kennedy: thanks for watching. the show is back at 8:00 p.m. eastern with the best gift you've ever seen in your life. see you then business. lou: good evening, everybody. our top story tonight. president trump, who was about to take the stage at a rally in charleston, west virginia as we follow for breaking stories tonight, all related to politically divisive issues in what is now a highly divided and hyper partisan nation. former charm campaign manager, paul manafort today found guilty on 18 counts tax fraud, bank fraud, president trump's former attorney michael cohen entering a plea deal in federal court and former national security advisor, michael flynn

sentencing hearing postponed. that is right, postponed again. and if you're counting for a fourth time. all of this as investigators in iowa have arrested an illegal immigrant who is charged with murdering 20-year-old mollie tibbetts, whose disappearance made national headlines for almost five weeks. we'll be bringing you the president's remarks in their entirety from charleston, west virginia as he takes the stage. the latest developments on those major breaking stories. a jury today after days of deliberations with paul manafort guilty on eight counts of fraud. the judge declared a mistrial on the other 10 counts. president trump address to manafort case after he landed in west virginia for the rally tonight. >> is started as russian collusion. this is a witchhunt and it's a disgrace. this has nothing to do with what

they started out looking for russians involved in our campaign. i feel very badly for paul manafort. i can manafort. again coming it worked for bob dole, ronald reagan, many people in this is the way it ends up. it was not the original mission, believe me. it was something very much different. nothing to do with russian collusion. we continue to witchhunt. >> the witchhunt verizon says the president and manafort found guilty on five counts of tax fraud. also found guilty on one count of failure to file a report on a foreign bank account from the guilty and two counts of bank fraud. and manafort facing up to 80 years in prison, up to three years of tax fraud, up to five years concerning a foreign bank account. 30 years each on to bring fraud charges. sentencing is set for the 29th of this month. michael cohen, president trump's

personal attorney pleading guilty today to federal fraud charges, admitting he violated campaign finance laws when he arranged hush money payments to adult film star, stormy daniels, karen mcdougal. he says that the direction of the candidate. cohen pleading guilty to five counts of tax evasion. one of making the financials events or financial institution. and an unlawful corporate contribution and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution. facing between 46 to 63 months in prison, facing up to 65 years if convicted on all of those charges. so you see his incentive. this all happening on the same afternoon the former national security adviser general michael flynn sentencing hearing was again delayed said flynn could still be an robert mueller switch on. california republican congressman duncan hunter and

his wife both indicted and charged with converting hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign illegal alien we believe he's been in this area now for four to seven the administration's clean power

plants to regulate coal-fired power plants. the administration and his supporters say this move will create more jobs and cut costs. to repeal the regulation of president obama in the clean power plants. it caused us to lose and really hurt our economy in west virginia. lou: call expected to be a major talking point in the president's speech tonight as his rally. daily call her ms. foundation editor-in-chief christopher bedford, defense attorney rebecca rosewood blend. good to have you both with us. let me start, rebecca, with you. an extraordinary day in legal developments. your thoughts. >> there has been nothing in the manafort verdict involving russian collusion. tax evasion, issues that relate

to paul manafort. personal choices in life. lou: this is politically driven. it is driven by the special counsel who had a mission that was very straightforward good collusion with russia. and this is the result. >> there was not even an allegation of collusion throughout the trial and the jury didn't make any decision based on that. the decisions were tax fraud and unfortunately paul manafort was found to be guilty to fraud in the government. lou: and christopher, extraordinarily the special counsel handing this case off. the remarkable thing it seems to me is that this is a special counsel going after the president's attorney and succeeding in getting what he wanted that is the foundation to further squeeze michael cohen and squeeze further paul

manafort and judge ellis said precisely that, that the entire proceeding was about going after the president of the united states through paul manafort. >> i agree. but clear as day. manafort has now been found guilty and has admitted to breaking the law. but neither one of these people would be in trouble for either one of these things if it were not for the fact that they worked for president trump at some point during the campaign under the administration and that seems to reek of politics. part of that could be that they raise their head to hide and living where they were now in the public spotlight. manafort's own daughter is worried about that. i hope they don't find out about dad. i think he's getting too big. i think is manafort who was then dad, who is in trouble and living a luxurious lifestyle and not able to pay for it was going to try and use his position on the campaign to leverage that.

