going to speak about in just a few moments. what he will say? we don't know. we hear talk there will be airing of grievances. i think i used that expression five times the last five minutes. let's see what happens. connell mcshane will take it away. connell: this will be some hour we welcome you to "cavuto: coast to coast." i'm connell mcshane in for neil. the remarks first since the senate acquitted him yesterday on impeachment charges. speaker pelosi slammed the president just a short time ago speaking about what she characterized as economic mistruths in his state of the union address. now in the middle of all of this, after the speaker's remarks before the president's, the markets are reaching yet again new highs. we'll stay on top of that split

screen throughout next couple hours. the dow, boy, soon we could be talking about dow 30,000, right? we're at 29,300, up another 25 points. save that for a moment. blake burman is is live at the white house. this is the situation, blake, saying what type of remarks might we hear from president trump? we got a little bit after preview at the prayer breakfast. reporter: we got a preview at the president gave a speech at the national prayer breakfast in washington, d.c. this morning. normally non-partisan event. democrats, republicans show up. annual event. he did not hold back. at very beginning president walked in held up a couple of newspapers right off the bat, celebrating headlines of his acquittal yesterday from the senate on two impeachment charges brought over by the house. then after that, without naming nancy pelosi and mitt romney specifically it was very clear

though that he leveled this blunt criticism at those two. listen here. >> i don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. nor do i like people who say, i pray for you when they know that's not so. reporter: the first reference there to mitt romney. the second one there to nancy pelosi, the house speaker, who held a press conference earlier this morning or a weekly avail would be a better way to put it. this was pelosi's response. >> this morning the president said when people use faith as an excuse to do, i don't know if he said bad things, but whatever he said, just so completely inappropriate, especially at a prayer brake fast. -- breakfast. he is talking about things he knows little about, faith and

prayer. reporter: both on twitter, in person this morning here in washington we've seen the president kind of celebrate what came out of the senate yesterday. it is most likely going to be a complete 180 from the only other time we've seen such an event in american history. you got to go back to february 12th of 1999. president clinton after his acquittal in the senate, used the backdrop of the rose garden to give a two minute speech. answered one question. a bit rainy in washington today. we're in the east room. it should be a much different tone from president trump but this was the only other time we have seen such an event, february 12th, 1999. president clinton. listen. >> i want to say again to the american people how profoundly sorry i am for what i said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the congress and on the american people.

reporter: we can say we'll hear something a little bit different from president trump here in the east room shortly, connell. we expect this to begin any moment now. as we heard from the president earlier this morning, keep in mind he likes to talk about the economy when all else circles back, when everything else circles back he often touts the economy. saw it tuesday night at state of the union address. this morning at the national prayer brake fast. we'll see if he uses the moment if impeachment is over. time to look forward, to hail what this administration sees as economic progress the last three years. connell: making a bigger bet on stock market highs. blake burman in the east room where we will go back to of course as soon as the president enters the room. while we wait for that speaker pelosi you heard from blake's comments a short time ago, she explained, gave her explanation why she ripped up the president's speech at the state

of the union last night. let's watch. >> i tore up a manifesto of mistruths necessary to get the attention of the american people to say this is not true and this is how it affects you. i don't need any lessons from anybody, especially a president of the united states about dignity. port. connell: on a day we're putting impeachment behind us, the partisan divide appears to stay. elena train ahead of president's remarks joins us live for analysis. she doubled down on ripping up of the speech. >> she did. we saw someone like speaker pelosi who is normally very restrained. she doesn't really show a lot of emotion in the weekly press conferences, tries to hold back, she didn't do that today. she really ripped into the president. she like you said tripled down on ripping of the president's speech of the state of the union

last night and she really showed just because impeachment is over the president is acquitted the country is as bitterly polarized really than it has been in some time now. she leaned to that, people asked, do you think you can still get anything done now that you have gone through this process you will probably have to work with the president again? we're open to it. we always have difficulties. i imagine it will be only tougher now in weeks and months ahead of the election in november. connell: it was not exactly a cordial environment with the usmca and they did get that past. it has happened in the not so distant past, when political motivations are there to get something an do, they came out past it and at least gotten a few things passed in the house and senate. but i guess people are thinking maybe we've gone a little further at this time, i don't know? >> right. i think that it will be interesting to, of course it is

an election year. no one was really expecting there to be massive legislative wins on either side of the aisle in the months ahead of november but it is going to be very difficult. we're going to see in the president's speech that is about to happen any minute now he will be taking a huge victory lap. we saw him show a ton of restraint at the state of the union on tuesday. he didn't bring up impeachment once even though a lot of people were wary and thought he might cave to the pressure to take that early victory lap. we'll see that after he did at the national prayer brake breakfast showing the "usa today" headlines. i imagine we'll see a lot of comments from the democratic senators and congressman in response to that as well. connell: thank you, elaine n let me squeeze in one more quick issue to deal with. i think the president's remarks have just been put on the

lecturn in the east room. 2020 talk before that. bernie sanders announcing a 20 million-dollar ad buy in 10 states. that is pocket change compared to the candidate we'll talk about next. mike bloomberg doubled his massive quarter of a million dollars ad spending. erin mcpike joins us now. erin, you might be interrupted by the president's remarks. money has never been an object by mayor bloomberg, there is some suggestion, rich lowery wrote about this, it is going a little bit too much, leaving people with a bad taste in their mouth spending much money as the mayor is. >> we're trying to get our message ought all over the country. we're trying to talk to american voters in every single corner of this country. i would also point out we are staffing more than 2,000 people across the country to talk to the voters. all this means we can talk to americans, figure out what it is they really want to see happen in this country. we know they're not satisfied with donald trump. it is time to beat him.

that is all we're focused on. connell: talking to democrats in iowa, i will be in new hampshire that is primary voters how we can beat the supporters. biden supporters told us that. he had a showing that was underwhelming in iowa. how does mayor bloomberg see this, in terms of how he is positioned? the president never been stronger politically for whatever it is worth. the approval rating has gone up during the impeachment process. prediction markets what they're worth, more likely reelected now than he has been. how does mayor bloomberg see his own positioning politically given everything going on in both sides? >> at the top of the hour. you are showing the markets. markets are not working for everyone. we need to fix the economy for everyone and mayor bloomberg's plan on the economy does just that we're talking to voters in the middle of the country, number of cities that were industrial cities that need to be transition nod a new economy. that is what he is trying to do, investing in cities and towns

all over this country so we get better jobs and fix the skills gap. connell: now do that, he would be running against someone, i would think in a perfect scenario for him is trying to see what you're hoping for, someone would be far to his left, if bernie sanders wins he may actually end up winning iowa, who knows what is going on in iowa by the time they come out with results. he is favored for new hampshire. may win nevada. may win three out of the four states. does that position mayor bloomberg to go up and contrast himself with sanders? >> you pointed out something we don't know the results in iowa. the turnout was not significantly higher in 2016. connell: which helps bloomberg. >> that democrats are looking for something else. that is the reason mook bloomberg got into the race. there is not excitement, he is a candidate can excite voters because he can -- connell: one thing helping president's approval, just standing now, people look at democrats in iowa, that was kind of a fiasco here.

if anything, it makes the president more likely to be reelected? >> i think mayor bloomberg has the best experience of anyone in the race. as i have talked to voters, i've been out in the country in north carolina, tennessee, ohio, they are so excited that he has gotten into this race because they know he has the best experience. look what he did in new york? 12 years as mayor. 500,000 people joined the economy. connell: the challenge is this. he will be on the debate stage most likely. not the next, debate after that. there has been suggestion, i heard it from democrats in iowa the other candidates welcome that. that if you go out and spend millions and millions of dollars, someone make great commercials for you in the polls, but put up on the stage in debate you will be tested and there is question, at least in the democratic party whether the american pass that test. >> he is looking forward to those debates. he has been preparing for the debates. we can't wait to get him in the debates. connell: sorry to interrupt you there for a moment.

we may try to squeeze in a commercial break. we had anticipated president trump being out at the top of the noon hour. the hush came over the east room of the white house when blake was speaking to us. it looked like the president would come out. blake is standing by there. was that, two minute warning when the speech went up or we're not there yet? reporter: no, i don't think we are are there, connell. you know timing slides and we're trying to figure out when this will start. i can tell you the room here has a couple hundred, if not more that ball bark park, president's biggest supporters on capitol hill. surrogates of his administration. front row has senator mitch mcconnell, minority leader kevin mccarthy on other side, attorney general, treasury secretary. you get the feel who is in the

room. we're waiting for what the president will say in the east room. i mentioned this to stuart earlier. i should throw it out there to you connell as well, i was talked to one person that could be like festivus, which is reference to the old "seinfeld" episode which is airing of grievances. the president gave us a preview at the national prayer breakfast this morning this is a much different setting. almost all of biggest allies here in the room whether they are in or out of the administration and there is not any sort of teleprompter there. i'm sure there is prepared remarks. this could be the president unfiltered, giving us his house what he thinks this experience is like and what he wants going forward amounts we heard from press secretary stephanie grisham this morning they believe here in the white house people need to be held accountable and we'll see if the president strikes that tone, if he moves on forward or both.

