just moments away from president trump taking the stage outside of detroit rallying supporters there. while journalists back in washington put on their black ties for the annual white house correspondents dinner. it all comes on the same day the president is called for a senate democrat to resign in an escalating war of words over there trump's nominee dr. ronny jackson withdrawing from consideration to head up the va. good evening to you. i'm connell mcshane. you're watching the fox report. >> president trump heading from one washington to another this evening arriving in the township of washington, michigan, for what is being billed as a rally on business and job creation. marks the second straight year the president has not only skipped the white house

correspondents dinner, but held a competing rally at the same time. he tweeted about the whole thing this morning. here it is. looking forward to being in the great state of michigan tonight. major business expansion and jobs pouring into your state. auto companies expanding at record pace. big crowd tonight said the president, will be live on tv. meanwhile, president trump is calling today for the top democrat on the senate veterans' affairs committee to step down. this after montana senator john tester's office compiled allegations of workplace misconduct that scuttled the white house physician ronny jackson's nomination to lead the veterans administration. we have fox team coverage of all of this. ellison barber with the latest from the white house. but we begin with mike tobin who is out at the rally in michigan. hey, mike. >> hey, this is trump country, said one of the warm up speakers a short time ago. we are watching the white house traveling pool pour into the

area here. so we anticipate we will hear from the president in a short time. this place is packed with the kind of people who propelled trump to the presidency, and this is who he chooses to be with as opposed to being with the white house correspondents. we can roll video of last year's correspondents dinner and it is relevant because this is the second time the president has elected to snub the white house correspondents, knowing he would be on the receiving end of the jokes and instead be here with these people. anticipate we will hear the phrase fake news more than once tonight and the people here will love it. >> what do you think about him ditching the white house correspondents to come here? >> i think it is a great idea. >> why? >> because those people lie. >> i don't blame him at all. i think he's right in doing it. unfortunately, they don't give him good coverage. they're completely negative 99.9% of the time. >> he doesn't play around. he's a straight shooter. talks like the american to the

american people, for the american people. >> and we know the president spoke by phone earlier today with prime minister shinzo abe of japan. the subject was denuclearization of north korea. anticipate with will hear something about that. he's still pretty upset about what happened with admiral ronny jackson. if twitter is any indication, we anticipate he will talk about that. also this is a campaign stop funded by the campaign. watching for the president to weigh in about midterm elections, see if he can rally the troops. as he does in these campaign style stops, we anticipate the president will cover a lot of ground and he will do it before a supportive crowd by design. connell? >> we know and we have learned that basically anything goes on nights like this. we will go back to you and back to michigan as soon as the president takes the stage. the president did double down on his defense today. the white house physician and former va nominee ronny jackson, this after both the secret service and the administration said they found no evidence to back up allegations of misconduct compiled by

democratic senator john tester. the president calling it slander saying that the montana lawmaker should pay a political price. >> i explained that washington can be a very mean place. you don't know about that, a nasty place. the false accusations that were made about him by senator tester from a great state, i don't think that state is going to put up with it. >> more now on this developing story, ellison barber is joining us from the white house on the north lawn this evening. ellison? >> hi, connell. as you said, president trump is doubling down on his criticism at the same time senator john tester isn't backing away from the actions that he took when asked about president trump's tweets and the suggestion that senator tester should resign, in a statement, provided to fox news, senator tester said, quote, it is my duty to make sure montana veterans get what

they need and have earned, and i will never stop fighting for them as their senator. and then here's tester in an interview a little earlier this week. >> the reports that we have heard is he treated the people above him very very well. he treated the people below him very very poorly. that's creating the toxic work environment. so it is not surprising that the president, the president's chief of staff, people that surround the president, would they he's doing a really -- would think he's doing a really good job. >> president trump boarded marine one before 5:00 today to head out there to michigan. reporters shouted questions at him, asked if he wanted senator tester to resign, he did not answer. this morning president trump tweeted, quote, allegations made by senator john tester against admiral dr. ron jackson are proving false. he went on to say tester should resign. jackson withdrew as the president's nominee to lead the va, but says the allegations against him are false and fabricated. fox news reviewed government documents and police documents