and for some of his debts off. and then you have cohen thing he did this and that was campaign finance reform violations. if he doesn't have something he can deliver, the proof the president with lt events, which i doubt he does, then he'll probably not get a deal from the prosecutors like it's going for. true into an guilty as this. to narrow that down just a bit, rebecca, there is no campaign violation as far as the president's role, rudy giuliani. there is never been a successful prosecution of campaign finance violations for precisely john edwards, the most recent example. >> i also want to note that if there were violations that would be attributed to the president, that would've been the first indictment. they would've held back the

michael cohen situation. that would've been a secondary issue. so i don't think we have anything beyond michael cohen in that respect either. i don't know where the special prosecutor is going from here, but it doesn't seem yet that we have any solid, substantial evidence with any sort of collusion. lou: your thoughts here christopher because this is a special counsel that is going to continue to work very hard, clearly is to attack the president and in so doing is creating an extraordinarily toxic atmosphere in washington and doing absolutely nothing to make this president's job any easier surrounded as he is by one enemy after another attacking him from every angle

it seems. >> is incredibly time-consuming. it takes the president's focus off of international issues, national issues up the u.s. economy. other things to talk about tonight in west virginia. michael cohen would not have been in this area of this area if it were for politics. he would've said what he said today about when the president if it were for politics. even if there's some connection there were the president committed campaign-finance violations, it would so come back to politics because he's a sitting u.s. president. they can't get in legally. they would have to go back to congress and ask congress to impeach him. again i'll be back to politics and be entirely up to how people vote in the in the next election. lou: i want to ask both of you as a rapper appear, at what point does it behoove the president to say this is enough. it is obviously politically motivated. his investigation politically charged just as the american

people are watching the facts unfold before them. and it's about collusion among the dnc, democratic national committee, the hillary clinton campaign, fusion gps and the law firm, the democratic law firm and the fbi and has devoted buyer, resigned. at what point does this investigation supposed to leave wherever the fact that the special counsel. why hasn't he focused on those issues themselves? >> that is a question that i think everyone is asking now. where is this investigation go in and does it have been and because there is clearly not been there with the collusion regarding russia. at some point, the president may want to do that, but he also doesn't want to feel his enemies by saying he's covering anything up. there's nothing to cover out. >> it is clear that there isn't

because there has been almost a one-year investigation by the fbi. more than a year by the special counsel. nothing has been forthcoming. the senate and house intelligence committees producing absolutely nothing. absolutely nothing. and none of the intelligence agencies and we've got to remember the lad under the spy chiefs, under president obama, if they had one item of evidence in my opinion, christopher, they would've sprung at on this president long, long ago. that says they are bereft of any evidence and all they have is a politically motivated witchhunt in which they are fully participating if not orchestrating. >> after this long of investigating, always see them doing is squeezing cronies in the outskirts and president trump spotlight orbit for short amounts of time and see what information they would get. they're not going to find anything. president trump shouldn't give

any ammunition in force and a constitutional crisis by stepping in. instead they should let the democrats walk around and talk about russia. he talks about the economy, talks about coal, talks about foreign affairs and things that are much more interesting to people outside of washington. lou: and a warm, comforting wave of prosperity that is washing all across america and as the president promised in his campaign delivering prosperity for all americans. christopher bedford, thanks for being with us. thank you, appreciate it. thank you votes. the president -- we are waiting for the president to arrive at his rally. he has done that as you see they are. in charleston, west virginia, we'll be taking his remarks in full as soon as he shows up and he has now shown up. we are going to be taking his remarks in full. it is one of the most enjoyable

parts of these rallies is between this president and his ardent supporters at these rallies. let's just tune in a little early, take the president and all of those good people in west virginia in less than for the to begin his speech. here is the president of the united states, donald trump. ♪ take me home, country road ♪ all my memories, gather round her ♪ minus lady, stranger to the water ♪ dark and dusty painted on the sky you >> moonshine, teardrop in my eye ♪

