is going to begin removing illegal immigrants. interior enforcement is about to begin next week. enjoy the president's rally. there is mike pence, president of the united states. with that, good night. trish: you are looking live at orlando, florida. president trump set to take the stage, announcing his 020 reelection -- his 2020 election bid. the amway center filled to capacity tonight with 20,000 people. this is a crucial state in 2020. there is the warmup act for the president. the president did win the state narrowly in 2016. tonight he's going to address a number of issues including

immigration. he tweeted that i.c.e. will begin the process of removing illegal aliens who illicitly found their way into the united states. we are awaiting the president of the united states who will be addressing he's going for 2020. the question is, does he take florida? does he take the oval office again. joining me, deneen borelli, capri cafaro and presidential historian doug wead. doug, this has been a the president i unlike any other. the president has had a popularity filling stadiums unlike any other. people waited outside for days despite pretty bad rain in florida. what is it about him that makes

him oh different that makes the crowds respond the way you are seeing there as they cheer. >> wow! he's really a professional. he did this for a living. he understands staging, he understands timing. he knows the difference between hot and cold like ronald reagan. the first president, compare him to andrew jackson. andrew jackson was the first rock star president who drew large crowds of people physically to come here and see him, they crowded the roadways. i have friends who have gone to five or six or seven of these events. they get hooked on them. they are groupies. they say they are an unbelievable show. trish: it's a show of sorts. and i think you are right in terms of the timing. deneen, he has a sense of humor,

he plays to the crowd. and people. >> it up. typically in politics everybody had a script and they had their talking points and they stick to the script and talking points. in all that the personality if you would of the politician gets lost. donald trump has really bent antithesis of that. >> you are right. the president is being himself. what i hear a lot from people i talk to on the ground is that they feel like he is talking to them. he talks like me. they can relate to president trump on many, many levels. even at my church every week. i can't get to my pew to pray without parishioners coming up to me to talk about what happened this week. what did the president say this week. i find this all very exciting. especially in today's rally. >> you are seeing engagement in

politics that we haven't seen before. capri, that's both for good and bad. people either love him or hate him, right? there is not a lot of in between. but you look at the crowd in florida and they really love him. what do you think he is going to deliver on tonight. what do you anticipate from the message we are going to hear as he comes to the stage? >> i think one thing we learned about president trump the last four years since he went down those escalators is to expect the unexpected. as you were saying earlier, he's someone who does not stay on script. so he may have a framework on the high notes. maybe certain things he has done for florida. certainly on the economy and things of that nature. but i suspect he'll go off on immigration and potential democratic 2020 contenders. there is 23 of them. who knows who will be the flavor

of the hour tonight. and who might get a nickname. he thrives on these crowds as many politicians do. but what we have seen with president trump, he's someone that wants to get out of the beltway and be and thrive on those crowds with americans rather than being insulated inside the white house. i think that's what we are going to see tonight. trish: sometimes he's for some people's taste overly honest. >> i think americans appreciate it. but occasionally he'll go off on a tangent and say something that's unexpected, and often quite pladquite blatantly true. he came on the show on my program and disputed what his secretary of state had said to me just 24 hours earlier

regarding venezuela. and what the u.s. strategy was there. but there is an honesty that i think is refreshing that and is unique. i don't know if the democrats have anyone with that kind of star power in their arsenal. your thoughts? >> he's not a diplomat. >> but we like that as americans. i get, the president should be a certain way. but it's really unique and refreshing and honest and real. >> it's raw, the edges are reassuring. jared kushner said to me $day americans are going to miss donald trump. americans will say we need someone like donald trump, he

would speak the truth. he accomplished some remarkable things and kept promises. six presidents saying they would move the embassy to jerusalem and they didn't do it. seven presidents would cut off their right arm for energy independence and they couldn't get it. the social engineers for years tried to bring the disenfranchised people into the main street of the american dream. he's giving them jobs. trish: the economy, deneen has really performed. lower taxes, less regulations resulted in tremendous job growth, wage growth, and we are seeing an improvement in overall gdp numbers. people thought that couldn't happen. back to the barack obama days where they wanted us to believe in this low growth environment that we couldn't see the kind of

