true. he would. he was he was always a great campaigner, but he was it was a good campaign.

but it wasn't a vicious, violent campaign. right. but for me, he was vicious and vile and you just destroy people. so i want to so i want to so i want to thank you. i just see you sitting with your new, beautiful wife. and i just want to thank he's a great guy. everybody in this room, as far as i'm concerned, everybody look at mark wayne back there. don't fight him. just don't fight. remember, he almost got into a fight with a tough cookie. i know. i know that. tough cookie, right? head of the teamsters. he's thin. he's a fantastic guy. sean. when he almost got beat, he could have been in trouble with this one now. but sean's pretty tough. but he would have been in trouble. but i see everybody in this room, and i mean, there's nobody. and if i didn't like somebody, i would tell you i like them all. i really would. you know what i like about chuck grassley? he he may call me chuck because he got his voice and he wasn't meaning, but he said, did you lie? and colby was like, it was

unbelievable. remember? and he said, yes, yes. i said, he just admitted he lied. and he just said it like, we just got this way about him. you made him joke. that was good. he deserved the joke, too. but everybody in this room has been it's been really amazing. it's been amazing. the relationships have been good. and we don't always agree on everything. but we get there. we get there. we had a couple of people that had to get a little bit. they had to study a little bit further. yes, some of our nominees, i think, are going to find our nominees are very good. i think it's very important, you know, when we talk bobby kennedy, i think he's up there having dinner tonight. it's very interesting. but he's a good person and he's not a radical. he said, you know, i'm getting sort of this reputation of being anti vaccine and everything else. he said, i'm not anti. and i understand through the campaign that he actually has kids had vaccines at all. he said, you know, i grew up in a slightly political family.

would you say that was the kennedys? he said, i grew up in a political family. i mean, i'm not a crazy person. i'm very moderate in a certain way. and i never forgot that. and i think it's true. but i think we need somebody like this and dr. oz working with him because if you look at autism and you go back 20 years, it was i think it was like one in 10,000 children. but actually, i think the number is even higher than that one in 10,000, one in 20,000 children had autism. and now it's one in 34. what's that all about? what's that all about? one in 34. and i think we really got to get to the bottom of it. i really believe we're going to figure the reason. and i don't know, maybe it's pesticides or maybe it's something, but we're going to figure the reason we spend more money on food, on cleaning it and spraying it and doing all this stuff, and we're going to find out what it is. but i think we probably needed somebody that, you know, that's a little bit outside of the box.

and he's also very popular outside of the party. i mean, if you look overall, i mean, very, very popular and people gave him great support. but i just appreciate the people that got their and it showed great unity. and if you didn't get there, the press, the same people that have the cameras rolling, they would be they'd be saying trumpist laws, total control of the party. now i have somebody who's i think fantastic elan and elan was a recluse. you know, he was a very reclusive person. but i know him. he's a brilliant guy, but he was reclusive. and i think we got to him to be very reclusive. right as i said, madness. and with the head on. did you see that yesterday? but he's a great he's a great guy. and he loves the country and he's wanted to do this for a long time. if he could have done it himself, he would have done it himself. and, you know, he went into this group of people and you see what they've been spending money on. the the horrible usaid, the

horrible things that they're spending money on. it's it's got to be kickbacks. you know, they send the money to the guy, he takes the money and he sends them back most of the money. and he keeps them for himself, in my opinion. i think that's because you can't send the money to this. these groups of people. it's a terrible thing. and i think it's like that and others, too. and i said, go to the next go to the next one. i'd like you to look at department of education, and i think you're going to find is very similar. different but similar. and go into the military, go into everything. i mean, i want you to go into everything. but i said to the congressman yesterday that why don't we balance the budget? why don't we balance the budget? why should we wait ten or 15 or 20 years to balance it? you know, they were talking about little cuts a, we can have big cuts that don't affect anybody. waste, fraud and abuse. and we're finding it now. that's one of the beauties of what elon's is doing. he's got he started with a group