connell: i heard more "seinfeld" references between you and looking at twitter this morning as we move into the afternoon than i have heard in quite a while. i'm not happy with you people. you will hear about it. i guess we're expecting from the president. have you been given any guidance how long this may go on for? will the president or expected to go around the room, take any question that is thrown at him? reporter: you know it is one of those things around here when i ask questions to white house officials whatever sort of topic and event they're going to, they sort of laugh. connell: they don't know. reporter: could be prepared remarks and who knows. it is a good question though, you remember in this very room when there was the china trade deal, the president sort of called out ceo after ceo one by one. that event with liu he and top chinese representatives standing on the stage more than an hour. here could it be more like the peace deal which was also in this room which was announced and the president kept it much shorter, prepared remarks handed

over the mic to benjamin netanyahu at one point? we don't know. the way it is set up is just one podium. we expect this to be the president's not necessarily prime time address but here in the middle of the day, the day after acquittal. as we saw at the national prayer breakfast, hold up that national newspaper, two newspapers that showed him acquitted. connell: the room is the formal room of the east room in the white house is many times used sometimes for a prime time address. if i remember correctly president obama spoke from the east room after after the kill of osama bin laden. another time it is used when a leader of the world is in attendance. reporter: where press conferences are held with bilateral meetings. connell: you have limited questions. two to you, two to the other side, wrap it up and get out of there, sometimes he goes longer. here he has his own room in the white house to himself.

so it is a little different. reporter: i'm glad you bring that up. that's a good point. there are one, two, three, four, five, rose, i don't know what it looks like on television, 30 feet away from the podium. like the chinese trade event, mideast event we're sort of back and not conducive to question and answer typesetting. connell: blake, i remember back to the campaign, you covered a lot more of these news conferences than i have, that would be a sign president wouldn't want to be engaged with reporters, doesn't put national network correspondents in this case filling it with cabinet staffers and officials, doesn't mean someone like you can't yell one out from the cheap seats, right? reporter: we'll try. there is a tone and tenor. you have to figure out a middle ground at an event like this. if not myself i'm sure others will try. whether or not he will want to take it. as bill clinton gave the address

february 12th, 1999, in the rose garden. it was about a minute and 20 seconds. i was watching it earlier this morning. he walked off. he was asked a question about forgiveness. president clinton turned back at the time asked a question about forgiveness. he was asked whether or not he felt vindicated and president clinton walked off the stage at that point didn't answer. connell: really? reporter: whether the president feels vindicated i can imagine that is scenario he might feel free to answer if he doesn't answer it before then. connell: blake, we'll, stand by in the east room. they told us two or three minutes we'll get started. from democratic perspective erin mcpike is with us. a lot of things were different with the clinton impeachment. the president said he was profoundly sorry. no one expect this is president to do so. perspective as you wait? >> i was in high school at the time when he did that. we watched it during the school

day. i remember watching all of the coverage in high school. it was interesting thing to watch. this is a much bigger spectacle this time. connell: it is a much bigger spectacle but you don't expect apology. >> no. a victory lap. connell: he is politically stronger than he has been in some time, which is uphill battle for democrats just if you look at data this week. >> with this president things are up and down every single week. there is a lot of chaos. he might be a few points up this week with his supporters i think he will be down next week. we have a long way to go until november. connell: we have 60 seconds to go before the president jumps in. stock market continues to rise in the midst of all this, not necessarily because of all this, up 76 on the dow. jackie deangelis with a quick update on today's trading at nyse before we listen to the president. what is focus, jackie? reporter: good afternoon to you,

connell. focus is seesaw action in the markets. positive news from china, slashing 75 billion in u.s. tariffs on imports. apparently there was an event in london and faa chief steve dixon mentioned an issue that was identified as a new software problem on the grounded 737s. as a result of that, he said, identified they could possibly get this plane back in the air in a few weeks. stock went up, market went up when boeing went up. of course this report spooked investors a little bit. you have this back and forth connell, that investors are grappling with. connell: the clapping you're hearing east room of the white house, you may figure this out for yourself, president's defense team from the impeachment proceedings. white house counsel pat cipollone, jay sekulow to his left. just entered east room. as they did, supporters of the president stood up to clap for extended period of time. we didn't hear that from any

other members of cabinet and supporters entered the room. but these were among the last people to come in, members of the legal defense team that that were able to argue the president's case effectively. "hail to the chief" now, the president in the east room of the white house. let's watch and listen. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [playing of "hail to the chief"] ♪. [cheers and applause] >> well, thank you very much. thank you.

[applause] thank you. wow. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> well thank you very much, everybody. wow. we've all been through a lot together and we probably deserve that hand for all of us because it's been a very unfair situation. i invited some of our very good friends and we have limited room

but everybody wanted to come. we kept it down to a minimum. believe it or not this is a minimum but a tremendous thing was done over the last number of months but really if you go back to it, over the last number of years. we had the witch-hunt. it started from the day we came down the elevator, myself and our future first lady who is with us right now. thank you, melania. [applause] and it never really stopped. we've been going through this now for over three years. it was evil. it was corrupt. it was dirty cops. it was leakers and liars and this should never ever happen to

another president ever. i don't know that other presidents would have been able to take it. some people said no, they wouldn't have but i can tell you at a minimum, you have to focus on this because it can get away very quickly no matter who you have with you, it can get away very quickly. it was a disgrace. had i not fired james comey, who was a disaster by the way, it's possible i wouldn't even be standing here right now. we caught him in the act. dirty cops, bad people. if this happened to president obama, a lot of people would have been in jail for a long time already, many, many years. i want to start by thanking some of, and i call them friend, you know you develop friendships in battle and war, much more so than gee, let's have a normal

situation. with all we've gone through, more than any president or administration and really, i say, for the most part republican congressman, congresswomen, and republican senators, we've gone through more than any administration in the first few years. you look at all the things we done. i watched this morning as they tried to take credit from the stock market, from, from, think of that -- let me tell you if we didn't win the stock market would have crashed. the market was going up a lot before the election because it was looking like which had a good chance to win. then went up tremendously from the time we won the election until the time we took office, which was november 8th to january 20th. it is our credit. all our credit. leading up to that point was our credit because there was hope and one of the reasons the stock market's gone up so much in the

last few days people think we're doing so well, they liked the state of the union speech. [applause] it really is, it is a true honor to give it. making the state of the union speech i was with some people that have been around, they have been all over the world and one of them said, highly sophisticated person said, do you know, no matter where you go in the world, doesn't make any difference, there is nothing like what i witnessed tonight. the beauty, the majesty of the chamber, the power of the united states, the power of the people in this room. really an amazing evening. i don't think there is anything like that anywhere in the world. you can go to any other country, any other location, any other

place, it is the beauty of everything, and what it represents and how it represents our country. i want to start by introducing some of the people are here. i know some will be left out. but they worked so hard and this is really not a news conference. it is not a speech. it's not anything. it is just we're sort of, it is a celebration because we have something that just worked out. i mean it worked out. we went through hell, unfairly. did nothing wrong. did nothing wrong. i have done things wrong in my life, i will admit. not purposely but i have done things wrong but this is what the end result is. [cheers and applause]

so, you can take that home, honey. maybe we'll frame it. [laughter]. only good headline i ever had in the "washington post." post every paper is the same. does everybody have them. they're really like that. so i appreciate that. but some of the people here are warriors, they're warriors. there is nothing from a legal standpoint. this is a political thing. every time i would say this is unfair, let's go to court, sir, you can't go to court. this is politics. and we were treated unbelievably unfairly. you have to understand we first went through russia, russia, russia.