growth america had seen in the past, and he dispelled all of that. i do think -- curious to get your view on this. that's part of the job of a leader to encourage people to believe in their country and to believe in themselves and believe in their economy because that's what helps us grow. that confidence. >> you are absolutely right. the president has proved so many people wrong. and you mentioned the rollback in taxes and regulations. that uplifted a lot of families in this country. and the dynamics are stark. you can tell the stark difference between the former administration and today's administration. people are getting higher wages, more jobs than there are people to fill them. look what he has done with our energy policy. we are the number one exporter with energy today. families are doing really well under president trump's

leadership and that is the word you mentioned, trish, leadership. trish: it's the economy, stupid to quote bill clinton. people tend to vote their pocketbooks. so if something is working, why would that change? ways your sense of where the democrats' best opportunity is, given that he has been successful? i want to hear about that. >> i think there are a couple things here. first off this is one of the reasons why we are seeing democrats potentially to their peril, but focusing on things like immigration and basically trying to pit, this is a good versus evil contest in 2020 rather than talking about issues. they need to focus on healthcare where they were actually successful in bringing people to the table in 2018, the mid-term

elections. and that's where president trump has fallen short. he said he's going to come out with something soon, but it will be ready after the 2020 elections. even for republicans he was not successful in repealing and replacing obamacare. you will see joe biden talk about things like, the article out of "forbes" talking about how the trajectory of economic growth did start under barack obama. not -- trish: the president of the united states is being introduced. let's watch. here he is. ♪ i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i am free ♪ ♪ i won't forget the men who died to give that right to me ♪ ♪ i will stand up next to you and defend her today ♪

♪ there is no doubt i love this land night ♪ god bless the u.s.a. trish: there he is greeting the crowd. he has really a way about him that is unlike anything we have seen from presidents and thrives off this energy. you see melania trump, first lady there of course object that big day -- of course on that big day on the escalator. the whole family there tonight in florida as he announces he'll run for four more years. we expect the speech not to be

unscripted. maybe a template for him. you never know what he's going to say. [♪] ♪ up proud to b up proud to i gu and defend her until today ♪ ♪ there ain't no doubt i love this land ♪ ♪ god bless the usa

[cheers and applause] [crowd chants "usa"] >> good evening, orlando. it has been my honor to serve as first lady of this incredible country for the past two years and i'm excited to do it for six more. i am proud of all that my husband administration and our entire family have done on behalf of the american people in such a short time. he truly loves this country and will continue to work on your

behalf as long as he can. all of us will. thank you all again for being here tonight. and now, i want to introduce my husband, the president of the united states. donald j. trump. [cheers and applause] [crowd chants "usa"]

president trump: we had such luck in orlando. we love being in orlando. thank you, orlando. what a turnout! i said this is a very big arena. for a tuesday night, i said if we have three or four empty seats the fake news will say headlines, he didn't fill up the arena. so i said maybe we shouldn't take a chance. maybe we shouldn't go to orlando, we should go someplace else. i said no, i think we'll go to orlando. and not only did we fill it up, but we had 120,000 requests. that means you folks have come

out very, very good. congratulations. i want to thank our great vice president, mike pence. and his wonderful wife, karen pence. and our magnificent first lady melania. thank you. [cheers and applause] i am thrilled to be back in my second home. that's what it is. my second home. in many cases i think i could say it's my first home. it's the great state of florida. very historic. because exactly four years ago this week i announced my campaign for president of the united states. and it turned out to be more than just a political campaign. it turned out to be a great

political movement because of you. a great movement. it's a movement made up of hard-working patriots who love their country, love their flag, love their children. and who believe that a nation must care for its own citizens first. together we stared down a broken and corrupt political establishment and restored government of, by and for the people. our country is now thriving, prospering and booming. and frankly it's soaring to incredible new heightsour econoe

