construction crew, you are tonight's midnight heroes. most-watched, most trusted, and most grateful you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. i am mike emanuel. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the president is speaking to supporters in greenville, north carolina. we will be taking portions of it live, especially the newsworthy moments. right now he's talking about the four radical freshman democrats, antifa, and more broadly, the direction the democrats are moving. we are going to go back and listening, it's interesting.go >> president trump: michael watley. [cheers and applause] i want to also thank -- and i will tell you, he's been a warrior for the last three months, really a warrior when we needed him most, senator tom tillis. thank you, tom. he really has. he's been really good. we got to get out and work and make sure he gets reelected.

and also, representatives mark walkerk and richard hudson. [cheers and applause] >> tucker: president speaking in greenville, north carolina. for the past four days, as you well know, he has been embroiled in a remarkably nasty, and yet at times amusing twitter battle with the foremost left-wing democrats in the house of representatives. alexandria ocasio-cortez, ilhan omar, ayanna pressley, and rashida tlaib. democrats have told us that he is inherently racist to criticize these politicians given the way they look. the president clearly disagrees with that. we know because he's been attacking them still. just tonight in his speech in greenville. a year ago, these four women were almost completely unknown.g today they define the democratic party. their rise tells you a lot about where the left is heading. individually, each of the four

members is weak, unaccomplished, uninformed, deeply unimpressive, and yet together as a group they are strong. their power derives from aup single word, "racist." they deploy that word like as a weapon at first sign ofce resistance every time. anyone who stands in their way is a racist. literally anyone, even the leader of their party. watch rashidaa tlaib explain to gayle king of cbs that nancy pelosi is a racist. why? because nancy pelosi doesn't agree with everything rashida tlaib says. watch. >> she is speaker of the house, she can ask for a meeting.wi a to sit down with us for clarification. i've done racial work in our country for a long time. acknowledge the fact that we are women of color so when you do single us out, be aware of that and what you're doing. especially because some of us are getting death threats. some of us are being singled out in many ways because of our background, because of our experiences, and so forth. >> tucker: you can criticize

me because of my skin color! that's what tlaib is saying. tlaib goes on to say -- did you catch this? she is qualified to call pelosi a racist because she herself has spent so many years doing "racial justice work." wait a second, what exactly isis racial justice work? is that a job? can you get paid for racial justice work? is there a racial justice union for racial justice workers? might be interesting to know. gayle king never asked, of course. it sounds totally legitimate to her. but the point is, and in fact the real headline here is rashida tlaib has been working this scam for a long time. bullying people on the basis of their skin color to accrue more power. that's her game and she will keep doing it until it stops working. there's no sign of that yet, though, so in the meantime, neither she nor her equally-entitled friends have any plans to slow down or apologize for anything they do or have done. ilhan omar, for example, has accused israel of "hypnotizing the planet."

she called it an evil country. as we continue to monitor the trump rally for news, listen to her explain that she has no regrets for that. watch. >> often times there are things that you might say, might not hold weight for you, but to someone else, right? the way that we hear and consume information is very different than how the next person might. >> so you don't regret your words either? >> i do not. >> tucker: you don't regret your words. kind of a stupid question, when you think about it. why would ilhan omar have any regrets? she doesn't believe her critics are legitimate. they are racist by definition because they criticized her. rashida tlaib has reached the same conclusion. shortly after winning office she completely lost control of herself as she was ranting about the president. she screamed that she wanted to "impeach the mother effer." who talks like that?

she does, she says, proudly.y. >> from day one, i truly believe that he has committed impeachable offenses. >> even if you believe that, the fact that you called him --- >> i didn't do it on the house floor and i'm going to be unapologetic and myself. 70% of americans -- i am real, this is who i am. i am rooted in where i come from and it's very common for me and for many of my residence to say things like that. >> so you don't regret that? >> absolutely not. >> tucker: got that?on she swears a lot. that means she is authentic. how old are these people? they're children. ayanna pressley, by the way, is young enough that she still engages in make-believe. pressley has decided that despite the evidence to the contrary, donald trump actually isn't the president. >> the occupant of thiss white house -- and i call him that not because i don't have respect for the oval office -- >> it sounds like you don't have respect for the oval office because you call the president of the united states the occupant.

