>> she may be gone. >> unbelievable. thank goodness they're okay. incredible video. thanks for joining us, everybody. "america's election headquarters" starts now. all right. this is a fox news alert. we are awaiting donald trump, who is set to deliver a major speech this hour on terrorism. and his plan for combatting it. hello from "america's election headquarters," i'm sandra smith. those remarks expected at any moment in ohio, a swing state where the trump campaign hopes to chip away at hillary clinton's lead in the polls. meanwhile, vp joe biden still speaking in scranton, pennsylvania, there he is, where hillary clinton took sharp aim at what trump might say today and his foreign policy chops. >> sometimes he says he won't tell anyone what he'll do because he wants to keep his

plan, quote, secret. and then it turns out the secret is he has no plan. and that was very clear when he said, i know more about isis than the generals. no, no, donald, you don't. >> we have live fox team coverage, jennifer griffin is following the clinton campaign in scranton. digital tocarl cameron is live y youngstown, ohio. what do we expect? >> reporter: hi, sandra. this is a foreign policy speech long planned in which donald trump plans to outline his proposals for defeating isis. it comes at a time that the trump campaign has been in a rough patch. the polls have suggested hillary clinton has been surging while he's been pretty much consistently flat since the convention. and he has been getting an awful lot of criticism from fellow republicans who say that in

terms of rhetoric and political organization, he's deficient, behind hillary clinton, and time is fast running out. i got an e-mail from a trump campaign going out to supporters across the country as well as reporters and anyone else on their mailing list. it's a survey, not an attack on the media or hillary clinton. it says, what should donald trump do? there's a survey asking people how people think he should perform, how he should lead on both issues as well as the opposition against hillary clinton. today's speech is described as having three main pillars. the first one is about trying to stop isis and doing so with the help of foreign partners. and it says in essence that the u.s. will ally with any nation that is willing to fight islamic radical terrorism, specifically isis. and it says that those countries that do join in the fight will be treated as allies and will not be pressured to democratize, to not have an american-style

democracy. it then goes on to focus on immigration. donald trump's once-proposed complete temporary ban on muslim visitors is effectively dead. now what mr. trump will say from the podium today, we're told, is instead what the u.s. will do is designate those countries that do not have reliable vetting processing and deny people from that state or nation visas. everybody else, if they could support a loyalty or ideological test, if they support american values like pluralism and openness, they'll be welcomed. and the last part is treating the war on terror like the cold war was treated, to include economic pressure and diplomatic pressure, all of which is already under way. this is trump's attempt to get serious on the issue and to lay out his plans in addition criticizing hillary. and there will be plenty of that. >> what is the story today with his campaign chairman paul

manafort? >> reporter: paul manafort is pushing back aggressively against a front page "new york times" article that suggests that the ukraine anti-corruption bureau came across a series of accounting ledgers that suggest that several million dollars were paid in cash to paul manafort when he was representing the then-president of ukraine, uniyanukovych. the clinton complain has suggested that the trump campaign should disclose anybody who's got any sort of connections with ukraine or foreign countries, and manafort says he's done absolutely nothing wrong, was never given undisclosed cash, et cetera. this is the kind of controversy that has republicans shaking their head and worried that trump is a controversy-plagued candidate who will have a hard

time challenging hillary clinton. >> carl, thank you. let's go to hillary clinton just wrapping up a campaign event with vice president joe biden. jennifer griffin is live in scranton with the latest. jennifer, how significant is it for biden to join her on the trail today? >> reporter: well, it's very significant. remember, this was a campaign stop that was cancelled after the dallas shooting, when those police officers were killed in dallas earlier in july. vice president biden just finished speaking. it was about a 30 to 40-minute speech. it covered everything from a very passionate speech about his roots here, hillary clinton's roots here. but he spent the last 15 minutes or so talking about donald trump and why he thinks he's not qualified to be the commander-in-chief. one of the anecdotes that he spoke about at the end was particularly upsetting to biden. he said trump had of course last week been quoted saying that

president obama had been the founder of isis and that hillary had been the founder of isis. he quoted a hezbollah commander yesterday who is now quoting that as fact and saying how dangerous it is when america's enemies are listening and some of these statements that are coming out about the war against isis. now, this is significant that he's here in pennsylvania today with hillary clinton because it's such a swing state. there are 20 e llectors in pennsylvania. hillary is up by 11 points here in pennsylvania. this campaign stop was significant, this is really home turf for joe biden. when he was greeted by hillary clinton earlier today, he started talking immediately about how he was born here, hillary's father was born here. she likes to talk about learning to shoot a gun at her grandfather's lake house outside scranton. her grandfather worked in a lace mill here. this is a swing state where they both have roots.

