an important one. and we thank you for watching as well. go to facebook.com/kelly file. let me know what your thoughts are. thank you very much for watching. i'mare. thank you very much for watching. i'm megyn kelly, and this is "the kelly file." ladies and gentlemen, i am officially running for president of the united states, and we are going to make our country great again. >> who's going to pay for the wall? >> we've got to take care of isis, folks. we've got to knock 'em out. we've got to knock 'em out. we've got to knock them out.

we're going to build our military bigger, better, stronger than ever before. nobody is going to mess with us. that i can tell you. we're going to save your second amendment, which hillary clinton wants to abolish. we are going to make our vets the cherished people that they should be. they are cherished, special, special people. >> we will build the wall. don't worry. we will build the wall. >> we are going to make america great again! thank you. thank you. welcome to this special edition of "hannity," the year of trump. tonight for the hour, we're going to look back at our most memorable interviews with the presumptive gop nominee over the last 12 months, and we're going to start with our very first

interview with donald trump after he announced he was running for president. and i asked trump why he decided to throw his hat in the ring and much more. take a look. >> here we are at trump tower. big day yesterday. >> it's been a great building. it's been a lucky building for me, so let's see what happens. >> you started out yesterday saying our country is in serious trouble. i agree with you. how bad do you think it really is? >> well, on every front. if you look militarily, they're laughing at us. this couldn't have happened -- can you imagine general macarthur or any of our great generals putting up with what we're putting up with, with isis? they're just scoffing at us. they're laughing at us. they're taking our military equipment. we give it to our so-called people that we're helping, and they run and they flee. so the other day we lost 2,300 humvees. that's impossible. 2,300. so our country is in unbelievably bad shape economically, trade-wise, militarily. our nuclear weapons, they don't even know if they work.

now, you don't want to use nuclear weapons, but i watched reports, and i read reports. they don't even know if the phone system, the wires are 40 years old. they don't even know if the phone system works on nuclear weapons. what we're doing, we're becoming like a third-world country. so we need help. and, you know, i've been telling you and i've been saying it to everybody. politicians are never going to bring us to the promised land. they're all talk and no action. >> let me ask about the consent of being presidential, transitioning from somebody that basically you say jump, and anybody working for you will say how high, and they will do it immediately, and you're able to get things done. you know, the wheels of washington grind ever so slowly. >> correct. >> how do you make that transition? >> well, it's a transition that believe it or not, i've been in for many years because when i do things, even building this building, it was supposed to be a 13-story building. it's 68 stories. that was new york city politics at its height, at its most

sophisticat sophisticated. all over the world, i deal with government. in this country, i deal with government. i mean you can sit up in my office. governors are calling me. senators are calling me. they want my support. they want my -- they want everything. i've been in politics all my life. the system can work. our system is broken. we have a president that doesn't talk to even his own party. you know, he doesn't talk even to the democrats. i know the democrats. i know the republicans. he's not talking to anybody. so then he'll write an exclusive order because he can't get people to do what he wants them to do, so he writes out an executive order. we really do have a broken system. i have worked in the system for many years, and i've been very successful at it. >> if you're president and iran is on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon, what would you do? >> well, first of all, i wouldn't be there. i would certainly right now double up and triple up the sanctions. i mean we take the sanctions off, we're actually paying them hundreds of millions dollars. we're releasing funds to them, and they probably can't even believe it.

and i remember the person in state department, hart. she's saying, well, we don't want to complicate it. one thing has nothing to do with the other. we're paying them hundreds of millions of -- i mean tremendous amounts of money during the negotiation. why would you do it during the negotiation? you wait. we take off the sanctions. i would do the opposite. i would double up and triple up the sanctions. they don't want to negotiate. i have a feeling -- i wrote the art of the deal. sometimes you don't know if you want to make a deal. it's called tapping. tap, tap, tap. you tap them along. did you ever see a deal take so long? this deal has been going on -- >> it will be extended beyond june. >> it's a very bad deal for our country. >> they're the number one state sponsor of terror. they're fighting a proxy war of terror. they said in the middle of these negotiations that the destruction of israel is not negotiable. they were chanting death to america, and they were yelling at john kerry, our secretary of state, and they're still at the table with them.