>> because he is only occupying space. he does not embody the principles some of the responsibility, the grace, the integrity, of a true president. >> tucker: you're watching the face of the new democratic party. four of the most annoying, least-impressive people in the entire country, entitled, overgrown children, throwing an endless series of temper tantrums. you literally wouldn't have dinner with these people on a dare. they are awful. even most democrats think they are awful. but they are in charge now, why? in the new woke democratic party, race trumps everything. the old party was the party of equality in the working class. the new party is the party of race baiting. the sad point is that america is actually less racist than it's ever been, but it's also a lot more afraid than it's ever been. people are terrified and demagogues like ocasio-cortez and ilhan omar leverage thatre fear and that terror to win power. so far it's working for them. the question is, can it bring them across the finish line in

an election? do most americans really hate their country? do most americans think other americans are mostly racist? they're betting on it. we are about to find out. dana perino hosts "the daily briefing with dana perino" and she joins us tonight. dana, thanks a lot for coming on. it's hard to see the biggeror picture in the middle of one of these tweet battles, but whose winning? >> we are in -- at the end of day four of a tweet battle. but of course, it's not just about the tweets. it is about some underlying differences of interest, morals, and values. and the sad thing is -- i get a daily devotional every morning and one of the things that the pastor reminded us today, is that you should try -- and all of your acts, try to bring people together. and you know me, i'm always like on "the five," we all get along. we really agree and let's try to figure it out. >> tucker: [cackles]

>> that is not happening! let me tell you about somebody who agrees with you about the concern. i don't know if you saw the this the other day. "the new york times" on the editorial page, columnist thomas friedman had a whole column practically begging "the squad" to stop, saying the revolution is not going to happen in 2020 and that the questions that he gets most now from people he runs into, these are democrats, they will say -- this is the headline of the piece. "trump going to win again, isn't he?" so they know. and they are trying to send all the signals. please, stop, don't. nancy pelosi is trying. nancy pelosi has been called a racist. that's why it is so out of control. they are also totally dominating the conversation. do you know how valuable it is for somebody to have that much time on "cbs this morning" with

gayle king?e and kamala harris didn't get it, bernie sanders didn't get it, joe biden didn't get it. they have been driving the conversation and president trumg is helping them. it's like this constant gift exchange between the two sides and nothing really can get done if you do it that way. >> tucker: there is a kind of familiar quality to this, though.. i remember in the waning days of the last presidential election, 2016, really the basic attack against trump was he's racist and his voters are racist. whatever you think of that -- whether you agree or disagree as a factual matter, it didn't work. it didn't get hillary clinton elected president. >> tucker, go back in time with me to 2012. you know who else they called racist? mitt romney and paul ryan. i mean, honestly. >> tucker: why are they still doing it? it doesn't work. maybe it worked then but it didn't work in '16. it doesn't work with trump. >> and it didn't work with george w. bush, right?. the called him racist, too.

look, republicans can paint democrats as socialists. everyone's a socialist. elizabeth warren will sayan absolutely not, i'm a capitalist, i just think it should be working better. that's why i think, when theyy have these upcoming debates, the democrats have said we are no longer going to do any of these questions from have to raise our hands about whether we agree with something that, because it doesn't provide you anyng opportunity to explain complexity or context, but what happens? these guys know president trump has raised so much money and that every one of these ralliesm that he goes to, they get something also much more valuable than money in many ways, and that is information about people who want to be there, and they can contact them again and again. make sure you're going to go out and vote. are you going to get your neighbors to vote? all of that information is so valuable while these guys on the left bicker. >> tucker: i want to play for you something the president said right before this show started about the group you just described as "the squad" -- >> that's nancy pelosi's words, not mine. >> tucker: i know it. here's trump.

>> president trump: omard minimized theth september 11th attacks on our homeland saying "some people did something." i don't think so. and obviously and importantly," omar has a history of launching vicious anti-semitic -- representative rashida tlaib. [boos] agreed with omar's characterization of 9/11 and said that members of congress w who support israel forgot what country they represent. representative alexandria ocasio-cortez. [boos] check out her scores, by the way.

>> tucker: so, dana, listening to that, you can almost feel hoc excited the president is to be taking these members on. it's just so obvious that he enjoys it. he's good at it and his voters respond to it. h if you're a democrat, it can't make you feel good, can it? >> a couple of things, the president definitely wants the next election to be a choice like the one in 2016. c it was a choice between two people. hillary clinton or donald trumpn take your pick and donald trump is able to basically win that hand and gets those three states, becomes the president of the united states. the democrats are like, "what just happened"? in the midterm elections, it was more a referendum on him and the democrats are super organized and they are able to take back the house. i don't think that there are going to be anywhere near able to do that in 2020, because you have, for example, "the squad" has become now the face of the

democratic party. the president doesn't even need to run against joe biden. he can just run against them. one thing that i think is unfortunate, but sometimes it feels like the roman colosseum, and the chanting of "send her back" becomes one of those -- look, omar is a congresswoman, she is a citizen of the country, and sometimes i think that the trump people even understand -- it could go a little bit too far and have a backlash. that said, all of those women in "the squad" asked nancy pelosi in the interview with gayle king, to please be more mindfull of your words when you're talking about us or referencing us because we are women of color.r. you think about the things that they say about jewish people. should "the squad" be more t mindful of people that areeo jewish? b and the hateful things are saide it's this terrible, vicious cycle that is really hard to