this is what they said moments ago. >> sometimes he says he won't tell anyone what he'll do because he wants to keep his plan, quote, secret. and then it turns out the secret is he has no plan. [ cheers and applause ] and that was very clear when he said, i know more about isis than the generals. no, donald, you don't. >> no major party nominee in the history of the united states of america has -- now, don't cheer, just listen. -- has known less or been less prepared to deal with our national security than donald trump. >> reporter: sandra, it was a passionate hour-long speech by joe biden and hillary clinton back to back, criticizing donald trump and his potential as the commander-in-chief. back to you, sandra.

>> jennifer griffin, thank you. for more on all of this let's bring in chris stirewalt. good afternoon, chris. what do you expect? you've been watching everything this afternoon. joe biden on the trail with hillary clinton, we're awaiting donald trump's big speech. what do you make of it? this is a big day for 2016. >> look, for donald trump, this is a part of an effort to put some policy meat on the bonus, placate republicans who are anxious about donald trump's foreign policy. and you see there, carl talked about backing off on the muslim ban, making that official. that probably helps in that way, and talking abobout isis. i think it's key here that he's talking about not having nation building. this is a nod to the bernie sanders supporters and skeptical democrats that donald trump needs to put together a

coalition that could win. >> let's talk about pennsylvania. we know we're awaiting trump's speech in scranton, ohio. in pennsylvania, clinton has a ten-point or more lead in all the major polls, the latest coming out, quinnipiac and "the wall street journal," she's got a pretty significant lead now. >> and joe biden will help her expand that lead. trump is in ohio, she is in pennsylvania. we expected for a period of time this to be fought in the i-70 corridor, basically the battle for western pennsylvania and for northeastern to central ohio, that this would be through the rest belt. right now donald trump is not competitive in pennsylvania. and given the fact that he has to offset problems elsewhere in the map, virginia, georgia,

nevada, colorado. pennsylvania is a plate to get a lot of electoral votes in a hurry, so the trump campaign is loath to give up on pennsylvania, but it's going to be tough. >> a new poll gives us a glimpse of what voters think of the candidates' tone, because of course that's been such a big conversation. 56% embraced donald trump's more pessimistic view of our country, that it's a dark and dangerous place with threats from overseas and within our borders. 40% agreed with hillary clinton's more optimistic outlook that the u.s. is in a strong position for progress on the economy and national security. so it's working for trump, his tone, is it not? >> well, it ain't working so good right now. but this is the reason that republicans were so bullish on their chances to win the presidency this time, when we see in poll after poll after poll, on the question, is the country on the right track or is

it on the wrong track, we've had strong wrong track numbers for a long time, which makes the out party, just as democrats did in 1988, say people are saying they want a change. americans don't look and sound optimistic these days, they feel like they want a change. this tells you how crucial it is for trump to figure out a way to get rid of the drama in his campaign, all of the leaking and all of the stuff, and what about the ukraine, and yadda yadda yadda, get rid of that jazz and focus on killing hillary clinton's message by talking about what a lot of americans see as a tough reality for the country. >> and on your screen there you'll see former new york city mayor rudy guiliani has stepped up to the podium. we know he's been traveling with donald trump. he could be introducing him, because pence is with him as well, his vice presidential rick. chris stirewalt, is this a

pivotal moment in his campaign? >> well, if he pivots, it is. if he don't, he won't be. rudy guiliani is the perfect person to be speaking on donald trump's behalf. donald trump is running to be mayor of america. he's not talking in a way that a presidential candidate talks. he talks the way a guy running for a big city mayor talks. and rudy guiliani has that message. >> guiliani earlier making the case that he appears insensitive at times because he's not a politician, was his explanation of some of his recent comments. chris stirewalt, so good to have you, thank you. >> you bet. >> donald trump takes the stage in ohio, to deliver a speech on foreign policy and national security. his vp pick, mike pence, is also with him, we'll bring you that when it happens. plus flooding in louisiana that some are calling the worst since hurricane katrina. thousands of people being