and, you're right, they'll get a $50 billion signing bonus to build more weapons. how do you analyze the mind set of a president that would even sit down with them? >> well, i call him the five for one president. we get sergeant bergdahl, a traitor. they get five killers that they desperately want and leaders that are right now in the battlefield trying to kill everybody, including us, okay? five for one. who would make that deal? it's the same thinking. it's different, but it's the same thinking. we get bergdahl. they get five guys that we want. you have to double up and triple up the sanctions. >> you would take them out? >> certainly you wouldn't do that unless it's absolutely weapon. you can't let them have a nuclear weapon under any circumstances. from the standpoint of us, you cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. i believe they're right now delaying everything because they're doing -- you know, once they have it, we can't talk this

way anymore. i believe they are tapping us. i believe there's doing a lot of things because i say to myself how can it possibly take this long to make a deal? and you remember the last time i was with you. one day, two days, maybe a week. this is going on forever. it's going on forever. they have these long delays in between. i'll say this. it's a terrible deal for us. it's a terrible deal for israel. it's a deal that shouldn't happen. and, sean, we're negotiating from weakness. they're negotiator goes back home, and they celebrate him in the streets of iran. >> they laugh at us. >> obama makes a statement and they call him a liar. they say that's not the deal, and it turns out they're right. we have people that are rank amateurs. and kerry, who's a nice guy, he's not a negotiator. and then he goes into a bicycle race at 72 or 73 years old, and he breaks his leg. >> let me talk about your foreign policy experience. you talked about -- you think you'd be able to get along with vladimir putin. have you had any contact with

him? >> yes. >> explain. >> so i was there two years ago. we had a tremendous success with the miss universe contest. i own miss universe, miss usa and it does great. it's on nbc, but that's okay. two years ago we had it in moscow, and it was a tremendous success. i got to meet everything. >> did you talk to him? >> i don't want to say. but i got to meet all of the leaders. i got to meet -- i mean everybody was there. it was a massive event. let me tell you, it was tremendous. we can get along. let me tell you, putin truly hates obama. he thinks he's terrible. he thinks he's arrogant. he thinks he's just terrible. >> did he tell you that? >> i don't want to say. he hates obama, and obama hates him in all fairness. >> what would you have done about crimea and ukraine? >> i would have put us in a position where we're respected enough that maybe it wouldn't have happened. let me tell you what i also would have done. germany and all these countries -- germany is doing a lot better than we're doing. isn't it their battle more than ours? why aren't they more involved?

why are we feight sog hard and all of these countries in europe are sort of like, well, okay, we'll keep taking the oil. we'll keep taking the gas. we'll keep giving money. what is it about us? we're so far away, we're fighting. i'm not saying don't do it, but i'll tell you what. i would make sure that all of those countries that have a much bigger stake than we do, why aren't they more involved? you understand what i mean by that? >> i understand. >> why isn't germany saying to us, come on, we have to do something? >> and if you were president, you would pressure them to do it? >> i wouldn't pressure germany frankly. they should be pressuring us. germany and the european countries should be pressuring us to help. >> because this is their problem? >> the truth is we don't know what we're doing. >> the biggest threat obviously right now is radical islam. you saw what happened on 9/11 not far from this building of yours. you've talked about you have a strategy to deal with isis. you say you don't want to tell

anybody. >> i would rather not. >> wouldn't it help the country? >> i would rather not, but i'm going to. the reason is, i say it -- look, when i watch obama get up and say that in two weeks we're going to attack here. in two weeks, we're going to do that. we're going to have boots on the ground. he tells everything. and i think of general douglas macarthur, and general george patton. these great generals. they're spinning in their grave. here's a guy telling everybody. whether you have boots on the ground or not. let's say we're not going to have boots on the ground. you shouldn't say it. let's say we are. you shouldn't say it. let them guess. i would rather not say because if i won, i would rather not have them now. here's what you have to do. isis is tremendously rich because they have taken the oil that i say we should have taken. you remember i've been telling you that -- >> i agreed with you at the time. >> okay. take the oil. we're going out of iraq. take the oil. give the families of the veterans and the families of the soldiers that died there and the wounded warriors, give them millions of dollars each. it's peanuts compared to what we're talking about. i said take the oil.