provided to us by the white house, and one of the more serious allegations that was made against admiral jackson was that he had perhaps wrecked a government car after a night out drinking at a secret service party, and based on those documents that fox news was able to review, we didn't see any evidence of that. according to those documents, there were three minor crashes involving jackson in a five-year period, but none of them involved alcohol on the part of mr. jackson. connell? >> ellison thanks. ellison barber tonight at the white house. for more on this, let's bring in judith miller adjunct fellow at the manhattan institute for policy research, pulitzer prize winning author and journalist. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> we will talk about the president's rally and it is getting set to begin, and once it does, in michigan, we will take you will live in a moment. white house correspondents dinner as well maybe. to ellison's report on this back

and forth between the president and this montana senator john tester over ronny jackson, what do you make of the calls for the senator to resign? >> there's no doubt that senator tester is heading into a tough election. he's seeking a third term in a state that went 56% for donald trump. so he can't take reelection for certain. on the other hand, i think he must be comforted by the support of senator johnny isaacson. because isaacson of the republican chairman of the senate affairs committee actually said he had no problem in the way this investigation was conducted. >> that's a fair point. let's talk more about that. it hasn't been brought up as much today, especially by republicans who say look at this and go after senator tester for it. it is interesting that senator isaacson, to your point a republican, would support the way this is handled because now as we are finding -- we are

finding out about it, it doesn't seem like it was handled that well, does it? >> it doesn't. this is huge because up until now we have seen nothing but partisan divisions on these committees between republicans and democrats and when you have a committee standing together, on behalf of an initial investigation, even though the secret service is quoted by the white house says the allegations aren't being proven out, we have to wait and see what the record shows. another thing that makes me think that perhaps tester is on more solid ground than it looks at the moment, is the speed with which ronny jackson tendered his withdrawal. >> right. >> i mean, if he -- he's the kind of guy who likes to kind of fight and doesn't back away from one, and the fact he withdrew so quickly from this raised a lot of eyebrows in washington. >> we will talk more about it. let's go out to michigan for a moment and set the stage for the

rally that's about to begin. campaign style rally, as you look at what is set up there, with the make america great again hats in the first row. i can see them there. the crowd behind the president. this is obviously friendly territory. it brings us back to this other conversation we were having a moment ago about senator tester is that all of this sets the stage for a midterm election, in which republicans are not expected to do so well, but here's the president going back to a state in which he won. how much of a help is he on the campaign trail right now or does it really depend on where he goes? >> i think it really depends on where he goes we've seen a steady slide in his popularity until recently with the foreign policy achievements he has had of late. i think the special elections could not have been encouraging, the ones that have been held so far for the president and everybody is still anticipating this blue wave and we know that on average in a midterm election, you get a shift of at least 25 to 30 seats in the

house of representatives. and therefore, i think obviously the republicans have reason to worry about this. on the other hand, when president trump goes out and he goes on the stump and he's in his own element, which is the campaign, he's very very charismatic and he sways a lot of people. >> well, you literally don't know what to expect tonight; right? >> you never know what to expect. the only thing i know is that there are going to be a lot of digs at the press. that's for sure. you can anticipate a lot of digs and a lot of digs at fake news. >> okay. so that comes on the night when -- not the two of us but other members of the media have tuxedos on, getting ready for the correspondents dinner. >> yes, they will, but they will all be sitting there checking their phones to see what the president is going to say. >> of course. >> this is the second year in a row he's done this and stolen the limelight from that event. and i think that journalists

themselves have to wonder whether or not they should actually be covering this t speech or sitting there listening to comedians make fun of the president at their dinner. >> it is a good political movement, is that fair to say? he's in his element. it is a win-win for him. >> it is an excellent move and he can say he was in washington. >> it's true. it's washington township. [laughter] >> exactly. >> in michigan. he can say that. what about the more aggressive attacks on the press that he sometimes takes the opportunity of an evening like this to really go after the reporters that are there that are on the rise there and say this is, you know, at one point the enemy of the people or something like that on a night when journalists are gathering back in washington to talk about the merits of journalism? >> from the beginning of his campaign, president and then candidate trump at that point, has waged a war on the press. and as somebody who feels strongly about how important the 1st amendment and a free and independent press is in this

country, i think that it was even though it played well for him, i think ultimately it will be a mistake because as someone once said, never pick a fight with people who own the ink and the presses because eventually if you declare war on the press, the press has a nasty way of striking back, and we also know, by the way, that political fact which keeps very close tabs on the president's statements that he lies -- not a term i would use i say he makes misstatement of facts 67% of the time. >> we're being told the president will be out any moment now. the rally was set to begin about 7:00 eastern time. we're 12 minutes after now. we will take you there when it begins. what about the flip side of this equation? talking about the relationship between the president and the press corps. what about the responsibility, not only of the white house