country road take me home to the place i belong ♪ west virginia, mountain mama ♪ take me home, country road ♪ i hear her voice in the morning when she calls me ♪ reminds me of my home ways you >> driving down the road i get a feeling that i could've been home yesterday ♪ yesterday the ♪ country road, take me home ♪ >> thank you very much. wow. [cheers and applause] that is so beautiful. what a great song too, by the

way. do we like song? i think so. [cheers and applause] i would like to use it all the time, but it only seems to work well in west virginia, right? [cheers and applause] i am thrilled to be back with all of my friends in the great state of west virginia. thank you. [cheers and applause] this was a big, big three. we won by 42 points. that is pretty big, right? 42 points. over a democrat, right? over a democrat. [applause] they didn't do too well. and the people of west virginia, they are loyal, hard-working, true american patriots. remember that. [cheers and applause] they are great, great people. and my friends, thank you very much. i love you, too. it's a guy.

i love you, too. [applause] you're proud of our country. you're proud of our history and unlike the nfl, you always honor and cherish our great american flag. [cheers and applause] it was just announced by espn that rather than defending her beautiful, beautiful national anthem and defending our flag, they've decided that they just won't broadcast when they play the national anthem. we don't like that. so while the players are kneeling. some of them, not all of them at all. they are all proudly standing for our national anthem. thank you.

[cheers and applause] the espn thing was terrible. just came out. under our administration, america is winning again and america is being respected again all over the world. it is america first. [cheers and applause] this is the greatest economy that we've had in our history. the best. our steel mills are back. they are burying back. [cheers and applause] we are making steel again. united states steel announced a massive infusion of cash. they are opening up seven different plans. other steel companies all over the company art opening up plants. people said steele will never be back. steel is back. it's one of the hottest industries in our country because of what we have done with our terrorists.

they were dumping steel all over our country. they were destroying our business. they are paying a lot. our military will soon be stronger than it has ever been before. [cheers and applause] we are taking care of our amazing veterans. [cheers and applause] and i know this doesn't matter to you, but we are putting our great coal miners back to work. [cheers and applause] [chanting] >> great people, great people.

great people. i don't know how the hell you do that. you've got a lot of courage. but we love clean, beautiful, west virginia coal. we love it. and you know, that is indestructible stuff. in times of war, in times of conflict, you can blow up those windmills. they fall down real quickly. you can blow up those pipelines. they go like this and you're not going to fix them too fast. you could do a lot of things to those solar panels, but you know what you can't hurt? coal. very important. we are working now on a military plan that is going to be something very special. so i am honored tonight to have a friend of mine. he was a democrat.

i do want to say because of me. let's say it's because the policy. he decided to become a republican and he is a great republican. [cheers and applause] i want to bring him up if i could. can i bring up your governor? he's the largest, most youthful man. governor, big jim justice. [cheers and applause] >> okay. i deputize dear, did i not? the other thing i know u.s. west virginians are appreciative people. now just think, we now -- we

know what this great man break beside me has done for us. [cheers and applause] [chanting] [cheers and applause] now, let me say this. it is time for us to show their appreciation and deliver back. we have to reelect our house members and we cannot, whatever we do put a data on this man. [cheers and applause] but it goes further than not.

patrick morrissey is a little behind right now. he needs you. he needs all of you. he needs you to go out and be lawyers and deputies for him. he can win this and this man needs you. so i would say god bless this great man. god bless this great country and thank you for having me. [cheers and applause] >> he's a big man. he's all man. six-foot, 11. i won't talk about the weight. i don't know what the weight is. i won't go there. but he is a big man and he's a great man. he's a wonderful friend of mine

and it's really nice what you just said about the man that you want to be, your next senator. that's really nice, jim. also, we have your senator, who is a special friend of mine, has been so helpful to me and so helpful to you. she loves your state, shelly moore capito. [cheers and applause] congressman david mckinley, alex mooney and evan jenkins. and then, you put up one hell of a fight. interstate gop chairwoman melanie bought her. melanie. [cheers and applause] thank you, melody. also with us is a tremendous

senator, somebody that has helped us through our agenda, which is make america great again pretty much. [cheers and applause] we have a lot of different names. if you see promises made, promises kept, they are copying it now the democrats. they are copying it now. promises made, promises kept. they are copying it. what are you going to do? this is a man that makes a promise that is 100% good. he has tremendous and done so much. he is from a place called colorado. and he is helping to lead our campaign to elect more senate republicans like the man we are going to elect in west virginia, corey gardner. thank you, corey. great job. doing a great job, thank you. and we are thrilled to be joined by the next house members for