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possibly about to introduce him there. one of the key pillars of this speech today is his plan to stop issuing visas to countries where we can't adequately screen people. joining me now is iowa republican congressman steve king. congressman, good to have you. as we await donald trump to step up to the podium, what specifics is he going to offer us today on how he plans to change the vetting process for immigrants? >> i'm not sure he'll offer a way to change the vetting process. as i heard the statement you ran, and i agree it, we don't care -- i don't think we can vet the migrants out of the middle east. i'm one of the few republicans who voted against it because i want to send a message that we can't vet them. james comey, the director of the fbi, and actually i found out later that a year and a half earlier i had used the same metaphor, my staff reminded me,

that this is like finding a needle in a haystack, and even if you could find them, the terrorists out of the population of the middle east, you have to identify the hay that will later on become needles. he's in a solid place on this, and suspending this until such time as we can ensure they'll be safe. >> you endorsed ted cruz in the primaries and only recently got behind donald trump as of several days ago. what is important for you to hear from donald trump today? >> well, i think the key to it, and it really is an important key here, that i would ask to tune their ear to, mine will be tuned to, when donald trump lays out his vision for the defeat of isis and radical islamic terrorism, or radical islamic jihad as i call it, i want to hear something in there that says he understands that we have to defeat the ideology, not just annihilate the caliphate, which

we have to do, but defeat the ideology so they no longer go out there and sacrifice their generations to killing us. >> naming the enemy is a start, and we do know he plans to address the enemy by name, radicalize islam, as he has so many times in the past. do you think that he has a plan currently to address the ideology? >> you know, i think so. i'm not confident as to how much of this is going to come out today. but i will say that i have been meeting with trump's top advisers, and in particular dr. walid phares, who is very, very familiar with the middle east. when i was drawing maps for him, he borrowed my pen and drew maps for me. we laid out a strategy. i made the case, and he agrees, that there is about a five-step process to defeat the ideology. that would be cyber warfare, educational warfare, building

alliances with the moderate muslim countries in the middle east, and then arming the kurds with everything they think they need, and let them defend themselves, and let them be the ones who risk their blood for that rather than american soldiers. that i think is a strategy that defeats the ideology. >> congressman, fair warning, we're watching mayor guiliani speaking in youngstown, ohio, and when donald trump takes the podium, we'll jump in. you've previously said hillary clinton is someone who understands policy and is someone that you could work with. what exactly did you mean by that? >> well, of course, that was kind of clipped out of a much longer statement i made, sandra. the earlier part of that statement was, i'll disagree with almost everything that hillary clinton presents and we have to knuckle down and be in position, if she happens to become the president, to fight her and defeat her. and i've argued also that we have to then use the power of the purse under that scenario.

but once you get through all of that, where we disagree on almost everything, i've said that having sat across the table from hillary clinton, in a basis where there was no press and no staff in the room, she is someone i can work with, someone i can talk with about policy. so i'll fight with everything that we have if the time comes that we end up with hillary clinton determining the destiny of america through appointments to the supreme court that would destroy our constitution. i'll still try to get the best we can out of a president clinton, that's what i meant. >> congressman king, thanks for joining us this afternoon. >> thank you very much. >> good to have you. we're awaiting donald trump to take to that podium there in ohio. meanwhile, the feds could soon turn over a file on the hillary clinton e-mail investigation into congress -- two congre-- t congress, i should say.