everybody said -- not everybody. the stupid people said, don't do that. >> this was about paying for their liberation, that we gave them. >> look, iraq doesn't even exist. iraq is a mess. there's no iraq. by the way, it's not -- >> would you tell obama what your isis strategy was if he called? >> i wish they'd call but they don't call because they're not smart people. >> he said last week he doesn't have a strategy. he said ten months ago he does haven't a strategy. >> i'll tell you what they should do. isis is tremendously rich because of the oil. they have the oil. that's why they're rich. they're building a hotel in syria. can you believe it? isis is building a hotel. they're in competition with me now. they're building a hotel, they have so much money. you bomb the hell out of the held. don't worry the cities. the cities are terrible. >> shut off the finances? >> and you kill them at the head. coming up on this special edition of "hannity," we traveled all across the country this past year interviewing 2016

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live from america's headquarte headquarters, donald trump launched a verbal assault against the media blaming journalist for the controversy are you rounding a hillary clinton tweet that appeared to depict the star of david. trump said the dishonest media is trying to depict it as the star of david rather than a

sheriff star. his account tweeted then deleted the image saturday. a solar powers spacecraft is circling jupiter on a mission to map the giant planet. nasa received a signal monday night confirming it's in orbit. the trip took 5 years and 2 billion miles. it's the first to venture so far from earth while powered by the sun. i'm jackie ibanez, now back to "hannity." welcome back to this special edition of "hannity," the year of trump. we traveled all over the country this past year and back in february, we met up with donald trump in las vegas for our very first audience show on the road. here are some of the highlights. >> you know, one of the things i think the question i get asked most often about you and i've had the opportunity to interview you on radio and tv a lot is you call yourself a commonsense conservative. >> right. >> how did you evolve? everyone knows that you did have

liberal positions in the past? >> right, right. >> how did you become a conservative? what changed? >> so i think i've always been very conservative financially although i must tell you if you look at my company, right now i have very little debt and a tremendous cash flow. i filed my papers, and everyone is like -- it's a great company. >> it's not a bad bottom line. >> no. it's a great bottom line. some of the greatest real estate assets in the word. i say that because frankly i talk about it. we are 19 trillion in debt. you need somebody with a certain mentality. i would say i've evolved, and you and i talk about it a lot with ronald reagan. ronald reagan was a liberal -- pretty liberal democrat, and he wasn't the most conservative person, but he evolved into a republican who was fairly conservative. i will say this. i think i have very much evolved, but if you look at my real conservative cred enshalz -- and i don't think the word is that important. i know jeb and others were saying he is not a true

conservative because, you know -- and that's when i came up. about two weeks ago, i said a common sense conservative. but if you really look at my record, i'm as conservative as you can be on the military. i'm as conservative as you can be on taking care of our vets. we're going to take care of our vets. our vets are being treated very badly. [ applause ] i'm as conservative as you can be on common core. we're going get rid of it. i mean whatever -- you cannot get more conservative than me on the medical and the health care because we're going to get rid of obamacare, and we're going to have great health care. great health care. and you know what, what sean likes, right? you like health care savings accounts. by the way, it's good, but we also have to get rid of the -- you have to have competitive bidding. >> but that is what health care savings accounts are about. >> it really is, yes. and health care savings accounts are great. it's much better, and you'll have your doctor.

