tucker will have in just a moment. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: this is a fox news alert. the president about to begin a rally in orlando, florida. he will officially be announcing his 2020 election bid. good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we will be covering the president's announcement right here live as soon as it starts. it's imminent apparently. what does the president need to do to win this election now a year and a half away as we await for the president to begin his speech. we will ask that question of dana perino, host of the daily briefing with dana perino, our friend. dana, thanks a lot for joining us tonight. >> dana: happy to be here. >> tucker: if you were running this campaign, what would you make it about, this re-election campaign? >> dana: so interesting because he was a disrupter candidate from 2016 but now he is the incumbent and incumbency comes with a lot

of benefits. okay. you have got the plane. you have the organization. and now you have a record. he has a big war chest and organization like he has never had before. i think i would make it about three things. number one, keep the economy hot. as hot as possible. he has to figure out a way to maybe moderate the things that could hurt it, such as the trade wars. try to land that deal with the chinese. avoid a debt default crisis. the congress is already trying to work that out. and to the extent that he possibly can, if the democrats are willing, when they do that one bill that they will get through this year, if they will cut a deal on infrastructure do that and show you have the ability to move things forward. second thing i would do is define the democrats. he was very good at defining all of the republicans that he ran against in the 2015 and 2016 primary. now he has to do that to the democrat. voters disliked hillary a lot more than they loved donald trump. now, as you can see at this rally, there is a lot of people that love donald trump, but the democrats are also very energized. so he has to define them

very quickly. the third thing is i think he has to figure out to remain the change candidate as much as he possibly can he is more antiestablishment than any democrat running except for, perhaps, bernie sanders. and eight of the last 10 elections were all about change. those are the ones that were successful. so, how do you run as an incumbent and still say that you are the change candidate? i think you would have to say i have got so much done you can't believe how much i got done. it's amazing, it's beautiful all that i got done but there is still a lot more to do. that's how i would do it. i would also try to throw as much chaos into the democratic primary as possible. >> tucker: so that's it right there. let's assume and i actually don't believe this but judging by today's numbers it would be fair to assume that he would be facing off against joe biden. >> dana: okay. >> tucker: wouldn't it be wiser to highlight the radical elements the democratic party ocasio-cortez, ilhan omar, the radicalized in the house and try to tie the opponent

to those figures? >> i think the more that president trump in his re-election efforts can push the democrats further to the left, the better off he will be. you have already seen joe biden have to go for left than where he has been for decades. hyde amendment on abortion funding. china, for example, the crime bill, we will see how he does on that. next week when he does the debates he is the tallest oak in the yard and all of the other democrats are going to want to chop him down. the more president trump can put spotlight and focus on that chaos, push him to the left the better off he will be and the better off the other members of congress will be that are running for re-election or just running for election. the third one house seats that went democrat that gave nancy pelosi the speaker's gavel those are up for grabs again in 2020. this time, instead of like 2018, this time you have president trump at the top of the ticket and maybe those seats could flip back

to republicans if they play their cards right. >> tucker: so we're getting way ahead of ourselves but i can't resist asking you. the senate, does that likely stay in republican hands? >> dana: yes, yes, it does. actually, there are people that work on the senate side and republican politics. it's a good year for republicans but it's also the possibility that they could pick up a seat or two. the michigan race is going to be very interesting to watch. i think that republicans are concerned about arizona and colorado. but, other than that, i think they feel pretty good about things. >> tucker: yeah. those seats have changed an awful lot. dana perino who has not changed except for the better. great to see you tonight. thank you. >> dana: all right, thanks. >> tucker: last night the president tweeted that ice will soon begin large scale deportations of millions of illegal immigrants in the united states. millions. buck sexton is a radio host, very familiar with what's happening on the border. he has been there recently. he joins us tonight. buck, thanks a lot for coming on. what do you make of this?