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a fox news alert, vp candidate mike pence at the podium right now at youngstown, ohio. we're awaiting donald trump to deliver a major speech, his camp says, on terrorism and his plan for combatting it. we'll bring that to you live when he steps to the podium. the threat of deadly flooding is far from over for the people of louisiana. at least six people are now dead. and entire neighborhoods are submerged under waist-high muddy, dirty water, prompting tens of thousands of rescues to

happen. will carr is live in baton rouge. will, we have word this could get much worse. >> reporter: it absolutely could, with the forecast in the coming days. right now we've received a much-needed break from the rain here. the waters are still well above flood stage. neighborhoods are underwater. homes have been swamped. some residents tell us that they had no time to get out. that led to more than 20,000 water rescues, people taken out by military vehicles, helicopters, and boats as we speak. there are still rescues going on to the south of baton rouge. we spoke to one woman who is being taken out by boat after her home flooded. take a listen to what she had to say. >> i can't replace my children's photos from when they were babies. my late husband's photographs. it's hard. it's hard to know that everything he worked for is gone. but i got my kids.

i got my dogs, obviously. and so i'm good. everything else can be replaced. >> reporter: we've heard a lot of reactions like that, sandra. a mix of positivity and devastation. >> certainly that was a light moment in a very dark time there in louisiana. will, you mentioned you're getting a break from the rains right now. what does the weather look like in the next few days for louisiana? >> reporter: they're expecting thunderstorms this afternoon, more storms rolling in tomorrow. so while we've had that break, authorities warn we're not out of this yet by a long shot. and again, they're urging for residents who have chosen to remain in their homes to it out and to go to a safe place, because it's not exactly clear what's going to play out in the next 24 to 48 hours, sandra. >> will carr for us in baton rouge, louisiana, thank you so much. we'll start to look at some images there of donald trump stepping to the podium. he is in ohio, in youngstown,

ohio, expected to make a big speech on foreign policy and national security. he is now speaking, let's listen. today we begin a conversation about how to make america safe again. in the 20th century, the united states has defeated fascism, nazism, and communism. now a different threat challenges our world. radical islamic terrorism. this summer, there's been an isis attack launched outside the war zones of the middle east. hard to believe. every 84 hours. here in america, we have seen one brutal attack after another. 13 were murdered and 38 wounded in the assault on ft. hood.

the boston marathon bombing wounded and maimed 264 people and ultimately left five dead, including two of our great police officers. in chattanooga, tennessee, five unarmed marines, unbelievable people, by the way, were shot and killed at a military recruiting center. last december, 14 innocent americans were gunned down at an office party in san bernardino. another 22 were very gravely injured. in june, 49 americans were executed at the pulse nightclub in orlando. another 53 were badly injured. it was the worst mass shooting in our history. and the attack by far the worst

on the lgbtq community. and i'll tell you what. we can never, ever allow this to happen again. [ cheers and applause ] in europe -- thank you. in europe, we have seen the same carnage and bloodshed inflicted upon our closest allies. in january of 2015, a french satirical newspaper, cha"charli hebdo," was attacked for publishing cartoons of the prophet mohammed. 12 were killed, including two police officers, and others wounded. four days later, there were murders in a jewish delicatessen. shooters went on shooting

rampage in paris that slaughtered 130 people and wounded another 368 people, some in very, very, very bad shape today. france is suffering gravely. and the tourism industry is being massively affected in a most negative way. in march of this year, terrorists detonated a bomb in brussels airport, killing 32 and injuring 340 people. this july, in the south among the dead were two americans, a texas father, and his

11-year-old son. a few weeks ago in germany, a refugee armed with an axe wounded five people in a gruesome train attack. only days ago, an isis killer invaded a christian church in normandy, france, forced an 85-year-old priest to his knees, a priest who was beloved, who was beloved, before cutting his throat and just unthinkable other things. overseas, isis has carried out an absolute atrocity, and one after another. children slaughtered, girls sold into slavery, men and women burned alive, crucifixions, beheadings and drownings, ethnic minorities targeted for mass execution, holy sites

desecrated, christians driven from their homes and hunted for extermination. isis rounding up what it calls nation of the cross. nation of the cross. in a campaign of absolute and total genocide. we cannot let this evil continue. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. thank you. nor can we let the hateful ideology of radical islam, its oppression of women, gays, children, and nonbelievers be allowed to reside or spread within our own countries. [ applause ]