it was all bullshit. we went through the mueller report. and they should have come back one day later. they didn't. they came back two years later of after lives were ruined. after people went bankrupt. after people lost all their money. people came to washington to help other people. bright eyed and bushy tailed i say. they came, one or two or three people in particular but many people in particular. we had a rough campaign t was nasty. it was one of the nastiest they say. they say andrew jackson was always the nastiest campaign. they actually said we topped it. it was a, it was a nasty both in the primaries and the election but you see we thought after the election it would stop but it didn't stop. it just started and tremendous corruption. tremendous corruption. so we had a campaign, little did

we know we were running against some very, very bad and evil people with fake dossiers, with all of these horrible, dirty cops that took these dossiers and did bad things. they knew all about it. the fisa courts should be ashamed of themselves. it is a very tough thing and then we ended up winning on russia, russia, russia. should have taken the one day as i said, it took years. then bob mueller testified. that didn't work out so well for the other side. but they should have said that first week because it came out, is that right, jim jordan? they knew in the first two days actually, devin is that right? two days they knew that we were totally innocent but they kept it going, mark. they kept it going forever because they wanted to inflict

political pain on somebody that had just won an election to a lot of people were surprised. we had polls said we were going to win. we had "los angeles times" and a few papers actually said it was, we were going to win but it was going to be close. and we did win. it was one of the greatest wins of all time. and they said okay, he won, you know i wrote this down because that is where a thing called the insurance policy to me, when i saw the insurance policy, that was done long before the election. it was done when they thought that hillary clinton was going to win. and by the way, hillary clinton and the dnc paid for, millions, millions of dollars, the fake dossier. and now christopher steele admits that it's a fake because he got sued by rich people.

i should have sued them too but when you're president, people don't like suing. i want to thank my legal team, by the way, not for that advice but for other advice. [applause] pat jay, pat. you guys stand up. [applause] great job. right at the beginning they said, sir, you have nothing to worry about. all of the facts are on your side. i said, you don't understand. that doesn't matter. that doesn't matter. and that was really true. they made up facts. a corrupt politician adam schiff made up my statement to the ukrainian president. he bought it out of thin air, just made it up. they say he is screenwriter a failed screenwriter.

unfortunately he went into politics after that. remember he said the statement, which is a statement, don't call me, we'll call you. i didn't say that. fortunately for all of us here today in our country, we had transcripts. we had transcribers, professional transcribessers. they said, oh, maybe the transcription is not correct but lieutenant colonel vindman and his twin brother, right? we had some people that really amazing but we did everything. we said what's wrong with it? didn't add this word -- doesn't matter. probably wrong, but add it. so now everyone agrees they were perfectly accurate. when you read those transcripts, tim scott, i don't know if tim is here, sir, first one to call me, sir, i read the transcript. you did nothing wrong. mitch he stayed there right from the beginning.

he never changed. mitch mcconnell, i want to tell you, you did a fantastic job. [applause] somebody said, you know, mitch is quiet. i said he is not quiet. he is not quiet. he doesn't want people to know him. and they said, is mitch smart? i said, let's put it this way, for many, many years a lot of very smart, bad in many cases, sometimes good but people, have been trying to take his place and to the best of my knowledge

i have never even heard the subject come up because they have been wiped out so fast. this guy is great and i appreciate it, mitch. he also given us 191 now. [applause] 191 federal judges, two supreme court judges, right? we're up to 191. [applause] great guy. great guy. a tough guy to read. i'm good at reading people. i would call him, how did you do with mitch? i don't know. [laughter]. that is what makes him good, when you can read somebody. fantastic job. and he understood this was crooked politics, this was crooked politics. how about all these people? they're run for office. they're saying the worst things about me, like eight senators on the democrat side. most of them got wiped out.

they got their one percent or less. most of them got less. they decided to go home. let's go back to california. let's go back to wherever they came from. go back to new york. how about that one? our new york senator, gillibrand. let's go back to new york. after they get nothing. and then they take an oath that they will be fair. they will be -- all the different things. they had a sign. they're not fair. here is the beauty. so we have four left. they're saying the most horrendous things -- it is okay, it's politics. then they're supposed to vote on me. they're trying to replace me. and then they are supposed to be voting. so i think it's incredible. so mitch, i want to thank you very much. incredible. you have some of your folks here. and they're incredible people. and they have been great from the beginning. again, you're out of session unfortunately. i only told these folks, let's do this today.

we did a prayer breakfast this morning and i thought that was really good. it was so good it might wipe this out. by the time we finish, this will wipe that one out, those statements. [laughter]. i had nancy pelosi sitting four seats away, and i'm saying things a lot of people wouldn't have said but i meant, i meant every word of it. but we have some of the folks that are going to be leaving right after this and they work hard and they did work hard. bill cassidy, senator, stand up, bill. what a guy. [applause] great man. when i need to know about health insurance and preexisting conditions and individual mandates, i call bill. or i call barrasso. we get those two guys, they know more than anybody. a man who just became a senator, he is little bit like me. we have a couple of them. very successful guy in business

and he said, what the hell. i will run for the senate from indiana. and he ran and i saw him on television destroying his opponent in a debate. this guy could win. i got behind him. and mike braun, you have done some great job. thank you very much. [applause] tough, tough. a man who got james comey to choke, and he was just talking in his regular voice. he is the roughest man -- he is actually a unbelievable, and i appreciate the letter you sent me today. i just got it. but has got this voice that scare people. people from iowa can be very tough. we're doing really well in iowa. chuck grassley, you looking at comey, tell me what do you say? he wasn't being rough. that is just the way he talks.

i think, i think that was when comey announced he was leaking, lying and everything else, right? he choked, because he never heard anybody talk like that. you know, you should have gone, i wish you got angry. you could have gotten the whole ballgame. he would have said i give up. chuck grassley is an incredible guy. [applause] and a man who, you know, he was running against a tough, smart campaigner. we learned how good she was, right? she was a great campaigner. in fact by the end of the campaign, she was actually, i thought she was more for me than you were, josh, i was worried. i saw her ads, she was saying the greatest thinks about me. you know who i am talking about. and i went to a great place,

missouri. i said who do you have to beat her? and they said, well we have four people. i said let me see them. i -- i can you imagine i'm interviewing people for the united states senate. this is what i do. where have i gone? but i love it, i love it because we're getting great people. the first one i met was josh hawley. after about ten minutes, i said to the people, don't show me anybody else. this is the guy. he was the attorney general. did a phenomenal job in the state. highly respected. and, claire mccaskill so, the theory was you couldn't beat her. great campaigner. remember the last campaign, she was always going to be taken out and she wins. people say how did that happen? didn't happen with him. but she got so friendly toward me. in fact one of the ads i still have. i'm putting it in the archives as one of the best ads i ever made. she tried to convince people that we were best friend but

josh ended up winning by five or six points. you were unbelievable. you were tough. you were something. and one of the greatest supporters on the impeachment hoax was josh hawley. he was incensed actually. i watched him. he was incensed at what they were doing and what they were saying. those were the ones. i said some saying oh, i wish he didn't make the call. that's okay. if they need that. that is totally incorrect. you have some used religion as a crutch. they never used it before. an article written today, never heard him use it before. but today, one of those things. but you know, it is a failed presidential candidate so things can happen when you fail so badly, running for president. but josh hawley, i want to thank you. you were right from the beginning. man, did i make a good choice. [applause] thank you, josh.

tremendous future. a man who is brilliant and who actually was deceived to an extent. comes from a great state, utah, where my poll numbers have gone through the roof. one of the senators poll numbers, not this one went down big. you saw that? you saw that, mike? but mike lee is a brilliant guy. he is difficult. [laughter]. when ever, we do sign a lot of legislation. it's big and it's powerful, sort of everybody has to approve it. i see 99-1, 99-1, i say, don't tell me who is the one. is it mike? yes. [laughter]. and he always has a good reason for it too, by the way. but he is is incredible and right at the beginning he knew

we were right, mike. i appreciate you very much. just fantastic, say hello to the people of utah and tell them i'm sorry about mitt romney. i'm sorry. okay? [applause] we can say that mike lee is by far the most popular senator from the state. but you've done a fantastic job, mike, in many ways, in many ways. a young woman who i didn't know at all but she has been so supportive and i have had great support from other people in that state and she's been so supportive and she's been downright nasty and mean about the unfairness to the president and kelly laughler, i appreciate it very much. [applause] saw it very early on. and we have, i don't if we have other senators here but we have a hell of a lot of congressman.

i will go over them quickly. you know it helped when we won, 197-0. that has got to be a first, kevin, right, is that like a first? the republicans have this image, see i say democrats are lousy politicians because they have lousy policy. open borders, sanctuary cities. they have horrible policy. who the hell can win? oh, the new policy is raise taxes. they want to raise taxes. you know all my life i wasn't in politics but i would say, if you're a politician, you want to say we're going to lower taxes. they want to raise taxes. so they have open borders, sanctuary cities, raise everybody's taxes. get rid of everybody's health care, 180 million people in the united states. they're really happy. and we're going to give you health care that will cost more money than the country could make in 30 years if it really does well, that's one year. so, i have always said they're lousy politicians but they do two things.