west virginia's third congressional district, a woman that works very hard for you, carol miller. carol. [cheers and applause] thanks, carol. finally, it is my great honor to introduce the person that we are here to support tonight. a tremendous gentleman. i got to know him during the campaign. he has gotten energy -- it took me a little while to figure out i have to be honest. and once i got to see what was happening and i then would be the first to tell you, too. he was so tough, so smart. he didn't stop. he does not stop. and he's going to fight for you like nobody has ever fought for the people of west virginia. your next senator, patrick morrissey. patrick,, peer.

[cheers and applause] , peer, patrick. , peer, patrick. [inaudible] [cheers and applause] >> let me be clear. guys, i want to start out by thanking the president for coming back to wild and wonderful west virginia for the sixth time. [cheers and applause] hey, how about this guy? west virginia has never seen anything like this. we love you, mr. president. [cheers and applause] and i'll tell you this. we know that president trump is making america great again, but

even more importantly, president trump is making west virginia great again. [cheers and applause] look, tonight we are joined by some of the mountain states finest coal miners. can you stand up? a round of applause for our hard-working coal miners. [cheers and applause] donald trump and i are fighting every day for our coal miners in the hard-working men and women of our state. he is trying to get the man off your back and i am working every day to help them do it. amen. [cheers and applause] but i'll tell you what. one of the best ways i can help president trump is to have you sent me to the u.s. senate where

i'll be a big ally of this president. west virginia needs to send a conservative fighter to the u.s. senate to help drain that swamp. [cheers and applause] [chanting] >> and let me tell you a little bit. i have an opponent in this race. his name is dishonest liberal joe manchin. and let me be clear. liberal joe is no supporter of this president. manchin strongly supported and voted for hillary clinton

after -- hang on, hang on, after she said we are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of work. [booing] yeah, pretty bad. manchin even called hillary warm, compassionate, engaging, tough. can you actually believe that? [booing] >> has to go. [chanting] liberal joe no longer has west virginia values. let's go through the record. manchin was for obama. manchin was for hillary. manchin is the radical gun control, planned parenthood, for at the pens and he opposed the

trump tax cut. pretty bad, right? remember, this is west virginia. we benefit as much or more than anyone from the tax cut. [cheers and applause] joe manchin no longer has west virginia values. when i get to the u.s. senate, i am going to be a strong ally of president trump. i am going to be the conservative fighter that you can rely on. we are going to stand up for coal and our energy resources and we'll tackle this opioid epidemic more aggressively than anyone. [cheers and applause] it is my honor to be here tonight and be on the same stage as the president.

mr. president, thank you for your leadership, for your work and standing up for west virginia. [cheers and applause] [chanting] together, we are all going to help this guy make sure not only that we make west virginia great again, we continue to make west virginia great again. best way to do that, liberal joe has got to go. [cheers and applause] joe has got to go. [chanting] and now, i will turn this back over to the big man who you are here to see. amen, brother. [cheers and applause] >> he's got energy. he's got a lot of talent and he

loves his place. he loves the people and he is going to be fighting for you. he doesn't leave. he is out campaigning. i said how many days are you campaigning? i said the last 60 days of my campaign, every single day. we go out every single day as many stops as you could make, humanly, humanly. he can't get tired. he's got that same thing. he has every single day. and he has got a very special spark. you see it and you know him. look, he's done a hell of a job as your ag. he's going to bring it back home for the people of west virginia. so this november, voters in west virginia will face a very simple choice. a vote for patrick morrissey is truly a vote to make america great again. [cheers and applause]

and i like joe, but joe doesn't vote. he just doesn't vote for us. it is a vote for schumer, nancy pelosi [booing] their new leader, maxine waters. [booing] but between waters and politically, you have to people that are in charge of congress. they are not in favor of west virginia. they don't know that west virginia exists. they don't like coal. they don't like energy. yeah they don't like [inaudible] [laughter] so when you cast your ballot in november, you aren't just voting for a candidate. you are voting for which party controls the house and which party controls the senate. so all of these congresspeople,