pull out of, but i don't think that nancy pelosi is able to figure out a way right now to have a hold of them. they have the impeachment vote tonight. there's going to be more to come. i don't think "the squad" is going to give up any of this airtime.to >> tucker: at some point, the candidates, joe biden included, are going to have to take a position on ilhan omar. >> where do you think the party will be? >> tucker: [cackles] i'm enjoying it, i got to say. >> party at your house! >> tucker: party at my house. [laughs] a rashida tlaib watch party. continue to monitor the rally going on in north carolina for news and go back to it live if he makes any. if president trump in the meantime were a fire-breathing racist, ben carson would probably know.w. secretary carson has served directly under the president for two years. he joins us tonight. mr. secretary, thanks very much for coming on. >> good to be with you, tucker. >> tucker: as you watched the

almost unanimous verdict of the media that the president is a hard-boiled racist -- over the past four days, there's been almost no coverage of anything else, what's your response to that? >> i've never seen any evidence of that whatsoever. our conversations have frequently centered around disadvantaged people in our country and what we can do to elevate them. and it seems to me like a racist wouldn't spend so much time on second chance legislation, wouldn't spend so much time with those unrealized capital i gains into areas that have traditionally been neglected so that people can rise. he wouldn't spend so much time working on affordable housing, recognizing what the crisis was. the list goes on and on. these are not things that people who are racist would do. people need to look at what the results are and not spend all of

their time parsing every word and trying to make it fit their narrative. >> tucker: would you work for a racist? >> no, i would be out there it in two seconds. i would not. i certainly have the opportunity to see what racism is growing up in detroit in the '60s. >> tucker: why do you think people say that about the president? >> in a way, it's kind of nice that people are creating such a nice binary choice. people will have an opportunity to decide do they really like the united states? this is a magnificent countryy where someone like me could grow up in poverty, become a brain surgeon and a cabinet member. why would anybody knock a place like that? if it was such a bad place, people wouldn't be forming caravans to come here.li and then you can have the other choice. people will have a very, very clear choice. let them continue to fight and define themselves and let the

american people decide -- what i discovered when i was running for president as i traveled alln over the country into the small little hamlets in every state, most of the people in thishe country actually have common sense. they're not going to throw away what we want for venezuela. >> tucker: they are decent kind of people. travel the country as you have, that is the first thing you discover. do you think you can win your presidential race if you hate the country? >> it would become very apparent with your rhetoric that you are not someone who was a supporter of our nation. and, you know, the interesting thing is we have an amazing country. people are trying to come here from all over the world. there is no other place like it. there is no place that has a history like our country. had we made mistakes? absolutely. do we learn from them? absolutely. is that a reason to throw

out the baby with the bathwater? absolutely not. people who can only focus on the negative aspects of our country and not see the positive aspects, you have to wonder about what their motives are. >> tucker: you certainly do. secretary ben carson, thanks very much. >> always a pleasure. thank you, tucker. >> tucker: so is america a racist country? is it more racist than it once was? or is a lot of this dishonest? roger kimball is the publisher of "the new criterion," just wrote a fantastic piece on that question. he joins us tonight. roger, thanks so much for coming on. >> great to be with you, tucker. >> tucker: is america more racist than it was five years ago? ten years ago? >> clearly not. it's nice to listen to secretary carson speak with what david hume called the calm sunshine of the mind. it is clearly less racist than it has ever been, just as every

college campus is less racist than it has ever been. listening to the juvenile squad, these four women who are only incidentally legislators, what they are really doing is burnishing their own celebrity.a they aren't taking care of their constituents. i wish they would give thet phrase "people of color" a rest. we need to retire that phrase because it is a racist -- >> tucker: what does that mean? >> you are a nice color, tucker. i think of myself as being sort of a pleasing pink. everybody has a color. it is a racist term, because the idea is that somehow you areha trapped by your skin color. that having dark skin imbues you with a special virtue, and having white skin imbues youci with a special evil, or a liability, and that is a racist idea.

and it is being used as a bludgeon to criminalize policy differences and criminalize differences of opinion. for the sake of america. for the sake of unity. we have to stand up, people in the media need to stand up and start criticizing that. >> tucker: but we don't, and so many people who shouldn't let these ideas passed by unchallenged do. we are remarkably passive in the face of hyperaggressive racists like ilhan omar. why is that? >> well, there is a reason, there's a reason, tucker, that aristotle said courage was the most important virtue. without courage, you can't practice any of the others. and i think that, to a very large extent, it is a lack of courage. it is the herd mentality. people want to be liked, theyge want to go to the right cocktail parties.

they want to get the blessing of "the new york times" and cnn and msnbc. and they know that if they buck the trend, they won't be. they will be excluded. and they are unwilling to stand up for what they deep down know is right in order to be liked. >> tucker: i think that is exactly right. by the way, you speak as well as you write, roger kimball, and that is a high compliment. thank you very much for coming a on here, i hope we will see you oragain. >> my pleasure. thanks. >> tucker: the president, as we told you at the outset, is speaking in greenville, north carolina, we want to rejoin him for a moment on our way out. >> president trump: i think that is like a poll, right? that is like a poll, because when biden goes out, i see sleepy joe, they had 115 people show up. 115 people. that is our first row. that is our first row. right?