world. perhaps the greatest economy we have had in the history of our country. [cheers and applause] and as long as you keep this team in place, we have a tremendous way to go, our future has never ever looked brighter or harp -- or sharper. the fact is, the american dream is back. it's bigger and better and stronger than ever before. 2016 was not merely another four-year election. this was a defining moment in american history, ask them right

there. [crowd chants "cnn sucks"] by the way, that is a lot of fake news back there. that's a lot. [cheers and applause]

you know what i say? the amount of press we have tonight reminds me of the academy awards before it went political and their ratings went down the tubes. this was our chance to reclaim our government from a permanent political class that enriched itself at your expense. as i said, on a wonderful, beautiful day at my inauguration, we did not merely transfer power from one party to another. but we transferred power back to you the proud citizens of the united states of america.

[crowd chants "usa"] we stared count unholy alliance of lobbyists and donors and special interests who made a living bleeding our country dry. deals were cut to close our companies, give away your jobs, shut down our factories and surrender your sovereignty and your very you way of life. and we ended it. [cheers and applause] we took on a political machine that tried to take away your voice and your vote.

they tried to take away your dignity and your destiny. but we will never let them do that, will we? many times i said we would the drain the swamp and that's exactly what we are doing right now. we are draining the swamp. [crowd chants "drain the swamp"] and that's why the swamp is fighting back so viciously and violently. for the last 2 1/2 years we have

been under siege. and with the mueller report we won, and now they want a do-over. let's do it again. didn't work out too well, let's do it again. they want a do-over. no president should ever have to go through this again. it is so bad for our great country. a hoax. a great hoax. our patriotic movement has been under assault from the very first day. we accomplished more than any other president has in the first 2 1/2 years of the presidency and under circumstances that no president has had to deal with before because we did in the middle of the great and illegal witch hunt things that nobody has been able to accomplish, not

even close. nobody has done what we have done in 2 1/2 years. we went through the greatest witch hunt in political history. the only collusion was committed by the democrats, the fake news media, and their operatives and the people who funded the phoney dossier, crooked hillary clinton and the dnc. it was all an illegal attempt to overturn the results of the election, spy on our campaign which is what they did, and subvert our democracy. remember, the understand policy just in case hillary clinton lost. remember the understand policy.

-- remember th the insurance policy. they appointed 18 very angry democrats to try to take down our incredible movement. after two years, 1.4 million pages of documents. 500 search warrants, 500 witnesses, 2,800 subpoenas, and 40 fbi agents working round the clock. what did they come up with? no collusion. and the facts that led our great

attorney general to determine no obstruction. no collusion, no obstruction. and they spent $40 million on this witch hunt. $40 million. that's right. they spent $40 million. probably a hell of a lot more than that. think about it. nobody has been tougher on russia than donald trump. nobody. we call it the russian hoax. remember president obama's famous line caught on the open mic secretly telling the russian president to quote inform

vladimir that after my election, i will have more flexibility. remember that? a lot of people remember that. i remembered it. i saw it happen. i didn't like it. they don't bring it up. the fake news will never bring it up. in september, just before the election, the fbi told president obama about possible russian interference and he did nothing because he thought that hillary clinton, crooked hillary was going to win thp. win. that's why he did nothing. he did nothing. i built up the military, imposed sanctions on russia, and provided alternative energy sources for all over europe that competed very, very strongly

with russia. we are by the way the number one producer of energy in the world because of what we have done right now. [cheers and applause] [crowd chants "usa"] [crowd chants "do it again"] the democrats don't care about russia. they only care about their own political power. they went after my family, my business, my finances, my employees. almost anyone that i have ever known or worked with. but they are really going after you. that's what it's all about. it's not about us. it's about you. they tried to erase your vote, erase your legacy of the greatest campaign and the

greatest election probably in the history of our country. and they wanted to deny you the future that you demanded and the future that america deserves and that now america is getting. our radical democrat opponents are driven by hatred, prejudice and rage. they want to destroy you and they want to destroy our country as we know it. not acceptable. it's not going to happen. not going to happen. to understand democrats, look no further than the united states supreme court and our court system nationwide. i will soon have appointed my