and i will tell you, we have to get there. we really have to get there. so i'm going to be going out as many days as i can and i am allowed to. you know, with all the secret service and all their fantastic people. but it's sort of holds you back. maybe sometimes i'll just pick a few trips without him. [cheers and applause] we are going to be out a lot. we are going to a lot of different dates. and i'm coming back here before the election. [cheers and applause] and it is a very close election. a lot of people don't realize that a six-point spread. explains could be ended by this evening. he could be up by 12. you have seen what's been happening. we've had a good endorsements in georgia. a man was down 10. i endorsed him a short while

before the election. good man, governor. nt 17230. i guess he picked up 45 or 50 points in ohio recently that was up and then he went down a little bit. and he won. you know that. older sin, good man. congressman boulder man, he won. we won eight out of nine special elections. nobody talks about it. they don't talk about it. eight out of nine special elections and they are one of them. [booing] and my record, and i do want to brag about it, but man do i have a good record of endorsement. [cheers and applause] in florida, where the great candidate. his name is ron desantis. and he called me and asked whether or not i could endorse him and i said let me check it

out. and he was at three. this was a few months ago. i gave him a nice little shot, a nice little tweet, being, being. and he went from three to like 20 something. and then i gave him my full and total endorsement and he is now leading by like 19 points. [cheers and applause] and that election is next week, leading in the primary. good man. and so many others. dan donovan, he was done before the election. we endorsed him. i think he won by 24 points. you know, all of life i heard endorsements don't mean anything. if you can endorsement for ronald reagan, we like ronald reagan. it was a wonderful thing to have, but it didn't move the needle. and if you get an endorsement from a lot of people, is that a correct statement if you look,

corey, shelley, it was nice to have, but it didn't mean anything. i'm not saying from my standpoint. they are going 20, 30, 40, 50-point. 50 points, crazy. [cheers and applause] will this endorsement mean anything? it is going to mean a lot. and i don't care. we have to get senators in. we've got really no majority. if you really look at it, probably we could pay 49-49, 51-49. we have some people who don't vote, a people that are little unreliable. they don't exactly like what i've done to their career. they don't love what i've done and that is okay. and i don't like what they've done either. but we need to elect five, six

or even seven more senators. and i think we can do it. and we have to start with patrick morrisey. he is going to be fantastic. if you vote for joe manchin or any other democrat in november, you are voting for the party that wants to really destroy the coal industry. joe endorsed hillary 100% and he got along with her even better after she came out with a statement that she wants to destroy coal and train 11 companies. at the back pain. [booing] the democrats want to turn america into one big fat sanctuary city for criminal aliens. [booing] and honestly -- honestly, they

are more protective of aliens, criminal aliens than they are of the people. [booing] they want to take away your second amendment. you see what is going on. i don't think you want your second amendment played with. they want to take over american health care and abuse our court to rewrite our constitution. and how do you like the judges that i have been appointing? [cheers and applause] justice cavanagh, justice gorsuch supreme court. there is no worst night were for west virginia this november than chuck schumer running the senate and nancy pelosi with maxine waters running the house. [booing] and that is why you must vote republican. you've got to get out and vote. they keep talking about her blue waves. i don't see it. the greatest economy we've ever had.

joe manchin always voted for obama and he voted to keep the disaster known as obamacare and i will tell you, it is being chipped away. you know, we had it eaten. the one man, i'm sure nobody knows who i'm talking about, voted no, shockingly. really surprising to a lot of people because he campaigned on repeal and replace, but we really knocked about, including the individual mandate. we got rid of the most unpopular part of obamacare, where you have the privilege of paying a fortune for not having to pay a fortune for really bad health care. we got rid of it. a lot of people are very happy about it. that came along with the biggest tax cut in our history. in joe manchin voted no on the tax cuts. [booing] you know, the last time i was here i saw signs along the

highway. choke on the voted no on tax cuts. and joe, you voted no for our president. and he is going to vote no. i am not knocking him. the schumer is the boss and he may give us a vote on justice kavanaugh. you should. this is what we want. this is a great, brilliant man. but joe is just not voting with us. he is voting against tax cuts. he is voting against repeal and replace. he votes against the things that we want and he votes against the people of west virginia. you can't do that. you know, joe opposed the wall and he opposed the travel ban. and by the way, the wall right now, that wall is coming along. we are over $3 billion. it is moving along very nicely.