[cheers and applause] the democrat record on health care is one of deception and disruption. the last administration said a lie. if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. a total lie. my administration is defending your sacred right to choose the doctor and the plan you want, and we are offering plans up too 60% cheaper than obamacare, and a lot of people are starting to figure that out. better health care. and we will also always protect these -- but you have to remember this, are you ready? because they give us a bum rap. patients with pre-existing conditions are protected by republicans much more so than protected by democrats who will never be able to pull it off.

[cheers and applause] pre-existing conditions. and you know, the job we have done on health care, is not talked about, but we are also doing something, it's been phenomenal. we have 180 million people right now really happypy on private plans, and you know what? they're going to be taken away. under the democrats plan, all of those people that are thrilled when they went out and negotiated across state lines, all of the things they did, they went out and negotiated greatal private plans. it is all going to be taken away from you under this plan. i only hope they don't change. because, you know, we are talking too soon. we have a year and a half left. it is like when i called pocahontas pocahontas, i should have waited six months. because she then went out and got that test. 1,000/24th. i always said i had more indian blood in me than she has in her,

and i have none! i have none! but it is more than she has. 1,000/24th. but i brought it up too soon, so i don't talk about it anymore. if she should be the candidate got which i tend to doubt -- i will bring it up again, and i think it will be very successful. 1,000/24th. how about this? i was driving her crazy. so she went out and hired a guy to check the blood. i'm sure he had a lot of fun doing that. he checked her blood.ck and found out that many, many, many, many years ago, there could have been somebody. and he could have been indian. and then the indians got together, and they said we don't want her! we don't want her. [cheers and applause]

we want trump. we want trump. they want trump. we have taken historic action. [crowd chanting "we want trump"] [crowd chanting "we want trump"] so we have taken historic action to fight the opioid epidemic, what a problem. and just today, it was just announced before i came in, that drug overdose deaths, we are working so hard on this, including our vice president, including our first lady, including everybody in the trump administration, it has dropped for the first time in more than 30 years. it's gone down. [cheers and applause] and in north carolina, we are far from finished, it's a big problem. it declined 8% last year.

that's a lot, because it was just going up like a rocket. virtually every top democrat also now supports late-term abortion. ripping babies straight from the mother's womb. [boos] right up until the moment ofof birth. then you have the gentleman, our governor from virginia. [boos] so we are talking about late-term, he is talking about the baby is born before the mother makes the decision. that was the first -- that's the first i've heard of it. that's the first most of you have heard of it. and then they passed legislation in various states saying that's okay. this is a baby that is born. this isn't late-term, this is a baby that is born. nobody has heard of anything

like that. nobody has seen anything like it. nobody has seen anything like it. and when he had the scandal, that became -- can you believe it -- the second-biggest story. can you believe that? how important it is, yet thate was the second-biggest story, and what a shame, when that is the second-biggest story. what happened to our values? republicans believe that every life is a sacred gift of god. [cheers and applause] and that is why i have asked congress to prohibit extreme late-term abortion of babies. democrats are now the party of high taxes, high crime,re open borders, late-term abortion, intolerance, and division. the republican party is the party for all americans and american values. [cheers and applause]

we are the party of the american worker. the american family. and we are the party of the american dream.. [cheers and applause] >> tucker: the president continues to speak in greenville, north carolina, we will continue to monitor him as he does.we you just heard him talking about abortion for planned parenthood believes women ought to be allowed to get abortions at nine months of pregnancy. last night, planned parenthood fired its president, before she could finish her third trimester on the job. j according to her, it was because she saw planned parenthood as a health care organization. big mistake.an rather than a political organization focused on abortion and helping the democratic party. additional reporting suggested a she was fired in part because she didn't use trans-inclusive language. she wouldn't say that men can get abortions, too, and so they canned her. jonathan morris is a theologian

and ethicist, fox news contributor, longtime friend of this show, and he joins us tonight. mr. morris, great to see you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: what do you make of the idea that the president of planned parenthood -- the president of planned parenthood -- was insufficiently radical on abortion. what does that tell us? >> that is exactly what it was. unbelievably, this debate has been very public because she said they fired me in a secret meeting, and it was secret because they were afraid to make it public that she just t wasn't radical enough. you would think, andca the president just said it a few minutes ago, you would think that after the governor of virginia came out and said we need to keep these babies comfortable before we make a decision, this is after they are born. before we make a decision whether we kill them or not. you would think that planned parenthood would say, let's take it easy, especially in this political election season.