of 25 super geniuses. they were under shirts. they were they looked like i mean, i look at him, i said, but then i realize he's got 182 iq. that's what we need. and they go in and they'll ask people that aren't nearly as smart as them, why is it that you made this ridiculous break? why is it and the guy gets all tongue tied, he can't talk because he's against somebody that's much smarter? and it's amazing, actually, what they've exposed and to a level where they cut 97% of the people out, the whole thing is a scam. and you look at some of the people working there, they're very political people, their relatives, and it's just terrible. but you're going to find that elsewhere. and then i think we're going to see something tremendous with respect to the tariffs, because, you know, other countries tariff, so we don't tariff them. and with lindsey, i don't know if you remember the conversation, lindsey, but i had a conversation with lindsey, who's so talented on so many things, but i would say finance, he's less interested. no, no, he's very lucky he gets it, but he's, he's less

interested. and i said to him, you know, certain countries, they charge us a tariff and i want to charge them the same thing. and i like that. and i want to charge them the same thing. i said, okay, so let's get this straight. they charge us like 100%. we charge them nothing. so that's what i said. so you want to charge them 100%. they said, i want to charge them, whatever. if it's 80% of it's 25%. i want lindsey looked at me, goes, you got my vote. and it was very simple. and he's a great guy and he's running for office and i'm going to endorse him and he's going to do very well. i think he's going to do very well. well, we're batting i think we're 299 and zero. and the republican. but you know what? we're 355. ryan jack was the great brain jack. 355 out of 350 have general elections. we won, i think 234. that's not bad either. but with the republicans, it's

been almost flawless. so i think listen, i congratulate lindsey yet, but i think i think you're in good shape. okay. he's been actually he's been a fantastic, in my opinion, a fantastic senator is a nice guy. he's a little more left than i am. a little more left than you are. but he is a is a great guy and he's going to have no problem. so i appreciate all of the unity. i appreciate this tremendous support. this doug burgum is an example of what a great he was. fantastic. and catherine, thank you for asking. and here is a big part of today's event because he and chris. right. you know chris right. i don't know if chris is here, but chris right. is the number one guy in the world in oil and gas. and i'll never forget i had a meeting here with a lot of the oil companies. and doug and senators, a lot of people. and i said, doug, i really want you to be department of energy. they looked they said, look, there's a man in this room right

now who's so much better than me, the most talented oil guy in the whole country. i said, who the hell is that? because he's done, you know, he made a lot of money with the internet stuff and, you know, different things. not oil. i thought it was in oil. it was an oil and gas guy. there was. and he sold his company to microsoft for a tremendous amount of money, very successful. he became the governor of north dakota and ran a great state. and he became an expert on energy because they have energy on fracking in particular. but i said, i want you to be the if i win this. this was even before i won, but i thought we were going to win early. and i said, i want you to be the head of energy. he said, look, there's a man in this room right now who's better than anybody in the world. chris right. and he was sitting there and i said, this man over here. yeah, that man, he's better than me. he's better than anybody for what we want. getting the oil out of the ground properly and i said, well, let's talk. and so i talked to chris and i was impressed by it. but more importantly, he was

impressed by it. and it was interesting. so he became the secretary of the interior and it's interesting for a different reason because chris is energy, but there is no energy is it, bob? there's some nuclear, but there's no energy. he's in theory, he's got all the energy. so i said, why don't you merge together and work together? and they've essentially done that. doug and chris they're working together because he's got more energy than any country anywhere in the world under his auspices. but he's not department of energy, so he can't drill. but now he's got a man that he knows very well. that's i assume, a friend of his or whatever. but he got the job because of you and and he didn't need a job. he was doing very well. this guy didn't need a job. he's the top guy in the whole world. but i see that so often. so many people, they want to be a part of this. they want to do what you're doing, john. they want to do what all of you, senator, are doing. i mean, you don't make money like they make. you could if you did it. many of you are so talented.