press corps, but of the media in general to cover a president that is at times attacking them. it is maybe too broad of a question, but how do you think the media has handled that? have they taken the bait too many times >> the media are plural. people have handled it in different ways i think the response i'm most comfortable with is when we just ignore it, keep our eyes on what we're supposed to be doing, which is reporting the facts, without fear or favor, or in a fair and balanced way, i think that's what we ought to do. try and report on the things the president doesn't want us know, try and make sure that the american people have the information they need to make a good decision, the right decision for them in the up coming midterms and in 2020. >> how do you think he will handle this evening? because it strikes me that he's walking out on to this rally stage tonight after having what appears to be a pretty good week for this president especially in dealing with foreign policy, one of your areas of expertise?

>> i think it's been a very good week for him in terms of the north korea story and how it's played. this is so far it looks like a remarkable achievement. now, it could all dissolve. it could all disappear if in fact kim jong-un is not serious and is just using this to buy time, but so far, we've had a historic meeting between the president of south korea and kim jong-un. we've had something we haven't seen in 50 years of trying, i mean, not since 1953. so, you know, i'm willing to give the president a lot of credit on this, even though i was not comfortable with his calling the north korean leader rocket man. i didn't think threatening to blow north korea off the face of the map would be successful, but it was. >> did all of that work? i mean is that what got us to this point? >> we don't know because we don't know enough about kim jong-un and we don't know enough about his motives. what we do know is that no one else, no other president has had

any luck despite a number of approaches in bringing around a north korean leader. this is an untested young man. we don't know what he is going to do. and i for one am in favor of meeting, of sitting down and talking. i think the road is a lot better than the road we were on which was the road to war. >> what can the president realistically do you think expect to get out of this meeting? you have seen him probably all week long, from his point of view saying, hey listen if this meeting doesn't go well, i will walk away. i will walk out if it's not going the right way. i guess we would be back to square one then. or does the president have more leverage maybe than kim jong-un does going in and have the ability to walk away? >> i think he has a lot of leverage and he's signalling in no uncertain terms that he's not going to put up with a time-buying strategy on the part of kim jong-un. and by the way, we don't know whether or not kim is doing this because of the president's

remarks or because the sanctions that were imposed really are starting to bite and kim needs a way out of the situation. >> i wonder what he will start with tonight. i will assume it would be some type of commentary on the media. >> i have learned a long time ago never to predict what donald trump is going to do. i'm always surprised -- i think the one thing you can depend on he will be a crowd pleaser in michigan. >> that crowd's been sitting there by the way for a number of hours. we were on earlier on america's news headquarters and the room was already filling up. mike tobin is in the room for fox news and covering it all. what is the scene like there, mike? as everybody gets ready for the president? >> a packed room is absolutely accurate. the set-up here is pretty dramatic. a lot of american flags. you have got the -- [inaudible] -- down the center.

this is an opportunity to get the president before a supportive crowd by design. he's not going to face opposition in this room and unlike he would at the correspondents dinner, he won't be at the receiving end of all the jokes. so it's pretty clear the design here. we will see where the president goes. we heard some of the earlier speakers brought up some of the usual subjects, hilary clinton, the crowd chanted lock her up. when they brought up the subject of fake news, the people jeered and looked over here to the press risers, in our direction. it is a lot of what you anticipate with a very supportive trump crowd and people i have talked to here say they were fans ever since the big elevator ride. >> it is interesting mike you can probably tell is with us on a telephone there. he's transmitting from the rally. that's why the signal is breaking up a little bit. mike, the only thing that judy and i didn't talk about as a possibility and just popped into my head for president trump tonight is james comey as well, after all the comments that we saw this week, right, mike,

that's something that obviously could come up, but as you said earlier, just about anything could come up. >> it seems that the comey thing is under the president's skin, and as we have seen here in these campaign style rallies, in fact i was at the last one in ohio, and he spent, i would say for the whole -- [inaudible]. >> we're losing mike's cell phone a little bit. i'm sorry mike to cut you off. we will try to come back to you in a minute. i know when you have to transmit by cell phone, especially in rooms like this, sometimes there's competing signals that can get in the way. judy, i will come back to you on that as we're waiting for the president any moment now in washington township, michigan. the james comey interview, the interview he did with bret baier on thursday evening, fascinating to watch all of that, and for the president, let me see the right word -- maybe irritating to watch all of that if twitter is an indication as i think it is with this president. he certainly wasn't happy with the way james comey handled