no. instead, they are saying our president is not our president -- meaning the president of planned parenthood is not radical enough and what she was saying as a doctor, she was the first doctor in 50 years, i believe, to be the president of planned parenthood. she said we need to keep this a women's health issue. right? and i think planned parenthood was exactly right to say that doesn't work anymore, because the younger generations know that sonograms -- right? medical devices, technology, tell us everything about what is going on, so don't pretend it is purely a women's health decision. let's talk about making it -- we can do whatever you want, and that is planned parenthood's deideology. >> tucker: so i wonder why there isn't a broader conversation about what is actually happening here. you just pointed out, it's one

dimension of this, but no person can create a baby unilaterally. it takes a man, by the way, to create a child, the man's role in this is never discussed, and then the right of the living child is never discussed. why is that?, >> well, i think the board of planned parenthood just fired dr. wen is ahead of the game. what they are saying is, the argument of medicine, science, d just doesn't work anymore because our younger generations know exactly what's going on. as i mentioned, sonograms -- not only sonograms, how about hearing a baby's heartbeat? or how about what we see on facebook and twitter all the time of young parents saying look, this is the image of our child, who is only 10, 12 weeks. that says everything. planned parenthood is saying let's not have a discussion about medicine, let's not have a discussion about evidence. let's not bring in science.

let's talk about the face of -- i am completely and totally autonomous, and can make whatever decision i want about this child that is in my womb. that is so crazy. it's so crazy, and yet that is what they have decided is going to work for planned parenthood. and i am grateful that president trump has just taken out a lot of money that was going to planned parenthood, even we just heard about it today. >> tucker: i mean, i guess what's interesting, you don't think, at least historically, the president being a single-issue, pro-life guy, right?ca he is clearly -- he clearly means it. so i guess, my read is, planned parenthood and the left have r gone so far off the deep end of this subject, they have offended even trump, who is pretty liberal,bj traditionally, on th. >> i don't know president trump's personal intention -- i don't judge anybody's personal intention, that is for god to judge. but i think trump is about

winning, and that says a lot about the whole debate. actually, that is a losing argument to say you can make a decision -- any woman can make a decision autonomously about anything having to do with a child that is in her womb. and president trump gets that. and says that is not going toer work. and maybe he also have come to really, truly understand the value, the dignity, of every human being. i hope so. i don't know, but i believe that the pro-life --do >> tucker: i do. >> is a winning argument. >> tucker: i agree with that completely. jonathan morris, great to see you tonight. >> hey, tucker, thank you. >> tucker: we are going to dip back into the president's remarks in greenville, north carolina. we will be back in just a minute. >> president trump: i guess we have to counteract them a little bit. but this is not what you want -- none of them.nt this is not what you want running this incredible country of ours.

every day, we make good on the motto, "promises made, promises kept." i have had people back there -- [cheers and applause] i have had people back there that don't like me.e and somebody said, very nicely, that he has actually made certain promises, and he has n actually kept more promises than he has made. it's true. i mean, i've done things -- i've done things that i never said we were going to get, as an example, with our vets. that we were going to get choice. that wee are going to have the ability to fire people that don't treat our vets properly. okay? we can fire them now. they have been trying to get that for 44 years, choice, they've been trying to get practically from the beginning. choice, so simple. and yet, they never got it. nobody got it through.oi we are good at getting things through. i we have done more than we said

we would. a man i know, who i don't like, a businessman -- very, very successful. one of the most successful. i don't like him. never liked him. he never liked me, by the way. in fact, i would go a step h further, he cannot stand me. and i saw him about two months ago. and he came up to me, i said,d how are you doing? very warm, you know. hey, how are you doing. let's get out ofve here. and he said, i'm doing good, you are doing good. i said, yeah. i said, you know, you don't like me and i don't like you, i never have liked you, and you have never liked me. but you are going to support me because you are a rich guy, and if you don't support me, you are going to be so poor, you are not going to believe it. [cheers and applause] and he said to me, mr. president, he calls me

mr. president -- everybody calls me mr. president. it's true, it's a funny thing. he said, mr. president, you are right, i am supporting you. i think you are doing a great job. maybe we didn't get along, but it's not like he has a choice. he has no choice. and on top of that, it's a good choice, because we have done the right thing. and it is funny, with the name, mr. president, i have friends -- really good friends -- and they've always called me don, donald, they call me anything, right? and you lose all of your friends when you're president, because they are all afraid to talk to you. does that make sense? no, it's true. except for these six or seven ladies up here, they always talk. they are not intimidated -- no, it's true. i have guys, wonderful friends, new york developers, tough guys, smart guys. they are rich, this, that, t i have middle of the road, poor, i have everybody. poor guys, middle of the road, and rich guys. it doesn't matter. rich guys call, mr. president, how are you, sir? it's richard. g oh, hey, richard.