this seems like a pretty dramatic departure from where we have been. i think a lot of people, certainly me included would welcome. this is it going to happen? >> i think it's going to start, tucker. and that will have a couple of effects. one is that if he does, in fact, go forward with this and there is now confirmation from senior administration officials. i was speaking to somebody earlier today who was saying, no, this is real, this is going to happen. they are going to start telling people who have had all their due process, who are in the country illegally, who have been adjudicated and been found that they should be deported under the law they are told they have to go, democrats are going to oppose. this democrats are going to say hold on a second, that's not right. that's not fair. which also gives the lie to what they have been saying all along about the central american migrant crisis, the so-called asylum seekers but oh we promise once they get their process, sure, we will be okay with them being deported. that's obviously not the case. they are really in on this scam and it's going to force democrats to have to admit that they don't believe in the rule of law.

they like the process until it comes to an end and then the process isn't really for them anymore. >> tucker: right. so, is there some good reason why i should, i don't know, pay my taxes or register my car? i mean, if people who are not allowed to live in this country, according to democrats can ignore the law, why am i obeying it? >> yeah. i think what have you seen from democrats, especially with the mueller probe going on in the background for quite some time is, you know, if you are a friend of donald trump's and you misremember what you had for breakfast six months ago people are cheering for you to go to prison. prominent democrats seem to think that manafort in solitary confinement is such great justice and the country is achieving a better future because of it. the massive and systematic fraud, and that's what it is that has been perpetrated at our southern border with democrats really complicit in it by pretending bedon't all know what's happening. people lying about being family units. people lying about or fleeing violence when they in fact are economic

migrants who want a better future. this is going to finally bring into focus, at a perfect time, because we are headed to a election, that democrats are effectively open border parties and only believe in the law when they like the law. >> tucker: this is a winning issue, i think for the president. >> it is. >> tucker: buck sexton, thanks a lot for that. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: from the other side in instagram video broadcast congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez of new york denounced holding facilities on the united states border as, quote: concentration camps. ned ryun is founder and ceo of american majority and he joins us tonight. ned, thanks for coming on. >> good to be with you. >> tucker: concentration camps. what do you make of that description. >> first of all, it's deeply insulting for her to compare our very humane detention centers to what the nazis did with -- their concentration camps and exterminating 6 million jews. the amazing part to me is it seems lost on aoc that these illegal aliens are coming of

their own volition. nobody is compelling them to come. they come here illegally and yet we still treat them very humanely and to say that's the moral equivalent of what the nazis did of forcing jews into concentration camps and gassing millions of them to death is insulting and diminishes the horrors of the holocaust, tucker. >> tucker: yes. and the sacrifice of the american soldiers who helped defeat nazi germany and liberate the camps. >> that's right. >> tucker: the whole thing is grotesque. >> this is a game to them. >> tucker: suggests being held because of ethnicity and minority being held because of who they are rather than what they have done. >> this is a game tucker. first of all, it calls into question. i truly believe they don't believe in national sovereignty anymore. this is a game to them for them to invoke the holocaust and hitler and the nazis to use as a rhetorical bludgeon against their opponents that don't agree with them on anything and they know they can get away with it because

their fellow travelers in the mainstream media instead of fact-checking them actually are tying themselves in knots today defending her, making outrageous statements. i mean, even saying one cnn senior editor said a auschwitz was a work and concentration camp it got so bad chris hayes had to be fact-checked by the auschwitz museum and said you should probably get educated on what actually happened during the holocaust. >> tucker: that's also disgusting. ned ryun, thank you. >> it is disgusting, thanks, tucker. >> tucker: good to see you. last night the president authorized the deployment of another 1,000 american troops to the middle east. this follows an alleged iranian attack on two oil tankers. the u.s.s. seems to be slipping toward war there. meanwhile we have no permanent secretary of defense. the acting secretary, patrick hand shan, you may have read, just stepped aside over prior domestic incidents. he has now been replaced by former raytheon mark esper. colonel, thanks for coming