they are vicious and mean, vicious. these people are vicious. adam schiff is a vicious, horrible person. nancy pelosi is a horrible person. and she wanted to impeach a long time ago. when she said, i pray for the president, i pray for the president. she didn't pray. she may pray but prays for the opposite. but i doubt she prays at all. and, these are vicious people. but they do two things. they stick together. historically, i'm not talking now. they stick together like glue. that's how he impeached because they had whatever the numbers, 220 people. so they don't lose anybody. they will be able to impeach anybody. you could be george washington. you could have just won the war and they would say let's get him out of office and, they stuck together and they're vicious as hell. and they will probably come back for more but maybe not because the republican party's poll

numbers, mitch, have now gone up more than anytime, i think since 2004, 2005. you know what happened then. but in normal time, decades you would call it. that was little unusual time. that was for a very short period. the republican's party's poll numbers and donald trump's poll numbers are the highest i ever had. so maybe they're wrong. [applause] it's no way to get your poll numbers up, it's not worth it because from my family's standpoint, it has been very unfair for my family. it has been very unfair to the country. think of it, a phone call, a very good phone call. i know bad phone calls. this is a phone call, many people, i think mike pompeo was probably on the call. where is mike? mike pompeo were on the call. many people were on the call.

they have a appreni, my wavered word from the app prentice. they have many people on the call. they have many people from every nation. you think just in the case of ukraine, he is a new president. seems like a very nice person by the way. his whole thing was corruption. he is going to stop corruption. we have a treaty, 2001, 1999, a signed treaty we will work together to root out corruption in ukraine. i probably have a legal obligation, mr. attorney, to report corruption but they don't think it is corrupt when a son that made no money, that got thrown out of the military, that had no money at all, is working for $3 million up front, 83,000 a month and that is only ukraine. then goes to china, picks up 1 1/2 billion dollars. then goes to romania i hear and

many other countries. they think that's okay because if it is, is ivanka in the audience? is ivanka here? my kids could make a fortune. they could make a fortune. it's corrupt but not even that. it is just general corruption. and the other thing mentioned in the call, something i told mike pence, our great vice president, i would tell him all the time, and i told him when he went on the trip. he was over there, he never mentioned anything about this when you had your meeting. it's a terrible thing but i told mike, said, mike, we're giving them money and, you know, you're always torn about that because we have our country to build. we have our cities to build and our roads to fix. but we're giving them money. tell me, why isn't germany paying money? why isn't france? why isn't the united kingdom paying money? why aren't they paying money why are we paying the money? is that a correct statement,

mike? find out what the hell is going on. i tell that to all my people, omb, i asked that question, how much is germany paying? why isn't germany paying? why is the united states always the sucker because we're a bunch of suckers but that is turning around fast. but it makes it harder when stuff like this happens because you want to focus, and you want to focus perfectly. think what we could have done if the same energy was put into infrastructure, prescription drug prices, think of what we could have done? and i'm now talking both sides. think of what we could have done if we had the same genius, because it is genius, i will say, it's genius on the other side. maybe even more so because they took nothing and brought me to a final vote of impeachment. that's a very ugly word to me. it is a very dark word, very ugly. they took nothing. they took a phone call that was

a totally appropriate call. i call it a perfect call because it was and they brought me to the final stages of impeachment. but now we have that gorgeous word, i never thought a word would sound so good. it's called, total acquittal. total acquittal. [applause] so, so i want to, if i could, real fast, just introduce a few of the people. i have to start with, i have to start with kevin. man, did you do a job. lucky you're there, lucky you're there because, wouldn't have worked out. if you don't have the right people, i tell you, kevin mccarthy has done an incredible job. [applause] [applause]

and he loves his job. he loves his country. tell you what, mitch and kevin, they love what they do. now mitch wouldn't even tell you he liked it. mitch, did you like it? i don't know. [laughter]. he is the greatest poker player, right? kevin will say, i love it, right? i will say that, you're going to be speaker of the house because of this impeachment hoax. i really believe it. i really believe it. and i am going to work hard on it. [applause] i will try to get out to those trump areas we won by a lot. you know in '18. we didn't win. we won two seats in north carolina, two wonderful seats in north carolina that were not supposed to be won. i went and made speeches. we had rallies. we did a great job and we won, we took two seats nobody writes about that if we lost them it would be the biggest story of the year. we're going to go.

we're going to do a job and we're going to win a lot of seats. we'll win a lot of seats. people are very angry nancy pelosi and all of these guys, i mean, nadler, i know him much of my life. he has fought me in new york for 25 years. i always beat him. i had to beat him another time. i will probably have to beat him again because, if they find that i happen to walk across the street and maybe go against the light or something let's impeach him. so we will probably have to do it again because these people have gone stone cold crazy, but i have beaten them all my life and i will beat them again if i have to but what they're doing is very unfair, very unfair. [applause] so kevin mccarthy has been great. so, a few names, right? there will be a few you forget. if you want, raise, great, love to have you, wonderful. but we'll do the best we can.

i have my cabinet. but my cabinet is different, i appoint them, okay? i don't see them helping that much but they were running their various bureaucracies, right? no, my cabinet is great. they're all here. today is to celebrate the great warriors. they are great warriors. they fought hard for us. kelly armstrong, north dakota, kelly, great job. grace job. [applause] jim banks of indiana. jim, thank you. [applause] andy biggs, where is andy? boy, oh, boy, andy. [applause] there's a guy. he's tough. i hear we're doing well in arizona, going good, yeah? i think so. i think i saw a poll that was very good, for me. i think we have to make sure martha is going -- i think martha is boeing to do good. we have some state has will be not easy but arizona has been

great. we're stopping illegal aliens from coming in. we're putting up walls. new mexico, a state never been in play for republicans is totally in play, right? nevada, really looking good. we're doing well. we're doing well. we'll have a great -- there is more spirit, i will say this. there is more spirit now for the republican party, by far than the democrats. you know, mike pence just got back from a place, a beautiful base that chuck grassley knows well, iowa. and he was talking about the fiasco of the democrats, they can't count simple votes yet they want to take over your health care system. think of that. no, think of it. but we also had an election out there and we got 98% of the vote. we had two people running. i guess they consider them non-people but they are running. one was a governor. one was a congressman. they're running. got 98% of the vote.

everybody from the media was saying, who are those crowds over there? they expected it to be one of these competitive where everybody is running because they want to win, they want to win. it was trump, right, mark meadows. it was trump. this was a trump crowd. a lot of, actually a lot of my guess went there. they went to iowa and a lot of friends went there we had tremendous, they say the spirit, the spirit for the republican party right now is stronger i think than it's ever been in the history of our country. i think it's stronger than it ever has been. [applause] that includes honest abe lincoln. a lot of people forget, abe lincoln, i wish he were here. i would give him one hell of a introduction. [laughter]. but he was a republican. abe lincoln, honest abe. bradley burn, alabama. what a great place. thank you, bradley.

a man who has been an unbelievable friend of mine an spokesman, somebody i really like, and i know kelly, you will end up liking him a lot. something will happen that will be very good. i don't know. i haven't figured it out yet. but doug come -- collins. you have been so great. thank you very much. [applause] thank you. really amazing job. a young man who is born with a great gene because i know his father and how great a politician he was but he is from florida. sometimes controversial but actually he is not controversial, he is solid as a rock, he is a friend of mine, matt gaetz. thank you, matt. great job. [applause] all right. this guy. so he is the ncaa meeting couple years ago when he was in

college, wrestling champion, ncaa. that is big deal. in all of college you're the champ, you're the best. his record was ridiculous. nobody, nobody could beat him. i see it. every time i see it, when i first got to know him, jim jordan, when i first got to know jim, i said, never wear as jacket. what the hell is going on? he is obviously very proud of his body. [laughter] they say where he works out, you know the congressmen, senators, they say when jim works out, even though he's not as young as he was, but he works out, the machine starts burning. it's just a different form of workout than us, right, sonny? there he is. look at that guy. but one day i'm looking and he looks tough and i'm looking and i'm looking at those ears, and i say those ears have something

going on there. i said did you ever wrestle. yeah, i did. but he doesn't talk. but i checked. this guy was -- this guy was a champion top, top wrestler and when i had the top, i had all of the teams and by the way, your super bowl champions are coming, i think next week or soon, very soon, and every one of them want to be here and the coach loves us, the coach is great, andy reid, and every one of them want to be here. we have people love it. but we had all of the ncaa championship teams here. they had the golf, the basketball, they had every team here and one of the teams was wrestling, the wrestling team. was that penn state? and penn state won the title. they have a great team. and i walked up with jim and it's like i didn't exist. those wrestlers, they grabbed him. they love jim jordan and we love you, too, because you are some warrior.