loosen up. this is a guy -- hey, don, how are you doing, let's go to a dinner. sir, you are doing good, sir. i said, richard, call me donald like you always did. always call me donald. okay, thank you, donald. thank you very much. and then 2 minutes later, mr. president, i'm so grateful. i lost all my friends! they have tightened up! they have choked. do you know what that is? they have choked. they can't breathe because people have such respect for the office of ceo the president. they have respect for the office of the president. they have respect for our country again! our country is respected again! [cheers and applause] we have confirmed more than 125 federal judges to apply the law as written, including two supreme court justices,

neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh. [cheers and applause] we have launched a historic initiative to reduce the price of prescription drugs. and last year -- i'm so proud of this, because we had no help from the democrats. last year, for the first time in over 50 years, drug prices went down. [cheers and applause] andiv that was for a reason. to give former prisoners a second chance at life, we passed a groundbreaking criminal justice reform. [cheers and applause] it's a big thing. you know, prisoners, they've gotten out of jail, never had an economy like this. we did a lot of things. because they got out of jail, they don't have a chance. they always go back, most of the time. now they are coming out, and we have programs.

we have this great economy where people are hiring prisoners, and you have to see the reviews they are getting. they are getting phenomenal reviews. it is a beautiful thing. it is a beautiful thing, what is happening.g. with prisoners, they get out, and they can actually get a job, that is what is happening. we are very proud of that. [cheers and applause] we are expanding opportunities so that no american is left behind. it's one of the great successes, the opportunity zones. nobody talks about it, it's onee of the great successes. and thanks to our pledge to america's workers, private sector partners will provide apprenticeships and job training to 9 million americans. isn't that nice? [cheers and applause] and whenever i hear that word, apprentice, i say, i love that word. that was a good show. they figured, you know what, we will get arnold schwarzenegger to take my place.

that didn't work out too well. that didn't work out too well.l. we had 14 seasons. think of that. "the apprentice." i proudly signed four bipartisan human trafficking laws, securing $400 million to support victimsr of human trafficking. [cheers and applause] and we have secured soon to be three years, record funding for our military. we want to cut budget, but this is beyond budget. [cheers and applause] i withdrew the united states from the horrible, one-sided, disgusting iran nuclear deal. and iran is a different country today than it was. [cheers and applause] my administration proudly recognized the true capital of israel and opened the american embassy in jerusalem.

[cheers and applause] someday, they all said, many, many presidents have said, we are going to do it, and they never did. i know why, because the pressure on them was enormous not to do it. and then, on top of it, couple of months ago, i just approved the golan heights. the golan heights, another thing. 52 years, they tried to do that. they didn't get it done. so we are doing good. we also recognized the legitimate government of venezuela, and we condemn those that want to stop freedom in that country, and other countries. tonight, we renew our resolve that america will never be a socialist country. we will never, ever be a socialist country. it just won't happen. [cheers and applause]

a vote for any democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of v radical socialism and the destruction of the american dream. frankly, the destruction of our country. that's what's going to happen. [boos] take a look around. their party is afflicted with an ideological sickness that protects foreign borders, buteo refuses to protect our own borders. think of it. they fight all over the world. a lot of those people are coming back. they are coming back home a lot. we defeated isis, the caliphate, in syria, bringing our soldiers back. [cheers and applause] isis does not like me too much. but i came here, it was a mess, it was a mass. and i met with generals. general, believe it or not, one general, his name is raisin, i said, what is your name?

he says sir -- this is my kind of guy -- sir, he's going to be famous after this, but who cares. what is your name? he goes, sir, my name is raisin. i said, raisin? you mean, like, a little raisin? yes, sir. what is your last name? cain. you mean your name is raisin cain? i said, raisin cain, you are my kind of general.u let me talk to you. and my previous generals said it is going to be a long time before we take out the caliphate. i said to raisin cain and a couple -- these guys are central casting, like from a movie, except better. they are stronger, bigger, tougher, meaner, and actually better looking in a certain way. but they are like from a movie. there is nobody in hollywood who plays a role like this. i said, generals, i've been told it's going to take a year, two years to get -- remember, i want to out, down 1%, everybody went dyazy. explain that one. but they said it was going to