145th judge. [cheers and applause] president obama with us very nice to us. he didn't fill the positions. i get there the first day. how many judges to i have to appoint. they said, sir, 139. now it's 145. and we just finished number 107 already approved sitting on the bench. how about that? [cheers and applause] and by the time we are finished with the rest, we'll have a record percentages. our percentage will be a record except for one person. one person has a higher

percentage than your favorite president, donald trump. do you know who that president is? you have got a higher percent and than me and it's devastating. his name is george washington. [cheers and applause] george is at 100%, and there is no way i'm going to get there no matter what i tell you. got 100%. he was first and he just appointed them all. that was it. they want to take away your judges and pack the court are far-left ideologues and ra d and radicalize our judiciary. look at what they did to a great gentleman, justice kavanaugh.

highly respected. they didn't just try to win. they tried to destroy him with false and malicious accusations. and thank you, marco and thank you lindsey wherever you may be. thank you, great job. thank you. stand up. lindsey graham was doing great in south carolina. now he's through the roof. great, thank you, great job.

thank you. great people. great people, all of them. they tried to ruin the family of now justice kavanaugh. they tried to ruin his career. they tried to ruin his life. they even wanted to impeach him on fraudulent charges. those charges were a fraud. he did nothing wrong. all in pursuit of political domination and control. just imagine what this angry left-wing mob would do if they were in charge of this country. imagine if we had a democrat president and a democrat congress in 2020.

they would shut down your free speech, use the power of the law to punish their opponents which they are trying to do now anyway. they will always be trying to shield themselves. they would strip americans of their constitutional rights while flooding the country with illegal immigrants in the hopes it will stand their political base and they will get votes someplace down the future. that's what it's about. [crowd chants "build that wall"] and we are building the wall.

we'll have over 400 miles of wall built by the end of next year. it will be very rapid. and you know we couldn't get the wall approved by the democrats, even though they voted for it four years ago and six years ago and it didn't get built. but they voted for it. all of a sudden trump is president, we don't want a wall. can you manage those caravans without having the barriers and walls we already put up? this country would be a mess like you wouldn't believe. so the wall is moving along. it's moving along rapidly. it's beautiful. i changed the design. it's stronger, bigger, better and cheaper. a lot cheaper.

sometimes when they don't give you the money, you have to make it cheaper. it's not going to happen. but it's going well. instead of bringing us together as one america, democrats want to splinter us into factions and tribes. they want us divide. not going to happen to the republicans any more, it's not going to happen. this elect is not merely a verdict on the amazing progress we have made. it's a verdict on the un-american conduct of those who tried to undermine our great democracy and undermine you. by the way, july 4 in washington, d.c., come on down, we are going to have a big day, bring your flags, bring those flags. bring those american flags. july 4. we are going to have hundreds of

thousands of people. we are going to celebrate america. celebrate america. this election is a verdict on whether we want to live in a country where the people who lose an election refuse to concede and spend the next two years trying to shred our constitution and rip your country apart. [crowd boos] you remember curing one of the debates when crooked hillary said, if i win, are you going to support me? but i must be honest, i didn't give her a great answer. that might have been my hardest question during the debates. isn't it amazing it worked the other way around. isn't it amazing?

if you want to know how the system is rigged, just compare how they came after us for three years with everything they had versus the free pass they gave to hillary and her aide after they set up an illegal server, destroyed evidence, deleted an acid washed 33,000 emails, exposed clans classified information and tushed the state department into a pay-for-play cash machine. 33,000 emails deleted. think of it. i keep mentioning, you know, there was a lot of corruption on the other side.

but the simplest thing, they get a subpoena from the united states congress. and they decide that they are not going to give it. so lindsey graham, they delete and acid wash which is very expensive. nobody does it. they acid wash those emails. never to be seen again. but we may find them somewhere deep in the state department. but can you imagine if i got a subpoena think of this, if i got a subpoena for emails and deleted one email like a love note to melania, it's the electric chair for trump. 33,000 emails.