on. obvious question, first, are we as we appear to be moving toward conflict with iran? >> oh, look, let's hope not. because, if the president looks out on the sea of faces he has in front of him tonight, all of these supporters, he needs to be reminded of two things. first what buck has already covered about securing the border and, secondly, about his promise to end these pointless, endless wars in the middle east. he needs to get us out of afghanistan. he needs to get out of syria. he needs to get out of iraq. if he can't turn to an audience like the one he has got tonight a year from now and say, look, i promised, i delivered. i think he is not going to see everybody show up at the ballot box that he would like to be there. >> tucker: i think that's wise advice. colonel doug macgregor, thank you very much. we are going to orlando. the president is being introduced. we're joined now by chief fox national correspondent ed henry. ed, so this is the official

kickoff of the 2020 campaign. >> ed: yeah, tucker, in many ways this has been game on for some time now as you know the president has already done many rallies across the country. yes, this is the official kickoff. and it just proves to us what we have known since at least 2,000. florida, florida, florida. that was a big part of the president flipping the narrative around on the mainstream media, which said again and again that the math doesn't work. that he simply could not get to 270 electoral votes. once he turned florida and then he went up pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. obviously, that's what got him far beyond that number. and, look, it's instructive that the same, you know, wise people who say they seem to know everything about politics are telling us, again, the president is behind in all of these battlegrounds. quinnipiac, for example, a poll out just a couple of hours ago saying the president is down 9 points in the state of florida to joe biden. guess what?

quinnipiac had andrew gillum, the democrats, winning the governorship by seven points in 2018. he is not the governor tonight. as the president stands on that stage in orlando. so, these polls can be off. and i think that's one of many things this president is banking on because of the strong economy. >> tucker: i wonder if the campaign, the trump campaign believes that the democratic nominee will be joe biden? >> ed: that's their expectation. that is in private why they say the president has spent a fair bit of time on social media going after joe biden. but, on the other hand, you can sees a the democratic race plays out that elizabeth warren and others on the left seem to have a lot more energy and enthusiasm on their side, which makes us wonder tonight is joe biden the frontrunner in name only right now? his numbers have come down a little. not a lot. a little. but, look, this is the kickoff for the president

tonight. the kickoff really for the democrats is next week when they have their first debate. so this finally is, you know, we are here. and we are going to find out whether joe biden is going to stay the frontrunner or not. [chanting u.s.a.] >> tucker: it looks like the first lady may be speaking. this is interesting. we will go to this. ed henry. thank you so much. >> it has been my honor to serve as first lady of this incredible country for the past two years. [cheers and applause] and i'm excited to do it for six more. [cheers and applause] i'm proud of all that my husband, his administration and our entire family have done on behalf of the american people in such a short time. [cheers and applause] he truly loves this country and will continue to work on your behalf as long as he

can. all of us will. thank you all again for being here tonight. and now i want to introduce my husband, the president of the united states, donald j. trump. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] [chanting u.s.a.]

>> oh, we had such luck in orlando. we love being in orlando. thank you, orlando. thank you, orlando. what a turnout. what a turnout. [cheers and applause] you know, i said this is a very big arena for a tuesday night. you know, if we have about three or four empty seats the fake news will say headlines, he didn't fill up the arena. you know. [crowd boos] >> so i said maybe we shouldn't take a chance. maybe we shouldn't go to orlando. we should go some place else and i said no, i think we will go to orlando. [cheers and applause] and not only did we fill it up, but we had 120,000 requests. [cheers and applause] that means you folks have come out very, very good.

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

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

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

[crowd boos] [chanting] [chanting] >> by the way, that is a lot of fake news back there that's a lot. [cheers and applause] >> that's a lot. you know what i say? the amount of press we have

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

[chanting u.s.a.] we stared down the unholy alliance of lobbyists and donors and special interests who made a living bleeding our country dry. that's what we have done. we broke down the doors of washington back rooms, where deals were cut to close our companies, give away your jobs, shut down our factories, and surrender your sovereignty and your very way of life, and we have ended it. [cheers and applause] we took on a political machine that tried to take away your voice and your vote, they tried to take away your dignity and your

destiny. but we will never let them do that. will we? >> no. >> many times i said we would drain the swamp and that's exactly what we're doing right now. we're draining the swamp. [cheers and applause] [chanting] >> and that's why the swamp is fighting back so viciously and violently. for the last two and a half years we have been under