you'll have your plan. you know, president obama lied so much in order to get obamacare passed. 28 times. you said 24. i actually heard 28. but he said you'd have your own doctor. you'd have your own plan, all these different things. and, frankly -- >> and safe $2,500 a year. >> and the ones that are really getting stung were the democrats that just barely were able to raise their hand. they won by almost nothing. and this monster was approved. and in 2017, it will be out. it's dead because -- not because of anything i would even do. of course i'm going to terminate it immediately. as soon as i get in, i'm going to work on terminating it. [ applause ] but it is going to die in its own way because as you know, all of the people that they weren't counting on going in and the people they were counting on aren't going in. so it's going to die in 2017 unless the republicans give it more life, which is what they do constantly. i don't know. i don't get it. >> i think the republicans have surrendered way too much. >> how about the last budget? >> that was a surrender?

executive amnesty was a surrender. and obamacare not repealing or replacing it. what specifically do you replace obamacare with? you mentioned a few things. >> one of the things that we have to do, and it was almost done last time in all fairness to obama, but ultimately the insurance companies got to him. because i'm self-funding my campaign. so when the insurance companies come to me, i couldn't care less. i think it's a big deal, but i will spend a tremendous amount of money, and i don't think i'm getting as much credit as i should get for that one, to be honest. i am turning down millions and millions and millions of dollars. [ applause ] so i think it's a big deal. i don't think i'm getting the credit that it deserves to be honest with you. >> you're also spending less per vote. >> yes. >> than the other candidates. >> and i'm spending less. how much would it cost to take a one-hour commercial -- >> a lot. i'm very expensive. how do we balance the budget? we've got 20 trillion in debt. 95 million americans out of the

labor force. 46 million on food stamps. huge numbers. how do we help all of these people? how do we build up our military, which has been decimated under this president? >> all things i'm going to be doing. >> how do we pale and replace obamacare? >> obamacare is going to kill our budget because obamacare -- the numbers in '16 and '17 and '18 are astronomical. obamacare is going to be one of the biggest problems we have with the budget. anything you do in terms of saving is going to be gobbled up. if they were astronomical and it's fantastic, that's one thing. i know a lot of people are giving up the obamacare. they're out. they can't afford it. >> can you do all that and balance a budget? >> yeah, you can. >> and how quickly? >> you say something, and you've been saying it for years and it sounds simplistic. you've been talking about the penny plan, where you take a penny out for four, five years, et cetera. >> one penny out of every dollar. >> i actually think you can do better than that. if you have the right people like in the agencies and the

various people that do the balancing, you can cut the numbers by two pennies and three pennies, and balance the budget quickly and have a stronger and better country. you know, when i build a building, i spend less money to build it than the guy across the street. the building is a better building and it costs me less. look at the campaign. i've spent less money on my campaign than anybody else. don't forget, they're spending other people's money. they're spending pharmaceutical company money. then you wonder why we don't bid out pharmaceuticals. you know, if we bid out pharmaceuticals in this country -- we don't bid out drugs. we're the largest purchaser of drugs in the world. we don't bid it out. a friend of mine who is a doctor came to me, and he said, we don't bid it out. i said, no way, no way. then he didn't understand why. it's because all of these guys that i'm running against, plus another group of about 400 people take money. they take so much money. if we bid out the drug -- the purchase of drugs, this country would save hundreds of billions

of dollars a year, and we don't do it. >> last question on the economy. you said that you would lower taxes. >> right. >> there were a lot more people that wouldn't pay any tax. >> yes. >> you would repate re atd the money and give a low tax -- >> it could be 5 trillion. >> you think a million plus jobs could be created. >> at least. >> these are all things you've said. >> i've been saying it. >> i think a lot of people want this question, and maybe this goes to the heart of your popularity. how fast can donald trump, the businessman, get the taxes lowered, the repate rated money back, energy independence, and the balanced budget that i think everybody here wants? >> so we are a country that, and a lot of people don't know this. we pay the highest taxes anywhere in the world. our middle class has been decimat decimated. in a certain way, the middle class has been treated the worst, worse than anything. our middle class taxes are going way down. the system is going to be much simpler. we're not going to be asking for h and r block to do your tax return. that's one company that's not