a woman who became -- we have a couple of women who became stars, you two, and i always like the name of her, you know, i like the name, that's how i picked it, i like the name. i saw that face, i saw everything, they gave me cards, you had like seven opponents, right? and you have no idea how much the public appreciates how smart, how sharp you are. this, i can't tell. i can't tell. they just said you know she's really good, she's really talented. they said let's go. we worked with her, she won her race, tough race. no longer tough because what she does out there is incredible. arizona loves her. but you were so incredible representing -- i don't say me, representing our country and

getting it out of this impeachment hoax. what you did was incredible. debbie, please stand up. a man who i became very friendly with, i don't know why. ever have where, i will ask the media, certain people call you, take their calls. other people call, they don't have information, they won't take anybody's call. but other people call and this is a guy, he just, he's just a very special guy. his wife, i actually like better than him, to be honest, because he doesn't know that i know that he didn't actually support me right from the beginning but she did and on my worst day, right, on my worst day, my worst, i won't tell you why it was my worst but it was not one of those good days, she got on a bus, got many other buses and women all over north carolina

and they toured north carolina. well, mark was back sort of semi-supporting another candidate which he ended up leaving very quickly, i don't think you had a choice because of your wife, but thank her and mark meadows, he's an extraordinary guy. only problem is i guess he's announcing, he would only win by 40 points, but he's announcing that he will be not running this ti time. somebody going to win your district by at least 20 points, please, okay. but he's a tremendously talented man, not just as a politician, as a human being he's incredible and during these horrible times, i mean, the way he worked and jim and all of you guys, the way they worked was so -- it was like their life was at stake, so many. ron desantis is another one. he worked so hard. then he called me, he said sir, i would like to run for governor. i said governor? i don't want you to run, i like you staying -- no, i want to run for governor.

and i said well, if you have to. i'd like your support. i said how can i support you? you're at 3. he was at 3. he had no money. somebody else was at 38 and they had $22 million cash. i said look, if it's important, i'll do it because he's been another great warrior and he's, by the way, he ran, i endorsed him, his numbers went through the roof. the man who was expected to win easily called me after the race, he said you endorsed him and it was like a nuclear bomb went off. there was nothing i could do. he never even spent his money. he saved it. but ron desantis is another one. now he's the governor of florida and by the way, he's a great governor. he's a very popular governor. his numbers are in the 70s and he's done a great job. but mark, i want to thank you very much. fantastic job. thank you very much. mark meadows.

and mike johnson of louisiana. where is mike? central casting. what a job. you can represent me any time. you can represent me any time. thank you. what a job you've done. thank you, mike. and a man nobody's ever heard of except the other side. the other side's worst nightmare. this guy goes down into dungeons and basements, he'll find a document no matter what. he's the most legitimate human being, he's the hardest worker, he's unbelievable. he took tremendous abuse, i mean, abuse, the media, and you know, the other side, the bad ones, the leakers, the liars, the dirty cops, they wanted to destroy him. they tried, they got close but he wouldn't let it happen and honestly, in a certain way, he was the first one, wouldn't you say, jim and mark? this was the first guy. came out of nowhere. he's saying these people are corrupt. he's still saying it.

and he was unbelievable. devin nunes. unbelievable. that's so true, devin. he would come in and say i didn't even know him, i just heard there were like -- there was this congressman who kept going into a basement, into files. he knew something was wrong. you felt it, right? and now we know a lot more than we knew then, right? you never thought it was as bad as it is and hopefully we are going to take care of things, because we can never, ever allow this to happen again. scott perry of pennsylvania,

scott, thank you. thank you, scott. really great. and you're doing very well over there, by the way. just saw your numbers. a man who is -- i mean central casting, if i'm going to pick perry mason, i'm doing a remake of perry mason, other than bill barr i would pick this guy but i have to say i pick barr. i pick barr first, right, john ratliff? i have to tell you, if we are doing a remake of perry mason, the man i get, there's nobody in hollywood like this, john ratliff. right? stand up. such a great lawyer. incredible guy, incredible talent but just a great lawyer. we appreciate it. he gets on that screen and everyone says i agree, the other side folds up so fast. we'll probably be using a lot of you in the next year. but you have been fantastic, we appreciate it. thank you very much. a man who is braver than me and braver than all of us in this

room, yet he got whacked. he got whacked. my steve, right? i went to the hospital with our great first lady that night, right, honey, and we saw a man that was not going to make it. he was not going to make it. he was the doctor and i told him, his wife, i said she loves you, why do you say that, because she was devastated. a lot of wives wouldn't give a damn. a lot of wives, lot of wives would have said -- i said how's he doing? she couldn't even talk. she was inconsolable. not good, listen, i'm going home now. but the doctor came in, the wife is like, she was a total mess. she was really devastated. and really, it looked like he had a 20%, 25% chance. i think you set a record for blood loss. steve scalise. honestly, i think you are better looking now. you are more handsome now. you weren't that good-looking. you look good now.

he looks better now. can you believe the? i don't know what the hell that is. what a guy. and he was practicing, he was practicing for the baseball game against i guess the democrats, right? and this whack job started shooting, hurt rogers, i don't know if rogers here, hurt a number of people, hit them, but really hit steve. steve was at second base. he was the second baseman. and he went down and it was terrible. i mean, i saw the whole thing and it was terrible. fortunately, you had two brave policemen with you because of your high position in congress, you had two policemen and they were amazing.

a man and a woman. and they came, they didn't have rifles. they were against supposedly pretty good sharp shooter with rifles, good equipment and all they had was a gun. and they started coming in from the outfield shooting and they are so far away, but a handgun is not preferred. this guy has the rifle and he's hitting people and he was going to move up and there was no out. i mean, if we have behe would h been able to move up, there was no out. it was a single entrance way. everyone went into the dugout, ran into the dugout but steve was really hit badly in the stomach and with a bullet that rips you apart. it was supposed to do that. it rips you apart. and these two people came charging forward, boom, boom, boom, and one of them you know who, one of them, him, got the shooter. hit him.

and then got him, killed him, long distance. it was amazing. if you didn't have those two people, you could imagine, right? you could imagine what would happen. so melania and i went to the hospital that night and he was in such bad shape and he's been working ever since so hard. but six months ago, they had a baseball game at the nationals park and i'm watching and it's on television and it's just, you know, you want to win it, right, and steve's at second base. the poor guy can't even walk. do you remember bobby richardson for the new york yankees? he was known for range, louis. range. he had the greatest range. if a ball's hit to shortstop, bobby richardson's the second player -- second baseman. bobby richardson would field the ball. if it's hit to first base, they will throw it to the first baseman. he had unbelievable range. this was not steve scalise. steve had no range.

one foot and he has to fall down, right, because he was trying to get better. i don't know who the hell put you on the field. and this is a true story. so the game starts and the first pitch, steve's standing at second base and the guy is really in bad shape, and i said this is terrible. a shot, ground ball shot is hit to second and steve, i didn't have time to think too much but i said this is not good. that ball is going toward him. and this guy stopped that ball, he's now laying down, he throws the ball to first base, he gets him out. i said it's the most incredible thing. i've never seen anything like it. right? and he gets him out and they then took him out of the game

which was a very wise thing because you could never do that again in a million years. but you weren't going to let that ball go through, i don't care if it was hit by the greatest of all time, right? that ball was not going through you. because you are a warrior. steve is fantastic. you are fantastic. you and liz and kevin. what a great -- what a group. i mean, what a group. i got lucky. i got lucky because you need the right people. if i had the wrong people there, it may be a different story. maybe we would be celebrating something else. but i really want to thank you. steve scalise. and elise, you, i just read this story, most incredible what's going on with you. i even said, i was up campaigning for helping her but i thought she looks good, she looks like good talent, but did i not realize when she opens that mouth, you were killing them. you were killing them.

i saw a story in the "new york post." i love the "new york post." they really treat me well. there aren't too many that do but today you're treating me well. even had a great headline, "new york times," "washington post," i had all these great headlines. maybe we should just end it right there. you had the greatest story yesterday in the post. people from all over the country are contributing to her campaign. they were so enthralled with the way you handled yourself, what you said, the way you said it, and i'll always be your friend. i think it's really an amazing story. what a great future you have. what a great future. thank you. first lady agrees, by the way. first lady agrees. and michael turner, you can represent me any time. where's michael? where is he? you can represent me. how good were you? there's another perry mason

type, i think. what do you think, john? michael, you were fantastic. we appreciate it. brad wenstrop. where's brad? brad, great. great. it's a big day. notice only the lawyers, all the lawyers stayed behind. lee zeldin, how good are you? and your name's not down. they didn't give me your name. i didn't announce louie. whoever the hell made this list, i got to get rid of because if i wouldn't have announced louie it might have been the end of the presidency. louie, you have been so great, so tough and so smart. i got it. i got it. louie has been amazing. he's a tough guy, he's a smart guy, he's street-wise like crazy. we love texas. we're with you all the way.