[cheers and applause] and if you think it is easy with these people, it is not easy. it is not easy. we are getting the wall built. it is going up. we are getting it built. and we have a big number in right now. [chanting] sociality and corey, you hear that, right? so we have 3.2 billion. we are looking for 5 billion this year and all of a sudden it's going to be finished and it's going to be very, very effective. [cheers and applause] have you heard about today with the illegal alien coming in, very sadly from mexico and you saw what happened to that

incredible, beautiful young woman. should have never happened. illegally and our country. we've had a huge impact, but the laws are so bad. the immigration laws are such a disgrace. we are getting them changed. but we have to get more republicans. [cheers and applause] this election is bigger than any one race. it's whether we want to continue the amazing progress we've made for america whether we want to surrender that progress to the forces of extremism and obstruction. you know, dear little phrase that they like resist. that's all they're out. they have no policy. they are not good politicians. but they are good at sticking together in resisting. i have almost 400 people that haven't been approved by the slow walking. we have almost 400 people in our

administration. people that gave up their careers that have been waiting over a year to get approved and they are being slow walked by the democrats. it's never happened that way and the history of our country and it is a disgrace. [booing] the democrat party was held hostage by the so-called resistance. left-wing haters and angry mobs are trying to tear down our institutions, disrespect our flag, demeanor law enforcement, denigrate our history and disparage our great country and we are not going to let it happen. new york's democratic governor, andrew cuomo, even that america was never great. [booing] tell that to our great soldiers at world war i and world war ii,

korean war, so many others. tell them to the folks that sent a rocket up to the, our great astronauts, tell them on the great medical research we've done in this country. he said america was never great. [booing] how did he get away with that one. he was speaking to a room loaded up a socialist and probably others. probably others. not communist, but there could've been a couple of them, too. and he made the statement in america was never great. then they go, did you hear, they go what? they couldn't even believe it.

the generations of brave americans whose blood and sweat and tears built our magnificent country. [cheers and applause] you can either vote for the party that says america was never great. america was never great. they copied mine. promises made, promises kept. let's give them a new thing. america was never great. can we do that? we will re-theme their party. you can vote proudly for everything we stand for. we are the greatest country in the world and we are now -- we are not the greatest economy that we have ever had. we are the greatest economy in the world. $10 trillion in value since my

election. [cheers and applause] [chanting] [chanting] we've gone up $10 trillion. think of it. since the election. wasn't that a great election rushing mark remember i was here just before the election and i brought a couple guys into the room and i said fellas, supposing we teach you a new scale, supposing we teach you how to make the little or gadgets or gadgets. these are big, strong coal miners. they said sir, we want to dig coal. i said i agree with you.

i agree. remember that? their grandfathers did it, their fathers did it. it's incredible and it's really happening. we are back. the coal industry is back. [cheers and applause] so when i came here originally, west virginia frankly was down and out. it was not doing exactly well. one of the last. you know that a few months ago, it hit west virginia on a per capita basis is one of the most successful gdp stayed in our union. so we went from being down and out to one of the most successful in the union. very close to the top. that is some big change. and i've had so many people. i was backstage and people are coming up to me.

mr. president, thank you, sir, for saving our nation because you understand what that meant. we couldn't do anything. had the other side one, they would have had more regulations, raise your taxes. they would've done things that were so bad you had a very low gdp. 1.2%. it was going down. it was going to be a negative. last quarter we just had, as you all know, for .1. nobody thought that was possible. [cheers and applause] i always say if i would've ever said that shortly after winning we are going to have for .1, those people back there would have said this guy, no good, fake news. [booing] how faith. how big are they? fake news in the russian witch

hunt. where is the pollution? they are still looking for pollution. where is the pollution? find some collusion. we want to find the pollution. the beating heart of this election is border security. we have to have that. we have to have it. iowa and so many other have been reporting numbers where they are having a lot of problems with people coming in. people are coming in. but we are getting them out. we have ms-13 on the run. they poured in here with obama. we have them on the run because we love the men and women of i.c.e. [cheers and applause] a blue wave in november means