especially the leaking question. >> he can't be happy with the fact that james comey has sold 600,000 copies of his book, which is a run away best seller by anybody's estimation. >> right. >> and that too has got to get under his skin. but i'm not sure that james comey has helped himself with all of these appearances and all of this publicity surrounding his book because he is first and foremost supposed to be a government witness in whatever probe unfolds here as a result of the mueller commission. and if you're out there making statements about trump's orange skin and hair and size of his hands, that doesn't help your reputation. it doesn't make him come across as a kind of serious man. >> right. >> i think he's undermined his credibility and legitimacy. and for many democrats, it doesn't matter how many books he sells because they dislike him as much as donald trump because they blame comey for giving the

presidency to donald j. trump. >> i was looking at the monitor as you were speaking. i saw some fist bumps and then the hands start to go together, the make america great men hats are being held up in the air. i can tell that means the man of the hour is approaching. here he is, the president of the united states in washington township, michigan, for a campaign style rally on this saturday evening. ♪ god bless the usa ♪

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>> thank you very much. hello, michigan. hello, michigan. [cheers] >> i love this state, and i love the people of this state and thank you for being here. [cheers] >> thank you. you know, you may have heard i was invited to another event tonight, the white house correspondents dinner. but i'd much rather be at washington, michigan, than in washington, d.c. right now. that i can tell you. [cheers] >> great people. thank you for that incredible support, and by the way, you

want to see a lot of people, go outside. we could have filled this place up, probably five or six times. you see what's going on. [cheers] >> thank you. this is a beautiful building, but i said couldn't you have gotten one larger? that would be nice; right? you know the expression, you are inside, so you made it, good real estate. good. good job. tonight we're especially honored to be joined by a really great friend of mine and a great attorney general the next governor of michigan. where's bill? bill? [cheers] >> where's bill? where? all right. bill, wherever he is; right? bill. we also welcome members of

congress, paul mitchell and others. where are they? thank you, fellows. these are great people, and i want to thank our hosts tonight. thank you. [cheers] >> i wish you could have given us a larger arena, but what are you going to do; right? thank you, fellows. finally, we have to thank a very special person in all of our lives because -- she shouted out melania. that's true. [cheers] >> that's true. because our amazing chairwoman, the republican national committee, she's done some job, and if you remember, she ran the state of michigan, and who won the state of michigan after decades?

[cheers] >> i remember that night, you know, been a long time since the republicans won michigan. and they said, donald trump has won the state of michigan. remember that? [cheers] >> and we won a lot of other states also. that was some night. so i want to thank her for the great job that she really has done. she's done it right from the -- literally right from the beginning. in fact, when we needed somebody over at the rnc, i said get that woman that ran michigan. [cheers] >> we need to elect more republicans so we can protect our cities, defend our borders, grow our economy, and continue to make america great again. [cheers] >> and that's what we're doing. we're doing some job. we're all doing it together. but you see what's happening

with regulations, with massive tax cuts, with judges. we're appointing judges like i guess never before has anything happened like what we're doing on great conservative republican judges. we're setting records, and by the time we finish, i think we will have the all time record. you have no idea how important that is. [cheers] >> and then of course we have justice gorsuch who has been fantastic. [cheers] >> he has been fantastic. every one here tonight is united by the same timeless american values. we defend our constitution. we support the rule of law. and we support the heroes of law enforcement. [cheers and applause] >> we have pride in our history

and respect for our great american flag. [cheers] >> we defend our flag. and we honor our flag. [cheers] >> and if others honored our flag, they would be a lot better off, wouldn't they? wouldn't that be a lot better off? we put our hands on our hearts for the pledge of allegiance, and we do that proudly. and we stand for the national anthem. [cheers and applause] >> we believe that a strong nation must have strong borders. [cheers]