we will defeat radical islamic terrorism just as we have defeated every threat we faced at every age and before. but we will not, we will not remember this, defeat it with closed eyes or silenced voices. we have a president who doesn't want to say the words. anyone who cannot name our enemy is not fit to lead our country. [ cheers and applause ] anyone who cannot condemn the hatred, oppression, and violence of radical islam lacks the moral clarity to serve as our president. [ applause ] the rise of isis is the direct result of policy decisions made by president obama and secretary

of state clinton. let's look back at the middle east at the very beginning of 2009, before the obama/clinton administration took over. libya was stable. syria was under control. egypt was ruled by a secular president and an ally of the united states. iraq was experiencing a reduction in violence. the group that would become what we now call isis was close to being extinguished. iran was being choked off by economic sanctions. fast forward to today. what we have, and think of this, and the decisions made by the obama/clinton group, have been absolutely disastrous. libya is in rules.

our ambassador and three other brave americans are dead and isis has gained a new base of operations. syria is in the midst of a disastrous civil war. isis controls large portions of territory. a refugee crisis now threatens europe and the united states. in egypt, terrorists have gained a foothold in the sinai desert near the canal, iraq is in chaos, and isis is on the loose. isis has spread across the middle east and into the west. in 2014, isis was operating in seven nations. they were in seven nations. terrible, but that's what it was. today they're fully operational in 18 countries with aspiring branches in six more for a total of 24 and many believe that number is actually 28 to 30

countries. they don't even know. the situation is likely worse than the public has any idea. a new congressional report reveals that the administration has downplayed the growth of isis with 40% of analysts saying they had experienced efforts to manipulate their findings. they're trying to make it look much better than it is. it's bad. at the same time, isis is trying to infiltrate refugee flows into europe and to the united states. iran, the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, is now flush with $150 billion in cash released by the united states, plus, if you remember from two weeks ago, another $400 million in actual cash that was obviously used for ransom. worst of all, the nuclear deal

puts iran, the number one state sponsor of radical islamic terrorism, on a path to nuclear weapons. in short, the obama/clinton foreign policy has unleashed isis, destabilized the middle east, and put the nation of iran, which chants "death to america," in a dominant position of regional power and in fact aspiring to be a dominant world pow power. it all began in 2009 with what has become known as president obama's global apology tour. we all remember. we all remember. in a series of speeches, president obama described america as arrogant, dismissive, derisive, and a colonial power. he was describing us.

he informed others that he would be speaking up about america's past errors. he pledged that we would no longer be a senior partner that sought to dictate our terminates. he lectured cia officers of the need to acknowledge their mistakes and described guantanamo bay as a rallying cry for our enemies. perhaps no speech was more misguided than president obama's speech to the muslim world delivered in cairo, egypt, 2009. i remember it well. in winning the cold war, president ronald reagan repeatedly touted the superiority of freedom and called the ussr the evil empire. yet when president obama delivered his message in cairo, no such moral courage could be

found or would be found. instead of condemning the oppression of women and gays in many muslim nations and the systematic violations of human rights or the financing of global terrorism, president obama tried to draw an equivalency between our human rights record, and remember this, our human rights and theirs. the records are unbelievable and unmistakable. his naive words were followed by even more naive actions. the failure to establish a new status of forces agreement in iraq and the election-driven timetable for withdrawal surrendered our gains in that country and led directly to the rise of isis, without question. [ applause ] the failures in iraq were

compounded by hillary clinton's disaster, total disaster in libya. president obama has since said that he regrets and really regrets libya and the mistake he made. he considers it his worst mistake. according to then secretary of defense robert gates, the invasion of will i objelibya wa split decision but hillary clinton's forceful advocacy of intervention was a deciding factor. that's why we went in. with one example of bad judgment after another, hillary clinton's policies launched isis onto the world stage. yet as she threw the middle east into violent turmoil, things turned out really to be not so hot for our world and our country. the middle east in particular.