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

close. nobody's done what we have done in two and a half years. [cheers and applause] we went through the greatest witch-hunt in political history. the only collusion was committed by the democrats, the fake news media, and their operatives and the people who funded the phony dossier, crooked hillary clinton and the dnc. it was all an illegal attempt to overturn the results of the election, spy on our campaign, which is what they did, and subvert our democracy. remember, the insurance policy just in case hillary clinton lost. remember the insurance policy. [chanting]

[lock her up] >> they appointed 18 very angry democrats to try to take down our incredible movement. after two years, 1.4 million pages of documents, 500 search warrants, 500 witnesses, 2,800 subpoenas and 40 fbi agents working around the clock. what did they come up with? no collusion. and the fact that led our great attorney general to determine no obstruction. no collusion, no

obstruction. [cheers] >> and they spent $40 million on this witch-hunt. $40 million. [crowd boos] that's right. they spent $40 million probably a hell of a lot more than that. and think about it. nobody has been tougher on russia than donald trump. nobody. [cheers and applause] we call it the russian hoax. remember president obama's famous line caught on the open mike secretly telling the russian president to, quote: inform wladimir that

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

number one producer of energy in the world because of what we have done right now. [cheers and applause] [chanting u.s.a.] >> the democrats don't care about russia. they only care about their own political power. they went after my family, my business, my finances, my employees, almost everyone that i have ever known or worked with, but they are really going after you. that's what it is all about. it's not about us. it's about you. they tried to erase your vote, erase your legacy of the greatest campaign and the greatest election probably in the history of

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

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

percentage than your favorite president, donald trump, do you know who that president is? he has a higher percentage than me and it's devastating. his name is george washington. [cheers and applause] george is 100 percent and there is no way i'm going to get there no matter what i tell you. got 100 percent. he was first so he just appointed them all and that was it. that's going to be a hard record to beat. they want to take away your judges. they want to pack the court with far left idealogue, and they want to radicalize our judiciary. you know that. we already have a lot of that. look at what they did to a great gentleman justice kavanaugh, highly respected.

[cheers and applause] they didn't just try to win. they tried to destroy him with false and malicious accusations. [crowd boos] >> and thank you marco and thank you lindsey, wherever you may be. thank you, great job. thank you. [cheers and applause] stand up. [cheers and applause] yeah, lindsey graham was doing okay in south carolina. isn't that great? now he is through the roof. great. thank you. great job. thank you. great people. great people.

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

2020. [boos] >> they would shut down your free speech, use the power of the law to punish their opponents, which they are trying to do now anyway. they will always be trying to shield themselves. they would strip americans of their constitutional rights while flooding the country with illegal immigrants in the hopes it will expand their political base and they will get votes some place down the future. that's what it is about. [boos] [chanting build that wall] [chanting build that wall] >> and we are building the wall. we will have over 400 miles

of wall built by the end of next year. it's moving rapidly. moving very rapidly. [cheers and applause] and you know we couldn't get the wall approved by the democrats. even though they voted for it four years ago and six years ago and didn't get built, but they voted for it. all of a sudden trump is president, we don't want a wall. can you imagine? can you imagine those caravans without having the barriers and walls that we have already put up and that are up? this country would be a mess like you wouldn't believe. so the wall is moving along. it's moving along rapidly. it's beautiful. i changed the design, it's stronger, bigger, better, and cheaper. [cheers and applause] cheaper. a lot cheaper. you know, sometimes when they don't give you the money, you have to make it