>> are you watching that mess that's going on right now with the caravan coming up? are you watching this? and our laws are so weak, they are so pathetic, given us to by democrats, they are so pathetic, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer -- and let me tell you, we've gotten mexico to work with us on stopping a lot of what's pouring in, but we have the worst laws anywhere in the world. we don't have borders. we're going to build the wall. we're getting it. we have already started. [cheers and applause] >> i don't know if you have seen. [cheers] >> you know, it is funny. so san diego, they are being just overrun, great place, but

they are being overrun by people, so they are begging us for a wall. so we have the money. it is all funded in san diego. and those people really want it. and i said let's not do it there. let's let them put pressure on governor jerry brown. so we started the wall, and it's being built in san diego, beautiful job. they are doing a great job. and i said, you know, we stopped that wall, all the people in san diego are going to put a lot of pressure, and i said well, let's see about that. so i said how much would it cost to stop the wall? sir, it will cost 7 million in extras. i can't pay the extras. i hate extras; right? so we're building the wall. but san diego, san diego wants the wall that's going up. and honestly, seriously, they would have put a lot of pressure in california if you look at what's going on with sanctuary cities now, all over california,

especially california, the home of sanctuary cities, the home of sanctuary cities. but you see what's going on. where areas, big areas, they don't want sanctuary cities. they want to be safe. they don't want them. [cheers] >> so we have started -- we have 1.6 billion dollars, and this last budget, just so you understand, we had to fund our military, folks. [cheers] >> we got -- our military was depleted. and it was in trouble. and now we're ordering brand new airplanes. we're ordering brand new everything. [cheers] >> we've got #00 billion dollars approved -- 700 billion dollars approved. next year we have 716 billion dollars approved for our military. we had to do it. we had to do it. [cheers] >> a general mad dog mattis

could not be happier. could not be happier. [cheers] >> i said to him yesterday, i said general, do you think we really needed this much? we needed it, sir. we really did. we needed it. by doing that, the democrats don't care about our military. they don't. they don't care, and they don't care about our borders. and i don't think they care much about crime because if you look at it, ms 13, they pour through, everybody pours through, and they want it. they want it. by the way, we are getting rid of ms 13 in record numbers. okay? [cheers and applause] >> the liberal politicians who support criminal aliens and they support them over, far over american citizens, nancy pelosi

and her gang. they have got to be voted out of office. and you have a senator in michigan -- she voted against case law. she voted against tax cuts. she votes against borders. she wants people to flow into the country. and you people just keep putting her back again and again and again. you've got to get to the polls. we have some great people running the primaries is going to be over with soon, but we have some great people. and honestly, if you want the borders to be secure, if you want to keep those big tax -- how have you done with the tax cuts, by the way? [cheers] >> and not only the tax cuts, the jobs that have been created. the jobs.

[cheers] >> unemployment -- let me tell you, our country is doing great. you know, the stock market, which is not really the all time indicator, because the country's actually doing much better than the stock market, but the stock market is up almost 35% since the election. [cheers] >> but the country is doing actually even better. [cheers] >> you know what bothers the stock market? i would have been up 60%, but i have to do things. you know what i have to do? i can't let other countries take advantage of us. okay? i can't. so we're doing trade deals. and a lot of these folks in washington, please don't do that. i said wait a minute. we have a horrible deal on this one, on that one, i won't even mention. >> we love you trump! >> i love you too. [cheers]

>> so we have to renegotiate these deals. if you look at china, last year with china, and look, he's been a great help. president xi is a friend of mine, but he likes china. i like the usa. but he's a friend of mine. but you know what? he's been a great help on the border with north korea and a lot of good things are happening there. a lot of good things. i'm not going to give you what's going to actually happen because we don't really know. but i will tell you one thing, we're not playing games. and i remember, you know, it was

very rough three, four months ago -- that's very nice, thank you. that's very nice. i just want to get the job done. so if we would have -- [cheers] >> if we would have said where we are today from three or four months -- months ago, do you remember what they were saying? he's going to get us into nuclear war, they said. no, strength is going to keep us out of nuclear war, not going to

get us in. [cheers] >> so we're doing very well. i spoke to the president this morning of south korea for a long time. they just had a very good meeting. he gives us tremendous credit. he gives us all the credit. i mean, he -- president moon of south korea. you know, it started with the olympics because frankly the olympics was not going to have a lot of people and all of a sudden, north korea called in and said you know, we'd love to participate in the olympics. everyone said excuse me? but that was a good thing. it was a great thing. and they went from having a real potential disaster. you know, they worked on it for 15 years to make it great. and they did a great job. south korea did a great job. but they didn't have people. who was going to go? all of a sudden, they had a tremendous olympics. very very successful. and we are doing things that are good. i think we will have a meeting over the next three or four weeks that will be a very important meeting.