let's see what happens. we now have a great attorney general. let's see what happens. if you want to shut down this rigged system once and for all. show up november 3, a big day, and vote, vote, vote. we are going to have a big, big day. [crowd chants "four more years"] thank you. remember, the only thing these corrupt politicians will understand is an quake at ballot

box. that's what they will understand, and they will see it. we did it once, and now we'll do it again, and this time we are going to finish the job. and this time should be a lot easier because we have done so much with our military, with our vets, with the second amendment. with our regulations. with the biggest tax cut in history. with getting rid of so many different problems, so many different things. including by the way, the individual mandate or obamacare, one of the worst things anybody has ever had to live through. we got rid of the individual mandate. right? how many people are happy they no longer have to pay for the privilege of not paying for bad

health insurance. how many people are happy. bad healthcare. soar time you don't have to make out a check in order not to have healthcare, think of that. this is the only country you pay for the very distinct privilege of not having to pay, but you had to pay a lot. now, you don't have to pay anymore. you don't want it, you don't have to pay. the individual mandate, mike. we got rid of it. it was a big deal. the people trying to stop our movement are the same washington insiders who spent their careers rigging the system so your losses will be their gains. you know that. these are the same career politicians who presided over decade of flat wages. the loss of our manufacturing

jobs. 60,000. can you believe that? 60,000. who would believe that number? and you know how i know it's true? it wasn't, i have been use it a lot. the fake news would have headlines. trump used a phoney number. they would have headlines. they never corrected it, so i assume 60,000 shuttered factories. we closed up. 60,000 factories. it didn't seem right. it didn't seem like it would be possible. an avalanche of job-killing regulations. a growing wealth gap and one rougous trade deal. those trade deals are getting very good, folks, you will see. we just completed the deal with south korea. a great deal. we are work mexico and canada, we have to get the democrats to

approve it. you may have read a couple things about china. i spoke to president xi, a terrific president, a great leader of china. i spoke to him this morning at length. and we'll see what happens. we'll either have a deal or a fair deal or we won't have a deal and that's okay, too. because we are taking in billions and billions of dollars into our treasury and companies are leaving china because they want to avoid paying these large tariffs. when the fake news tells you, in the case of china, they devalued their currency, that helps them, and they are subsidizing those companies and you are not paying have much if you pay anything at all in the case of china. and we are taking billions of dollars in. remember this, and you know it as well as i do. we have never taken in 10 cents

from china. we would lose $500 billion a year with china. we rebuilt china. they have done a great job, but they took us for suckers, and that includes obama and biden. they took us for suckers. $500 billion. $500 billion. somebody said you mean $500 million? no, that's a lot too. it's $500 billion. we are fighting against the same far left politicians that ravaged our great cities and crushed the dream of the american middle class. the same people who threw open our borders and allowed drugs, gangs and illegal labor to devastate our poorest american

communities. you know that. our political opponents looked down with hatred on our values and with utter disdain for the people whose lives they want to run. that's the way they have been doing it. if you take a look at the african-american community, how much progress has been made, the lowest unemployment numbers in the history of our country. they called us deplorables. remember this? that was a mistake. that was a big mistake. i will never forget. i was making a speech after hillary used the word deplorables. i didn't think it was that bad,

you know what why? she said deplorables and irredeemables. i think that was worse but it didn't get picked up. you never know what's going to be picked up. i think irredeemable is worse than deplorable. i was making a speech the next day. we had a great crowd in a great state and women in particular were wearing shirts that said the deplorables love you. there were hundreds of people wearing, we are deplorables. i said i think hillary clinton made a big mistake with with that speech. [cheers and applause] and that is the problem with politics. one word and your career is ruined. you never know. you have to be careful with the fakers back there.

i have news for democrats who want to return us to the bitter failures and betrayals of the past. we are not going back. we are going on to victory. it will be taken away as fast as it came, and as mike pence said a little while ago, that's why we want more time. it will be cemented. we have a big decision to make. you know what i'm going to say. we have to couple with a theme for the new campaign. is it going to be make america great again which is probably impossibly the greatest theme in the history of politics, i think. make america great again. maga country, right? maga. maga. we are in maga country, that i

can tell you. but you know, today we had a massive day on the to be market. a lot of good things are happening. but we had a good day and we are close to our 68th record. we have hit all-time record. i think it's actually more than that. but it's a lot. now i say we made america great again but how do you give up the number one call it theme, logo, statement in the history of poll tuck for a new one? there is a new one that really works. that's called keep america great, right? keep america great. keep america great. in other words, make america great again. we rebuilt our military, still in the process. we have taken care of our vets.