we're with you all the way. thank you very much. so that's the story. we have a great group of warriors and there are others left and i guess probably i'm sure i didn't mention a few, i apologize if that's the case. how's c-pac doing, good? my man, stand up please, will you? he's the one who said you should run. right? matt said it's like five years ago, six years ago, i made a speech and then they do some kind of a straw poll, who made the best speech. he said i made the best speech. out of all these professionals, with all these professional politicians, they voted by far the best speech was trump. he calls me, he says you should run for politics. i said what do i know about politics. but you know what, we learned quickly and our country has never done better than it's doing right now.

so thank you. thank you, matt. great. so that's the story. we've been treated very unfairly. fortunately we have great men and women that came to our defense. if we didn't, this would have been a horrific incident for our country. when you have lisa and peter, the lovers, the fbi lovers. i want to believe the path you threw out for deputy director andrew mccabe, that's the office. there's no way he gets elected, meaning me. there's no way he gets elected. this is peter to lisa. he's probably trying to impress her for obvious reasons. there's no way he gets elected. but i'm afraid we can't take the

risk. think of this. in other words, if i get elected, they can't, they, two lowlifes, they can't take the risk. they can't take the risk. think of it. that's where it came up. the greatest word of all, insurance policy. he says but i'm afraid we can't take the risk. she may lose. it's like an insurance policy, in the unlikely event you die before you're 40. in other words, if i won, they were going to do exactly what they did to us. they were going to try and overthrow the government of the united states, a duly elected president, and if i didn't fire james comey, we would have never found this stuff. because when i fired that sleazebag, all hell broke out. they were ratting on each other, they were running for the hills. let's see what happens. let's see what happens. it's in the hands of some very

talented people. we're going to have to see what happens. but i can tell you in my opinion, these are the crookedest, most dishonest, dirtiest people i have ever seen. they said this is strzok, god, hillary should win, 100 million to one. this is about me. this is an agent from the fbi, look how they let her off. 33,000 e-mails deleted. nothing happens to her. nothing happens. it's unbelievable. think of that god, hillary should win, when these guys are investigating hillary. then they go to work for mueller, the two of them and when mueller found out that everybody knew that they were 100% this way, he let them go. but they deleted all of their e-mails and text messages. so when we got the phone, they

were all deleted. could you imagine the treasure trove? they illegally deleted. so they left, they left bob mueller, he had the look but he didn't have a lot of other things. always had the look. mr. g-man. i love the fbi and the fbi loves me, 99%. it was the top scum and the fbi people don't like the top scum. so think of that. 100 million to one and he's investigating me. and then god, trump is a loathesome human being, isn't he. these are the people looking at me. i'm really not a bad person. and page said yes, he's awful. how would you like to have that? this is just -- this is the good stuff. this stuff, 100 times worse than that. these are all dirty people and now i just heard that they're

suing the united states of america. because they were interfered with. not going to let it happen. just not going to let it happen. we cannot let this happen to our country. so i'm going to leave now. i don't know if any of you have anything to say. you can say it but this is sort of a day of celebration because we went through hell. i'm sure that pelosi and cryin' chuck, only time i ever saw him cry was when it was appropriate. known him for a long time. cryin' chuck. i'm sure they will try and cook up other things. they will go through the state of new york, they will go through other places. they will do whatever they can, because instead of wanting to heal our country and fix our country, all they want to do if my opinion, it's almost like they want to destroy our country. we can't let it happen.

jim jordan, did you want to say something? go ahead. huh? mark? >> [ inaudible ]. >> this was a highly partisan situation. pelosi said, i copied it down exactly, before the impeachment, she wanted to impeach from day one, by way. don't let it fool you. she said no, impeachment is a very serious thing. i said she wants to impeach, watch. impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there's something so compelling and so overwhelming and bipartisan, bipartisan, it was 197-0, and

one failed presidential candidate and i call that half a vote because he actually voted for us on the other one, but we had one failed presidential candidate, that's the only half a vote we lost. so we had almost 53. to nothing. we had 197-0. and the only one that voted against was a guy that can't stand the fact that he ran one of the worst campaigns in the history of the presidency but she said there's something so -- has to be so compelling and so overwhelming and bipartisan. i don't think we should go down that path because it divides the country. she was right about that. and it's just not worth it. that was nancy pelosi a year ago. right? and i think it's a shame. i think it's a shame. but as i said, if we can put

this genius to work on roads and highways and bridges and all of the things we can do, prescription drugs, you know, we had secretary azar is here, i want to thank him for this, but we had first time in 51 years, where drug prices actually came down last year. first time in 51 years. but what we could do working with both parties in congress would be unbelievable. it would be unbelievable. what we can do. i know chuck grassley is working very hard on it and mitch is working very hard on it but what we can do is incredible. what we can do just generally. we have done so much without them. we have rebuilt our military, we have cut regulations at a level that nobody thought possible. we will always protect our second aementmemendment, we all that. i just want to tell you it's an honor to be with you all. i want to apologize to my family for having them have to go through a phony rotten deal by

some very evil and sick people, and ivanka is here and my sons and my whole family. and that includes baron. that includes baron, who is up there as a young boy. stand up, honey. ivanka, thank you, honey. so i just want to thank my family for sticking through it.

this was not part of the deal. i was going to run for president and if i won, i was going to do a great job. i didn't know that i was going to run and then when i got in, i was going to have to run again and again and again every week, i had to run again. that wasn't the deal. but they stuck with me and i'm so glad i did it because we are making progress and doing things for our great people that everybody said couldn't be done. our country is thriving. our country is just respected again and it's an honor to be with the people in this room. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. connell: president trump unfiltered for just over an hour in the east room of the white house, one day after he was acquitted in the united states senate impeachment trial.

the president saying at the beginning of his remarks, it wouldn't be a news conference, it wouldn't be a speech. instead he said it would be a celebration as he walks away from the east room lectern with his wife. the president set the tone for that celebration as he characterized it early on, talking about the investigations that he had endured since taking office. the president of the united states from a lectern in the east room of the white house said it was all bullshit, normally language we wouldn't use on tv but a direct quote if the president. that was a little over an hour ago. from there, president trump went on to thank many of those who stood by his side. he also went on to take personal shots at many of those who had not stood by his side. in fact, many that he saw as his antagonists, calling nancy pelosi at one point a horrible person, calling the former fbi director jim comey a sleazebag. so that's it. that is the end of the impeachment saga as it is. we have the "wall street journal" executive editor jerry

seid who has been around standing by. your thoughts after listening in on the president for an hour? >> two things striking to me above all. first of all, it was really a celebration, not really substantive speech, but it was the embrace of a president who wasn't really the choice of the republican establishment, to say the least, of that republican establishment, and the embrace by that republican establishment as represented in that room, of the president. i mean, it was -- would have been hard to imagine the scene three years ago during the 2016 campaign or right after the election but you really had a bonding of the president and the party. at the beginning, they were really on separate tracks so i think that is one of the effects of impeachment overall, and you kind of saw it on display here. the second thing was that there was very little where do we go from here. mostly it was kind of a cathartic -- catharsis for everybody in that room but there was no real sense of how does

washington now pull itself together and start moving forward in anything approaching a bipartisan way. there was a brief reference at the end to maybe we can do something on infrastructure. by and large, i think that was absent from the moment and that is a question that hangs over the capitol today, i think. connell: so the president while he was speaking, saw the stock market hit yet another all-time high. the dow up as many as 110 points during his remarks. as i said before, soon we may be talking about dow 30,000. the economy by many measures, as we have readings this week on manufacturing and services and employment, is still quite strong on a relative basis. the other thing that's striking this week is the president's approval rating hitting an all-time high. what do you make of that, as he works his way through impeachment, he's never been more popular politically. >> well, i wrote a column for the "journal" today that said a couple strange things are going on. one is that during impeachment the president's odds of being reelected may have nudged up a

little bit. you have gallop producing a job approval rating the highest it's ever seen. in our own "wall street journal"/nbc news poll, we saw job approval for the president among independent voters going up and that's a crucial indicator. at the same time, democrats think that maybe the fact that a lot of swing state senators who are up for re-election this year who had to pull behind the president early, chose to pull behind the president here, could pay a price for that. it may actually make the senate harder for the republicans to hold. you could have this kind of boomerang effect in which it may have made the president more likely to be re-elected but harder for the republicans to hold the senate. so the political consequences could be huge and they are a little difficult to predict at this point. connell: always great to have your analysis, jerry. former republican congressman from the state of virginia, liberty university business school dean these days, dave brad, kind enough to join us as well. he was standing by patiently during the president's remarks. your thoughts, as you heard the president the day after being

acquitted in the united states senate? >> yeah. i just think he's just talking from the heart to the people. that's what the folks like out there. he thanked all of my friends up there in the freedom caucus who have been fighting for him over the years and some other new friends, and so yeah, it kind of was cathartic and then moving forward, like you said, it's just kind of stunning, just the two rules of play, right. the republicans always kind of play by the book and we're just not used to this and like the pelosi antics, newt gingrich, now members are trying to figure out how do you fight back in a winning way. hopefully we get back to the issues and the democrats quit with the just endless parade of drama. it's just been unrelenting. russia, then they destroyed kavanaugh, a perfectly fine human being, then ukraine-gate, then impeach-gate and there's going to be a smoking gun every single day on cnn.