take a long time. i said to raisin cain and the other generals, how long can it take? they said, sir, one month. i said, what? we are going to hit them from the front. we are going to hit them from the back.he we are going to hit them from the sides, sir. we are going to hit them like they never got hit before. we were never allowed to doow this. [cheers and applause] and we are not going to just hit them from our temporary base in syria, we're going to hit them from iraq, from places they never knew existed, sir. they will be hit so hard, sir, they will be -- thank you very much, very shortly, very, very shortly. it was over, we had 100% of the caliphate. these people were screwing around for years. obama, president obama. my general did a great job. i flew there! i flew to iraq, remember? i'm on air force one, and they notify me, sir, we're 45 minutes out, sir. we have to close all windows, w,

have to turn off all lights on the plane, sir, all windows, all lights have to be off, sir. we are turning off the lights outside, and the runway lights, sir. they're going to be at a very dim -- frankly if you're not a 30-year-old pilot, you can't see them. i went there, i said, i don't see any light, pilot. as we are landing, i said, i don't see. and i thought to myself, think of it. we've spent almost $8 trillion in the middle east. and we have to turn off the lights of an airplane to land. how bad is that? they didn't do their job. we did our job. and the military did their job. but we fight to sort of just keep going. we don't fight to win. i fight to win. [cheers and applause] i fight to win. i fight to win. so we are landing this big, beautiful air force one, and i

am saying, major, i don't see a runway. yes, sir, it's right up ahead. guy is 30 years old or something. he says -- and they get me with that. they will say majors aren't thirtysomething. maybe he's 35, whatever it is.th i don't see it, major! how aboutt lifting up? let's go around.d. that is the last thing we want to do in that part of the world. he said, sir, it's right there, sir.r. and we're landing, and i still haven't seen a light. but these guys, they are the greatest pilots in the world. we have the greatest military in the world. we have the greatest equipment in the world. in the world. [applause] so you must never forget the 2020 election is all about one thing: you. it's about you. [cheers and applause] it is about your family. it is about your future. and the fate of your beautiful, loving country. and that is what it is.

we begin our north carolina campaign with the best record, the best results, the best agenda, and the only positive vision for our nation's future. we love our nation. our nation is great today. it's going to be much greater every year, it's getting better and better. we have turned this big, beautiful, mighty ship, we have turned it around. it's getting better, better, better.sh [cheers and applause] together, we will continue unleashing the power of american enterprise. so every american can know the dignity of work and the pride of a e paycheck. with your help, we will elect a republican congress, those great gentlemen that just left, to create a safe, modern, fair, and lawful system of immigration.

we will enact trade deals -- and they are going like you wouldn't even believe. that doesn't mean the other countries are thrilled with me. there was a recent poll, germany likes obama better than trump. a lot better. i said, of course, because i am making them pay their due. [cheers and applause] i'm saying you've got to pay. i say, angela, you've got toe pay, angela. obama would go in and make a speech. i go in, make a speech, i say, let me speak to angela. angela, you've got to pay your bills! you are way behind so i would think that they should, when you hear theyhi lie me better, i'm not doing my job. [applause] i'm not doing my job. they did a poll on one of these networks, and they said donald trump is not liked in europe nearly as much as president obama.

or president bush or anybody. or anybody! or anybody! in fact, i am disliked. actually, they respect us. that is more important. look at that beautiful baby. wow, what a baby! what a baby! that is a beautiful baby! it is like from an advertisement! perfect. look how happy that baby is. so beautiful. thank you, darling, that is really nice. it is a great thing, is thatu, your husband? that is a great thing. thank you. congratulations, husband. man! what a picture. but we are going to have the country all set for your child, okay? because that is what it is [cheers and applause] about. [cheers and applause] now the media will say that that

is a prop. they will say no baby is so beautiful. that had to be a set up. i never saw that guy in my life, which is true. thank you, good luck, thank you very much. we will enact trade deals that will ensure more products will be stamped with those four beautiful words, made in america. made in the usa. either one is okay with me. keep america great, that's right. we will give school choice to millions of underserved children who are trapped in failing government schools. we will defend privacy, free-speech, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bearig arms. they're going to take your guns away. [cheers and applause] and above all, we will never stop fighting for the values

that bind us together as one great nation, as one america. one america. we believe in the american constitution. and we believe in the american law. we believe in the dignity of work and in the sanctity of life. we believe that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the true american way. we believe that children, like your child, should be taught to love our country, honor our history, and always respect our great american flag. and we live by the words of our national motto, in god we trust [cheers and applause] we are fighting for every american mom and dad that wants

to protect this land of liberty for their precious children. we have been blessed with the greatest republic on the face of the earth. but it was going in the wrong direction, and now we are turning it around. it is going better than everow before. and we are going to keep it that way. [cheers and applause] we are going to keep it that way. [cheers and applause] with your help, with your devotion, with your drive, we are going to keep on working. we are going to keep on fighting. and we are going to keep on winning! [cheers and applause] we are one movement. one movement. think of that. we are one big beautiful movement. there has never been a movement like this. you don't hear it that often. they know it. in the history of our country, there has never been a movement like this. and this movement is stronger