you could do whatever you want to do, but they want to do what you're doing is very interesting and you don't want to do what they're doing. you'd rather be a senator. it's crazy. in other words, you like power, and that's okay too. but. and that's what you have. you have a tremendous amount of power. but so chris and jay, chris and doug have gotten together and essentially they're like, unbelievable. and what you're going to be doing is unbelievable. and we have a lot of confidence in you. and if we bring the energy prices down, everything is going to follow. that's what got it up. we had a great energy policy. we did great. we had oil. we had gasoline at $1 and 84. since we actually had a much lower than that for a little period of time. but we had it at a dollar 84. and then they took my my policy and they really messed it up. and then they went back to my policy. you know, they always said what we were drilling just as much. what they don't say is if i were there, we would have been double or triple that number.

but they basically took my policy because it was going through the roof. they said, we're really in trouble. so they went back to my policy as much as they could, but not all the way back. and the energy is what causes the problem. they went up at the beginning, if you remember. then they they went back to try and bring it down. they had a harness. that horse, but they went back and it went up and it went up really dramatically. and that caused everything else to go up and energy goes up and energy when it comes down, we're going to bring a lot of things. so we're counting on you guys to supply and demand to bring that cost of energy down. you bring that down and everything else is going to follow all of the cost of food. i hear so much about the word groceries. i used to use groceries a lot on that trail. a word. it's like sort of an old fashioned word. groceries. but groceries is the word that's the most accurate word. and the price of groceries went through the roof. bacon was levels like nobody's ever seen.

you take a look at eggs today. i mean, the eggs are double, triple, quadruple. they're going through the roof. now. there's some problems that they, you know, a little outside problem with eggs, maybe. but, you know, we inherited a mess. we inherited a country that's a mess. it was no reason to allow millions of criminals into our country, millions people that were i'd say 3 million, 4 million, 21 million people. all told. but 3 million, 4 million criminals. many, many thousands and thousands of murderers, people that murdered people, killers, people that murdered two people, three people, and even four people from in jail. and so literally confinement. they let them out of jails from all over the country, but really from all over the world. then as well, let out so many people, you know, that crime rate is down 78%. i can't believe they haven't allowed every single some of these countries allowed every

single prisoner and they put them on busses and they pass them in or they put them on planes, because these are countries also from africa, from asia, not just south america. a lot a lot from south america, but not even the most. i mean, we have them coming from all over the world and we're letting them in. they let them in from the congo for whatever reason. the congo is prime territory to come into our southern border. they get them up to the border and they let them in with this stupid open borders policy. so this would have never happened if if the election were proper. in other words, if the election weren't rigged, which it was, and it would have never happened. but i will say this. it's much bigger, historic, really. this is much bigger. it showed what this ideology that some people are facing throughout the world that showed how bad this ideology is, how incompetent the people are, but how bad the idea ology is. the ultra left stupid policy and

i don't think they can get elected for a long time. they're still you know, they just suffered a big election defeat. they're very depressed and they're using the same things. we just signed a bill yesterday. it was so incredible that no more men playing in women's sports right. right. and. instead of big boys set up, how about this guy? okay, now, now i'm using him as he was a great player. he played in the jets for, what, ten years? ohio said, is he going to play in sports with his wife? he wouldn't have 11. she's the size of his leg, maybe, maybe somewhat smaller. the whole thing was ridiculous. i was reading of some of the stats yesterday in the room and i said there was a long distance race at the best female races in

the best male races, longest running race, and the man won by 5 hours and 24 minutes. i mean, that's not the greatest, though, of the weightlifting records where they break the record, a record that stood for 18 years and they'd go and they'd put a quarter of an ounce here, a quarter of an hour. and i go, and they couldn't quite get it up. and this guy came in and he was a poor man, weightlifter, not a good one. he was at the lower realm of weightlifting. he goes up boom like, and he ends up like 127 pounds more. he was a bad he was one of the worse. that's maybe that's why he decided to transition. and as the expression goes, i've gotten very good at that. i have to, because if i a mistake, these guys are going to get me in big trouble with perfect shoes. you will get very upset with me if i make of his. and by the way, susie deserves a great round in.