the denuclearization of the korean peninsula of north korea, denuke. but we'll see how it goes. and again, whatever happens, happens. look, i may go in. it may not work out. i leave. i'm not going to be a john kerry who makes that horrible iran deal, horrible. one of the worst deals. i mean, how do you make a deal like that? 150 billion dollars, 1.8 billion dollars in cash. you know what that is? and you know what they got? they got nothing. they got nothing. so we're going to have hopefully a very successful negotiation over the next three or four weeks. and we'll be doing the world a big favor. we'll be doing the world a big favor. let's see how it goes. i think we will do fine. i think we're going to do just fine. [cheers]

>> i had one of the fake news groups this morning. they were saying what do you think president trump had to do with it? i tell you what, like how about everything. [cheers] [applause] >> and even president moon says that, and he's been great. i will tell you what, it is going to be an interesting period of time. we had a very interesting thing happen over the last few days. senator john tester of a really great place, montana, who voted by the way in favor of sanctuary cities, who is weak on the border, didn't vote for tax cuts. he took a gentleman who is a

truly high quality human being, and what they said about him, what they said about this great american dr. ronny jackson, an admiral in the navy. he served three presidents, president obama said he was fantastic. president bush said he was fantastic. i say he's fantastic -- this is a high quality individual like they would love in montana. and tester started throwing out things that he's heard. well, i know things about testing that i could say too. -- i know things about tester that i could say too. and if i said them, he would never be elected again.

it was sad because i watched admiral jackson, both a doctor and an admiral, high quality, but i watched him, and i suggested it because we're take karg of our vets -- because we're taking care of our vets. we have done a great job with our vets. we're getting choice approved. and i pulled it because i didn't like the choice. the choice wasn't good enough, what they were going -- i could have had it already. we could have had in the last budget but it wasn't good enough. we're getting choice which is a big deal. that's going to be game changing. by the way, i have five great people that want to run the va. we have great people. but i will tell you what jon tester did to this man is a disgrace. admiral jackson started studying and he was working so hard. i suggested it to him. you know, war hero, a leader, a great -- you know, he's an

admiral. a great, great guy, 50 years old. and he started studying and then he started getting hit with vicious rumors, vicious. and the secret service told me just coming in, sir, we checked out all of those things, sir, they're not true. they are not true. they are not true. so they try and destroy a man. they are doing it with us -- i want to thank by the way the house intelligence committee, okay? [cheers] >> they do it with us too. russian collusion. you know, i guarantee you, i'm tougher on russia. nobody ever thought -- in fact, if you heard about the lawyer? for a year a woman lawyer, she was like oh i know nothing. now all of a sudden she supposedly is involved with government. you know why?

if she did that, because putin and the group said, you know, this trump is killing us. why don't you say that you're involved with government so that we can go and make their life in the united states even more chaotic. look at what's happened. look at how these politicians have fallen for this junk, russian collusion, give me a break. i will tell you, the only collusion is the democrats colluded with the russians and the democrats colluded with lots of other people. take a look at the intelligence agencies. and what about -- hey, what about comey? have you watched him on the interviews? what about comey? what about comey? how about that? so comey -- how about this guy, comey?

he said the other night the fake dirty dossier, he said the other night on fox, he said very strongly no, i didn't know that it was paid for by the democrats and hilary clinton. he didn't know. he didn't know. how about that, they start something based on a document that was paid for by the dnc and hilary clinton. honestly, folks, let me tell you, let me tell you, it's a disgrace. we've got to get back down to business. it's a disgrace, what's going on in our country, and they did that, they did that to admiral jackson. they are doing it to a lot of people. innuendo. in the old days when the newspapers used to write, they'd put names down. today they say sources have said that president trump -- sources? they never say who the source is. they don't have sources. the sources don't exist in many

cases. they don't have sources. and the sources in many cases don't exist. these are very dishonst people. -- these are very dishonest people. many of them. they are very very dishonest people. fake news, very dishonest. but you watch comey, and you watch the way he lies, and then he's got the memos. i wonder when he wrote the memos; right? then he's got the memos, and he puts them up, watch the way he lies. it's the most incredible thing. do you remember -- comey is a liar and a leaker. you know, i did you a great favor when i fired this guy. i tell you, i did you a great favor.

because when you look at what was going on at the top of the fbi, it is a disgrace and everybody in this room understands it. the lovers, lisa and peter, what they said what was going on. look at how many of those top officials were fired or removed, and they should be out of here. and what about the guy that took $700,000 for his wife's campaign? nobody even talks about it. nobody even talks about it. i will tell you what, i have been talking about it for a long time. and if our justice department was doing the right thing, they'd be a lot tougher right now on those people because there's tremendous crime and corruption on the other side. we need to drain the swamp.