it's because they don't have any good candidates right now running for president and they don't have an agenda. so they are just going after president trump. so i hope the whole country understands that's what's going on. they don't have an agenda, they cannot win without being totally negative and totally attacking. and that's it in a nutshell. connell: well, it's been some week, just as a quick final thought, congressman, literally i was in washington the other night and the president gives the state of the union, speaker rips it up afterwards. the day after he's acquitted. now these remarks in the east room. i mean, you know, any quick thought where we go from here? we get anything done in washington or just forget about it? >> no, no, i think -- i hope tomorrow he comes out on china. he has been absolutely correct on that. they are the 800 pound gorilla in the room. they have a document, china 2025, with the 5g and the huawei and they are at war with us up

in the realm of the satellites and in terms of communication and i.t. going forward. that's going to be the future. the president has been the lone voice on that for 40 years. he gets it. i hope he goes for another round of tax cuts. i hope he pushes that. the economy grew 3% as soon as we did the tax cut and now it's slowing because pelosi's taken over the house and putting regulation back in place and won't do any more to stimulate business. he's got a winning hand. he's just got to go to that every minute and i hope the business community wakes up with bernie about ready to take over the democrat party, socialism isn't theoretical anymore. when they go after freedom of speech on campus, they've gotten rid of religion and philosophy and the curriculum, they are going anti-business, they are going after guns in virginia. socialism is for real. i hope everyone is waking up out there in the country and not only waking up but willing to take action to fight on behalf

of their country for their kids. connell: dave brat, thank you for sitting through all of that with us and standing by for analysis afterwards. former congressman from virginia. our panel now in studio, rob smith is with us. mike ozanian and kelly-jane torrance. kelly, some thoughts here as we, boy, i don't know that anyone is necessarily surprised but this is in many ways, as we said before, we expected the joke was the airing of the grievances from president trump and i guess he delivered it. >> festivus a little late this year. yeah. i was a little surprised, to be honest. i knew donald trump is a showman, likes putting on a show, but this was quite something, something i hadn't really -- connell: surprised by what portion of it? >> just how comfortable he seemed for one thing. impeachment is over, you know, he's still got the election to worry about this fall but he seems to be in a great mood and honestly, even a little humble.

i loved it when he talked about mitch mcconnell and said mitch is hard to read and mentions melania would ask him how did it go with mitch, i don't know, he's hard to read. that's something donald trump doesn't normally say there's something he can't figure out but mitch mcconnell apparently is it. he called mike lee difficult. but thanking him. so it was interesting. i thought he really, one thing that surprised me is how much he clearly is in touch with the individual senators. a lot of people thought when he came in he was not an establishment republican, people thought he's not even going to want to work with republicans in congress. he just wants to command to them. it's clear he's been talking to them a lot, getting to know them as well. connell: i didn't know we would hear humble as part of our analysis. that's a first when it comes to the president. >> i think we were looking at a man who has the wind at his back. he knows the economy's doing very well. he knows the stock market is doing great. i thought the most interesting thing through this whole process was how the president's poll

ratings went up during the impeachment process. i mean, that to me is astounding. i think the impeachment process is actually going to help the president. i think it's going to help the republican party. i think they are going to pick up seats in the senate, they will pick up seats in the house because those poll numbers tell me the american people saw this for what it was, a big sham. connell: meantime, we have what happened in iowa. so it's all kind of in the same week, we forget about it. it was in iowa, then d.c., back to new york, he said all this happened and all of these things happened at the same week. while the president was speaking, tom perez, head of the democratic national committee, sent out a tweet saying they should recanvas in iowa. he says enough's enough, in light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan, in order to assure the public confidence, i'm calling for the democratic party in iowa to immediately begin a recanvas. we may know new hampshire before we know iowa. i don't know what's going on there. >> to me, the whole iowa thing has been a mess. when you look at what's going on on the left right now, i think bernie sanders really does have the energy right now.

and it seems like to use a word sham, it seems like such a sham with these caucuses. they were such a mess, nobody knows what's going on. then you have buttigieg that was seen as the winner, got three good days of press and fund-raising out of that, now we are realizing that no, it was bernie sanders that won or maybe in the front. it's just a really big mess. it really does speak to how we really have to get these processes together, this app was a complete disaster, and this is something that we are really have to be thinking about leading into 2020. connell: how do you think the president is positioned? does everybody agree here at least mild favorite for re-election, given where his numbers are? probably in better political position which i don't know if ironic is the right word but this is a president just went through an impeachment proceeding and came out the on the other hand of it maybe in the best political position he's been in since he took office. >> mike had a great point talking about his approval rating actually went up. connell: yes, it did.

>> if you look at where americans were on impeachment, a few americans actually changed their mind and went against impeachment as the house did its proceedings. i think american people saw what was going on and they didn't like it. connell: one thing about the president, you see he did it here today and he's done it, what he's really done his whole life, think about it, even in private life and certainly when he moved into politics, there were all these comparisons being made, situation completely different in terms of what they were charged with, comparisons made to bill clinton and he made remarks almost 21 years ago to the day, where he said he was profoundly sorry after the impeachment and the monica lewinsky situation. nobody expected president trump to do that. he didn't. went in a complete opposite direction. no matter what was happening around him, nobody thought he would be convicted but there was a lot of evidence presented that maybe he had done something that even some republicans would have considered quote, inappropriate. the president never went there. perfect call, never gave an inch. >> i think everything that you have said is absolutely spot-on

and describing iowa the way it was is absolutely correct. i think in my opinion. but at the end of the day, i think when people are going to vote, what they are going to really look at and think about before they pull that lever is, is my life better off today than it was before president trump took office and who else is working hard for me. you even saw this in the state of the union address by president trump. i mean, he was pointing to things that he had done and things he's going to try to do and many of those things in my opinion were things that the typical american can really relate to. connell: and also think of who he's running against, which we will talk about. we don't know yet, of course. people are starting to work that out. stay with us. we will continue here. neil will have special coverage of the primary in new hampshire on his saturday show on the fox news channel, "cavuto live" and he will be there monday, both for this program and for your world on fox news, and our prime time coverage. i will be part of that with neil. he will be here in new york and i will be up in new hampshire on

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connell: back with some more white house related news, but this is a different subject from what we were talking about with the president a few minutes ago. charlie gasparino has details. what are you hearing? charlie: as you can tell, the white house is in full campaign mode and they should. they are using every knock as a push, as they say back in the neighborhood. next week, you can see another push. what we understand, we are getting this from congressional sources, that speculation is swirling that that tax increase, excuse me, that tax cut plan i have been talking about for awhile, a stimulus plan, is going to be released very soon, it's going to be released possibly as early as next week, in conjunction what we understand with an infrastructure plan. it's interesting. on the heels of the impeachment, on the heels of the president

being xexonerated by the senate on the heels of the iowa caucus debacle for the democrats, the white house is not wasting any time. from what we understand, they are scrambling essentially to put together some sort of stimulus package. it will be an election year stimulus package. what i don't know, i'm hearing lots of different rumors out there, whether it's going to be part of the 2021 budget, that is coming very soon. or whether it's something separate, whether it's just going to run on the notion this is what we are going to do if we are getting elected or if they put it in the budget. obviously the plan itself is not going to pass the democrats in the house. that said, it will be very interesting to see donald trump run on tax cuts, infrastructure spending, while just about every democrat is talking about massive tax increases, i mean, it runs the gamut from bernie sanders to taxing everything to joe biden taxing most things. i mean, it's very interesting how this is going to -- how this could sort of play out in the

next couple months. i think the economy and economics which makes fox business in the catbird seat here is really going to be front and center. tax cuts will be front and center in the debate in this election. i think you can safely say that. we should get more details on this when we can. but i hear it's on the verge. it could be next week, could be later. but they are planning on something big in terms of stimulus. another story i have here, this is a huge story in baseball, sports, you name it, you know, hedge funds, i mean, everybody thought it was locked and loaded, the new york mets were going to get a $2 billion sort of infusion of cash, sell 80% of the team to steve cohen, the big hedge fund player. as you know, the wilpons need the cash. as we were talking about bernie madoff looking to try to get out of jail early, the wilpons took a big hit on the bernie madoff scam. that's one of the reasons why they need the money. apparently what we understand, we were first to report this early on today, it's been

recently confirmed by the major league commissioner, rob manfred, is the deal is off. as we reported, steve cohen has walked from the deal. that doesn't mean he can't be enticed to come back but the stickup is steve cohen wants some degree of control over the mets. the controlling wilpon family, they don't want to give him that much control, at least not for the next five years, and because of that, he has walked, manfred in the last couple hours has come out and said there's no deal. connell: we have to get back to all the washington stuff in a minute but this is a good story. sound like a negotiating type of tactic from cohen? is that what he's doing here? or we don't know? charlie: i don't think so. here's why i don't think so. people just don't want to spend billions of dollars. steve cohen is worth $15 billion. i think when you spend that much money, you know, and you want to -- listen, he valued the met at a very high level because of that, because of how much money he was willing to put in.