the clintons made almost $60 million in gross income while she was secretary of state. it is unbelievable. incident after incident proves again and again hillary clinton lacks the judgment, as said by bernie sanders, stability, and temperament and the moral character to lead our nation. [ applause ] importantly, she also lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on isis and all of the many adversaries we face. not only in terrorism but in trade and every other challenge we must confront to turn our

great country around. [ applause ] it is now time for a new approach. our current strategy of nation building and regime change is a proven absolute failure. we have created the fact humans that allow terrorism to grow and thrive. i was an opponent of the iraq war from the beginning. a major difference between me and my opponent. though i was a private citizen whose personal opinions on such matters were really not sought, i nonetheless publicly expressed my private doubts about the invasion. i was against it, believe me. three months before the invasion, i said in an interview with neil cavuto, to whom i

offer my best wishes for a speedy recovery, that, quote, perhaps we shouldn't be doing it yet, and that the economy is a much bigger problem. in august of 2004, very early, right after the conflict, i made a detailed state to esquire magazine in an interview. here is the quote in full. look at the war in iraq and the mess we're in. i would never have handled it that way. this was right after the invasion. does anybody really believe that iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to go and step up and lead the country? come on. [ applause ]

i then continued, two minutes after we leave, there's going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy, in this case guy, will take overand he'll ha destruction, which saddam hussein did not have. what was the purpose of this whole thing? hundreds and hundreds of young people killed. and what about the people coming back with no arms and no legs? not to mention, in all fairness, the other side, the tremendous damage done. all those iraqi kids who have been blown to pieces. and it turns out that all of the reasons for the war were blatantly wrong. all of this death and destruction for nothing.

so i've been clear for a long time that we should not have gone in. but i have been just as clear in saying what a catastrophic mistake hillary clinton and president obama made with the reckless way in which they pulled out. [ applause ] after we had made those hard-fought sacrifices and gains, we should have never made such a sudden withdrawal on a timetable advertised to our enemies. they said, we're moving out, here's our time, here's our date. who would do this but an incompetent president? [ applause ] al qaeda in iraq had been

decimated. and obama and clinton gave it new life and allowed it to spread all across the world. by that same token, president obama and hillary clinton should have never attempted to build a democracy in libya, to push for immediate regime change in syria, or to support the overthrow of mubarak in egypt. one more point on this. i have long said that we should have kept the oil in iraq. [ applause ] i said it over and over and over again. another area where my judgment has been proven correct. i just said it so many times, virtually every time i was interviewed, keep the oil, keep the oil. according to cnn, isis made as much as $500 million in oil

sales in 2014 alone, that's before they really got started. fueling and funding its reign of terror. if we had controlled the oil like i said we should, we could have prevented the rise of isis in iraq, both by cutting off a major source of funding and through the presence of u.s. forces necessary to safeguard the oil and vital infrastructure products necessary for us to have the oil. i was saying this constantly and consistently to whoever would listen. i said, keep the oil, keep the oil, keep the oil, don't let somebody else get it. [ applause ] if they had listened to me then, we would have had the economic

benefits of the oil, which i wanted to use to help take care of the wounded soldiers and families of those who died in the war. [ applause ] in addition to which thousands of lives would have been saved. this proposal by its very nature would have left soldiers in place of our assets. we would have had soldiers there guarding this valuable supply of oil. in the old days, when we won a war, to the victor belonged the spoils. [ applause ] instead, all we got from iraq and our adventures in the middle east was death, destruction, and tremendous financial loss. but it's time to put the mistakes of the past behind us

and chart a new course. [ applause ] if i become president, the era of nation building will be brought to a end. [applause] thank you. our new approach, which must be shared by both parties in america, by our allies overseas, and by our friends in the middle east, must be to halt the spread of radical islam. all actions should be oriented around this goal and any country which shares this goal will be our ally. very important. some don't share this goal.