[cheers] >> we need to vote against guys like jon tester that can destroy a man with innuendo. and we have to be very careful with the press, because they do the same thing. [cheers] >> we love our country. we believe our citizens deserve a government that is loyal to them in return. for too long the loyalty of michigan workers was repaid with pure and simple betrayal. you were betrayed. for decades you were dealt one devastating blow after another. disastrous trade deals which i'm straightening out, and i'm not saying -- hey there may be a little pain for a little while, but ultimately for my farmers -- i love my farmers. they are great patriots.

[cheers and applause] >> don't forget, the farmers have been doing lousy for 15 years. okay? let's face it. if you look at a graph, it's been like this. so when i say i'm negotiating nafta, and if they don't make a fair deal, i'm terminating nafta and i will make a great deal. you are going to do much better. [cheers] >> or when we take on china or the european union, which has tremendous blocks, it's very hard for us to sell stuff into the european union. it was put there to take advantage of the united states. okay? so when we -- not anymore. you are right. not anymore. we told them that yesterday actually, said the same words, not anymore, those days are over. but we've got to open up these markets. it's not fair. don't forget with china and president xi, when he was at mar-a-lago, six months ago, i said to him, would you do me a favor, would you take our

cattle? because you remember in 2000 they wouldn't take our cattle for whatever reason, but they didn't take cattle. after a short discussion, he said i will. so the cattle is now going to china. but -- [cheers] >> and plenty of other things. and he said last week in his speech he's going to start opening up china, but it's not enough. it's not enough. when we lose 500 billion dollars a year, and that's in a trade deficit, when we lose hundreds of billions of dollars in intellectual property theft, not only china, but others, we have to stop it. we can't allow this to happen. so in a certain way i call people patriots because it is short-term you may have to take some problems. long-term, you're going to be so happy. you're going to be so happy. we're going to get it opened up or we're not doing business with

these other countries; right? [cheers] >> with the european union, last year, you know, it sounds so nice, the european union. you know why? i mean they literally did like i said they formed to take advantage of the united states. and i don't blame them. you know what? i don't blame them. i don't blame president xi. i don't blame prime minister abe of japan. i don't blame the heads of these countries for taking advantage of us. i blame past presidents and past leaders of our country. [cheers and applause] >> i was in china and i was making a speech, and i was saying how bad it is, how unfairly we're treated, and i'm in front of thousands of people,

from china. and i could see the mood was getting dark, and i have president xi over here, and i realized, i was going point after point how bad it is for us, how good it is for them, they became a major power since the world trade organization, which is a horror show for us, horrible. and i looked, and i looked at president xi, and he's the boss. he's the guy. i said, but it's not your fault. it's not your fault. it's the fault of the representatives of the united states who allowed you to get away with it. i don't blame you. right? right? [cheers and applause] >> i don't blame you. and it went out -- and that's the way i feel -- i told abe the other day, prime minister, great guy, they send us millions of

cars. we send them -- they don't take it. they don't even want it. we send them cattle. do you know what they do? they charge us 50% when we send them cattle, 35% on farm products but they don't take many because their farmers don't want it. so they are not taking your product. but when they send their cars over, we charge them almost nothing. let me give you a great example. so simple. china, so when they send a car into the united states, at which they send many, including parts, and you people know something about the car industry, because i'm bringing it back to the state of michigan. [cheers and applause] >> right? [cheers] >> so i'm bringing it back. and you know, chrysler is moving back to michigan from mexico. we saw that. some of you are beneficiaries of that one. thousands of jobs. we have many many car companies. you see what's going on. toyota, many companies are opening up in michigan.

the cars are coming back to michigan. the plants are coming back. they are being expanded. and by the way, do you remember about six years ago, i wasn't even running, and they gave me an award. the republican of the year. i guess they probably -- maybe they knew what was going to happen, i don't know. i wasn't running. long time ago. and i made a speech in michigan, thanking them for the award, saying how horrible, how did you let this happen? where all of these plants closed, moved to mexico, they build the cars in mexico, they sell them across the border, no tax, we lose the jobs. we lose the taxes. we lose everything. how did anybody let this happen? and guess what? not happening anymore, folks. not happening. [cheers] >> so now they are moving back. now they are moving back. let me give you an example. so china, great people. by the way, great people, great country, great leader. but when they sell a car into the united states, they pay