open borders, which means massive crime. a red wave means safety and strength. that is what it is. the new platform of the democratic party is to abolish i.c.e. and vote for any democrat in november 2 throw open our borders and that loose vicious predators and violent criminals. they will be all over our communities. they will be preying on our communities. well, many democrats are calling to abolish i.c.e. our brave i.c.e. officers successfully carried out a 14-year-old deportation order against a nazi criminal who was living in new york. the last of nazi officer living

in the united states. they've been trying to get him out for decades. president obama tried, they all tried. we got him out. [cheers and applause] he's back in germany. i.c.e. officers are heroes who uphold our laws. they uphold our laws and they defend our communities like nobody you've ever seen. and yes, they are tough. they are strong, smart, they have great heart. but they go into these communities loaded up with the kind of criminals you don't want to be dealing with. they walk in like it is another day in the office. they are tougher. they are stronger. it's what these other people fear. and by the way, are i.c.e. folks and our border patrol folks,

they have no fear. the job they do is incredible. and by the way, while were at it, law enforcement, these are great, great people and they are doing an incredible job. [cheers and applause] every single day i.c.e. is tracking down gang members, drug dealers, predators and killers and were either throwing them in jail for throwing them the hell out of our country. if you want to save i.c.e., if you want to protect our border and our border patrol, if you want to stop this craziness of sanctuary cities, where criminals are protected, take a look at chicago. how about the mayor of chicago? [booing] it's like a war zone. it's a great city and its like a

war zone. this is what those policies do. last week 62 people were shot, 12 died. this is like our country. there is no reason for this. the republican party stands proudly with our courageous i.c.e. officers and border patrol agents. [cheers and applause] and by the way, and you know who wants the wall more than any of us? i.c.e. and border patrol because they know that is going to be a big, big factor in stopping the drugs from coming in. the human traffickers, which is worse all over the world than at any time in the history of our world. human traffickers. who would believe? it's because of the internet. this election is about security and this election is also about jobs we have produced.

thanks to republicans, our economy is booming like it has never bloomed before. we created another number that no one would have believed if i said it during the campaign. 4 million new jobs since the election. [cheers and applause] almost 3.9 million americans have been lifted off food stamps. think of that. they don't need them because they have a job. they don't need food stamps. almost 4 million. think of it. western west virginia, per capita income groups, 40% faster than the national average. 40%, congratulations. congratulations. [cheers and applause] i told you last time i was here you were so happy like you are

now. we've added over 400,000 new manufacturing jobs nationwide. that number soon going to exceed 600,000 our opponent said there is no such thing as manufacturing jobs anymore, right? and i say i see, we are not going to make things anymore. think of it, will be close to 600,000 very soon. we have companies pouring into our country. these are companies that laughed. they are coming back to michigan. they are coming back to west virginia. they are coming back to pennsylvania and ohio. they are coming to florida. they are coming back. not just opening. they are coming back. they left and now they are coming back because they want to be where the action is

so economic growth as i said, when it hit 4.1%. everybody was like it's amazing except me. because it's going to go much higher than this. when i finish these trade deals, and the tariffs are very important. these companies come in, and i say to the european union, very nice people, we would like to negotiate a new trade agreement with the european union. we lost $151 billion per year. and he said mr. president we are happy with the deal. i said i would be happy if i were you, too. i said a second time, a third time and a fourth time that they were happy with the deal but we weren't happy because they have barriers up and tariffs.

you want to build a car and send it to europe? how many chevrolets are there in the middle of berlin. not too many. so they have barriers. i said listen, i said this to numerous countries. it's all about the cars. we are going to put a 25% tax on every car that comes from the european union into the united states. and that will take our loss and trade deficit of $151 billion and give us a surplus of $151 million. that's a fairly dramatic swing.

it will take one signature, donald j. trump. and i got a call, mr. president, when can we meet? we would like to see you. they came and we respectfully working on it. i have great respect for president xi of china. but they have taken advantage of our country for decade. we have rebuilt china. i used to talk about this. i didn't press it initially because i wanted them to help us with north korea and they have. we are doing well with north korea. they have been doing this stuff for 75 years. 3 months. what happened? i can tell you, and i got along