cheaper. [laughter] it's not going to happen. but it's going well. instead of bringing us together as one america. democrats want to splinter us into factions and tribes. they want us divided. not going to happen to the republicans anymore. it's not going to happen. [cheers and applause] this election is not merely a verdict on the amazing progress we have made. it's a verdict on the unamerican conduct of those who try to undermine our great democracy and undermine you. and by july 4th, washington, d.c., come on down, big day, bring your flags. bring those flags. bring those american flags. july 4th we're going to have hundreds of thousands of people. we're going to celebrate

america. sounds good, right? july 4th. [cheers and applause] celebrate america. this election is a verdict on whether we want to live in a country where the people who lose an election refuse to concede and spend the next two years trying to shred our constitution and rip your country apart. [boos] you remember during one of the debates when crooked hillary said if i win, are you going to support me? but i must be honest i didn't give her a great answer. that was -- that might have been my hardest question during the debates. isn't it amazing that it worked the other way around, right? isn't that amazing?

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

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

we now have a great attorney general. let's see what happens. [cheers and applause] so if you want to shut down this rigged system once and for all, then show up november 3rd. that's your day, big day, and vote, vote, vote. we're going to have a big, big day. [cheers and applause] [chanting four more years] >> thank you. and remember the only thing these corrupt politicians will understand is an earthquake at the blo blot

ballot box. we did it once and now we will do it again and this time we're going to finish the job. [cheers and applause] and this time should be a lot easier because we have done so much with our military, with our vets, with the 2nd amendment, with our regulations, with the biggest tax cut in history, with getting rid of so many different problems, so many different things, including, by the way, the individual mandate on obamacare, one of the worst things anybody has ever had to live through. we got rid of the individual mandate. [cheers and applause] right? how many people are happy they no longer have to pay for the privilege of not paying for bad health insurance?

[cheers and applause] how many people are happy? bad healthcare. so every time you don't have to make out a check, in order not to have healthcare. think of that. this is the only country you pay for the very distinct privilege of not having to pay but you had to pay a lot. now you don't have to pay anymore. you don't want it? you don't have to take it. [cheers and applause] individual mandate, we got rid of it. that was a big deal. the people trying to stop our movement are the same washington insiders who spent their careers rigging the system so your losses will be their gains. you know that. these are the same career politicians who presided over decades of flat wages, the loss of our manufacturing jobs, 60,000 -- can you believe that?

60,000. who would believe that number? and do you know how i know it's true? because, if it wasn't, i have been using it a lot. the fake news would have headlines trump used a phony number. they would have headlines. it would be the biggest story. trump used -- well, they never corrected it so i assume, fellows, 60,000 shuttered factories, we closed up. 60,000 factories. it didn't seem right. it didn't seem like it would be possible. an avalanche of job-killing regulations, a growing wealth gap, and one ruinous trade deal after another. by the way those trade deals are getting very good, folks. you will see. [cheers] >> we just completed the deal with south korea. great deal. we are working with mexico and canada. we have to get the democrats to approve it. we want it to be bipartisan. as you know you may have read a couple of things

about china. i spoke to president xi, terrific president, a great leader of china, i spoke to him this morning at length. and we will see what happens what happens. we are going to have a deal or not have a deal at all. that's okay. too. because we are taking in billions and billions of dollars in to our treasury and companies are leaving china because they want to avoid paying these large tariffs. and, by the way. when the fake news tells you that you are paying in the case of china they devalued their currency, that helps them. and do you know what else they are doing? they are subsidizing those companies, and you are not paying very much if you are not paying anything at all, the case of china. and we are taking billions and billions of dollars in and, remember, this and you know it as well as i do, we have never taken in 10 cents from china.

we would lose $500 billion a year with china. we rebuilt china. they have done a great job, but they took us for suckers. and that includes obama and biden. they took us for suckers. [boos] >> 500 billion. 500 billion. somebody said you mean 500 million? that's a lot too, right? no, $500 billion. it's actually more than that i don't want to be too specific. 507. [laughter] we are fighting against the same far left politicians that ravaged our great cities and crushed the dreams of african-american middle class same people who threw open our borders and allowed drugs, gangs, and illegal labor to devastate our poorest american