2 1/2% tax. when we sell a car into china, number one, they don't want it. because they have barriers, so they won't take them. but if they took it, it is a 25% tax. okay? think of it. so think of it. so they have a tax that's 10 times higher. what they say is we don't want your cars. we have a barrier. but if we take them, it's 25%. so we're 2 1/2, 25. so far it doesn't sound good. but what's really bad is they say we won't take your cars. we want you to build your factories in china and make the cars there. okay, all right. but you know what? why are they wrong? because now we're doing that also. okay? build your factories here if you want to sell cars in the united states. [cheers and applause] >> let them build them in michigan; right? michigan and ohio and pennsylvania. you see what's happening. you see what's happening. they're really coming back.

by the way, ahead of schedule. you know, i have only been here for 15 months. we have a lot of things happening. there has been -- and doing say this hopefully in a -- i say it as a fact. there has been -- even some people back there agree with this one. although they try. nobody in the first year of office has done what we've done. it is not me. it is we. we. the first year. regulations, tax cuts, judges. you look at what we have done, nobody's done what we have done. in fact, you know, just in coming over, your great congressmen are in the back of the car, do you know what the --

[inaudible]. and for the farmers, okay, it is going to get good, and we're going to let your guest workers come in. we're going to have strong borders, but we have to have your workers come in. the unemployment picture is so good, it is so strong, that we have to let people come in. they are going to be guest workers. they are going to come in. they will work on your farms. we will have them come in, we will have a lot of things happening, but then they have to go out. but we're going to let them in because you need them. you need them. in wisconsin, i was very instrumental in getting a company that makes a lot of the apple iphones -- they make almost all of them. they are an incredible company. they are building a fantastic plant, and it's under construction now. and they are going out and they're recruiting, and they are getting people, and they are doing it professionally, but we need people to be able to come into our country, do your jobs,

help you on the farms, and then they go out. they get to leave. guest workers, we will take care of that. guest workers, don't we agree? we have to have them. we have to have them. after years of rebuilding other countries, we're finally going to rebuild our country. okay? it is about time. [cheers and applause] >> usa! usa! usa! usa! >> think of it. think of it. i've been saying it, but the number goes up and up and up. remember this, we have spent 7 trillion with a t, trillion dollars in the middle east. you know what we have for it? nothing. nothing. nothing. now, we've really wiped out isis. there's no military like we have. there's no military. [cheers]

president trump: now i have asked some of the richest countries in the world, sorry, folks, you have to pay for this. we'll work with them and stop the trip to the mediterranean for the enemies. but we have to come home, we'll have those people pay. they have to pay. they have so much money they don't know what to do with it. they have got to pay. i gave a little story the other day but nobody reports it. you know i said we are going to move the embassy to jerusalem, right? a month ago they come into my office with an order. sir, what's the order. we are going to build the embassy. i said what where? in jerusalem be sir. how much? >> sir, $1 billion.

>> i said whoa, whoa. i had this thing half signed it's signed donald. then i put a big x over the donald. $1 billion, sir. we are going to spend a billion dollars building essentially a one-story building? i called my guy, the ambassador to israel. he was one of the biggest, smartest lawyers. a deal lawyer, one of the biggest in new york, represented me over the years. he's an incredible lawyer. he loves israel. he loves our country. he's proud of israel. let's see if you can make peace. but part of it is let's see about this.

i said i'm not spending a billion dollars on an embassy. he said no, sir, you don't have to. reporter: obviously as you are watching live coverage we are having trouble with the feed. i think we can make it out with this other camera. let's listen in and see if we can hear him. >> it's dropping in and out. sometimes that happens with a satellite feed. the president has been going for the better part of 20 minutes. we are coming up on the 8:00 hour. he just started to tell a story, the same one he fold about how he saved so much money with the embassy being bilt in jerusalem. -- bein being built in michiga.

"the fox report" is wrapping up this sunday, april 28 of 2018. i'm connell mcshane. it's time for "watters world." jesse: welcome to "watters world." i'm jesse watters. president trump speaking in washington township in michigan. president trump: some genius said we are going to sell the site and then we are going to take the money and build a new embassy. that sounds good. but you have to have money left over if you do that. they sold the site for i think -- these numbers are close enough. they sold the site for like $250 million. they think they are geniuses. they go out and buy