he's not going to have no say. we should point out the mets almost had a deal with another billionaire, david einhorn, another hedge fund guy a couple years ago. again, he walked on control issues. connell: maybe the mets or wilpons say you know what, that's a lot of money. we don't know. charlie: major league baseball, i will tell you, wants them to do this. remember, it's a club. but you know, you need two to tango and as of right now, as we reported, now confirmed by the commissioner of baseball, rob manfred, steve cohen has walked from his deal with the mets. connell: wow. all the mets fans, we thought we were getting something good out of this. charlie: players, money. you think you can get some money for some players. connell: by the way, i want to say this before i let you go. mow twitter feed is lighting up. the hatred not for me but for the wilpons is palpable. um telling you. . connell: people just take shots at the ownership. some of that probably is unfair

but -- charlie: some of it is probably fair. he's walking away from billions of dollars. connell: that is something. i will take a look at your twitter feed later. thank you. back to all the washington stuff, as we say. nancy pelosi and president trump going back and forth over the economy. let's take a listen first. >> the fact is, he did not inherit that. there was a momentum of growth in our economy. >> this morning as they tried to take credit for the stock market from, think of that. let me tell you, if we didn't win, the stock market would have crashed. connell: john tapper is our guest on this. boy, it's either he doesn't deserve any credit at all or the market would have crashed if he didn't win. that's been our day so far. what do you say? >> you know, it's interesting, this was a celebration, really, and there's a lot to celebrate. this is really a blue collar boom.

in my work of turning around businesses, i travel all across the country, i have seen it. but now the numbers are out. not only have i felt this positive outlook, a change in spirit and energy, just out there in middle america, but the numbers are powerful. the federal reserve bank just issued some numbers that to me are very exciting. what it says is that the bottom quarter of wage earners, growth income is much higher than the top quarter of wage earners. top quarter of our wage earners, income is up 2.9%, whereas the bottom quarter of wage earners is up 4.5%. that's a big jump. and those who were saying we need economic justification and justice, it's happening. the trump economy is impacting everyone. you look at the kind of jobs that are earning, farmers, income earnings are now close to $100,000 a year.

construction managers, industrial production managers, these are now high income jobs. this is all a derivative of the trump economy, the tax cuts and our new economic environment. when you hear what charlie's talking about, the next level of stimulus is coming, we do have a lot to celebrate. connell: i don't know if they will ever get that passed. that will be a campaign issue more than anything, what charlie is reporting on. understand yaabl understandably, he wants to campaign on it because that's his biggest campaign issue. you would think, right, if he can make this campaign just about the economy, then he's in a pretty fw spot. . >> he is in a good spot. when i'm out there, people say this to me and they say it again and again and again. they say our politics are a mess but i'm doing pretty good. [ speaking simultaneously ] connell: even farmers, we were in iowa last week, they may say i'm not doing great, this trade stuff, but i still like the

president. that's also an interesting argument. there's been a lot of loyalty to this president. final word, from some of these groups, which would also be important politically. >> it is, but i think because he has been effective in getting the tax cuts and china negotiations and such, i think farmers see that there's a positive outlook. we are going somewhere. there's an opportunity to win on these fronts. i think there's a reason to believe in this president. i think he's proven it to a whole bunch of people. connell: good to see you. glad we got you on out there in las vegas. in a moment, we talked baseball with charlie. we will talk a little football. you may have heard the xfl is coming back. the president of the league and the commissioner are coming up only here on fox business to talk about how this time, they hope to make this league last.

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the buck's got your back. connell: we are going to get to some football for you. there's a new season of the xfl getting under way. it is this weekend. revived by vince mcmahon. it is back. you probably remember it from the last time around. but this time, the league hopes to capture the attention of 40 million fans they say want more football. the xfl president is jeffrey pollock and the commissioner joins us as well. good luck, gentlemen. we spoke about this before when you were first launching the league but now it's real. you are going to have games this weekend. obviously excited. what are you most excited about? >> we are excited to get going. preparations for this has been two years in the making. we have had the benefit of the resources and time to plan and prepare. oliver has been able to design a fresh take on the game that america loves more than any other, and we are ready to start

playing. connell: well, one of the things, everybody has been talking about this before, is that it's football, professional football. you have some talented guys, many played in the nfl if not big-time college football, but there are slight differences in the rules, and it seems to me from reading through them, you want to make things a little faster which is one of the things people complain about in the nfl. give us an example what you are doing differently. >> there are a couple things that are different and i think fans will notice them. first of all, maybe the most consequential innovation is the 25-second play clock. compare that to the 40-second play clock if the nfl. you will see teams play fast. they play fast, they call it fast, they get in and out of the huddle fast. that's what fans told us they wanted. another innovation we had, we love this one, is the extra point. no kicking anymore. you score a touchdown, six points, that's traditional, then you have three options, one point, two point and three point, all plays from scrimmage. connell: this is every touchdown that's scored, the coach would have to pick which option of those three they are going to? >> that's right. that's right. and the reason, the rationale

underlying all of that is this. in the national football league, even with the kick, the p.a.t. being moved back, it's still successful about 95% of the time. there's no drama in that, really. we thought let's add a lot of drama and strategy into the extra point. let's see what these coaches do, do they go for one, play it safe, go for two or go for three. connell: i also saw you were putting an emphasis on safety. i thought maybe they would o outlaw kickoffs. there's a concern about people rushing up the field, hitting helmets together, whatever the case may be, concussions and the like, but the opposite is true. you are encouraging kick returns but you are doing it differently which i find interesting. tell us about it. >> we are encouraging kick returns because fans told us they like the kick returns. it's one of the great plays in football. we are lining up the kick coverage team and kickoff return team where they would be normally after the ball is kicked and the receiver catches it. so it's effectively a play from scrimmage. i think fans will love it. tune in saturday and you will see. connell: the kick is further back? >> back at the 30 yard line. kick returner catches it.

at that point, everybody can move. we have eliminated that runup. connell: the runup is what caused, you know, the health dangers. okay. all right. so now, this is a business after all. let me talk briefly about that in the time that we have left. you have very good coverage on television. our friends at fox sports reported that. i know espn is involved. my understanding is they aren't paying you guys rights fees, they are paying for the production of the games. at what point will that change? what's your goal in terms of the finances, making this thing viable this time around? >> we are focused on building something for the long term. no league has launched with the broadcast partnerships that we have. every game, nationally televised, four national windows every weekend for ten straight weeks. connell: pretty fgood. >> unprecedented. massive amounts of linear content. at times football fans are already familiar with. we think a key success factor for us are these broadcast partners. connell: the biggest key, in the minute we have left, guys, oliver, you can take this i guess first, is the quality of the product on the field, the

innovations are one thing and you know, if you change the rules, that's something else. the broadcast partnerships are important but you need quality players on the field. give us an example one, two, three maybe that you have out there that people would want to see play. >> we get quality coaches, guys like bob stoops, marc trestman, great coaches, and great players. particularly quarterbacks. we've got guys like cordell jones who won a national championship, matt mcgloin, who won nfl games, landry jones, former backup quarterback to ben roethlisberger of the steelers. all these guys have played and won nfl games. connell: good luck with it. we will be watching this weekend like everybody else. we will check it out, see how it goes. thanks, good luck with the league. thanks for coming on. xfl is back. little different but it's back. thanks for joining us. we'll be right back to wrap things up in just a moment.

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connell: all right the market continues to go up and the president continues to move on. we brought you his remarks from the east room of the white house

during this program. president trump moving on to a meeting a the white house with the president of kenya. that is his day. we'll continue to watch stocks. in our day we're up 923 -- 93 on the dow. we'll see you on "after the bell." now to our friend charles. charles: thank you, connell. i'm charles payne. this is "making money." indices are edging higher. after the dow rallied more than 1000 points in just three session es. earnings season halfway through, could a jeong stocks report add fuel to the rally? we'll have a preview. president trump take not one but two victory laps. we'll have reaction from one of his attorneys, jenna ellis who was there at the acquittal celebration. promises made, promises kept. how trump is winning when it comes to trade deficits