going to do good business, h & r block. it's going to be simplified. we're going to simplify it. we're cutting taxes for the middle class. we're cutting taxes for business. pfizer just announced they're leaving the united states. it's a great company. pfizer, so many companies are leaving the united states. carrier is a disgraceful situation. they announced they're laying off 1,400 people. they're going to mexico. they're going to build a plant. there's only one way you're going to stop that. it was on television all over the place because somebody was using one of their famous telephone cameras. you look at those 1,400 people. they were devastated. they were there for years and years, and they were devastated. they said, no, we're folding up and we're going to go to mexico. i said there's only one way of solving that problem. now, the conservatives would say, oh, he's not a free trader. i'm a great free tader but it has to be smart trade and fair trade. you say to them, enjoy your stay in mexico. but every air conditioner that you make that comes tiny this country, you're going to pay a 35% tax. you know what's going to happen?

they're not moving. honestly, the politicians, they want to do legislation because they know it's a problem. we're losing a lot of our companies. they're leaving for a number of reasons. taxes are too high. certain conditions they don't like, okay? they're also leaving because they have a lot of money outside the country. they can't get the money. they're leaving to get money. they're leaving because they can't bring money into this country. during our numerous interviews with donald trump the past year, we have asked him how he would tackle many problems facing the country. and during our phoenix, arizona, audience show, trump explained how he would curb illegal immigration. that and more on this special edition of "hannity" "the year of trump" continues. you both have a

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we've spoken about almost all of the issues facing you, the american people. back in march during an audience show in phoenix, arizona, we asked donald trump about how he would curb illegal immigration and much more. here are some of the highlights. >> the people of arizona have been on the front lines of illegal immigration. i have been on the border ten times. i've been in the drug warehouses. they're massive, filled floor to ceiling. i've been out on horseback. i've been out on all-terrain vehicle and boats, all the way from the rio grande to san diego. i've seen tunnels dug. it's impacting our criminal justice system, our education system, our health system. you have taken a hard-line position. >> very hard line. >> how long will it take to secure that border? >> they call them border agents. i call them border patrol. but regardless it said they back me a hundred percent. i'm the only one that has their back out of all of these -- [ applause ]

when you have guys like sheriff joe and jan and they're not allowed to do their job. i watch joe all the time. they're always -- you know, they're always questioning him. they want this -- it's almost like they want this stuff to come in. you know, when i won new hampshire, it was an amazing thing. it was an amazing thing. the people of new hampshire, you see this beautiful, idyllic setting, this gorgeous place and beautiful trees and little roadways. you go to a meeting, and the first thing they talk about is drugs, heroin. it comes from the southern border. i said if i win, i'm going to take care of this. and it's not only new hampshire. it's all over the country, and it's here too. if i said to them -- and i won in a landslide. same thing happened in south carolina. i won in a landslide. we're going to stop it. people like sheriff joe, what the job he's done, he doesn't get enough credit for the incredible job he's done. [ applause ] >> in 2014, ice released a total of 30,558 criminal aliens from

its custody. i sat through a briefing in texas with intelligence officials, border officials. in an eight year period, 642,000 crimes were committed against texans by illegal immigrants and we still don't protect the border. is it because the democrats want a new voting base, and republicans want cheap labor? >> one of the things that i see, that i find hard to believe, we have hundreds of thousands of people here that are convicted criminals, that are illegally in the country. so we have people that have been convicted of crimes that aren't even serving, and they're in the country. they're walking all over the place. look, it's lobbies. you have lobbies. you have powerful -- you know, i'm self-funding. it's a very big thing. [ applause ] i don't need any stindustry. you look at your friend ted cruz. he's totally taken care of by so many different groups. and so many of the other ones, now most of them are gone i don't have to talk about them anymore. but you look at them, and he's

lobbyists are really good. they raise a lot of money for them. they do the wrong thing for the country by not taking people's money. i'm not taking their money. they're not giving me -- i have turned down -- jeb bush had $158 million. if i had taken money, i would have had five times that amount. i feel foolish in a way not taking it. guys are saying, i want to put in $10 million, i want to put in $15 million. and i keep saying, no, no, no. that's different than my life. i'm turning down all this money, i feel a little bit foolish. but the fact is i feel so good about it. i and i don't think i get the credit for doing it if you want to know the truth. it's true, though. when they go to the voting booth -- i'm probably in for $30 million, $35 million, which is very economical compared to some. think of it. i'm in for $35 million. other people are in for $150 million. i'm first, and they're in like seventh place, and they're gone.