the ice maiden. we call her the ice maiden. you know, she's the daughter of pat summerall, who is a smart guy and he was a very good football player, but a great announcer for 27 years for the nfl. and he worked with john madden. and john was a difficult guy, but he had, you know, great. he just come on, john, you got to like these executives. you know, it took a little rough to the executives at cbs. they weren't in love with him. actually but come on, john. and you got to be nice to them getting paid a lot of money. and they did this for 27 years. he was the only one they could deal with. john madden. he dealt with them very easily right. is that true? so he was great. but susie is like that. i she's amazing. she's respected by everybody the democrats, too, by the way. a lot of democrats. in fact. that bothers me a little bit, john. but but the democrats the democrats respect her and they like but we all like her, but we call her the ice maiden because she's very nice until she decides not to be, then she's

brutal. she can be she can be. but, you know, we ran a perfect campaign. we did that final three months, 90 days. i didn't sleep. we did speeches every day. we did rallies. we did three or four rallies a day in sometimes the last few days we did more rallies and then anybody could believe and they were packed to the we went up to milwaukee. we had 28,000 people in that beautiful new basketball arena. we use the basketball arenas, but they were way too small. we went to madison square garden. we could have sold it out ten times. the people went all the way back to fifth avenue and all the way down to the river, which is five blocks down. and i mean a line. i mean just massive crowds. the owner of the garden gym, they he told me he's never had any he's never seen anything like that with all the big sporting events and championships and everything else, they never had anything like it. so i just want to thank everybody. it's been an amazing run. we did a good job for you and you did a good job for me.

and we have some in talented new people in the party and we're going to work with you. we've raised a lot of money that we're going to be using on midterms and we've raised a lot of money. i did something that i don't think anyone's ever done before. i said, listen, we just won. and see, the good thing about not having done this so long, john, is that i come up with ideas that nobody else has thought of. usually when you win, you let your people rest your donors rest, and you let him rest for two or three years and then you're going to run again. if it's a congressional race, let him rest for at least a year, year and a half. so we won and everybody was euphoric. everybody. they were so happy. and i called up meredith. where's meredith? i said, meredith, where are you? meredith she's in. thank you. and i called up meredith. i said, meredith, the morning this is the morning after the win. so everyone is. so i said, call the donors and ask if they'd like to make a major contribution. sure, the election it's like

just like 8 hours old said, that's all right. and we raised over $500 million very quickly, 500 and and the people were so happy. they were happy to do it. you know, we could have waited two years. but, you know, the press will beat us up for two years. and, you know, now maybe they wouldn't have been as happy. but i think they're going to be happy because we were delayed because we become the party of common sense. and when you have common sense and when you are the party of common sense, we're going to do well for a long time. we're not going to do badly, in which a lot of people say, oh that you always will do badly in a midterm. i don't think there's any reason for that. these people were fighting when i did the thing with the men playing in women's sports i watched today democrats fighting on this. they don't learn. and i hope they don't learn because, you know, they're still with the open borders.

we want open borders. open borders are never going to sell men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody. it's never going to sell. and they haven't changed. they haven't learned. and frankly, i hope they don't play this because i hope they don't learn because we have to beat them and we're going to beat them. and i just want to thank in the room, everybody in this room has been special. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. onol hill, the house eastern.n monday at noon later in the week, members will consider legislation establishing new penalties for evading u.s. border patrol miles from the border.ithin 100 the senate's back mon 3 p.m. eastern to continue debate on more of president trump's binet nominees. senators will vote during the week on the nominations of tulsi bbd to serve as director of

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