we cut the hell out of regulations. i cut more regulations than any president in the history of our country regardless of the length of their term. so now i say, we have a lot of brilliant talent, campaign people. they cost a fortune and they never give me any idea -- i'm only kidding. now i say what do we use as our theme, our statement. i am going to go make america great again or keep america great. let me hear from your cheers what you like. make america great, the greatest of all time, how do you give up the greatest of all time? you know what's going to happen in if i do it with a new theme, i give it the greatest of all time and i lose people will say what a mistake that was. but we are not going to lose so it's not going to matter.

we are not going to lose, right? we are not going to lose. [cheers and applause] are you ready? first we do make america great again, then we do keep america great. let me hear it. ready? make america great again. [cheers and applause] not bad. not bad. if i would have said that three years ago it wouldn't be a contest. you ready? keep america great. [cheers and applause]

wow! i am sorry, maga country. but that wasn't too close. i thought had it won. but i hear this cheer and my ear drums will never can the same. -- will never be the same. keep america great. pretty good. we are going to keep on fighting for every man and woman and

child all across this land with every ounce of heart and might and a sweat we are going to keep making america great again and then we'll we'll indeed keep america great. better than ever before. we are going to keep it better than ever before. and that is why tonight i stand before you to officially launch my campaign for a second term as president of the united states. [cheers and applause] thank you. [cheers and applause]

i can promise you that i will never, ever, let you down, i won't. i and am profoundly thankful to my family, i have a great family. melania. don. ivanka. eric. tiffany. bear en, laura, jared. robert. marianne. elizabeth, my late brother, fred, jr. [cheers and applause] we're joined tonight by many

great patriots who fight by our side. florida's terrific governor. [cheers and applause] thank you, ron. our first lady, casey desantis, what i job you are doing, thank you, thank you, what a job. and again your great lieutenant governor, i hear is fantastic, right? janet nunez, thank you, jannette. beautiful job. your florida cfo, jimmy

petronis, really, really brilliant wonderful friends who helped me so much, senators lindsey graham of south carolina, marco rubio of florida and rick scott of florida. [cheers and applause] these are great people, they are tough, they are smart, they love our country, thank you very much. rick, marco, lindsey, thank you, members of congress, warriors also. they are up there, you want them protecting you, i tell you, they don't stop. matt gaetz, ted -- yoand michael

wall. [cheers and applause] thank you. also all of our friends and our supporters, have you been incredible, this a tremendous night, since the very first day, i walked through the doors of the white house i have never forgotten who sent me there you did. you did. you did. you did. you did. you did. you did. you all did. when i get behind my desk in the beautiful oval office, i think about only one thing, how the american people are going to win, win, win today. [cheers and applause]

i am fighting for you. i think you see that, not easy. but i love it. the the reason i love it there have been few presidents that have been able to do what we've been able to do for you and it is a great, great feeling, thank you. i love it. [cheers and applause] together we're breaking the most sacred rule in washington politics. we are keeping our promises to the american people. because my only special interest is you. i don't have a special interest, i don't care, i don't care. by the way, by the way. a woman who has been so good, so

talented, so wonderful. and we're sort of going to be losing her, i have a feeling she is running for a certain gubernatorial position, don't worry about it ron, it not in florida, not in florida, i promise you. she would be tough, right? but a woman who is a special woman, right -- her father by the way is out there fighting for us all of the time. sara huckabee sanders. [cheers and applause]

>> thank you, mr. president. >> sarah. >> thank you, mr. president, this has been truly the honor of a lifetime, one of the most incredible experiences anyone could imagine, because i had the chance to be on the front row of history. watch you drastically change our country for the better. you have made america great, you will continue to make america