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prophey muhammad was buried. five hurt when a suicide bomber detonated his vest. the attack took place just as thousands of worshippers were about to hold sunset prayers. word from rome that investigator there is are now treating the death of a wisconsin college student as a murder. 19-year-old beau solomon had just arrive in italy last friday. he was there on a student exchange program. his body was later found in a river. solomon reportedly had a head wound and several thousand dollars was charged to his credit card. back to "the world of trump." welcome back to this special edition of "hannity," the year of trump. now donald trump has a very close relationship with his family, and they've been right by his side every step of the way in this campaign. back in april, we did an audience show in the great state of wisconsin. donald trump and his wife melania joined us for the hour.

here are some of the highlights. take a look. >> thank you for joining us here in wisconsin. >> of course. it's going to be here. >> you didn't want donald to run. >> we discussed, and he asked me. i said, you know, we have a great life because i know life changes after, you know, all that going on. >> it's changed a lot. >> it changed a lot. you know, he's not home much with me or with my son. so it's changed. that's why i said, but i know what he could do for the america so -- [ applause ] >> it's tough on the families. i mean when they run a superpac ad attacking you, is that painful? >> i have a tough skin. i think it's not fair that they're attacking family, wife, or children. >> yeah. >> it's unfair. >> yeah. all right. now, my wife gives me great advice in my life, right, guys? we know what that's like. we get our best advice from our

wife. you have said you want donald to be more presidential sometimes. explain that. >> well, sometimes i feel that, you know, the re-tweets sometimes get him in trouble. so i said stay from, you know, stay away from re-tweets. [ laughter ] and, you know, if he would only listen. you know, he's doing great. >> is there a side of him that maybe you think the public doesn't know that you would want them to know about him? >> i think he's very kind. he has a great heart. he would not harm anybody. he would not harm women or men. he's really a great, great guy. you know, beautiful heart, and he loves to help people.

[ applause ] >> i read a recent interview. a couple of times you used an analogy. well, in a primary, i got to be tough. i got to break some eggs. then i'm going to be what melania is asking and ivanka is asking you, to be more presidential. >> i'll be very boring. >> what does that mean? how is that possible? >> he'll say that was the most boring interview i've ever done. no more trump. no, i understand. you know what melania said, ivanka is the said. >> you agree with her? >> i do, but i want to finish the job. look -- i do. in the last debate, the last debate, and drudge is an amazing guy, by the way. he really is. people don't know what an amazing guy. but drudge has a poll, and "time" magazine and all these -- you know, there's like seven or eight of them online polls after the debates. i won every single poll of every single debate. in other words, who won the debates? you know that. now, so they told me on the

final debate, be presidential. don't hit back. don't -- and i tried it. and i succeeded. i was so proud of myself. but you know what -- also, by the way, it was also the most boring debate of all, you have to say. >> how important is it that government -- for example, are there any departments you would eliminate? i like the penny plan. you eliminate baseline budgeting. energy, i think, would create a lot of jobs. >> it's got to be loosened up. >> all across the board? >> because i'm somebody that believes in clean coal. i believe in all forms of energy, including -- >> all of the above? >> including the newer stuff that i use, solar, et cetera, et cetera. but it's not working. it's so expensive. it's just not working. and it will get better and better with time, but we can't rely on that. i mean solar is wonderful and great. but, you know, there's a 32-year payback. who wants a 32-year payback? same thing with wind.