now than it was three years ago. this is the strongest movement in the history of t our country. [cheers and applause] but we are, we are one movement. we are one people. one family. and one glorious nation under god. [cheers and applause] we are doing things that nobody thought was possible. no other nation thought it was possible what we are doing. we are so respected. you have no idea, how our nation has gone so far up in the eyes and the minds of the rest of the world. so respected. [cheers and applause] because together we will make

america wealthy again. [cheers and applause] of course, we did just hit the highest price in the history of the market. so pretty soon, i hate to say, i don't want to ruin the rhetorical skill, but that's almost like getting a little obsolete -- our nation wealthy again, we have the strongest stock market in our history. [cheers and applause] i think i will have to change it. you have heard it many times, right? we will make america wealthy again. we will have to say we have made america wealthy again. so we will make america stronger again. no, no, we are going to have to change it. we have made america strong again. [cheers and applause]

and just so you know, we have made america great again. we have made america great. not we will make, you know the story, keep america great.ri look, how do you give up maga? how do you give up maga? make america great again, but we have done that. can you imagine if "keep america great" did not work? i have the greatest phrase probably in the history of politics. look at her beautiful hat. it looks very good on you. but look at this, look at those beautiful hats. but you know, make america great again, but we have done that. so we are going to keep it around, because i cannot just out of my heart, the love of that expression and phrase. it is a great phrase. but our new phrase for the 2020

campaign is "keep america great." thank you, north carolina. thank you. thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> tucker: the president concluding his rally in greenville, north carolina. "you can't always get what you want." by the rolling stone coming up in the background. charlie hurt joins us now. he has been watching. charlie covered the rise of donald trump and the first twowo and half years of the presidency. culminating in a great new book just out on the best seller list. charlie hurt, what did you think of that? >> obviously president trump is enjoying this as much as he was enjoying it during the '16yi election, which is pretty amazing if you think about it. but what he goes through, he still ticks through all of those issues, whether it is immigration or trade, or thes wars, or ninth month abortions, you realize just how much low-hanging fruit all the

politicians in america left out there for a guy to walk up and snatch.al >> tucker: that is such a good -- you are not even saying simply that the left has gone crazy, but that his fellow republicans have ignored these issues for years. is that what you're saying? >> exactly, on trade, on immigration, on wars, republicans, at least enough republicans are over there with the democrats to leave a wide open lane for a guy who has never been elected at anything to walk in and win on everything by just picking common sense positions. >> tucker: it is not hard. charlie, stay with us for a second. the president, if you were listening, brought up ms-13 inin america, here is what he said. >> president trump: just two days, ago our department of justice charged 22 members of the savage, brutal, horrible gang ms-13 in 2 2 california.

[cheers and applause] who have been violently operating for more than ten years. we got them all, we think that they are no good. with conducting brutal, medieval-style killings. do you know what medieval-style is? >> tucker: charging 22 ms-13 agents with murders. breaking news chief correspondent trace gallagher has more on that tonight. >> california has been fighting to support sanctuary cities and fighting against the trump immigration policy. they say 22 ms-13 members, 19 as you say in the country illegally, systematically and brutally killed at least seven people, using, as the president said, medieval-style killing techniques that federal law enforcement have not seen in two decades. listen to this. >> one of the defendants n

allegedly carved out his heart before throwing the body parts into a canyon. >> one victim was killed for crossing out ms-13 graffiti, another was a homeless man who made the fatal mistake of falling asleep in a park that ms-13 considers its gang turf. the 22 gang members arrested are also thought to be responsible for hundreds of other crimes in several other states. we should note that the administration is trying tof address the crisis at the border by making requirements to apply for asylum stricter. nancy pelosi says that is cruel and unusual. she is talking about the trump administration, but we should mention the obama administration said the same. listen to this. >> typically refugees are not granted just based on economic needs or because a family lives in a bad neighborhood or poverty, it's specifically

defined fairly narrowly. >> amazing how time flies five years ago. tucker. >> tucker: trace gallagher, a man with a long memory. we are out of time, always goes faster than you think it will. we will be back tomorrow, the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. "hannity" from new york. >> sean: i get an email today that says "help save tucker." i said what is wrong with tucker? tucker is fine. he is theare. we are glad you're okay. welcome to "hannity," tonight the disgraceful radical extreme democratic socialist party. they had what will likely be the first of many failed votes to attempt to impeach a duly elected president. will somebody please give these people a copy of the constitution?t. we will have more coming up. also, we begin tonight with the members of "the squad" ramping up their attacks on anyone who dares to disagree with the