we cannot always choose our friend but we can never fail to recognize our enemies. [applause] as president, i will call for an international conference focused on this goal. we will work side-by-side with our friends in the middle east, including our greatest ally, israel. [applause] we will partner with king abdullah of jordan, and the president of egypt, sisi, and all others who recognize this ideology of death that must be extinguished. [applause] we will also work very closely with nato on this new mission. i had previously said that nato

was obsolete because it failed to dealed aly" with terrorrity. since my comments they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats. very good. very, very good. i also believe that we could find common ground with russia in the fight against isis. wouldn't that be a good thing? wouldn't that be a good thing? [applause] they, too have much at stake in the outcome in syria, and have had their own battles with islamic terrorism, just as bad as ours. they have a big, big problem in russia with isis. my administration will aggressively pursue joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy isis. international cooperation to cut off their funding, expanded

intelligence-sharing and cyber warfare and disable their propaganda and recruiting. their recruiting is taking place right now, and they're setting records. it's got to be stopped. [applause] we cannot allow the internet to be used as a recruiting tool and for other purposes by our enemy. we must shut down their access to this form of communication and we must do it immediately. immediately. [applause] unlike hillary clinton, who has risked so many lives with her careless handling of sensitive information, my administration will not telegraph exactly military plans and what they are. [applause]

and by the way, what's happened with her 33,000 e-mails is an absolute disgrace to the united states of america. [applause] >> trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump. [applause] >> i've often said that the great general douglas macare century the great general george patton would be in a state of shock if they were alive today to see the way president obama and hillary clinton tried to recklessly announce their every move before it happened. like they did in iraq so that the enemy can prepare and adapt.

their enemy says thank you. the fight will not be limited to isis. we will decimate al qaeda and we will seek to starve funding. [applause] for iran-backed hamas and hezbollah. [applause] so important. we can use existing u.n. security council resolutions to apply new and even stronger sanctions. military, cyber, and financial warfare will all be necessary to dismantle islamic terrorism. but we must use ideological warfare as well, very important. and they use it on us. better than we have ever even thought of using it on them. but that will change.

just as we won -- the -- just as we won the cold war in part by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so, too, must we take on the ideology of radical islam. while my opponent accepted millions of dollars in foundation donations from countries where being gay is an offense, punishable by prison or death, my administration will speak out against the oppression of women, gays, and people of different beliefs. [applause] our administration will be a friend to all moderate muslim reformers in the middle east and will amplify their voices. this includes speaking out against the horrible practice of honor killings where women are murdered by their relatives for

dressing, marrying, or acting in a way that violates fundamentallest teachings. over 1,000 pakistani girls are estimated to be the victims of honor killings by their relatives each year. recently a prominent pakistani social media star strangled by her brother on the charge of dishonoring the family. in his confession, the brother took pride in the murder and said, girls are born to stay home and follow traditions. shockingly, this is a practice that has reached our open shores. -- our own shores. on some cases and many, many cases, it happened. but one involved an iraqi immigrant who was sentenced to 34 years in jail for running over his own daughter, claiming she had been too westernized. to defeat islamic terrorism, we must also speak out forcefully

against a hateful ideology that provides the breeding ground for violence and terrorism to grow, a breeding ground. it's a terrible, terrible breeding ground. a new immigration policy is needed immediately and as well. [applause] the common thread linking the major islamic terrorist attacks that have recently occurred on our soil, 9/11, the fort hood shooting, the boston bombing, the san bernardino attack, the orlando attack, is that they have involved immigrants or the children of immigrants. clearly new screening procedures are needed. [applause]

a review by the u.s. senate immigration subcommittee has identified 380 for-born individuals charged with terrorism or terrorism, related offenses, between 9/11 and 2014, and many more since then, and this year is a record for identification. it's gotten worse. for worse. we also know that isis recruits refugee after their entrance into the country, as we have seen with the somali refugee population in minnesota. beyond terrorism, as we have also seen in france, foreign populations have brought their anti-semitic altitudes with them. in colon, germany, on new year's eve we have seen the reports of sexual violence and assault far greater than anybody knows. pew polling shows in many of the countries from which we draw large numbers of immigrants,

extreme views about religion, such as the death penalty and for those who are involved, the death penalty is very, very common. if you don't have the faith that they demand you have. the trump administration will establish a clear principle that will govern all decisions pertaining to immigration, and we will be tough. we will be even extreme. [applause] we should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people. in the cold war, we had an ideological screening test. the time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today. i call