wind is a horrible thing in terms of vision, what it looks like. it has a place. in certain areas, it has a place. as you know, in california, it's killing august tll the eagles. they all want wind until you're going to put it next to their house. then all of a sudden, we don't want the wind. but, look, it all has a place. coal, we have in west virginia, in ohio, i mean look at what's happen to ohio. they have clean coal now. you know what, we send our coal. we don't do much coal anymore. the miners are devastated. >> do you budget at home or does melania? >> we don't have too much of a budget. we send our coal to china. >> yeah. >> we send our coal to china. we can't use it. we're not allowed to use it practically, it's so restrictive. but we send our coal to china. it's so sad. >> oil, natural gas, coal. nuclear? >> i am totally in -- you know,

nuclear had a big setback when they had the problem in japan. they were all set to go. but new nuclear is really and very, very expensive. you look at certain countries like france, not that i want to copy france, but they've got a vast majority of their energy is from nuclear. >> what advice throughout this campaign, melania, have you given your husband? or what would you like him to change a little bit? >> well, as we discussed before, i said, you know, tweeting and being more presidential. and he has, you know -- he can be presidential. but sometimes he cannot stand that somebody attacks him because if somebody attacks him, he will punch back ten times harder. coming up, donald trump kept a huge promise to conservatives and released a list of potential supreme court nominees that he would choose from if he wins the white house.

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welcome back to this special edition of "hannity," the year of trump. now, donald trump made major headlines and he kept promises to conservatives. he released his list of potential supreme court nominees that he released his lists of potential nominees he would pick from if he wins the white house. after he made the announcement he sat down with us to discuss his list and much more. take a look. >> one of the things i think people questioned. i interviewed you a lot during this process and you gave me very specific things, and one of the top things i would ask you often is your judicial philosophy. you mentioned scalia and thomas. they are what we call originalists. and a constitutionlists. >> i want great intellect. these people are of high intellect. they're pro life. that's my list, and we're going to choose most likely from this list, but at a minimum, we will

keep people within this general realm, and i have a lot of people that are conservative that love everything i stand for but they would like to know my view, because perhaps outside the defense of our country, perhaps the most important thing is picking supreme court justices. >> it will have an impact for generations to come. >> generations, and i say if hillary clinton who is doing poorly in this rigged system that sanders happens to be in, but if hillary clinton for some reason wins, your country will never be the same, because she's going to put disasters on the supreme court. so these are the names. >> this is interesting. i think there might have been some people -- i talked to people on the radio show, and some people said donald trump is a recent convert to conservatism. i asked you specific questions. for example, you say you want a

balanced budget. you told me once it's immoral to steal from our kids. >> i do want a balanced budget. i've heard 20 years. 20 years. what are you talking about? i do want a balanced budget. and you have to understand i was born in new york, and i really started my business -- i was in brooklyn and queens with my father, but i moved to manhattan and i started doing very, very well in manhattan. if you look at the statistics on manhattan, whether you like them or don't, it's liberal. it's democratic. and i think that probably a lot of people feel because i come from essentially manhattan i would be that way. i wanted to put this list out because i wanted to quell any fears that people may have. this is a list of people that i got them from people i most respected. >> you vetted each one? you almost did it like a job interview? >> i really vetted, but to a much greater extent, the

federalist society vetted and has heritage who has looked at who i have great, great respect for, and i know senator sessions has brought the names around to different people in the senate, and people have seen the list. people have seen the list, but you're the first one that's seen it publicly. >> this is, i think the most important thing as you now transition to the general election. you talked about very specific things. when you look at the exit polls and republicans feel betrayed that they haven't kept their promises. >> i felt betrayed. i had a nice, simple life. i have a great company, a wonderful family. i complicated my life, that i can tell you, although i'm having a good time. >> it's not hurting your bottom line. you're still doing okay. >> we put in our financials two days ago and -- i built a great company. that's why people are saying why are you doing this?

you're at a point where you can take it nice and easy and do places and do all these things you want to do, but i'm doing it because -- i'm putting back -- i want to put back. >> you want to give back. >> give back, put back. i want to make america great again. it's a great theme, and i add to it. it's called america first. we're going to put america first. on trade deals. we make deals that are bad. they're so bad. i say we want you to do well. put america first. >> coming up, more of this special edition of hannity after this quick break. stay ♪

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