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

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

who want to return us to the bitter failures and betrails of the past, we are not going back. we are going on to victory. going on to victory they will all take it away as fast as it came and as mike pence said a little while ago that's why we want a little more time. it's going to be cemented. it's going to be cemented. you know, we have a big decision to make. do you know what i'm going to say have to come up with a new theme for the campaign. is it going to be make america great again, the greatest theme. make america great again, maga country, right? [cheers and applause] maga. maga. maga country. we're in maga country. that i can tell you.

but you know today, we had a massive day on the stock market. a lot of good things are happening. buff we had a very big day and we are very close to, i think our 68th record. you know, we have hit all-time records. it's tremendous. i think it's more than that but it's a lot. so now i say we have made america great again, but how do you give up the number one call it theme, logo, statement, in the history of politics for a new one? you know there is a new one that really works and that's called keep america great. right? keep america great. [cheers and applause] keep america great. in other words, make america great again well we have really done it. we have rebuilt our military, it's still in the process. we have taken care of our vets. we have cut the hell out of

regulations. i have cut more regulations than any president in the history of our country, regardless of the length of their term. [cheers and applause] so now i say we need -- we have a lot talent, campaign people they cost a fortune and they never give me any ideas. i'm kidding. i said what do we use as our theme, our statement, i'm going to ask you to vote on it. i'm going to go make america great again and keep america great. let me hear by your cheers what you like. so, in all fairness, make america great, the greatest of all time. i really believe that the greatest of all time. how do you give up the greatest of all time with a new statement? do you know what's going to happen? if i do it with a new theme. if i lose, people are going to say what mass stake that was. [laughter] but we're not going to lose so it's not going to matter. [cheers] >> we're not going to lose,

right? we're not going to lose. [cheers] are you ready? first we do make america great again and then we do keep america great. let me hear it. ready? make america great again. [cheers and applause] >> no not bad. not bad. if i would have said that three years ago it wouldn't be a contest, right? you ready? keep america great. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause]

[cheers and applause] [chanting u.s.a.] wow. i'm sorry, maga country, but that wasn't too close. i thought you had it won and then i heard this cheer, my eardrums will never be the same. keep america great. [cheers and applause] pretty good. we're going to keep on fighting for every man and woman and child all across this land.

with every ounce of hard and might and sweat and sow we are going to keep keep america great again and we will indeed keep america great. oh we will keep it so great. better than ever before. we're going to keep it better than ever before. and that is why tonight i stand before you to officially launch my campaign for a second term as president of the united states. [cheers and applause] thank you. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause]

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

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

petrones. [applause] some really brilliant tough, wonderful friends who have helped me so much senators lindsey graham of south carolina, marco rubio of florida, and rick scott of florida. [cheers and applause] these are great people. these are great people. they're tough, they're smart, and they love our country. thank you very much, rick, marco, lindsay, thank you. members of congress, warriors also, boy, they're up there, you want them protecting you, i'll tell ya. they don't stop. matt gates, ted gillhall and

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

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

talented, so wonderful and we're sort of going to be losing her. i have a feeling she's going to be running for a certain gubernatorial position. don't worry about it, ron. it's not going to be in florida. it won't be in florida, i promise you, casey. she'd be tough, right? but a woman who's a special woman. and her father, by the way, he's out there fighting for us all the time. sarah huckabee sanders. [ cheers and applause ] >> president's reelection campaign officially under way as of tonight. we'll have coverage of that tomorrow with the next year and a half. but live coverage of the president's announcement continues tonight on sean hannity show. see you tomorrow.

[ cheers and applause ] >> sean: the president introducing sarah huckabee sanders. he has announced he's running for reelection. my opening monologue, full reaction. let's go back -- now sarah huckabee sanders is the reelection campaign of the president kickoff tonight in orlando. >> thank you, mr. president. this has been truly the honor of a lifetime. one of the most incredible experiences anybody could ever imagine. and that's because i've had the chance to be on the front row of history and watch you drastically change our country for the better. you've made america great. you're going to continue to make america great. i cou